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National Lampoon joins Joost

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nationallampoon.jpgNational Lampoon, Inc. announced that it will launch the National Lampoon channel and bring program offerings to Joost.

“We are excited to launch the National Lampoon channel on Joost, as our partnership with this new and innovative service provides another destination for our fans worldwide to interact with our programming,” said Daniel Laikin, National Lampoon’s Chief Executive Officer. “We increasingly have found that more and more of our fans reach us through the Internet, and providing a premier viewing destination like Joost with our content is a natural way for us to extend the reach of our brand.”

All of National Lampoon’s new programming will be made available on Joost through the National Lampoon Joost channel. Initial programming includes National Lampoon’s hugely popular webisodes, which have drawn praise from top critics nationwide, as well as National Lampoon’s SpinCycle mashimations and the Fat Guy Nation series.

Originally posted on July 23, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

King.com and RealNetworks ink exclusive skill-based and casual games partnership

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kingcom.jpgKing.com, the world’s largest skill games site, and digital entertainment services provider RealNetworks, announced that both companies have entered into an exclusive, multi-year partnership that will integrate gaming content across the companies’ gaming portals. As part of this worldwide syndication agreement, King.com will be the exclusive provider of skill games for Real’s global audience of more than 40 million monthly unique game players at RealArcade.com, GameHouse.com and Zylom.com. Real will also be the exclusive provider of online and downloadable casual games for King.com’s worldwide audience.

For the first time, Real’s game players will have direct access to King.com’s skill games on RealArcade. Skill-based games allow players to compete head-to-head with one another via the Internet for small stakes. King.com offers more than 60 skill-based games and is available in eight languages and seven currencies.

“Offering King.com’s skill games to our millions of users is a natural step to give our global audience more choice in online gaming entertainment,” said Charles S. Merrin, vice president of North American Games. “Additionally, securing increased distribution of RealArcade through King.com further increases our reach and the overall value of our publishing business for game developers.”

Originally posted on July 19, 2007 @ 4:20 pm

Paperless tickets hit the right note at Big Green Gathering

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thebiggathering.jpgBig Green Gathering, the festival for ethical music fans will minimise its impact on the environment by delivering tickets to fans via tixmob, the mobile ticketing service, eliminating the environmental and financial cost of printing and delivering traditional paper based tickets.

The weekend music festival, taking place from 1st to 5th of August, is one of the first in the UK to use mobile ticketing. To buy tickets fans simply log on to new mobile ticketing website www.tixmob.com and pay for their tickets using a credit or debit card and have them delivered immediately to their mobile phone.

Festival goers can choose to receive all tickets on one phone or, for those buying multiple tickets, to have them delivered direct to their friends’ mobiles. Unlike traditional ticketing services tixmob charges no costly delivery fees. You simply pay the face value of the ticket plus a nominal processing charge and tickets will be available right up until the final minutes before the event starts.

Penny Kemp , Marketing Director at Big Green Gathering said, “Festival goers who come to Big Green Gathering will be delighted that we are going mobile. Mobile ticketing reduces the environmental impact of the festival and is just another small step on the road to becoming the most environmentally sound entertainment event in the UK.”

Originally posted on July 16, 2007 @ 5:15 pm

Viacom’s BET Networks continues its global expansion with new Internet video initiative in UK

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bet_brightcove.jpgBET Networks and Brightcove announced a partnership to distribute ad-supported Internet video channels in the United Kingdom.

Through its partnership with Brightcove, BET International will extend the distribution of its compelling content – including entertainment, music and celebrity programming – to online audiences in the UK via the new Internet video site, BETonBlast.co.uk. BET will also take advantage of Brightcove’s viral promotion features to enable consumers to share and embed BET Internet video content on websites, blogs and social networks in the UK. All Internet video channels will also offer online advertising opportunities sold by Viacom Brand Solutions in the UK.

Originally posted on July 13, 2007 @ 10:35 am