New off-portal partnership
Mobile Streams plc
06 August 2007
Private Media Group and Mobile Streams Announce Exclusive Global Off-Portal
Mobile Partnership
BARCELONA, SPAIN and NEW YORK, NY- August 6, 2007 -- Private Media Group, Inc.
(NASDAQ: PRVT), a global leader in adult entertainment, and Mobile Streams, the
premier global mobile music and media provider, today announced the two
companies have entered into an exclusive global partnership to distribute
Private's premium adult content through Mobile Streams platform for off-portal
mobile services.
Under the terms of the agreement, Private's content will be sold to consumers
via Mobile Streams' proprietary Vuesia technology platform. The Private content
will be marketed through the Company's multiple distribution platforms including
www.private.com, magazines and DVDs, as well as using mobile search engines
which are rapidly being deployed by mobile network operators.
'Private has always been at the forefront in leveraging new media platforms for
distribution of its content,' stated Peter Cohen, COO of Private Media Group. '
The partnership with Mobile Streams demonstrates our ongoing commitment to
further maximize the Private global brand.'
The agreement includes access to Private's proprietary content library. Mobile
Streams will use its Vuesia platform to manage the bidding on relevant keywords
and present Private's content in mobile search results. Vuesia is integrated
into all major search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
'We are delighted to widen our existing on portal partnership with Private to
include direct to consumer channels,' stated Simon Buckingham, CEO of Mobile
Streams. 'Combining Private's high quality content with Mobile Streams'
technology and distribution creates an exciting and market leading exclusive
range of premium branded content services for consumers around the world.'
'We believe there will be strong growth for off portal delivery of content,'
continued Peter Cohen. 'This partnership will facilitate our ability to maximize
revenues in this strategic area of wireless content distribution.'
The first joint off-portal services are initially being launched in Europe, with
other territories to follow during the course of 2007.
About Mobile Streams
Mobile Streams is a leading provider of music, comedy, sport and entertainment
content to handsets and other wireless devices, whose mobile expertise and
distribution platform, 'Vuesia,' is used globally by some of the world's largest
media groups and mobile phone networks including Vodafone, and 3 in the UK,
America Movil, Movistar & TIM in Latin America, Fido & Rogers in Canada and
Dobson in the US.
'Vuesia' is Mobile Streams' full service enterprise mobile media management
solution. 'Vuesia' facilitates content ingestion, management, delivery, billing
and reporting.
The Company creates, licenses and delivers quality content to Mobile Network
Operators (MNOs) and consumers in the form of ring tones, graphics, video clips
and other products. It has developed relationships with both content owners and
MNOs which enable it to act as an intermediary, providing an end-to-end service
encompassing a broad range of elements from content licensing to content
production, account management and channel management.
Mobile Streams has subsidiaries in Germany, the US, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico,
Chile, Colombia, Sydney and Singapore and has approximately 100 employees.
For more information, please go to www.mobilestreams.com.
About Private Media Group
Private Media Group is the global leader in adult entertainment. An industry
innovator since 1965, Private distributes premium content across multiple
platforms including VOD/IPTV, wireless, broadband, television, DVDs and
magazines. Private's web site, is one of the most visited adult entertainment
channels on the Internet. Private Media Group owns the worldwide rights to its
extensive archive of top-quality content, and also licenses its 'Private' and '
Silver Girls' trademarks internationally for a range of consumer products and
services. For more information, please visit www.prvt.com.
For further information please contact:
Private Media Group
Leslie Amadio
Public Relations
Tel: +34 93 590 70 70
Mobile Streams
Simon Buckingham, Chief Executive Officer
James Colquhoun, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 207 395 2000
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