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Ismaning, 28 November 2008 – On Sunday 30 November, PLAZAMEDIA will produce the final of the music casting on www.YoumeU.com. On behalf of event agency G.R.A.L. GmbH, the leading full-service provider for TV and new media will give the event at the Nachtresidenz nightclub in Düsseldorf  its customary high-quality treatment with seven cameras.

As well as the production, PLAZAMEDIA will also provide live streaming of Sunday’s grand finale on the platform www.YoumeU.com for G.R.A.L. GmbH. During the final, fans can vote live for their favourites. More than 30,000 users are expected to watch the show live on the Internet, making this the biggest live voting campaign ever.

Star guests performing on the night include Ich + Ich, Jimmy Blue Ochsenknecht, Lexington Bridge and Clara. The acts contesting the final, which will be hosted by VIVA presenter Collien Fernandes, include Samuel, Georg Arutti and All About.

The music casting (for hip hop and R’n’B) has been running on the Internet platform www.YoumeU.com since May, and YoumeU users have already been casting their votes online for the past few weeks. Clips, edited by PLAZAMEDIA, of the four YoumeU finalists at a concert of the bands are still available to watch on the homepage until Saturday 29 November for voters to make up their minds. The winner will then be crowned in the final on Sunday.

PLAZAMEDIA GmbH, an EM.Sport Media AG company, is one of the leading full-service providers for TV and new media and is also Germany’s largest producer of sports TV. Based in Ismaning near Munich, the company employs a full-time staff of 260 as well as 700 freelancers to produce content for television broadcasters and rights holders in the fields of domestic and international football, ice hockey, basketball, boxing, Formula 1, sailing and European and World Championships in a variety of sports. PLAZAMEDIA offers comprehensive services for OB production, broadcasting, new media, studio productions and post-production. The firm’s clients include Premiere, DSF, ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT.1, ProSieben, RTL II, Disney Television International and Eurosport, as well as many other national and international companies. PLAZAMEDIA is managed by Florian Nowosad (CEO) and Zeljko Karajica.