Thursday, August 21, 2008

Sony Pictures Television Acquires Distribution Rights to Rocketboom.com

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Rocketboom.com in all media. Under the agreement, SPT will manage Rocketboom's current distribution agreements and increase distribution across all platforms.

Rocketboom will be fully integrated with Sony Pictures Entertainment's Crackle, including putting the daily show on Crackle.com, presenting the show with a Crackle player on the Rocketboom.com website, and distributing it over Crackle's syndication network, including direct to Sony BRAVIA televisions via BRAVIA Internet Video Link and mobile partners. Additionally, Sony Pictures Television will handle all of Rocketboom's ad sales exclusively.

Rocketboom is a creative online daily video news program based in New York City covering a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture. Rocketboom is distributed online for Mac's, PC's, portables, RSS aggregators like Google Reader, Bloglines, iTunes and Miro, iTV software and boxes like TiVo, Apple-TV, Pando and TVTonic, flash sites like YouTube, Metacafe, Myspace, Yahoo, Blip and Viddler via TubeMogul, P2P sites like Vuze, phone sites including iPhone and Nokia N-series phones and in various languages around the world via Dotsub.

Website: http://www.rocketboom.com/

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