Original SpacePOP Content and Music
Featured Throughout Six Flags Theme Parks
Expanding the brand reach for SpacePOP this year, Genius Brands
International, Inc. “Genius Brands” (NASDAQ:GNUS), a leading media
company that creates, produces and licenses children’s multimedia
entertainment content and products for global broadcast, digital
and retail distribution, has partnered with Six Flags Entertainment
Corporation (NYSE:SIX), the world's largest regional theme park
company, and VideoBomb, a free mobile app allowing fans to
incorporate their own content into clips of their favorite music
videos, to create a unique SpacePOP brand experience this summer.
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Significantly expanding upon last year’s partnership with Six
Flags, 10 theme park locations will feature SpacePOP original
content and music videos from Genius Brands across the
award-winning Six Flags Media Networks, sponsored by VideoBomb,
reaching over 12 million impressions from July 1 – September
16. The content includes music videos and trailers that will
entertain guests while waiting in ride lines, as well as music
played throughout the parks on the Six Flags radio network. Six
Flags is also a partner for the upcoming nationwide big screen
release of the SpacePOP: Not Your Average Princesses
movie. The official trailer will be showcased in
all parks and guests who purchase tickets for the movie
release will get a Six Flags ticket discount to Holiday in the
Park®. Additionally, at Six Flags Over Texas, the Karaoke Stage and
audience area, which will be SpacePOP branded, will offer kids and
families an opportunity to listen to their favorite SpacePOP music
with five original SpacePOP songs available, including My Girls, a
collaboration with teen sensation, Angelic.
VideoBomb, available exclusively from iTunes, and featuring more
than 47,000 chart-topping music videos from artists including Luke
Bryan, Britney Spears, DJ Khaled, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, and
T-Pain, will provide fans with the opportunity to create
interactive SpacePOP music videos and share them with friends via
YouTube, Facebook and other social sharing sites. The
contest, which will run July 13 through August 10, will be promoted
via VideoBomb street teams at five Six Flags locations encouraging
guests to video bomb themselves in SpacePOP music videos and share
with the hashtags #sixflagscontest #spacepop #boom for a chance to
win a dream trip to any U.S. Six Flags theme park
location.
“Our partnership last year with Six Flags was an integral part
of our successful launch of the SpacePOP brand, and we are thrilled
to further extend our relationship this year to reach the millions
of guests that visit the theme parks around the country, as well as
collaborate with VideoBomb creating a truly unique opportunity to
engage with our core tween girl audience,” said Stone Newman,
President of Global Consumer Products & Marketing, Genius
Brands.
“SpacePOP content and music videos provide the perfect form of
entertainment for our guests. We are pleased to continue
collaborating with Genius Brands to offer new SpacePOP content this
summer, along with the cutting-edge fun that VideoBomb will add to
our in park experience,” said Pete Dimitrakopoulos, director of
corporate alliances, Six Flags.
VideoBomb co-founder and CEO Chad D. F. Marcum said, "Teaming
with popular, family fun brands SpacePOP and Six Flags this summer,
our VideoBomb music video app allows visitors the opportunity
to walk away with more than a memory, but develop a co-branded
digital asset that lives online and is easily sharable. The
VideoBomb app serves as a unique tool for these fans
to connect with their favorite princesses -- a compelling
and ‘not your average’ way for marketers to engage their
audience. It's a paradigm shift in how our consumers create
and share special experiences -- by interacting with the content
they know and love.”
About SpacePOPThe wildly popular SpacePOP
animated series features over 100 short-form episodes and original
music videos, which, since debuting on YouTube last year, have
garnered over 16 million channel views, 55,000+ subscribers and
approximately 300,000 hours of viewed programming. In this
empowering, entertainment and adventurous series, original music is
woven into a narrative that follows five teenage princesses who
disguise themselves as musicians and form a band while they
secretly plot to vanquish an evil Empress who is seeking to enslave
the galaxy. In addition to YouTube, SpacePOP content is currently
available in the U.S. on digital platforms, including Toon Goggles,
PopJam, BatteryPOP and the Kid Genius Cartoon Channel on Comcast,
as well as on OTT platforms, including Amazon, Apple, Roku, and
Google, bringing the combined audience reach to nearly 50 million
households. And, SpacePOP music from Sony Music’s Legacy
label is available on iTunes. Additionally, in September 2017
SpacePOP will make its big screen debut in theaters nationwide.
About Genius Brands InternationalHeadquartered
in Beverly Hills, California, Genius Brands International, Inc.
(NASDAQ:GNUS) is a leading global media company developing,
producing, marketing and licensing branded children’s entertainment
properties and consumer products for media distribution and retail
channels. Led by award-winning creators and producers, Genius
Brands distributes its content worldwide in all formats, as well as
a broad range of consumer products based on its characters. In the
children's media sector, its portfolio of “content with a purpose”
includes new preschool properties Rainbow Rangers for Nick Jr. and
Llama Llama for Netflix; tween music-driven, YouTube brand
SpacePOP; award-winning toddler brand Baby Genius; adventure comedy
series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab, and Warren Buffett's Secret
Millionaires Club, created with and starring iconic investor Warren
Buffett. The Company is also co-producing an all-new adult animated
series, Stan Lee's Cosmic Crusaders, with Stan Lee's Pow!
Entertainment and The Hollywood Reporter. Genius Brands’ Kid Genius
Cartoon Channel is currently available in approximately 50 million
households. For additional information please visit
www.gnusbrands.com.
About Six Flags Entertainment CorporationSix
Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional
theme park company with $1.3 billion in revenue and 20 parks across
the United States, Mexico and Canada. For 56 years, Six Flags has
entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed
rides, thrilling water parks and unique attractions. For more
information, visit www.sixflags.com.
About VideoBomb VideoBomb was founded in 2015
by Chad Marcum, John Edde and Matt Edde (The Edde Brothers).
VideoBomb does for video what the PhotoBomb did for still
photography. It makes the static video experience interactive.
VideoBomb was selected to go through Project Music, the nation’s
first music tech accelerator located in Nashville, TN. Initial
investors from Project Music include: Universal Music, Google,
Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), Country Music Association
(CMA), Spalding Entertainment, Galante Entertainment, Vector
Management, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Red Light, Dev Digital,
& Ryman Hospitality Properties.
Forward Looking Statements:Certain statements in
this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as "may,"
"might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate,"
"estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast," "project," "plan,"
"intend" or similar expressions, or statements regarding intent,
belief, or current expectations, are forward-looking statements.
While the Company believes these forward-looking statements are
reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on any such
forward-looking statements, which are based on information
available to us on the date of this release. These forward looking
statements are based upon current estimates and assumptions and are
subject to various risks and uncertainties, including without
limitation those set forth in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), not limited to Risk
Factors relating to its patent business contained therein. Thus,
actual results could be materially different. The Company expressly
disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by law.
Genius Brands Media Contact:
Three.Sixty Marketing & Communications
Michelle Orsi
310-418-6430 / michelle@360-comm.com
Genius Brands Investor Relations Contact:
Michael Porter
PLR Investor Relations
212.564.7000
mike@plrinvest.com
VideoBomb Media Contact:
Rubenstein
Emily Lowe Mailaender
(212) 843-8011/ elowe@rubenstein.com
Lynn Trono
(212) 843-8495 / ltrono@rubenstein.com
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