Cinedigm Entertainment Group ("CEG"), a division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. (NASDAQ: CIDM), and Alloy Digital, LLC ("Alloy Digital"), a leading next generation media company, have entered into a strategic content distribution partnership. Cinedigm will offer packaged content from Alloy Digital's immensely popular SMOSH and Clevver Media YouTube channel brands on ancillary transactional sales platforms, digital store fronts, VOD, SVOD, and home entertainment platforms. The two companies are also exploring a pilot program using Cinedigm's digital distribution capabilities into movie theatres to bring Alloy Digital's highly engaging content brands to audiences across the United States. Additionally, the companies plan to develop recurring alternative content channels for theatres, as well as other independent film ventures.
"Given our digital footprint in theatres and our dominance across all digital distribution platforms, partnering with Alloy Digital, a prolific, successful and forward-looking media company, is a match made in heaven," said Chris McGurk, Chairman and CEO of Cinedigm. "Together, we are rewriting the rules of distribution for a wide variety of content which audiences are clearly hungry to see."In the first phase of the partnership, the SMOSH and Clevver Media brands of Alloy Digital will produce a series of specials tailored to its core 12-34 year-old audience, which Cinedigm will distribute to transactional sales platforms.Alloy Digital CEO Matt Diamond said, "Cinedigm's strong ancillary transactional sales platforms will allow us to further monetize these proven properties against a young audience with a strong appetite for our high-quality,professionally produced content. SMOSH and Clevver Media have entered YouTube's exclusive one billion-plus view club, and partnering with Cinedigm will provide new and innovative platforms for further growth."Videos