LOS ANGELES--()--Viva Vision, the leading content provider for mobile entertainment, today announced a partnership with Univision Móvil, which offers the industry’s most comprehensive Spanish-language suite of mobile offerings, including in-show wireless integrations, mobile video, WAP portals, PSMS programs and downloadable content catalog. Together, the companies will develop new mobile entertainment products for consumers in the U.S.
“We are continuously searching for new and innovative ways to deliver mobile content to our growing audience. Viva Vision’s platform has a proven track record in mobile entertainment, and is the solution we were looking for in delivering this content”
Viva Vision has developed an entertainment slideshow application that displays popular images from Univision’s extensive content library to wireless handsets across the country. Viva Vision’s proprietary platform allows subscribers to pause, rewind, fast-forward, and save favorite images from the slideshow. The subscriber community also controls which content is featured by voting on its favorite images.
“Viva Vision is thrilled to be working with Univision,” said Viva Vision President, Nick Montes. “We look forward to developing unique mobile entertainment solutions that feature Univision content.”
“We are continuously searching for new and innovative ways to deliver mobile content to our growing audience. Viva Vision’s platform has a proven track record in mobile entertainment, and is the solution we were looking for in delivering this content,” said Christopher Brunner, Vice President of Mobile Content & Services, Univision Online.
Viva Vision has a suite of patented mobile entertainment products that includes slideshow, video on demand, and live video applications. The Univision Móvil slide-show product is currently available on Verizon Wireless, Alltel Wireless, Metro PCS, Claro Puerto Rico, and Centennial Puerto Rico, with new carriers to be announced soon.
About Univision Online, Inc.
Univision Online, Inc. is the interactive division of Univision Communications Inc., the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Univision Communications Inc. owns and operates Univision Online, Inc., the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S., located at www.univision.com, and Univision Móvil, the most relevant Spanish-language mobile content and video, which includes in-show wireless integrations, PSMS programs and the industry’s most comprehensive downloadable content catalog. Univision Communications Inc.’s operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 99% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 89% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 64 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 70 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 5 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group, which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, La Calle Records and Mexico-based Disa Records as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S., and a non-voting 14.9% interest in Entravision Communications Corporation, a public Spanish-language media company. Univision Communications has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.
For more information, visit www.univision.net and the Univision Online Media Kit.
About Viva Vision®
Viva Vision, a Santa Monica, CA based company, is the leading provider of entertainment applications and content for slide shows, video on demand, and live video for mobile phones. Viva Vision delivers programming to the broadest number of handsets through its suite of broadcast platforms, and also produces its own original consumer-driven content. Working with its world-class partners, Viva Vision is able to reach over 250 million wireless subscribers worldwide. For more information about Viva Vision, please visit www.vivavision.com.
