\r\t\tKADOINK LAUNCHES POWERFUL WEB TELEPHONY PLATFORM THAT EXTENDS INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS TO MOBILE\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tWith an Initial Presence in the Music Industry, Kadoink Combines ‘Best of’ Mobile\r\t\tFunctionality Regardless of Carrier or Handset\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tDeath Cab For Cutie, Kottonmouth Kings and Third Eye Blind First to Deploy Kadoink Service to Connect with Fans\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tSAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 5, 2007 – Kadoink,\r\t\t(www.kadoink.com) a powerful new communications platform\r\t\tthat bridges the mobile phone and the web to allow consumers to share and publish content\r\t\twith friends and online communities through their phones, launches publicly today with popular\r\t\tmusic acts as diverse as Death Cab For Cutie, Third Eye Blind, Matt Nathanson, Rogue Wave and\r\t\tthe Kottonmouth Kings from the Suburban Noize label. Artists can harness Kadoink's platform to\r\t\tdistribute songs or voicemails over the voice channel to thousands or millions of fans, send\r\t\tgroup texts or calls to fans located within a particular area code or region and create a mobile\r\t\tfan club where fans can receive all the latest happenings in a band's daily life delivered right\r\t\tto their phone.\r\t
\r\t\r\t\tKadoink provides a powerful new promotional tool for artists to send daily updates or securely\r\t\tbroadcast never released songs over the voice channel eliminating the need and risk involved with\r\t\tsending a music file. Through Kadoink, labels can offer fans the ability to evangelize their\r\t\tfavorite band or new music distributed by the artist instantly to their own group of friends through\r\t\tthe phone.\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\t“Kadoink makes a mobile phone the ultimate ‘by your side’ communications tool\r\t\tfor people to always stay connected with large groups, whether its fans, friends or customers,”\r\t\tsaid Scott Cahill, CEO of Kadoink. “Kadoink offers an exciting media distribution tool for a\r\t\twide range of industries including music, virtual worlds, brands and celebrities looking to create a\r\t\tdeeper connection with audiences. We are thrilled to launch with such great artists and labels\r\t\tto help enable them to extend relationships with fans and make it possible to securely share, play\r\t\tand send music to any cell phone.”\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\t“In using Kadoink we will be able to offer a unique value added experience to our audience,\r\t\t” said Jordan Kurland founder of Zeitgeist Artist Management, LTD. “Kadoink, compared\r\t\twith other fan oriented mobile messaging platforms, is a 360 degree experience. I love that one day\r\t\tyou can send a text message to your fans alerting them a new album is on the way and the next week\r\t\tsend a streaming file of a new song directly to their phone.”\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\t “We are really excited to use Kadoink to support the connection between our bands and\r\t\tthe fans.” says Kevin Zinger, President for Suburban Noize Records. “Their platform\r\t\tis really unique because their service not only sends text messages to users, but recorded audio and\r\t\tmusic as well. This is key in further engaging fans as they use their phone more and more for social\r\t\tnetworking. Our label has always tried to keep a close connection between the bands and the fans.\r\t\tKadoink brings us one step closer.”\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tKadoink enables popular music acts to create a deeper connection between artists and their fans through\r\t\tthe mobile phone. Death Cab For Cutie, Third Eye Blind, Matt Nathanson and popular rap act Kottonmouth\r\t\tKings are the first artists to deploy Kadoink as a highly effective tool to inform fans of upcoming\r\t\tevents, album releases and tours sent right to the palm of their hands. A customized and skinned widget\r\t\twill be embedded on each band's web and MySpace page and used as another forum to engage with their\r\t\tfans on the social networking site. Fans of the bands will be able to ‘follow’ the band\r\t\tand receive text, music and audio updates via SMS and the voice channel instantly to their mobile phone.\r\t\tFans can also embed the widget on their own personal pages and blogs.\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tKadoink works on any mobile phone regardless of carrier and does not require a client download on the\r\t\tphone – meaning that any phone that has texting capabilities can work with Kadoink. The\r\t\tcompany has also developed a first-ever technology that allows users to send and receive audio files over\r\t\tthe voice channel housed on the Kadoink server that can be securely streamed to one or one hundred thousand\r\t\tpeople with one simple text message. In addition, Kadoink enables users to record personal introduction\r\t\tmessages that precede the music – making the experience more personal and intimate. With Kadoink,\r\t\tthe mobile device is transformed into a powerful, easy-to-use communications and marketing channel that\r\t\tcan service multiple and distinct verticals.\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tBy embedding Kadoink customized widgets on personal blogs and social networking pages from blogspot.com\r\t\tto popular social network pages, users and partners can further manage and share content, receive regular\r\t\tupdates on news and information, discover new music, and execute instant group calls and texts.\r\t
\r\r\t\r\t\tThe Kadoink platform is built on a globally-scaled, redundant, load balanced infrastructure that\r\t\tcombines a powerful CRM engine, and a carrier grade telephony backend, featuring patent-pending\r\t\tsoftware which sets is apart from other mobile social networking companies.\r\t
\r\r\tAbout Kadoink
\r\t\r\tKadoink is a powerful web-telephony platform that seamlessly integrates SMS,\r\tIM and voice into a single hosted system compatible with any carrier or handset. \r\tThrough its patented technology, Kadoink provides a suite of communication widgets and\r\tservices such as phonecasting, audioblogging, microblogging, instant and large scale group\r\tcommunication (calling & texting) as well as mobile advertising (SMS and audio interstitials).\r\tKadoink un-tethers users from their computers and instantly expands their current mobile phone\r\tcapabilities, giving them a fun, always-present, easy-to-use tool to anonymously connect with an\r\texpansive network of family, friends and online communities without ever having to disclose their\r\tactual phone numbers. The company is based in San Francisco, California and was formed in September 2006.\r\tFor more information and to sign up for Kadoink please visit\r\twww.kadoink.com.\r
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Kadoink Contacts:
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Bret Ingraham
\rmPRm Public Relations for Kadoink
\r323.933.3399
\rbingraham@mprm.com