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08.04.2009 Versaly Releases Report on Mobile Video Downloads
Versaly announces the qualitative results of its first half of 2009 sales for video downloads in the United States

04.27.2009 Versaly CEO Discusses “Mobile Commerce and Content” at Digital Hollywood Spring 2009
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest panelist at Digital Hollywood Spring 2009 in Santa Monica, California.

02.03.2009 One Minute Media's "KNOW IT IN A MINUTE" Goes Mobile
One Minute Media, LLC and Versaly Entertainment to test mobile distribution of Know It In A Minute videos

10.21.2008 Versaly CEO Discusses “How Programming Jump Starts the Mobile Video Revolution” at Digital Hollywood Fall 2008
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest panelist at Digital Hollywood Fall 2008 in Santa Monica, California.

10.10.2008 FEATURE: Is mobile video moving yet?
MTV is making hay in the US, but there's a feeling that mobile video still has a long way to go

09.11.2008 Mobile Entertainment's Top 50 US execs revealed
It's CTIA week, so which industry figures should you suck up to for a direct route into the North American content market?

09.10.2008 Comedy Time Now Available on Blackberry Smart Phones
All Comedy Network Caters To Mobile Viewers

09.02.2008 Versaly Launches the “Underground Sound” Mobile Music Channel
The Underground Sound to Include Multiple Mobile Products in the Indie Rock Music Genre

07.23.2008 Nexage and Versaly build video service
Nexage is to power a mobile destination for Vmbc.tv, the video-on-demand distribution network from Versaly

07.22.2008 NEXAGE Powers Mobile Rich Media Service for Versaly Entertainment
Versaly brings one of the Largest Libraries of Mobile Content to Users Globally on Nexage’s PhoneCast solution

04.29.2008 Versaly CEO Discusses “How Programming Jump Starts the Mobile Video Revolution” at Digital Hollywood Spring 2008
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest panelist at Digital Hollywood Spring 2008 in Hollywood, California.

12.20.2007 Vmbc.tv is Moving
Vmbc.tv is moving to off-deck for growth of ad-funded mobile video distribution

11.13.2007 Versaly Launches Fleur - Mobile Content for Wireless Women
Fleur will provide female-focused mobile videos, ringtones and wallpapers

10.24.2007 Versaly CEO Selected As Guest Panelist at Leading Mobile Event, Digital Hollywood Fall 2007
Topic is Original Entertainment and Information Programming Jumpstarts the Revolution

10.16.2007 Vmbc.tv’s Flagship Channel – Fast Lane – Surpasses 1 Million Views per Month
Fast Lane Mobile Video Channel Continues Growing at Fast Rate

10.16.2007 Sprint Ahead... To Mass Media
After losing subscribers and its CEO, Sprint has decided to take its next step forward by looking backward, to the good old days of basic cable

10.02.2007 Nokia Adds New Content Partners to Nokia Video Center
New partnerships with CNN, IBN, Jamba, Sony Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK and Versaly Entertainment gives Nseries users access to mobile videos on-the-go

09.25.2007 Ripe Digital Entertainment Expands Mobile Distribution With VMBC.TV’S Fast Lane
RipeTV® Programming Now Available on Sprint and Two Additional Mobile Applications

09.25.2007 Fast Lane vids speed to mywaves
Vmbc.tv is to offer its Fast Lane mobisodes via the mobile video destination Mywaves

09.20.2007 Mywaves and Versaly Entertainment Team Up to Offer “Fast Lane” Mobile Video-On-Demand Programming
Free-to-watch, Non-intrusive-advertising, High-quality, Totally-engaging Mobile Videos

09.18.2007 Endemol USA Selects Vmbc.tv for Mobile Video
Top Endemol Properties to be Available on Mobile Phones Nationwide

08.27.2007 People on the Move

08.09.2007 Mobile Branding Is Not For Old Farts

08.08.2007 Vmbc.tv Appoints Stefan Heller to Top Ad Sales Position
Vmbc.tv gets new energy and focus in mobile advertising

07.23.2007 AT&T Media Mall Adds Vmbc.tv Videos
Vmbc.tv’s top properties now available on AT&T Media Mall’s video section

06.19.2007 FAST LANE Extends Reach to Nokia Mobile Devices and Microsoft Smartphones
Vmbc.tv’s top mobile property to be available in direct-to-consumer streaming video applications

06.04.2007 Versaly CEO Discusses “Original Mobile Entertainment & Programming” at Digital Hollywood Spring 2007
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest panelist at Digital Hollywood Spring 2007 in Santa Monica, California.

05.29.2007 Oh, Look! A (Meaty) Chicken!
Media executives and advertising types, who thrive on reusable phrases, seem to have latched onto "attention economy" this year, with the usual mixed results

05.22.2007 Fast Lane Mobile Video-on-Demand Channel Surpasses One Million Views
Vmbc.tv’s top mobile property sees success by understanding audience

02.27.2007 Giving 'More of Less'
The "less is more" principle seems to have been an article of faith among mobile content and advertising programmers

02.22.2007 Tila Tequila’s New Single Hits the USA
Endemol USA today announces it is releasing Tila Tequila’s new music video “I Love You” on mobile phones.

02.05.2007 Toyota Harnesses Mobile Video For FJ Cruiser
Toyota has enlisted the help of Saatchi & Saatchi LA and mobile services firm The Hyperfactory for cross-channel marketing

02.05.2007 Toyota's FJ Cruiser Takes a Cross-Channel Road to Baja
To push its new off-road FJ Cruiser, Toyota launches a cross-channel marketing blitz

10.30.2006 GetLisa Signs Agreement with Versaly® Entertainment for Multimedia Content
GetLisa Information Services, a global pioneer in creating mobile and online community portals, has signed an agreement with Versaly® Entertainment, a leading content aggregator and mobile media company.

10.27.2006 Versaly hears sweet ring tones
Versaly cuts deal to convert Microsoft interactive games into mobile phone ring tones and wallpaper

10.19.2006 Versaly CEO Discusses “Mobile Video and TV” at Digital Hollywood Fall 2006
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest panelist at Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 in Santa Monica, California.

10.18.2006 Popular Microsoft Xbox Game Characters Available On Mobile Phones
Versaly Entertainment to produce mobile phone wallpapers and ringtones from Microsoft Xbox Game library

10.11.2006 Rafael Nadal Slams onto Mobile Phones
Versaly Entertainment to produce and distribute mobile phone wallpapers, ringtones and video of Rafael Nadal

08.01.2006 Send In the Ads
Mobile content hasn't caught on as quickly as expected. Can Madison Ave. save the wireless future?

07.11.2006 Merely Tolerable
Like all young Turks in nascent industries, we in the mobile world tend to be myopic and self-involved, always in need of remembering that the rest of the world is not hip deep in our own innovations

05.15.2006 Versaly Entertainment - Keeping with the Times
By Vikrant Gandhi, Industry Analyst, Mobile Communications

02.07.2006 Getty Images and Versaly Entertainment Team Up To Deliver Mobile Gifts
Versaly is enhancing Getty Images for mobile wallpaper gifting.

01.02.2006 Versaly To Present At The 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show In Las Vegas
Versaly Entertainment president and CEO Matthew Feldman has been selected to be a guest speaker at Digital Hollywood at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

06.06.2005 Versaly Entertainment' Teams with 5280 Mobile To Develop SoBe Phone Gear Ringtone Website
Site to showcase new ringtones and wallpapers for SoBe Beverages' mobile marketing campaigns

05.03.2005 Versaly Entertainment’s CelebTalk™ Video Channel Now Available on Sprint
CelebTalk provides dozens of high-quality streaming video interviews of Hollywood’s top talent straight to the mobile phone

03.15.2005 Versaly Sees Future of Mobile Content Delivery at CTIA
Mobile Entertainment CEO to Address Changes, Challenges & Opportunities

03.13.2005 Versaly Shares Mobile Revenue Successes In New Orleans
Entertainment Leader Presents Case Study, Addresses Explosion of New Content at MES

03.07.2005 Sir Mix-A-Lot Surpasses Half Million Download Milestone with Versaly Entertainment's MixTones™ For Mobile Ringtone Market
500,000 Ringtones Sold Reach Gold Equivalent in Seven Weeks

11.16.2004 Sir Mix-A-Lot Taps Versaly Entertainment to Bring MixTones to The Mobile Marketplace
Exclusive Hip-Hop Content Includes Signature Hits Like "Baby Got Back"

10.25.2004 Universal Studios Teams with Versaly Entertainment to Create a Suite of Mobile Entertainment Products for "Meet the Fockers"
Versaly to provide comprehensive Mobile Brand Management™ solution of branded personalization and video mobile products and high-impact text messaging campaigns.

10.20.2004 Gravity Mobile Selects Versaly Entertainment to Create Ringtones for Alternative, Hip Hop and Dance Music
Green Day, The Donnas, Blackalicious, Money Mark and much more are now available to download.

09.22.2004 Versaly Receives 2004 Mobile Music Brand Management Award
Versaly Entertainment, the leading Mobile Brand Management™ company focused on creating, producing, aggregating and distributing innovative entertainment to mobile phones, today announced that the company has been awarded the Mobile Music Brand Management of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan. Versaly was singled out by Frost & Sullivan for their strategic development of personalized services to become an integrated solution for music artists.

07.21.2004 Versaly Creates Mobile Ringtones and Wallpaper From Telemundo Brands
Versaly has signed an agreement with NBC Universal Television Distribution and the Telemundo Network Group to create, produce, sell and wirelessly distribute music, images and sounds from various television programs aired on the Telemundo Network.

07.07.2004 Versaly to Co-Sponsor CFCA's 5K Run/Walk for 4th Year
Versaly proudly announced, for the fourth straight year, it will be a race sponsor for the "You Gotta Have Guts" 5K Run/Walk, presented by Berlex, to benefit the Northwest Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA).

06.29.2004 ForFones Web Site Relaunched, Now Better Than Ever
www.ForFones.com is now faster, easier to use, better organized and more visually appealing. Its new clean and clear appearance makes navigating quick and simple. Personalizing your mobile phone has never been so fun!

04.26.2004 Versaly in The Seattle Times
Versaly's Matt Feldman gives an interview to Nancy Gohring for the Business and Technology section of The Seattle Times.

04.15.2004 Versaly Appoints Nogi Asp as CFO
Versaly today announced the appointment of Mr. Nogi Asp as its chief financial officer. Mr. Asp brings considerable operational experience and discipline to Versaly. "I am extremely excited to have Nogi join the Versaly management team. His experience with past high-growth companies will enhance Versaly's ability to negotiate any obstacles we face as our operations accelerate," said Matthew Feldman, Versaly's president and CEO.

03.24.2004 Get Backstage with your Mobile Phone
Versaly today announced an agreement with UltraStar Entertainment, LLC, the premiere internet services and online marketing company to the music industry, to create an entire line of mobile products for select UltraStar artists, whose clients include Sting, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones.

11.11.2003 Versaly Provides Youth Entertainment Content to Boost Mobile
Versaly today announced it is offering its library of popular ringtones and themed wallpapers to Boost Mobile!, a lifestyle-based telecommunications company that offers pay-as-you-go wireless phones and services to the youth market.

10.20.2003 Fear is not a Factor for BREW-Enabled Phones
Versaly today announced the launch of their Fear Factor wallpaper and ringtone application developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW™) platform.

10.20.2003 Get Star Trek Content Beamed to your BREW-Enabled Phone
Versaly today announced the launch of their Star Trek wallpaper and ringtone application developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW™) platform.

10.07.2003 Versaly to Speak at Mobile Entertainment Summit at CTIA
Versaly's VP of Sales and Marketing will be a guest speaker at the Mobile Entertainment Summit at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment on the Direction of the Wireless Entertainment Market.

09.22.2003 NBC Reality Smash 'Fear Factor' Provides Ringtones and Wallpaper for Mobile Phones
NBC Enterprises, Endemol USA and Versaly Entertainment announced today plans to produce, sell and wirelessly distribute music, images and sounds from the hit reality television show Fear Factor.

07.22.2003 Vroom, Beep, Squawk, Bark, Ka-Pow: Versaly Adds Valentino Sound Effects to Mobile Ringtone Library
Versaly announced today it has signed an agreement with Valentino Production Music, Inc., a publisher of more than 70,000 sound effects for the TV and feature film industries. Versaly will produce, sell and distribute hundreds of their sound effects for use as mobile phone ringtones.

05.28.2003 Wallpaper Designs From Webshots and Versaly Allow Nextel Customers to Further Customize Their Mobile Phones
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced the availability of more than 300 downloadable wallpaper designs from Webshots and Versaly for its latest iDEN® mobile phones. These allow Nextel customers with Motorola's color-screen phones, including the Motorola i95cl, to customize the background of their phone's display.

04.07.2003 'Se Habla' Voice Ringers: Sprint to Offer Spanish-Language Voice Ringers from Versaly
Sprint, which operates the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network, and Versaly Entertainment, a wireless new media company focused on creating, publishing and distributing broad-based entertainment to mobile phones, today announced that PCS Vision customers can now download Spanish-language Voice Ringers.

03.17.2003 Versaly Launches Mobile Download Website
Versaly today announces it has launched a new retail sales web-to-phone service called 'ForFones.' Located at www.ForFones.com, ForFones will enable mobile phone users to easily download fun and entertaining ringtones, wallpaper and screensavers from their PC to their mobile phones over the wireless network.

01.16.2003 Starship Enterprise Approaching Tokyo at Warp Speed
Versaly today announces it has signed a sublicensing agreement with GignoSystem Japan to distribute Star Trek® backgrounds, screensavers, ringtones and other mobile content through the major Japanese wireless carriers, such as DoCoMo, KDDI and Vodafone (J-Phone). GignoSystem is a top content publisher and distributor in Japan and around the world.

10.22.2002 Versaly Announces Availability of Sound Themes for Smartphone
At the global launch of the Microsoft Windows®–Powered Smartphone today, Versaly Games, Inc., a leading wireless application service provider focused on delivering broad-based entertainment to mobile phones, announced that it is offering ringtones and sound themes from its large digital library, optimized for Microsoft Windows–Powered Smartphone software.

09.10.2002 Versaly adds Top Secret Recipes to Mobile Entertainment Service
Versaly announces it has signed an agreement with Top Secret Recipes, who creates kitchen clones of America's favorite brand-name foods, to distribute recipes to mobile phones.

08.13.2002 Versaly adds Stanley Mouse to Mobile Digital Art Collection
Versaly announces it has signed an agreement with Stanley Mouse, the artist who independently and in tandem with longtime collaborator Alton Kelley, created some of the most distinctive and memorable images in rock music, including the "Skull and Roses" emblem for the Grateful Dead, to distribute his famous artwork for use as backgrounds and screensavers on mobile phones.

08.06.2002 Versaly to Distribute the Most Popular Album Cover of All Time
Versaly announces it has signed an agreement with Roger Dean, the artist who created the logo and album covers for the band "Yes," to distribute his famous artwork for use as mobile phone backgrounds, image themes, screensavers and other mobile entertainment. His existing collection of digital image artwork will be distributed as-is and also Roger himself will animate his artwork to be used for animated ringtones and animated screensavers on mobile phones.

05.21.2002 Versaly Launches Entertainment Site on AT&T Wireless mLife
Versaly will initially offer Star Trek quotes, Jimi Hendrix fun facts, eUniverse Trivia, Fact, Word, and Quote-of-the-Day, and a Lucky Numbers selector to subscribers. The low monthly subscription fee of $1.99 will allow mMode subscribers access to all of the content within the Versaly service. Subscribers can find Versaly under mMode's Entertainment section. Versaly is planning to expand the offering with additional fun-to-use brand-name content and prizes in the near future.

05.01.2002 Industry Click: Lee Oskar to Develop Custom Ringtones for Versaly
A founding member of WAR, the pioneering funk rock band famed for the hits "Spill the Wine," "Why Can't We Be Friends?" and "Low Rider," Lee Oskar signed with Seattle-based interactive mobile entertainment distributor Versaly Games in early 2002 to author a series of exclusive ringtones for next-generation handsets.

04.16.2002 Versaly to Publish Games for Sendo Smartphone
Sendo announced today its first wave of applications being developed by third-party developers for the Sendo multimedia Z100 Smartphone.

04.08.2002 eUniverse forms Strategic Content Agreement with Versaly
The content agreement provides Versaly with popular digital content from eUniverse's network sites and email newsletters.

04.02.2002 Versaly Makes Modezilla Top 50
Modezilla ranks Versaly as one of the hottest players in the mobile entertainment industry.

03.14.2002 Star Trek Images on Sprint PCS Phones
Versaly announced it has signed an agreement with Sprint PCS that allows Sprint's wireless customers to download Star Trek images onto their phones via Sprint PCS Ringers & More.

01.15.2002 Better Ringtones
Versaly announced it has signed Lee Oskar, a founding member and lead harmonica player from the pioneer funk/jazz group WAR, to create and produce pleasing and fun mobile phone ringtones and other mobile music.

01.07.2002 Major Players in Mobile Entertainment Medium
Wireless Week lists Versaly as one of the major players in the mobile entertainment medium.

12.19.2001 BetterVersaly Dials Up Star Trek™ Global Mobile Phone Deal!
Versaly has obtained a license from Viacom Consumer Products to distribute Paramount Pictures Star Trek™ ringtones, images, sounds, audio and video clips and other entertainment content to mobile phones.