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A2A Group Plc, the
broadband television R&D company, today announces its pre-close
trading update for the period up to 31 July 2007.
Other Topics: IPTV Middleware
Deployment, IPTV Multichannel IP
Encoder
A2A Group Plc
July 26, 2007
Following the admission of the holding Company and its subsidiaries
on to PLUS in August 2006, A2A has made good progress in the
development of its core product Cube.TV - a multi-channel service
provider and content creation tool for web-TV - which is due to be
formally launched in September 2007. During the last 6 months, the
Company presented at Cannes Lions, the annual international
advertising festival and has concluded the following license,
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ESPN Classic
- A 12-month project to deliver a
first of its kind multi-territory airtime sales hub.
- The Company developed a unique
solution that links major sales networks and broadcast systems to
synchronise the sale or airtime across each of ESPN's dedicated
local language broadcast feeds across Europe
Cannes Lions
- The Company debuted Cube.TV and
impressed ad agencies and marketing companies with its ability to
allow media planners for the first time to plan highly targeted
campaigns based around the digital TV audience profiles they want
to reach - through the combination of the multiple channels
Cube.TV will be delivering, and its unique audience measurement
system.
Trainers Eye TV
- An exclusive horse-racing based
web-TV channel dedicated to providing horseracing and gambling
community with exclusive and previous unavailable footage of
horses.
- The launch is currently only
event-based with initial results from the summer horse-racing
season including Ascot due out shortly.
DeliveryDotCom
- Signed a partnership with
digital, rich media marketing company to deliver video within
email without the need for streaming.
- This is a significant step
forward for online marketers - providing broadcasters with a tool
to specifically boost interaction with brand emails, enhance open
and click through rates and other forms of direct marketing.
Obus Plc
- The Company has been granted a
licence to create, deliver and distribute exclusive content
through their INTATV systems network throughout the UK and
Australia.
- INTATV is an IPTV media platform
designed to attract new revenue opportunities for local and
national advertisers - generating new revenue streams for leisure
venues including pubs and hair salons.
- The private network delivers
high-quality music, comedy and sports programming distributed
across a broadband platform, encouraging interaction and revenue
through mobile, loyalty-card, coin-operated and Internet channels.
Information TV
- Information TV, a
Government-backed information channel, has joined Cube.TV's
platform and will be the first client to simultaneously broadcast
content on Cube.TV and Sky.
HypTV
- HypTV, the world's first
creative channel, has joined Cube.TV's platform.
- HypTV aims to be a creative hub,
offering opportunities for creatives and artists of all genres to
gain exposure of their work. It is currently being shown on
Information TV's Sky channel.
Nick Brown, CEO of A2A Group,
comments:
'The advances we have made underline the value of pooling resources
with Petel Inc. through the business combination that was concluded
in June this year. We look forward to securing a significant niche
of the broadband TV market - TV 2.0 - which has the potential to
rival traditional media in the years ahead with IPTV households
expected to grow from 7 million to 48 million over the next twelve
years.
With the business on track to reach profitability from September, we
believe our revenue model that combines advertising revenues with
fees from content owners for use of the Cube.TV platform, is a
scaleable and dynamic one for this emerging market. |
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