Wizzard Media Acquires More iPhone Apps
PITTSBURGH, PA – July 22, 2009 - Wizzard Media (NYSE Amex: WZE), the world’s largest podcasting network, announces the acquisition of exclusive distribution rights to three new, high profile Apps currently for sale through Apple’s App Store for use on iPhones and the iPod Touch. The three new Apps are: Word Party, Dietician and Yo Mama.
Adding to its fast growing roster of premium iPhone Apps, Wizzard Media acquired these three highly regarded Apps specifically based on their sales potential and targetability through Wizzard’s podcast marketing and distribution network. Wizzard has focused its recent App acquisition efforts on quality, timeless Apps that match up well with highly targeted podcast audiences generating app developers and podcasters revenues for the sale and promotion of the products.
“The Wizzard Media podcast network reaches an audience of over 18 million unique consumers a month, approximately 50 million a year, and we expect that to continue to grow as Apple announced just yesterday that they sold another 5.2 million iPhones last quarter,” says Chris Spencer, CEO of Wizzard Media. “The podcasters we work with have proven that they do an excellent job promoting their sponsors and advertisers and we believe that with the influence and rapport they have developed with their audience, they will do a great job marketing these Apps. I envision customized Word Party apps for our various participating language and grammar podcasts and targeting the Dietician app to yoga, action sports and other fitness enthusiasts we can reach through the many Health & Fitness podcasts on the Wizzard network. We can align specific Apps with specific podcast shows, matching audience demographics through our proprietary Alchemy ad serving system.”
This announcement represents ongoing progress on the first step of Wizzard’s expanded monetization plan for its podcasting network of 20,000 producers and their 18 million viewers and listeners, approximately 70% of whom use iTunes to subscribe to and download their favorite podcasts. Wizzard believes this step will put it closer to its goal of profitability and will be announcing the next step in its network monetization plan shortly. The Company plans to continue to acquire the rights for up to 100 already launched and approved iPhone Apps to provide podcast producers with a continuous stream of relevant, paid advertising for their episodic shows, provide app developers with increased sales revenues and provide for profitable App sales for Wizzard.
App Descriptions - http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/featured_apps.php
Word Party - “The ultimate word game for any party situation.” – AppVee.com; Do you enjoy the game Password, Taboo or Catch Phrase? Then you will love Word Party, the first multi-player, multi-team word party game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Have a ball playing with all your friends at the same time. This game is great fun for all ages, parties and even long car rides. Put a party in your pocket with Word Party! See a video review of Word Party from AppVee: http://www.appvee.com/t/word-party User testimonial: “We played till 2 in the morning. This game brings nothing but fun to a party. A must have for any iPhone user. U can be 10 or 80 years old and still have fun. EVERYBODY can play and love this game!!!”
Yo Mama - Previously the #1 Entertainment App in iTunes and the #2 overall paid App in iTunes!!! Enjoy the best and most original ‘Yo Mama’ jokes anywhere. Yo Mama includes over 150 of the best new jokes that you’ve never heard before. No Internet needed once you download the app! You’ll have your friends cracking up like never before. Email your favorite jokes to them from right inside the application. Shake your iPhone to instantly get a random joke from a random category.
Dietician – Five Star Rating from AppleTell! – “Never before has creating healthy and interesting meals been so easy and rewarding.” Dietician is a different kind of healthcare & fitness application. Rather than focus on how many push-ups you’ve done, it concentrates solely on your diet. Generating a meal plan for you to follow, it aims to assist you in loosing weight. It analyzes the information you provide and presents you with a meal plan. Not only does it provide the meal plan, but it also informs you of the ingredients needed and the preparation required to make your creation a success. The groceries tab shows you the required food items you’re likely to need for the meals during that day or week, and will keep an eye on how much you use, and when you’d need some more. It shows the basic information you’re most likely to care about: calories, fat, fiber and sugar to name just a few. It doesn’t explain the benefits of these however, or instruct which to stay clear off.
About Wizzard Media (a division of Wizzard Software):
Wizzard Media provides publishing and distribution services to podcasters and monetization services for podcasters. Wizzard Media is the industry’s leading podcasting network with an unprecedented 1.2 billion download requests in 2008. Podcasts are a means for independent and professional content creators to publish audio and video shows for the world to enjoy over the Internet or on mp3 players, such as the Apple iPod®, iPhone® and the Microsoft Zune®. Podcasting is a relatively new phenomenon, but Wizzard Media collectively broadcasts millions of podcast downloads per day through media aggregators like Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace. For more information, please visit www.wizzardsoftware.com/media_v2.php. Wizzard Media is a division of Wizzard Software, a leader in speech technology distribution and development.
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