Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing and KEWEGO Join Forces to Offer Videos Online

Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing and KEWEGO Join Forces to Offer Videos Online

HAMBURG, Germany, April 22/PRNewswire/ -- Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing, a Studio Hamburg Group company, has entered into a cooperative agreement with KEWEGO for the Free Video on Demand (VOD) business.

Effective immediately, Internet users will have free access to a large selection of popular animated films and music videos from the 70's and 80's on two different, topic-based video portals.

http://www.mobichi4free.de - the free video portal for children and parents

On this site, web surfers will find a treasure chest filled with short video clips and excerpts from the Mobichi.de program portfolio, such as Papa Loewe and Antje (Janosch), Hoota & Snoz, Spirou & Fantasio and many others. The portfolio comprises more than 175 segments and is periodically updated with new program excerpts. This premiere web event is available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and will not only be enthusiastically embraced by little tykes, but also by the "older generation".

http://www.MyBeatclub.com - the best of the best from Beat Club and Musikladen.

Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who - these are just three of the major stars whose live appearances in legendary Radio Bremen's TV music show "Beat Club" are now available to users around the globe - and free of charge. At launch the portal offers a portfolio of more than 300 music videos. The site will be updated regularly with even more content from the archive (due to legal constraints, Germany is currently excluded from access).

"We consider it our responsibility to position Studio Hamburg beyond the traditional movie business in categories such as WebTV and Video-On-Demand," explains Antoine Schmidt-Roy, Director Online-Media, Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing. "Thanks to the lightning speed global proliferation of broadband Internet connections, video portfolios have become the driving factor behind new business models. We are betting on the system powered by the KEWEGO platform. In the medium term we plan to fund the two new video portals through advertising," he added.

Mark Vitorovic, Managing Director of KEWEGO Deutschland; "We are pleased to have found a leading German license marketing partner in Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing. The quality of the content on both of these free Video-On-Demand portals is excellent and will thrill the fans who visit the site."

About SHDM

STUDIO HAMBURG DISTRIBUTION & MARKETING GMBH (SHDM) is a one hundred percent subsidiary of STUDIO HAMBURG HOLDING GmbH. SHDM is a full service provider engaged in the production, licensing and sales of TV, video and audio productions. SHDM Online Media markets audio-visual contents via WebTV, VOD, IPTV and mobileTV. Online Media also develops concepts, produces and operates Internet contents and is the developer of media asset management system FIAS (http://www.fias.tv).

About KEWEGO

Established in 2003, KEWEGO partners with companies aiming to get involved in the moving pictures/video/Web-TV sectors. KEWEGO major account and partner roster includes renowned companies such as M6, Peugeot, France Televisions, GIGA TV, Orange, Airbus, Procter & Gamble ... KEWEGO is represented in 25 European countries and generates more than 100 million video downloads per month. Website address: http://video.kewego.de

Source: Kewego

Press liaison KEWEGO: Melanie Koronko- pr@kewego.com

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Profile: International Entertainment