Babelgum Partners with RingTales to Exclusively Premiere New Dilbert and New Yorker Animated Series

NEW YORK & LONDON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Independent web and mobile video content platform Babelgum announced today a partnership with RingTales, the leading producer and distributor of animated print cartoons, to exclusively premiere new installments of Scott Adam’s Dilbert Animated Cartoons and the New Yorker Animated Cartoons, both online and on mobile. This follows a previous non-exclusive deal to stream the existing library of 450 Dilbert and New Yorker Cartoon animations. The new, exclusive episodes are premiering now at www.babelgum.com/dilbert and www.babelgum.com/newyorker, along with the classic favorites from before.

“As consumers are increasingly looking to the Web for animation content, Babelgum will provide users not just with a mere replacement of static cartoons but with a one stop shop offering an enhanced digital viewing experience”

RingTales’ content has proved wildly popular on Babelgum as well as on other distribution platforms where has been viewed more than 135 million times since March ’07. Under the terms of the new agreement, Babelgum also acquires the exclusive web and mobile first-run rights to animated versions of other popular comics including Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County, Michael Fry and T Lewis’ Over the Hedge, Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Café and Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac.

“As consumers are increasingly looking to the Web for animation content, Babelgum will provide users not just with a mere replacement of static cartoons but with a one stop shop offering an enhanced digital viewing experience,” said Amber J. Lawson, Babelgum’s Publisher of the Babelgum Comedy Channel. “The exclusive premiere of RingTales’ cartoon properties will expand Babelgum Comedy’s Animation sub-channel with weekly updated content, and will join a growing library of exclusive licensed programming on the Babelgum Comedy Channel.”

Founded in 2006, RingTales is the leader in animated cartoons across all digital media. Over the last three years, RingTales has enjoyed great success providing short comedic content ideal for online and mobile consumption. In partnership with Babelgum, RingTales will continue to grow by adding several more titles and hundreds more cartoons to its evergreen library.

New episodes include:

New Yorker: Thanksgiving Tradition

http://www.babelgum.com/4007998/new-yorker-thanksgiving-tradition.html

Dilbert: Harder to Throw

http://www.babelgum.com/4007999/dilbert-harder-throw.html

Dilbert: Optimism is Cute

http://www.babelgum.com/4008004/dilbert-optimism-cute.html

New Yorker: Be Honest

http://www.babelgum.com/4007996/new-yorker-honest.html

About Babelgum (www.babelgum.com)

Babelgum is an integrated web and mobile video content platform free for users and supported by advertising available on-demand to a global audience. Babelgum Mobile is an original application currently available in the United States, UK, Italy, Germany, France and Spain which brings regionally tailored programming to smart phones – at present iPhone 3G, iPod Touch, Google Android G-Phones 1 and 2, Nokia (N96, N95 and 6210) – via 3G and WiFi.

Positioned between user generated video hubs and network TV-oriented destinations, Babelgum focuses on the third part of the ecosystem: innovative, professionally produced content on very specific passions – music, comedy, film, urban culture, nature and the environment – curated by experts in their fields. Babelgum’s programming is comprised of exclusive original productions as well as independent and mainstream titles. Babelgum’s content partners include, among others, EMI, Sony Music, the New York Times, PBS, BBC, VBS, Lonely Planet, Coolhunting, National Geographic, Funny or Die, T5M, Shine Limited, Cinetic Rights Management, Content Republic, Gong Anime, The Workbook Project, Cinelan, Power to the Pixel and Off the Fence as well as the Encounters, Los Angeles, and Hamptons film festivals.

The company has also set up a series of online contests to nurture independent film, music and art talent: the Babelgum Online Film Festival, the Babelgum Music Video Awards and the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize chaired respectively by Spike Lee, Michel Gondry and Isabella Rossellini. Babelgum is an independent and privately held company with offices in the United States, UK, Ireland, France and Italy.