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Enters into Letter of Intent with China Youth Net to Create Media Portal
Effective immediately, Westlake will take over sales, production and all physical distribution of the 157 title library, while Digicorp will continue to manage digital distribution and advertising rights. Westlake will distribute existing inventory for a fee and will distribute new product on a revenue share basis.
“The Rebel Crew library is an ideal match for our capabilities,” commented Luke Stefanko, Westlake’s President. Larry Cohen, Westlake partner, added, “We intend to introduce these titles to a broader range of North America’s top retailers and provide access to a much wider audience.” As a result of this agreement, Rebel Crew Films expects to eliminate most of its distribution overhead within the first quarter of 2008 while maintaining a revenue stream from library sales
Digicorp today also announced execution of a letter of intent (LOI) with China Youth Net (CYN) and China based Internet company WKC to build, launch and operate a large scale advertising supported Internet media portal in China. The LOI provides for the new venture to retain the exclusive rights to serve international content via a peer-to-peer portal to China’s student population of more than 70 million young people, ranging from eighth grade through university. Under the auspices of CYN, the new portal will comply with recent regulations instituted by the Chinese government that restrict online video sites. Under this new policy, websites that provide video programming or allow users to upload video must obtain government permits, and applicants must be either state-owned or state-controlled companies.
The LOI calls for the three parties to have equal ownership of the new venture and for the venture to have its own dedicated management team. The LOI requires that Digicorp contribute the exclusive China rights to its ViraCast technology and that CYN assist fully in the protection of the venture’s intellectual property rights. CYN has also agreed to market the portal to its 70 million members via its 52 websites and student database of email addresses and mobile phone numbers. WKC will primarily be responsible for operations in China.
The LOI contemplates the raising of certain financing for the new venture. At this stage, no funding has been committed and there can be no assurances that funding will be secured. In addition, should the parties fail to execute a definitive agreement within one year, the LOI will terminate unless extended by the parties.
About Digicorp, Inc.
Digicorp is a technology company whose business is to develop and deploy highly scalable and cost effective advertising software throughout the digital media experience. ViraCast, a Digicorp registered trademark, is patent pending, enterprise software capable of sourcing a variety of global ad networks to dynamically insert and track contextual, geo-targeted, interactive advertising in downloadable media.
About Westlake Entertainment
Westlake Entertainment is a fully integrated, independent entertainment distribution company primarily engaged in licensing and distributing feature films and television programs.
About China Youth Net
China Youth Net is a Chinese government agency which regulates and manages the Internet for China’s student population of more than 70 million young people, ranging from eighth grade through university.
About WKC
WKC is a China based company that is currently engaged in various Internet businesses throughout mainland China, including Junnet Omnimedia Inc., the foremost distributor of online prepaid cards in China and a leading marketer of digital products such as software, music titles, and games.
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ViraCast Technology Set to Transform Illegal Downloads into Legal Revenue Stream
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digicorp, Inc. (OTCBB:DGCO - News) announced today that it is launching a new advertising service for online music to be delivered via its web portal Beat9.com. The new service will utilize Digicorp's ViraCast technology to dynamically insert advertising into music files wherever and however they travel across the Internet. Digicorp offers both music labels and advertisers an immediate opportunity to tap into the power of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, which accounts for 60% of all web traffic.
1720 Entertainment, whose conventional CD distribution is handled by Vivendi's (VIVEF) Universal Music Group, has signed an ad revenue sharing deal with Digicorp for viral, P2P distribution of songs and music videos. The first 1720 tracks to be launched will be from ELVIS WHITE with Akon, Alison Hinds, and Rissi Palmer, whose "Country Girl" is in the Top Ten on MySpace. The ad-supported music will be available free on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes and on file sharing sites like LimeWire and BitTorrent. The downloaded ViraCast music files will be locked, preventing transfer onto mp3 players and encouraging legal music sales for portability.
"We are very excited about our partnership with Beat9," stated 1720 President/CEO, Terry K. Johnson. "Their P2P technology is superior to anything we've seen, and the advertising component is the real icing on the cake. The 1720 new media model aligns perfectly with the viral marketing solutions of Digicorp."
With illegal music downloads still dwarfing legal online purchases, Digicorp gives music labels the ability to harness the power of P2P, instead of fighting it. Each music file is constantly served ads, so the more it is shared and viewed, the more revenue is generated.
"Consumers can now be encouraged to download and share music videos with as many people as possible," commented Digicorp CEO, Jay Rifkin. "Music companies can now exchange costly litigation for revenue generation."
About 1720 Entertainment
1720 Entertainment was established in 2004 to empower the dreams of artists who possess not only undeniable talent, but integrity and heart. The company embraces diversity, covering a broad spectrum of musical styles, and is passionately creative in the development of their artists, their music, performances and their careers.
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digicorp, Inc. (OTCBB:DGCO - News) announced today that it is rolling out its patent pending ViraCast technology in a national Jaguar Cars marketing and advertising campaign led by Mediaedge:cia, a media communications specialist company and a division of WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY - News), one of the world's largest advertising conglomerates.
Jaguar, a division of Ford (NYSE:F - News), debuts two ViraCast installments this week: Jaguar's XKR Jet Set Luxury Travel Guide and Jaguar's XKR Jet Set Living Guide to Real Estate. Produced by Digicorp, Jaguar's ViraCasts fuse niche content with targeted advertising to serve up interactive video guides to luxury destinations and lavish properties around the world. Both ViraCast episodes will also be available on iTunes, an Apple (NASDAQ:APPL - News) portal and the largest distributor of podcasts.
The Jaguar ViraCasts follow the success of Digicorp's series of interactive podcasts for another Mediaedge:cia client, Land Rover. Digicorp produced The Range Rover Private Island & Travel Journal Podcast, a series of ten rich media podcasts that were part of the national campaign to launch the 2007 Range Rover.
Digicorp's ViraCast technology offers a unique and immediate opportunity to capitalize on rich media advertising, projected to grow to $3.2B by 2010 to become the fastest growing segment of the online ad market.
"To have Fortune 500 companies as both early adopters and return clients is a real vote of confidence for our technology," commented Jay Rifkin, Digicorp's CEO. "We are extremely excited about this launch and look forward to rolling out ViraCast to a broad base of clients."
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Proprietary Technology Designed to Tap into Fastest Growing Segment of Online Advertising
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digicorp, Inc. (OTCBB:DGCO - News) announced today that it has filed patent applications on its contextual, geo-specific, dynamic ad dispatch technology, called ViraCast. Digicorp has numerous U.S. and international patents pending that are directed to important and innovative aspects of building solutions around the evolving media and advertising landscapes.
Digicorp's ViraCast technology offers a unique and immediate opportunity to capitalize on the fastest growing segment of online advertising: rich media, which is projected to expand at a 26% five-year base-case Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to reach $3.2B by 2010. The CAGR for rich media advertising is expected to exceed even search advertising.
At the core of Digicorp's online advertising solution, ViraCast dynamically inserts and updates display, video or audio advertising that is contextual, geo-specific and interactive; ViraCast also continuously tracks downloads, click-throughs and impressions. A ViraCast can be emailed; embedded in web pages; delivered as podcasts on iTunes; distributed by P2P sites, including LimeWire, Kazaa and BitTorrent; and played in any browser, while still retaining its e-commerce and tracking functionality.
Digicorp has rolled out a beta program powered by ViraCast technology with the debut of its website http://www.beat9.com//, a web-based authoring environment and ad dispatch platform for repurposing media files as dynamic, interactive, e-commerce enabled ViraCasts. Through a simple process, content owners log on to www.Beat9.com and upload their audio or video file; within a few seconds, their file is converted to a fully trackable and e-commerce enabled ViraCast, ready to launch and start generating revenue immediately.
"ViraCast fills a huge void in the online media and advertising marketplace," commented Jay Rifkin, Digicorp's CEO. "We can now connect this vast but fractured body of content with the widest range of advertisers, from regional to Fortune 1000 brands who demand real metrics."
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