Facts
Jamster - The Portal for Digital Entertainment
| Established | August 2000; Joint Venture since february 2007 |
| Company Address | Jamba! GmbH |
| Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 5 | |
| 10178 Berlin | |
| Tel: +49 30 69 53 8 - 0 | |
| Fax: + 49 30 69 53 8 - 599 | |
| Web/WAP | www.jamster.co.uk |
| Shareholder | News Corporation and VeriSign Inc. |
| CEO | Mauro Montanaro |
| Managing Directors of Jamba! GmbH | Dirk Hoffmann, Michael Paull |
| Financing | 28 million EUR (August 2000) |
| Employees | About 800 worldwide |
Jamster (web and WAP: www.jamster.co.uk) is one of the world's leading providers of mobile entertainment with the ability to reach one billion consumers around the globe in 35 countries and 25 languages across five continents. Jamba supports more than 2,800 handsets and provides billing connectivity to more than 125 operators worldwide. Jamba offers mobile products available directly via mobile phones including branded popular content from more than 800 content providers around the world such as famous Fox content like The Simpsons, high quality music from top music labels, mobile games from renowned game developers, and original content made exclusively for mobile phones. Jamba is a joint venture between News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A) and VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ, VRSN) and headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Berlin, Germany.
Content Services
More than 150,000 high-quality digital products are available at www.jamster.co.uk. Jamster offers entertainment and lifestyle for all age groups. Digital entertainment services like music, videos and games on mobile phones support the users' tendency towards individualization. Jamster also provides a child protection function for parents, which serves to block a certain mobile phone number for all Jamster services. With this function, parents can make sure that their children can only download games, ring tones and background images with their consent. You can activate this child protection function free of charge at www.jamster.co.uk/guardian.
Music, Videos, Mobile Phone Images and much more
The product portfolio only includes original licensed music as well as videos and graphics by renowned record companies like for example Universal and Warner Music. These include monophonic, polyphonic, real and fun sounds, colored and animated logos and screen savers. In addition, Jamster successfully develops own contents: Crazy Frog® and Sweety became the most successful ring tones of all times. Crazy Frog® even made the international music charts as the first ring tone ever and took 1st place in more than 20 countries as a matter of fact.
Games and Software
Mobile multi-player games complement the offer range besides popular PC games for mobile phones, standard jump 'n' run games, strategy and adventure games. One of the leading developers of mobile games is Ojom GmbH, a 100% Jamster subsidiary. A large selection of novel, technically sophisticated programs always follow the latest trends in digital entertainment. IM+ Mobile Instant Messenger for example supports the most popular instant messaging systems like AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo. IM+ allows you always to be online; you can exchange messages easily, cost-saving and in real-time. With another application - Mobile Auctions - you can manage your eBay account from your mobile phone!
Jamster First Service
Jamster First allows parents to limit the amount of money spent on mobile content to GBP6 per month. For increased flexibility, Jamster will operate a hotline that parents can use to call in modifications to spending limits, enabling them to increase or decrease expenditures based on family needs. This option is based on individual purchases rather than a subscription model and users that register on the Jamster First site will be blocked from accessing the Jamster subscription service. Jamster First was designed to be easy to use and compliments the Jamster Guardian service (www.jamsterfirst.co.uk).
Music Download Portal
Since the summer of 2006, Jamba has offered its own music download portal to the German market. Jamba Music allows, for the first time, to simultaneously rent and play music on PC and mobile. A specially developed software makes automatic synchronization of devices possible and thus allows the use of the tracks on PC and mobile simultaneously. The catalogue includes 800,000 titles and is growing continuously. A set monthly fee allows the users to download and listen to an unlimited number of titles for an unlimited time - for as long as they are current members of Jamba Music. Furthermore, with "Jamba Music Single" the customer can buy permanent usage rights for individual pieces of music or complete albums, including the right to burn the music to CD. Jamba Music has been introduced to the German market first; other countries and continents will follow. For further information about Jamba Music, go to www.jamba.de/music.