iStockphoto and AMUSE Launch Mobile Deal to Distribute Image Library to Cell Phone Users iStockphoto(R), the world's most visited stock imagery and video site, has selected AMUSE Entertainment Group B.V. to take its stock photography images into the mobile sector. The pilot phase of the program will be launched in the UK and will allow mobile users to download wallpapers from a selection of 5,000 of iStockphoto's quality images. Images will be found within a dedicated mobile storefront accessed through the iStockphoto website, and marketed and promoted jointly by iStock and AMUSE. Images will be made available to UK mobile phone subscribers on the 3, Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone networks, and will be delivered via mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network. - 2007-04-09

Siemens Desktop Application Scores with College Basketball Fans Siemens Corporation, which is sponsoring the prestigious Crystal College Basketball "Siemens Trophy" for the top ranked team in the ESPN/USA Today/Coaches poll took an online centric approach to marketing around this year's NCAA Tournament. Providing fans with online applications, a "Yahoo Widget" and a "Vista Gadget", real-time scores were sent to consumer desktops. The Siemens widget has also helped create support for the Jimmy V Foundation by enabling users to directly order a free bracelet orange rubber bracelet, each one representing a donation. - 2007-04-04

TopTenREVIEWS Announces Best Video Games of All Time; 'Resident Evil 4' for Nintendo GameCube is Best-Rated by Critics TopTenREVIEWS(TM), the leading review site of entertainment and technology, announced a new video game review web site that ranks and compares video games by platforms, genre, year and all time. "Resident Evil 4," for Nintendo GameCube, is ranked as the best video game of all time, followed by "Half-Life 2," for the PC, "Soul Calibur," for Sega Dreamcast, "Metroid Prime," for GameCube, and "GoldenEye 007," for Nintendo 64. - 2007-04-04

Jack 9 Entertainment Inc. and www.Jack9.com, an IPTV for the ''Man's Man'', Announce Their Corporate World Headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida After securing major funding, Jack9 and www.Jack9.com add to their infrastructure by securing their corporate world headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida. The move comes on the heels of a major funding deal and the announcement of Production and Entertainment offices in Orange County, California and Tech offices in Denver, Colorado. - 2007-03-29

New Pyro.TV Video Channel Aggregation Service Creates Custom, TV-like Experience for Consumers: Vibe Solutions Group creates channel-centric approach to watching, sharing online videos Vibe Solutions Group announced today a new consumer video channel aggregation service that promises to change the way people watch and share videos online. The free service, called Pyro.TV, allows users to watch, personalize and share a broad range of online video channels. - 2007-03-28

Raketu Debuts LaunchPad Interface, Integrates ipTV, VoIP, Video On Demand, and IM/SMS in a Single Desktop Application: First Ever Global Chat Capabilities for ipTV Streaming, Allows Thousands of Consumers to Chat Simultaneously as They Watch the Same Streaming Video Channel Raketu Communications Inc., the global Internet communications, information and entertainment company, today introduced its LaunchPad interface, the first to integrate voice over IP (VoIP), ipTV streaming video, Video On Demand (VOD), and IM/SMS service in a single, easy-to-navigate desktop application. Other Raketu services including podcasting, media player, and news/information feeds will also be accessible via their new LaunchPad interface. In addition, Raketu also introduced the first ever Global Chat capabilities around ipTV streaming, allowing thousands of consumers to chat simultaneously in a real-time, dynamic ipTV channel chat room, as they watch the same channel. - 2007-03-22

Jack 9 Entertainment Inc. Announces Exclusive Agreement to Broadcast the Productions of Extreme Motorcycle Stunt Rider, Jason Britton on its Website www.jack9.com Adding to its growing roster of contracted content providers, Jack 9 Entertainment is proud to announce that their website www.jack9.com will be the sole providers of content from No Limit Productions and their stunt sport bike team, Team No Limit. Team No Limit is helmed by extreme motorcycle stunt rider and sport bike rider, Jason Britton. - 2007-03-20

Dell is First Computer Company to Join Chinese Blogosphere to Listen, Talk Directly to Customers Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today announced the launch of Direct2Dell Chinese (www.direct2dell.com/chinese), becoming the first computer systems company to open a corporate blog in Chinese. The new blog was announced on the eve of Michael Dell's latest visit to China. - 2007-03-20

MegaBuzz Launches Site That Rewards Community for Creating Buzz: Seattle startup puts a new spin on questions and answers MegaBuzz (http://www.MegaBuzz.com/) today beta-launched its Web site, where users can ask questions, share opinions, and choose sides on any topic for points and prizes. MegaBuzz fills a gap in the social media space by bringing together people, viewpoints, and money. - 2007-03-19

South Florida PR Firm, Full Spectrum Media, Retained by Jack 9 Entertainment Inc. to Launch www.Jack9.com, an IPTV Network Full Spectrum Media today announced they have been retained by Jack 9 Entertainment Inc. to publicize their IPTV Network UJ9 which will air at www.Jack9.com. Jack 9 Entertainment Inc. is a South Florida based company committed to producing original, cutting-edge, professionally filmed and edited Un-Television content on a series of platforms aimed at focused market segments. - 2007-03-16

Jennifer Hudson LIVE Tonight @10 p.m. EDT on BlogTalkRadio.com Jennifer Hudson will appear on the Internet-based "Idol Radio Show," sponsored by BlogTalkRadio (http://blogtalkradio.com), on Thursday, March 15th, at 10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT. Fans can listen in and/or speak with her LIVE, for an entire hour, by dialing in to 646-652-4656 and joining the discussion. Alternatively, fans can listen to the interview by visiting http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Digital_Edge. After it has aired, Hudson's interview will be archived 30 minutes later on the BlogTalkRadio site. - 2007-03-16

YouthNoise Uses Brickfish Digital Engagement Platform to Inspire Citizen Journalism: YouthNoise/Brickfish Partnership Engages Tens of Thousands Through Highly Successful "CitiJo" Citizen Journalist Campaign. YouthNoise, the Internet's first social network for civic change, announced today their successful partnership with Brickfish, the Digital Engagement Company. YouthNoise used Brickfish's revolutionary Digital Engagement platform to reach tens of thousands of Gen Y campaign participants who logged on to the Brickfish.com site to view, rate, and review 250 user-generated entries to YouthNoise's "CitiJo" citizen journalist contest. - 2007-03-15

ESPN Founder Launches CF Sports Talk Studio(TM): Unlimited Fan-hosted Sports Talk Shows at CampusFans.com Just in time for March Madness, ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen today launched another innovative concept for sports fans to devour - unlimited sports talk shows from the CF Sports Talk Studio. The newly launched CampusFans.com website offers every fan the opportunity to host his or her own sports talk show as often as they like - worldwide - absolutely free of charge. Any fan can participate as a host, ask questions live or online, or just listen to any one of several simultaneous shows. - 2007-03-14

TopTenREVIEWS Reports Worldwide Pornography Market at Least $97 Billion; Every Second 28,258 Internet Users View Pornography TopTenREVIEWS, the leading review site of entertainment and technology, today announced updated statistics on the pornography industry as part of its 2007 Internet filter software review. Worldwide revenues for the pornography industry in 2006 were at least $97 billion, with revenues in the United States fourth highest among all countries at $13.3 billion. Pornography revenues in China were the highest for 2006 at $27.4 billion with South Korea at $25.7 billion and Japan at $20 billion. - 2007-03-13

Austin Ad Agency Launches Blog to Share Marketer's Perspective of SXSW Music/Film/Interactive Conference: Door Number 3 First to Provide Inside Look With Eye to Advertising Trends Door Number 3, a full-service branding and advertising agency based in Austin, Texas, is getting out of the office and into the streets to introduce a new blog, "Behind the Door: South by Southwest Edition." The new blog, http://doornumber3.wordpress.com/, was created to provide an insider's look at the advertising, new media and marketing trends and potential trends at one of the world's largest and most respected music, film and interactive showcases. SXSW takes place March 9-18. - 2007-03-09

U.S. Couple on Ultimate Caribbean Sailing Escape Aboard Hand-built Boat: Seven-month Caribbean sailing voyage takes Jan and Bruce Smith from Gig Harbor, WA, to West Indies 52 year-old artist and sailing enthusiast, Bruce Smith, his wife Jan and parrot Lars are sailing from their home in Gig Harbor, Wash., to the Caribbean, keeping in touch with the outside world via a satellite phone and their Web site and blog, brucesmithsvoyage.com. Though best known as a Caribbean folk artist whose work can be seen throughout the Caribbean islands and in every Bahama Breeze restaurant across the United States, Bruce Smith would rather be sailing on his hand-built 34-foot sailboat, Woodwind, than almost anywhere else in the world. Smith is currently living that dream, as he and his wife Jan and parrot Lars are sailing to the West Indies for a seven-month journey, documenting the excitement via their sailing blog. - 2007-03-08

Scottsdale Tourism's 'Take Pity on Me!' Campaign Names New York and Minnesota Residents Most Pitiful: Campaign Draws Record Number of Visitors to Scottsdale Tourism Web Site www.PleasePityMe.com A New York and a Minnesota resident were named most pitiful in the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau's interactive "Take Pity on Me!" promotional contest, which asked winter sufferers to share their tales of woe through photos or videos. Through this marketing campaign, the tourism bureau touted Scottsdale's fabulous mild winter weather to cold-weather residents living under inches of snow and dreaming of a winter escape. - 2007-03-06

Poll Shows Consumers Rely on at Least Three Different Media for New Product Information, It's Time for Immersion Marketing(TM): Innovative New Product Launch Approach Creates Multiple Touch Points to Reach Consumers Eighty-one percent of consumers in the recent Schneider/Stagnito/IRI Most Memorable New Product Launch Survey were unable to name a single one of the Top 50 products launched in 2006. Clearly, marketers need a new strategy for gaining consumer attention for their new wares. Joan Schneider, author of New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies, offered a new solution called Immersion Marketing(TM) at the 2007 IRI Summit in Las Vegas, NV. "Immersion Marketing(TM) is a creative, all-encompassing approach to launching new products that goes beyond the traditional marketing mix to create multiple touch points to motivate consumers to try and buy new products," said Schneider, who heads a Boston-based marketing firm that specializes in new product launches. - 2007-03-01

Marchex Announces Contextual Advertising Agreements with Seven Premium Vertical Publishers Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP), in conjunction with its subsidiary IndustryBrains, today announced that since January 1, 2007, it has signed contextual advertising agreements with seven publishers across several vertical categories, including Business & Finance, Information Technology, and Home & Living. These publishers include InvestorVillage.com, Homes and Land, CIO Index.com, and WorldGolf.com, among others. - 2007-02-21

Network2 Offers $25,000 to Answer Question: ''How Do You Watch Internet TV?'' -- Web's leading site for aggregating Internet's best TV content launches contest; Winners to be announced at Video on the Net conference in March Aspiring videobloggers or filmmakers can win as much as $25,000 by answering the question of "How to Watch Internet TV" as part of a contest announced today by Network2 (www.network2.tv), the leading guide to the best Internet TV content available on the Web. The contest is being sponsored by communications industry pioneer Jeff Pulver and pulvermedia, Network2's parent company. - 2007-02-16

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