Private Media Group
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Adult
Media
Playboy
TV International and Private Media Group Merge the
Pay-TV Channels Spice Platinum and Private Gold in
Europe
November
17th 2005 - Los Angelos USA and Barcelona Spain /PR
Newswire/ -- Private Media Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVT)
and Playboy TV International, a Playboy Enterprises,
Inc. (NYSE: PLA).
Private
Media Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVT) and Playboy TV International,
a Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA) company, announced
today the signing of a five-year agreement to merge
their two adult pay-TV channels, Private Gold and
Spice Platinum, consolidating their market leadership
in Europe. The new channel will be called Private
Spice.
Under
the terms of the agreement, Playboy TV International
will operate, distribute and market the new channel
and Private will provide content, brand and marketing
support. Currently, there is little overlap between
the two channels and subsequently the new channel
will significantly increase the distribution in the
region.
The
new channel will make available for the first time
unique and proprietary quality content, offering flexible
language tailoring and market localization. Platforms
will now be able to offer their viewers a unique channel
developed and serviced by the worlds leading
adult television brands, while ensuring professional
reliability and continuity.
Mark
L. Rudolph, Executive Vice President and Managing
Director, Playboy Television International said: With
this strategic initiative we will provide our customers
and viewers the combined strength of Private and Spice
in a single channel. The deal reflects Playboy TV
Internationals successful development of its
distribution and channel management in Europe and
places the new channel in a market position second
to none.
Berth
Milton, CEO of Private Media Group commented: Our
collaboration with Playboy TV International enables
us to increase our broadcasting presence in Europe
and we are delighted with this opportunity which will
certainly have a significant positive impact on our
business. This agreement clearly demonstrates that
demand for high quality content is key and confirms
Privates unique position in the adult broadcast
market.
NOTES
TO THE EDITORS:
The
Spice Platinum channel
Launched in 2001, Spice Platinum has rapidly become
one of Europe's most sought after and fastest growing
premium adult networks now reaching subscribers in
over 15 countries. Spice Platinum is broadcast to
cable and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV subscribers
across Europe. Spice Platinum uses the best producers
from Europe and North America to deliver the highest
quality programming 24 hours a day.
The
Private Gold channel
The Private Gold channel is currently distributed
in Europe and Latin America. Launched in 2000, it
is one of the leading Adult Pay-TV channels in Europe.
The channel is distributed in Europe via Satellite
and Cable in 25 countries in the region. The content
shown on the channel is proprietary to Private.
About
Playboy Television International
Playboy TV International, wholly owned by Playboy
Entertainment Group, Inc. (PEGI), a division of Playboy
Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA), develops and operates
quality adult entertainment television networks worldwide
under the Playboy TV and Spice brands. PTVI has full
ownership of the Playboy TV network, The Adult Channel,
Spice Extreme, and Climax 3 in the United Kingdom
and Europe as well as an equity interest in Playboy
TV Japan, Channel Ruby and Playboy TV Latin America
& Iberia. Playboy TV International is headquartered
in Los Angeles with major presence in key European
and Asian markets. Under strategic alliances with
leading international partners, PTVI operates branded
networks in Australia France, Germany, Hong Kong,
Israel, South Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Scandinavia,
Taiwan, and Turkey. PTVI also distributes its content
through commercial web sites, via mobile platforms,
on DVD, and to pay television stations.
About
Private Media Group
With its forty year track record, Private is a leading
global adult entertainment company that distributes
its content over a wide range of media platforms,
including narrow and broadband Internet, DVD and video,
magazines, broadcasting and wireless technologies.
It owns the worldwide rights to one of the largest
archives of high quality adult content in the world,
which it physically distributes in over 40 countries.
Disclaimer
This release contains, in addition to historical information,
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, which reflect the Companys current
judgments of those issues. However, because these
statements are forward-looking and apply to future
events, they are subject to unpredictable circumstances,
which could lead to results materially different from
those anticipated by the Company.
For
further information please contact:
Private Media Group
Gary Thoulouis
Press and Brand manager
Tel: +34 93 590 73 14
gary.thoulouis@private.com
Playboy
TV International
Richard Gale
Tel: +44 208 581 7000
Cell: +44 7780 706 976
rgale@playboy.com
SOURCES:
Private Media Group, Inc., Playboy TV International,
LLCC
Press
Release
Private
Launches www. Private. com v2.0 as Part of New Aggressive
Online Strategy
Tuesday February 13, 9:14 am ET
13th
February 2007
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Private Media Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVT - News), a
worldwide leader in premium quality adult entertainment
and products, today announced the launch of the new
private. com website - the first phase of an aggressive
strategy to secure its position as the leading online
destination for premium quality adult content. With
private. com, the company is delivering a "one-stop"
portal newly designed from the ground up with a vast
content offering and a unique and compelling user
experience.
The
Company's in house team of experienced web designers
has developed a state-of-the-art proprietary site
design and structure. The development included using
feedback from key webmasters and customers, which
resulted in increased personalization, more compelling
membership benefits and a broad range of new content
offerings and functionality choices. The new site
also offers an extremely user friendly navigation
system and more options for visitors to access and
buy content including video-on-demand, live streams/chats
and download to own. The new site ensures that the
quality of Private on the web is commensurate to the
quality of the Private brand.
Private
Media Group's Director of Online Media Fiona Garvey
explained: "The key objective when planning and
building our new website was to increase conversion
rates(1) by more effectively marketing our products
to site visitors prior to them making a purchase.
The marketing efforts primarily include two features:
a) allowing visitors access to a searchable database
with movie titles and star biographies featuring images
and clips, thereby giving visitors a taste of what
Private has to offer, and b) creating a relationship
with visitors via interactive features such as polls,
blogs and forums to make them come back although they
may not have purchased anything in the first place.
In addition, we are consolidating our many different
websites and revenue streams into a single-branded
experience, thereby creating a one- stop-shop. We
are extremely pleased with the result and following
the soft- launch last week we have seen a significant
increase in both conversion rates and time spent by
visitors on the site."
NOTES TO THE EDITORS:
Footnote
1 In Internet marketing the conversion rate is
the percentage of unique
visitors who take a desired action upon visiting
the website. The
desired action may be submitting a sales lead,
making a purchase,
viewing a key page of the site, downloading a
whitepaper, or some other
measurable action.
About Private Media Group
With its 40 year track record, NASDAQ listed Private
Media Group is a world leading adult lifestyle
company which distributes a wide range of erotic
and semi-erotic multimedia content over several
platforms, including wireless and broadcasting
technologies, narrow and broadband Internet, DVD
and Magazines. Private Media Group also licenses
its Private and silver girls trademarks internationally
for a range of luxury consumer products and owns
the worldwide rights to the largest archive of
high quality adult content in the world, which
it distributes all over Europe, North America,
Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia
and Asia.
Disclaimer
This
release contains, in addition to historical information,
forward- looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect
the Company's current judgments of those issues.
However, because those statements are forward-looking
and apply to future events, they are subject to
such risks and uncertainties, which could lead
to results materially different than anticipated
by the Company.
For further information please contact:
Fiona Garvey
Director of Online Media
Private Media Group
Ph: +34 93 590 70 70
fiona.garvey@private.com
Gareth Davies
CUSTARD PR
gdavies@rainierpr.co.uk
Ph: +44 (0) 20 7494 6576
Cell ph: +44 (0) 7980 820994
HUGE
POTENTIAL NEW REVENUES FOR PRIVATE´S MOBILE
BUSINESS
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January, 2008 - Barcelona
Private
Media Group, Inc (NASDAQ: PRVT) the global leader
in high quality adult entertainment, has launched
an off portal site www.private.mobi
for consumers to purchase it’s content,
this is in addition to Private’s on portal
deals where Private content is available on over
860 million handsets in 35 countries via 83 operators.
The
European launch of the off portal site is the
first stage of Private’s global partnership
with Mobile Streams, Q1 2008 will also see an
international rollout for the mobile site.
The
site will be aggressively marketed both on and
offline and this is Private’s competitive
advantage, along with the company’s high
quality content with more than 600 models starring
in the 10 new titles released each month. Markets
are slow to react to the big picture changes,
but Private sees this as a genuine opportunity
in order to make consistently good returns. (“Tech
and Porn go hand in hand in Vegas”, http://www.cnbc.com/id/22578009/site/14081545)
Private.mobi is focused on the rapidly growing
off portal (mobile content direct to the consumer
market). Mobile Streams is a leading provider
of content to handset and other wireless devices.
For more information about Mobile Streams please
go to www.mobilestreams.com
Peter
Cohen, Chief Operating Officer of Private Media
Group commented, “Private is now available
on all new media platforms and is the most distributed
brand on portal. We are very focused on maximizing
our mobile content distribution in the next few
years. Drive and ambition are absolutely essential.
Private Media Group anticipates significant revenue
growth from this platform. Strong brands are more
valuable than ever. Our flagship website Private.com
has 20 million unique page views every year and
we are confident of repeating this success with
the launch of Private.mobi.”
The
President and majority shareholder, Mr Berth Milton
recently increased his holding of the Company´s
shares of common stock. Mr Milton acquired 4,000,000
or 7,47% of the Company´s outstanding shares.
His beneficial ownership in accordance with rules
of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
is up to 58.2%.
For
more detail information, please visit our website
www.prvt.com
or contact:
Martin
Sörqvist (Investor relations), tel + 34 93
590 70 70, msorqvist@milcap.es
About
Private Media Group
With
its 40 year track record, NASDAQ listed Private
Media Group is a brand-driven world leader in
adult entertainment and distributes premium quality
content globally via a wide range of platforms
including more than 800 million mobile telephone
handsets, IPTV/VOD, broadband Internet, television
broadcasting, DVDs and magazines. Private Media
Group owns the worldwide rights to its extensive
archive of high-quality content, and also licenses
its Private and “Silver Girls” trademarks
internationally for a select range of luxury consumer
products. Private´s vision is to be the
world´s preferred content of adult entertainment
to consumers anywhere, at any time and across
all distribution platforms and devices.
Disclaimer
This release contains, in addition to historical
information, forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect
the Company's current judgments of those issues.
However, because those statements are forward-looking
and apply to future events, they are subject to
such risks and uncertainties, which could lead
to results materially different than anticipated
by the Company.
Mediaman is delighted to be in talks with
Private Media Group
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