CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NTN Buzztime,
Inc. (NYSE American: NTN) continues to drive growth in its hardware
division as customizable, durable Buzztime tablets are in high
demand across a wide range of verticals. Spendgo, a loyalty and
digital marketing company, is deploying Buzztime customer-facing
tablets among its customer base, which includes small and
medium-size businesses as well as well-known national brands.
"We're beyond impressed with the reliability and overall
performance of Buzztime touchscreen tablets. We feel confident in
Buzztime's proven track record of deploying, managing, and
supporting large fleets of tablets across the nation. We're
extremely excited about this partnership and look forward to adding
even more value to our relationships with retail partners," said
Spendgo CEO Ivan Matkovic.
Buzztime's partnership with Spendgo immediately follows the
closing of a $3 million tablet
contract with a top provider of technology and communications
services to correctional facilities.
"This increased demand for Buzztime tablet systems in various
industries underscores the versatility of our hardware, Android
software and device management platform. In this partnership with
Spendgo, we're thrilled with the opportunity to showcase the
adaptability of the Buzztime tablet solution," said Ram Krishnan,
Buzztime CEO.
The custom Buzztime tablet solution even overcame Spendgo's
unique challenges, such as the need for tablets that integrate with
legacy POS systems, the need for a customized Android OS with
tethering, and the ability to connect to USB and charge at high
speed simultaneously. After a year of searching, Spendgo concludes
that Buzztime is the only hardware company able to solve such
unique retail hardware challenges.
"Buzztime tablets are out-performing all other tablet platforms,
and empowering us to deliver more advantages to our end customers –
all at a lower cost. A key benefit to Spendgo is that Buzztime
controls its own tablet form factor, which provides us with
flexibility and customization options. For example, we're able to
install drivers, connect to ethernet while charging, and manage
devices across our network," said Spendgo CEO Ivan Matkovic.
Buzztime is building on the recent success with Spendgo, the
correctional facility services provider, and other companies in
verticals ranging from restaurants to signage. The company plans to
continue penetrating additional verticals, leveraging its
custom-built hardware and software solutions to open up even more
revenue opportunities.
Forward-looking Statements
This release
contains forward-looking statements that reflect management's
current views of future events and operations, including statements
regarding product demand, product performance and its value to the
Company's customers, entering new vertical markets and revenue
growth opportunities. These risks and uncertainties include the
risks of unsuccessful execution or launch of products, platforms or
brands, risks associated with customer retention and growth plans,
the impact of alternative options and technologies and competitive
products, brands, technologies and pricing, adverse economic
conditions, the regulatory environment and changes in the law,
failure of customer and/or acceptance or demand for new or existing
products, lower market acceptance or appeal of both existing and
new products and services by particular demographic groups or
audiences as a whole, termination of partnership and contractual
relationships and technical problems or outages. Please see NTN
Buzztime, Inc.'s recent filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission for information about these and other risks that may
affect the Company. All forward-looking statements included in this
release are based on information available to us on the date
hereof. These statements speak only as of the date hereof and NTN
Buzztime, Inc. does not undertake to publicly update or revise any
of its forward-looking statements, even if experience or future
changes show that the indicated results or events will not be
realized.
About Buzztime:
Buzztime (NYSE American: NTN) delivers
interactive entertainment and innovative technology that helps its
customers acquire, engage and retain its patrons. Most frequently
used in bars and restaurants in North
America, the Buzztime tablets, mobile app and technology
offer engaging solutions to establishments that have guests who
experience dwell time, such as casinos, senior living, and more.
Casual dining venues license Buzztime's customizable solution to
differentiate themselves via competitive fun by offering guests
trivia, card, sports and arcade games. Buzztime's platform creates
connections among the players and venues and amplifies guests'
positive experiences. Buzztime's in-venue TV network creates
one of the largest digital out of home ad audiences in the US and
Canada. Buzztime Hardware
Solutions leverages the company's experience manufacturing
customized open source Android solutions with a proprietary remote
management platform to maintain a large fleet of durable tablets
and charging systems. Our competitively priced approach and
solutions enable successful product implementation for a diverse
group of industries including corrections, point-of-sale and
loyalty. Buzztime games have also been recently licensed by
other businesses serving other markets. For more
information, please visit http://www.buzztime.com or
follow us on Facebook or Twitter @buzztime.
IR AGENCY CONTACT:
Kirsten
Chapman, LHA Investor Relations,
buzztime@lhai.com 415-433-3777
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