GoFish Corporation Partners with MTV Networks to Distribute Premier
Video Content
Wide Variety of Content from COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon,
VH1,CMT, Logo, The N, Spike TV, AtomFilms and GameTrailers to Be
Available on GoFish.com
SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) January 8, 2008 --
GoFish Corporation (OTCBB:GOFH), a leading youth entertainment and
Internet video network, announced today that it has entered into a
strategic partnership to offer premier video content from several MTV
Networks brands for ad-supported viewing on GoFish.com (www.gofish.com).
GoFish is one of a select group of third-party video platforms that will
distribute content online from COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1,
CMT, Logo, The N, Spike TV, AtomFilms and GameTrailers. The programming
will be available on GoFish’s owned and
operated website and appeal to the online youth audience that the site
attracts. GoFish will have access to content from MTV Networks’
vast library including such highly-rated shows as COMEDY CENTRAL’s
Emmy and Peabody-Award winning “The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart,” MTV’s
“The Hills,”
Nickelodeon’s “iCarly,”
“VH1’s “The
Salt-N-Pepa Show,” and much more.
“Our partnership with MTV Networks enables us
to offer highly-engaging video content” says
Tabreez Verjee, President of GoFish. “This is
the most definitive collection of youth-oriented, branded content
available today and is an example of the ever-expanding offering that we
are bringing to our audience and advertising clients. We are building a
robust promotion and content platform for our publisher network that
will increase revenue opportunities for our partners and for GoFish.”
“We are pleased to partner with GoFish, which
has established itself as a leader in video content for the highly
targeted youth audience. Through this partnership with, we’re
extending the reach of our brands and creating deep and interactive
experiences around our content,” says Greg
Clayman, Executive Vice President, Digital Distribution and Business
Development, MTVN.
Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), which owns MTV Networks, holds an
equity stake in GoFish Corporation. The terms of the equity stake make
Viacom one of the largest independent shareholders of GoFish common
stock. Viacom has agreed to hold the stock for a minimum of two years.
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's
leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms.
MTV Networks, with more than 145 channels worldwide, owns and operates
the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION,
MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND,
SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE
DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all
of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with
its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its
more than 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online,
broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has
licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all
of its programming services can be seen worldwide.
GoFish Corporation (www.gofish.com)
(OTCBB:GOFH) headquartered in San Francisco, is a leading youth
entertainment and Internet video network. GoFish has been a pioneer in
the development of Made-For-Internet content (“MFI”)
with the production of several original media properties available only
on gofish.com. The first publicly traded online video company, GoFish
operates an ad-supported distribution network of owned and operated
sites as well as publisher sites on the Web where millions of people can
watch the best video entertainment.
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