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Universal Music Group (UMG) Joins Flycell to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

UMG to Provide Exclusive Content for New Flycell Website Featuring World’s Leading Latin Artists

NEW YORK, N.Y. – October 6, 2008

  • Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company, and Flycell, Inc., the popular mobile, online media and entertainment company, will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the launch of a Spanish-language version of Flycell.com (http://espanol.flycell.com). 
  • As part of UMG’s preexisting agreement with Flycell, users of the new site will have access to the world’s broadest array of chart-topping Latin music superstars.
  • Content on the new site will feature exciting new Spanish-language mobile products including exclusive voice tones and shout-outs from UMG artists. 
  • Hispanic Heritage Month began on September 15 and celebrates the contributions to the United States by people of Hispanic origin which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, includes more than 44 million people or one in seven people living in the United States.
  • This new collaboration between UMG and Flycell brings fresh content, including exclusive voice tones and shout-outs from artists like RKM and Ken Y, to Flycell’s new Spanish-language site, and features ringtones and other mobile media from today’s most popular Latin artists.
  • With the latest in mobile media and entertainment to personalize cell phones offered all in one place, this new Spanish language website serves as a one-stop-shop for Spanish-speaking customers.
  • Flycell delivers mobile entertainment and personalization on the fly to customers all across the globe. 
  • Whether it is ringtones, wallpapers, themes or games, everything people need for personalized mobile lifestyles is available on the Flycell website, www.flycell.com.
  • To visit the Spanish-language version of Flycell.com and to download exclusive Universal Music ringtones and shout-outs, visit http://espanol.flycell.com.
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Lindsey Weinger, Vice President of Web Experience at Flycell

“As the consumption of mobile entertainment continues to grow, Flycell is meeting the demands of our Spanish speaking customers and serving an ever broader audience with popular Latin-specific content including the most current ringtones and mobile media from artists like Enrique Iglesias, Luis Fonsi, Jenni Rivera, and Grupo Montez de Durango. What better time to introduce our Spanish-language offering than during the month dedicated to celebrating Hispanic heritage and culture?”

Skander Goucha, Vice President of Digital for Universal Music Latin Entertainment

“Latin Music remains one of the industry’s fastest growing and most dynamic genres, and we are committed to expanding the marketplace for it even further. Flycell continues to provide a dynamic platform for consumers to enjoy their favorite Latin music while giving our artists another significant online presence that creates an even closer connection with music fans.”

About Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry’s leading global music publishing operation.

Universal Music Group’s record labels include Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records South, and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world’s most popular artists and their recordings. UMG’s catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, its new media and technologies division; Bravado, its merchandising company; Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division; and Helter Skelter, its live music agency.

Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company.

About Flycell
Flycell, Inc. is a leading mobile and online media and entertainment destination.  Flycell lets people from all walks of life personalize their phones with the mobile content that reflects their own unique tastes in entertainment, sports, games and more.  The company partners with media companies and mobile network operators globally that utilize Flycell’s cutting edge multimedia applications and services.  Headquartered in New York, N.Y. and launched in 2004, Flycell is a wholly-owned subsidiary of wireless services company Acotel Group (MIL: ACO). For more information concerning Flycell visit: http://www.flycell.com.

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Local Musicians Join Unicorn Media Revolution

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Kit Smith and Tanya Livingstone release latest album on Website that lets users listen for free and pays artists

Tempe, Ariz. and Laguna Beach, Calif. - May 1, 2008

  • Unicorn Media (www.UnicornMedia.com), the groundbreaking entertainment Website where people can find professionally produced, high-quality music and video, all enjoyed for free, announced today that music duo Kit Smith and Tanya Livingstone will release their new album, “The Hardest Part,” on Unicorn Media. Smith and Livingstone’s previous album, “Central Connection,” is also available at UnicornMedia.com.
  • Described as a mix between pop, Americana and folk, Smith and Livingstone’s new album explores their feelings about surviving in our current political times as well as dealing with the aftermath of divorce, balanced out by a few light-hearted, feel-good love songs. 
  • Independent artists like Smith and Livingstone are increasingly turning to “new media” sites like Unicorn Media in an effort to build a grassroots following for their music, and are leveraging the massive reach of the Internet to expand their audience beyond the fans the musicians can interact with on tour.
  • By joining the Unicorn Media stable of musicians, Smith and Livingstone believe they are opening the doors to a much broader audience than they could possibly reach on their own. The duo also sees a great deal of value in having another avenue to distribute music to their fans beyond selling CDs.
  • Unicorn Media is unique within the group of Internet based digital entertainment sites in its value proposition to artists. Recognizing that musicians struggle to not only build a fan base but also to profit from their work without “selling out,” Unicorn Media offers artists a worldwide distribution platform supported by a business model that pays them fairly for their work while letting them retain full rights to their own content.
  • More and more popular artists, such as Nine Inch Nails, Prince, and Radiohead, are self-releasing their work directly to their fans, eschewing traditional media distribution models.
  • The Unicorn Media service encourages interaction between musicians and their fans with social networking tools and fan pages. Similar in nature to the “living room” concerts artists like Smith and Livingstone are using to connect with fans in a more intimate environment, the fan sites on Unicorn Media allow artists to chat with their fans one-to-one and communicate with them in a more personal way.
  • Smith and Livingstone will be playing outdoor festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area this summer in addition to performing in living room concerts up and down the West Coast.
  • To listen to Kit Smith and Tanya Livingstone’s new album visit http://www.unicornmedia.com/kitandtanya
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Kit Smith, singer songwriter

“As musicians, we are relying less on the traditional music model of finding a label, getting signed, then giving up all our rights to our hard-earned work.  Unicorn Media allows us to connect directly with our fans and make new ones, and then lets our fans support our work just by listening to our music on the site.”

Tanya Livingstone

“We really enjoy doing ‘living room’ concerts where we play for a select group of fans in someone’s living room.  In fact, we are having our CD release concert at a house in Laguna Niguel, Calif. We see it as a unique way to reach out to our fans and cut out the middleman and think it fits perfectly with Unicorn Media’s vision and efforts to connect artists with their fans in a genuine and personal environment.”

Tim Morse, Director of Artist Relations for Unicorn Media

“For many musicians, it has been an age-old struggle to gain an audience, be discovered and make it big.  Getting the big break has always been at the hands of someone else. With Unicorn Media the playing field is leveled. If you have talent and people are listening to your music on our site, you will be rewarded.”

About Unicorn Media
Unicorn Media is an online entertainment destination changing the way entertainers and advertisers profit from high-quality digital entertainment. By harnessing the massive reach of the Internet, Unicorn Media gives established and emerging music, film and video artists an easy way to gain worldwide exposure while earning money from their work – reinventing the traditional media model and setting off a revolution in digital entertainment. Privately held and fully funded, Unicorn Media is headquartered in Tempe, AZ. For more information on Unicorn Media, please visit www.UnicornMedia.com.

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San Francisco Chornicle write-up on Kit and Tanya

Orange County Register review of Kit and Tanya

Performing Songwriter review of Central Connection

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