Happy new year

Dear friends, fans, members of the ePRO Team and anyone who has anything to do with our project!

On behalf of our creative ePRO team I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! May 2014 be successful for your and your dearest. May all of your cherished dreams and plans come true. I hope your reliable friends stay close to you and you family lives in peace and harmony.

This New Year edition of the magazine is the last on coming out in 2013 and I wanted to sum things up a little. This year was very productive and eventful. Early this year we have launched our English news aggregator that has instantly become very popular. A month later we have launched an account in Tumblr, so now this is the biggest theme blog there and the best collection of fan works. We have also released the beta-version of our forum which already boasts a big news base from 2012-2013.

In 2013 we have interviewed such celebrities as DJ Tony Touch, a photographer Jenny Risher, a singer and the protege of Kon Artis — Keely Ferguson.
By the mid of 2013 the traffic of our main website increased many fold making it the biggest theme edition In Russia and CIS dedicated to the artists of Shady Records. We have issued a story of Andrea Aguilar in Russian. This is one of the best works of fans based on the materials of an interview with a veteran of Shady fan-blogging Andrea Aguilar published in HipHopDX. Thanks to RapStarz team and information support from ePRO Team the world has witnessed the Russian version of «Shady Bizzness» bestseller. It is a sensational book written by a former Eminem’s security guard, who describes the dark side of Slim Shady. It contains a number of stories about Eminem private and public life. This is the only chronic book of the «Slim Shady Tour». I’m pretty sure that we will have a chance to work on another project of that kind in future. Our team also did the full adaptation of «Eminem Cover Story» by Complex magazine. The designer of the original story highly evaluated our work.

During the intensive period of MMPL2 news coverage our team managed to translate topical articles from American sources into Russian language.
At the turn of November we conducted a contest with Universal Music, choosing the best fan review of MMLP2 album. The winners were awarded with valuable prizes.
Our real pride is recognition of our project by Rambler company that allowed us to have our articles included in their news feed. I also have to mention A-One channel that has become our information partner. The best articles from ePRO can now be viewed in EJ blog on their main website.

By the end of the year we have released Android applications in Russian and English that are closely bound with our main website www.eminem.pro and news aggregator en.eminem.pro. Now our news is available on your mobile devices.

I won’t guess at the future and reveal our plans, but I can state that our team will keep on publishing high-quality news. Stay tuned! We have very interesting projects and rubrics for the upcoming year. Good luck, have fun! Wishing you all the best!

Sincerely,
eminem.pro director Igor Basenko.