NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Thumbplay) - Island Def Jam
Music Group, a division of Universal
Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, and Thumbplay, the one-stop entertainment shop for today's mobile devices, today announced that, for the first time ever, nine of JAY-Z's most popular video clips will be available for download on mobile phones exclusively through Thumbplay.com and its mobile site, m.thumbplay.com. The video clips from JAY-Z are available for download immediately, and are made possible through a pre-existing agreement between Thumbplay and UMG.
Thumbplay customers can now personalize their mobile phones with a collection of 9 exclusive chart-topping videos from the multiplatinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning artist. These include:
Blue Magic
Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Do It Again (Put Ya Hands Up)
Excuse Me Miss
I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
I Know
Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
Money, Cash, H**s
Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)
Thumbplay's extensive and ever-growing entertainment library and award winning, direct-to-consumer service is accessible on more than 2,000 mobile devices among every major carrier in the U.S. Each month, Thumbplay.com gets more than five million unique visitors and its mobile (WAP) site - m.thumbplay.com - receives more than 12 million page views, making it one of the most popular mobile Web sites.
For more information please visit www.thumbplay.com.
About Thumbplay
Thumbplay, Inc. is defining the mobile entertainment experience for U.S. consumers. As the largest and fastest growing mobile entertainment content destination, Thumbplay gives consumers access to the broadest and deepest catalog in the industry, spanning audio, video and gaming content from the leading music labels and artists, game publishers and media companies. Its innovative delivery and marketing platform makes it easy for users to discover, manage, store and share mobile content online and on their wireless devices.
Thumbplay features licensed music, video and gaming content from some of the world's largest entertainment companies, including EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Pictures Television, as well as several independent labels and artists and video game companies. Thumbplay's mobile entertainment catalog is integrated into Clear Channel Radio, AOL and MSN Mobile sites, as well as iLike.com, one of the Web's leading social music discovery services. Moreover, based on Thumbplay's reputation for exceptional customer care and technological innovation, MTV recently tapped the company to power personalization content for the music giant's mobile content site.
Headquartered in New York City, Thumbplay was founded in September 2004 by Are Traasdahl and Evan Schwartz. It is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech, Brookside Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital. More information can be found at www.thumbplay.com or at m.thumbplay.com from a mobile phone.
