ESCKaz.com (Eurovision - Kazakhstan) is the first and most visited independent English/Russian language online resource devoted to the Eurovision Song Contest, daily publishing the latest news on it's preparation and developments under the motto "Delivering Eurovision News First", also covering Junior and Dance Eurovision Contests, National Preselections and other related information.
ESCKaz traditionally represents CIS countries at the Eurovision coverage: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and other states, first reporting to the world wide community of fans on the latest happenings in those countries, and also keeping Russian speaking fans informed about the latest news from other European countries.
ESCKaz website is the only English/Russian language website and website from CIS countries officially accredited at the contest, since 2002. Representatives of the website have worked at Eurovision 2008 in Belgrade (team of 10 journalists and photographers), Eurovision 2007 in Helsinki, Eurovision 2006 in Athens, Eurovision 2005 in Kiev, anniversary event in Copenhagen, other biggest events and also national preselections of different countries, covering all pre-contest preparation.
We were first to report to the fans of the contest on format, participants and winners of national preselections of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova 2002-2008, consulted and officially represented in the web Russian Eurovision delegation 2006, Belarus delegation 2008, consulted Russian delegations 2002 and 2005, Belarus,
Moldovan, Latvian, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations in various years, coollaborated with other European Eurovision delegations: Finland, Romania, Poland, Malta, Denmark, Norway, Croatia, Macedonia etc; obtained exclusive rights to present first to Eurovision fan community Russian entries 2002, 2005-2006, Belarus entries 2004-2008, Ukrainian and Moldovan entries 2006-2008, Azerbaijan entry 2008, reported live results of the drawing ceremonies of Eurovision contests, and also became the only Russian language mass-media which was presenting live reports from rehearsals and final performances of Eurovision 2005-2008. ESCKaz was invited as experts to observe Georgian and Azerbaijan national preselections 2008.We are directly cooperating and exchanging information with organizers of the contest European Broadcasting Union, biggest broadcasters of CIS, which are participating in the contest: Channel One and RTR/Rossiya (Russia), NTCU (Ukraine), BTRC (Belarus), TRM (Moldova), PTV (Armenia), GPB (Georgia), iTV (Azerbaijan) and others, different artists and representatives of music labels of Russia and other European countries and also organizers of different other musical contests.
Website ESCKaz during the first 4 years of its existance keeps leading rankings on the number of visitors in CIS countries (up to 100 thousands visits daily), and also is permanently voted into top five of Eurovision related resources world wide from more than hundred other candidates, which is confirmed by EuroWebby "Eurovision Hero" award, which is given to the site that works hard to offer great information, news and other resorces about Eurovision. ESCKaz, the only website from CIS countries nominated for the awards, also finished as runner-up in "Most reliable Eurovision website category". Winners were determined by open voting where around half of million people casted their votes, ESCKaz also finished in top 5 in the categories Best Overall Eurovision website, Best Blog (live coverage from EuroWeek), Best News Content, Best General Content Eurovision Website. Project of ESCKaz - "Euroforum" - is leading Russian language fan community devoted to the Eurovision Song Contest and Junior Eurovision, and is the most popular place of gathering of Eurovision fans from different countries and place of discussions. More than 200 thousand messages and 2300 registered users. "Euroforum" finished as runner up as "Best Eurovision Messageboard" in EuroWebby awards for season 2006-2007. One of the projects of Euroforum was creation of Russian lyrics for Eurovision 2007 winning song "Molitva", which was recorded and released by original artist Marija Serifovic and became first Russian language version of Eurovision winning entry for the last 25 years.Official Eurovision Fanclub was established on the base of the website, which unites not only CIS citizen (from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), but also European Countries as UK, Sweden and others, and Rest of the World countries, such as South Africa, Canada, US, Australia and New Zealand. Fanclub also awards special prize and honorary diploma for the selected Eurovision entrants and songwriters.
ESCKaz is most quoted source of any Eurovision related information in Russian language mass-media and also the most quoted source on the Eurovision news from CIS countries in worldwide mass-media. During only last year more that 100 articles featuring information of our website were published, including interviews with authors and organizers of the project.
We are happy to cooperate with different mass-media and share the latest and the most reliable information about Eurovision song contest and events, connected with it - providing editorial, journalist and consulting services.
Also our website is ready to provide consulting services, connected with preparation and participation in Eurovision Song Contest, including explanations of the rules, development of strategies of successful preparation and performance at National Preselection and Eurovision contest itself for the artists and song authors, and als PR and promotion services. Our experience in this field will help us to achieve success together.