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Zingy Announces Exclusive Mobile Content Agreement with Snoop Dogg

[May 03, 2004]

Zingy Announces Exclusive Mobile Content Agreement with Snoop Dogg

NEW YORK, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Zingy (http://www.zingy.com/), the leading mobile media company in the Americas, today announced an agreement with recording and film star, Snoop Dogg. With this agreement Zingy becomes the worldwide, exclusive distributor of ringtones, ringback tones and voicemail greetings featuring original voice recordings from Snoop.

By offering this unique suite of content, Zingy gives mobile consumers the ability to personalize their mobile devices with one of the most recognized voices in popular culture.
"Around the globe, urban-themed personalization products continue to drive growth in mobile entertainment," said Zingy Sr. Vice President Business Development Andy Volanakis. "We are honored to be working with such an influential artist and pleased to be bringing this distinctive content to mobile users."
The agreement was struck in connection with artist management powerhouse, The Firm, and Nomadic Music Marketing.
"Mobile represents an exciting new channel for our artists to monetize their talents and connect with fans," said Vice President Strategic Marketing Constance Schwartz of The Firm.
Snoop Dogg voice ringtones are currently available on Sprint PCS Vision and zingy.com, with additional North American and European carrier deployments to be announced throughout the year.
About Zingy
New York-based Zingy, Inc. is the leading mobile media company in the Americas. The company develops, aggregates, promotes and distributes mobile content direct to consumers through zingy.com and through a network of media companies and wireless carrier partnerships. Zingy offers ringtones, wallpapers, mobile games, MMS, horoscopes, alerts and SMS voting. The company delivers its content to or powers the wireless media offerings of most of the major North American wireless carriers including AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Nextel, Cingular, Telcel and Boost Mobile. The company also has distribution partnerships with top media companies and web portals such as Microsoft's MSN, AOL and MTV. Through zingy.com alone, the company has a user base currently in excess of 2 million registered users.
About The Firm
The Firm is a seven-year-old entertainment management and brand company with interests in music, film and television. Artists repped by The Firm include the Dixie Chicks, Linkin Park, Audioslave, Michelle Branch, Enrique Iglesias, Ice Cube, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Rob Zombie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Orlando Bloom, Adrien Brody, Benecio Del Toro, Vin Diesel, Samuel Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Heather Graham, Kate Hudson, Brittany Murphy and Martin Scorsese, among many others.
About Nomadic
Nomadic Artists Agency and Nomadic Music Marketing are Los Angeles-based companies representing artists and content creators in wireless media.
Zingy, Inc.


CONTACT: Hal Bringman, +1-310-659-1060, ext 111#, or hal@hbpr.com, orPhil McGovern, +1-310-659-1060, ext 222#, or phil@hbpr.com, both of HBPR, LLC,for Zingy, Inc.


Web site: http://www.zingy.com/

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