Wizzard Media Acquires Number One Celebrity Gossip iPhone App
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Wizzard Media (NYSE Amex: WZE), the world?s largest
podcasting network,
announces the acquisition of exclusive distribution rights to Gossip
Junkie, the number one celebrity gossip App in the App Store.
Gossip
Junkie is currently for sale through the App Store for use on the
iPhone® and iPod® Touch.
Are you a Gossip Junkie who loves to get the latest celebrity news
from
sites like Perez Hilton, E! News, TMZ or US Weekly? If so, Gossip
Junkie
is perfect for you. With just the touch of your finger you can
spend
more time browsing all of the popular celebrity news sites and
reading
about your favorite celebrities. No longer do you have to type in
the
web address or thumb through your bookmarks & icons to read
all of your
celebrity dirt. Gossip Junkie provides one touch access to 19
celebrity
news sites including: E! Online, OK! Magazine, NY Post Page Six,
People,
Perez Hilton, Star Magazine, TMZ and US Magazine.
According to PositionApp,
Gossip Junkie is ranked in the Top 300 paid Apps in its respective
category in over 50 countries worldwide, making it the number one
Gossip
App in iTunes. Interestingly enough, the top country for celebrity
news
through Gossip Junkie this week is Chile, where the App ranks in
the top
140 overall paid Apps. In the United States, Gossip Junkie ranks
12th
in paid news Apps where it has spent the last six months in the
Top 25.
Currently, Gossip Junkie ranks in the Top 25 paid news Apps in
Australia, Canada, UK and Brazil. From Slovenia to Guatemala, from
Slovakia to China, everyone loves gossip and everyone loves
getting
their celebrity news from Gossip Junkie.
Adding to its growing roster of premium iPhone Apps, Wizzard Media
acquired the rights to this highly regarded App from iPhone
EZ Apps based solely on its future sales potential and
targetability
through Wizzard?s podcast marketing and distribution network.
Marketing
efforts for Gossip
Junkie will target female audiences through comedy,
entertainment,
music, lifestyle and fashion podcasts on the Wizzard Media
Network.
Wizzard has focused its recent App acquisition efforts on quality,
timeless Apps that match up well with highly targeted podcast
audiences
generating Wizzard, App developers and podcasters revenue for the
promotion and sale of the Apps.
This announcement represents continuing progress for Wizzard?s
expanded
monetization plan for its podcasting network of over 12,000
podcast
producers and their 18 million unique monthly viewers and
listeners,
approximately 70% of whom use iPods and iPhones to subscribe and
download their favorite podcasts. Wizzard plans to continue to
acquire
the rights of high quality Apps to provide podcast producers with a
continuous stream of relevant, paid advertising for their episodic
shows
and provide App developers and Wizzard with increased sales
revenues.
To learn more about Gossip Junkie, click
here. All Wizzard Apps can be found in the iTunes App Store by
searching for ?Wizzard Media?. To learn more about iPhone
EZ Apps please click here.
About Wizzard Media:
Wizzard Media provides podcast publishers with distribution and
monetization services. Our clients include Microsoft, National
Geographic, Harvard Business Review, Usher, NPR and more than
12,000
others who use Wizzard Media products to measure their podcast
audience,
deliver popular audio and video entertainment and monetize their
content
through advertising and App sales. In 2009, the Wizzard Media
Network
received over 1.4 billion podcast requests from approximately 50
million
people worldwide through iPods, iPhones, iTunes, Zune and many
other
devices and destinations. We are part of a publicly held,
Pittsburgh
based company with thousands of shareholders and a world-class
team.
Visit us on the web at www.wizzardsoftware.com/media,
email us at contact@wizzard.tv.
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