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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed May 15, 2009. Internet On January 20, 2009 we expanded our Internet operations through the acquisition of Game Link LLC and its affiliates, companies engaged in digital distribution of adult content over the Internet and eCommerce development. GameLink is a leading US adult entertainment VOD and eCommerce platform through its GameLink.com website. The sites installed user base represents over one million domestic and international customers and it serves over 100,000 users daily. Including 70,000 video titles, GameLink has the largest library of digital and physical adult media and novelties in the United States. The Company offers VOD in multiple media formats including streaming and downloads to computers and iPhones. GameLinks infrastructure is the most robust in the industry and is highly flexible, customizable and scalable designed to support multiple retail strategies and products simultaneously. Additionally, through its related companies, GameLink offers third-party and white-label ecommerce solutions and development. For the year ended 2008 Gamelink and its affiliates reported net sales of USD 16.4 million. The acquisition of GameLink is a significant development that will substantially contribute to our growth, while creating economies of scale. We have been establishing our digital strategy for the last year, and concluded that the combination of Private with a major online retailer and accomplished platform developer is the approach to achieving our goals in the rapidly changing business landscape. The combined content assets of Private and core competencies of GameLink offer a compelling new business model. We will be expanding our joint internet strategies globally with new formats and applications to be launched in 2009. Additionally, we will be developing improved interactive functionality for new media platforms such as IPTV and mobile, and maximizing our content monetization with the existing vast Private library as well as aggregation of select international studios offering a wide range of content and genres for all platform needs. With this expanded digital strategic focus we will be announcing a variety of compelling new initiatives during 2009. During the first half of 2009, we are launching 50 Internet niche sites aimed at diversifying our offering and increasing the proliferation of our content on the web alongside our flagship site, www.private.com. The niche sites form an important new network, delivering our content categorized according to genre and theme. The plan is to grow this network around three core sites to a total of over 100 niche sites in operation by the end of 2009. The sites are targeted to satisfy a variety of consumer interests with niche specific content sourced from our vast library and they are also offered to our affiliate network, www.privatecash.com. The niche site strategy is expected to generate significant incremental revenues and contribution to operating profit through substantially increasing shelf-space, traffic and conversion rates. In addition, it enables us to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. The new sites have been in development for over a year and are part of the ongoing evolution and growth of our global online diversification strategy. These excerpts taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Apr 15, 2009. Internet We launched our first Internet website, private.com, in 1997. We now own a number of sites directed at specific customer bases, including privatespeed.com and private.com/shop. In January 2009 we expanded our Internet operations through the acquisition of Game Link LLC and its affiliate, companies engaged in digital distribution of adult content over the Internet and eCommerce development. We also generate incremental sales by licensing our trademarks and proprietary adult media content for use on the websites of other companies. The Internet team has combined Private Media Groups extensive media library with the most advanced technology to take advantage of the growth of broadband Internet access and new distribution methods. Private has developed several key product offerings which include video on demand, live sex chat, adult personals and e-commerce. Internet The adult entertainment industry was among the first to commercially exploit the Internet as a distribution channel and is, together with gambling and online games, among the few industries which generate profit on the Internet. The Internet offers relative privacy for users, a seemingly endless selection of adult media content and can provide immediate delivery. The use of the Internet for viewing adult media content has increased significantly. Broadband Internet access is transforming the way that millions of consumers use and pay for news, entertainment, music and other media. Consumers use their Internet high-speed, always-on broadband connections to access and pay for entertainment content, including adult content, and services. During the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, global broadband subscriptions were estimated to have grown by 14% to 411 million5. The increased availability of adult media content on the Internet has attracted considerable attention. Concerns have arisen with respect to child protection and the distribution of illegal material. In response to the issue of child protection, a number of software packages have become available that control the content that can be accessed from a personal computer. Products such as Surfcontrol, NetNanny, Websense and others can be employed to filter sites for inappropriate material, blocking access for unauthorized users.
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Internet FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The adult entertainment industry was among the first to commercially exploit the Internet as a distribution channel and is, together with gambling and online games, among the few industries which generate profit on Internet access is transforming the way that millions of consumers use and pay for news, entertainment, music and other media. Consumers use their Internet high-speed, always-on broadband connections to access and pay for entertainment content, including adult content, and services. During the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, global broadband subscriptions were estimated to have grown by 14% to 411 million5FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">. The increased availability of adult media content on the Internet has attracted considerable attention.
- 9 - Internet The Internet market for adult oriented content has expanded dramatically over the past years. Because it costs as little as $5,000 to establish an Internet presence, there is significant competition among distributors of adult media content over the Internet. There are numerous adult media content websites competing with ours, some of which are operated by companies that possess global distribution, broadcasting and branding. Historically pay sites have contained most of the adult media content on the Internet, but recently tube sites, offering free content, have become a serious threat to both the Internet and DVD distribution of adult entertainment.
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Internet The - 18 - Internet On January 20, 2009 we expanded our Internet operations through the acquisition of Game Link LLC and its affiliates, companies engaged in digital distribution of adult content over the Internet and eCommerce development. GameLink is a leading US adult entertainment VOD and eCommerce platform through its GameLink.com website. The sites installed user base represents over one million domestic and international customers and it serves over 10,000 users daily. Including 60,000 video titles, GameLink has the largest library of digital and physical adult media and novelties in the United States. The Company offers VOD in multiple media formats including streaming and downloads to computers and iPhones. GameLinks infrastructure is the most robust in the industry and is highly flexible, customizable and scalable designed to support multiple retail strategies and products simultaneously. Additionally, through its related companies, GameLink offers third-party and white-label ecommerce solutions and development. For the year ended 2008 Gamelink and its affiliates reported net sales of USD 16.4 million. The acquisition of GameLink is a significant development that will substantially contribute to our growth, while creating economies of scale. We have been establishing our digital strategy for the last year, and concluded that the combination of Private with a major online retailer and accomplished platform developer is the approach to achieving our goals in the rapidly changing business landscape. The combined content assets of Private and core competencies of GameLink offer a compelling new business model. We will be expanding our joint internet strategies globally with new formats and applications to be launched in 2009. Additionally, we will be developing improved interactive functionality for new media platforms such as IPTV and mobile, and maximizing our content monetization with the existing vast Private library as well as aggregation of select international studios offering a wide range of content and genres for all platform needs. With this expanded digital strategic focus we will be announcing a variety of compelling new initiatives during 2009. During the first half of 2009, we are launching 50 Internet niche sites aimed at diversifying our offering and increasing the proliferation of our content on the web alongside our flagship site, www.private.com. The niche sites form an important new network, delivering our content categorized according to genre and theme. The plan is to grow this network around three core sites to a total of over 100 niche sites in operation by the end of 2009. The sites are targeted to satisfy a variety of consumer interests with niche specific content sourced from our vast library and they are also offered to our affiliate network, www.privatecash.com. The niche site strategy is expected to generate significant incremental revenues and contribution to operating profit through substantially increasing shelf-space, traffic and conversion rates. In addition, it enables us to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. The new sites have been in development for over a year and are part of the ongoing evolution and growth of our global online diversification strategy. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Nov 10, 2008. Internet In the fourth quarter of 2008, we are launching 50 Internet niche sites aimed at diversifying our offering and increasing the proliferation of our content on the web alongside our flagship site, www.private.com. The niche sites form an important new network, delivering our content categorized according to genre and theme. The plan is to grow this network around three core sites to a total of over 100 niche sites in operation by the end of the first quarter of 2009. The sites are targeted to satisfy a variety of consumer interests with niche specific content sourced from our vast library and they are also offered to our affiliate network, www.privatecash.com. The niche site strategy is expected to generate significant incremental revenues and contribution to operating profit through substantially increasing shelf-space, traffic and conversion rates. In addition, it enables us to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. The new sites have been in development for over a year and are part of the ongoing evolution and growth of our global online diversification strategy.
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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Aug 11, 2008. Internet In the third quarter of 2008, we are launching 50 Internet niche sites aimed at diversifying our offering and increasing the proliferation of our content on the web alongside our flagship site, www.private.com. The niche sites form an important new network, delivering our content categorized according to genre and theme. The plan is to grow this network around three core sites to a total of over 100 niche sites in operation by year end 2008. The sites are targeted to satisfy a variety of consumer interests with niche specific content sourced from our vast library and they are also offered to our affiliate network, www.privatecash.com. The niche site strategy is expected to generate significant incremental revenues and contribution to operating profit through substantially increasing shelf-space, traffic and conversion rates. In addition, it enables us to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. The new sites have been in development for over a year and are part of the ongoing evolution and growth of our global online diversification strategy.
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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed May 12, 2008. Internet Traffic to our sites increased by 85% to 20 million unique visits in 2007 compared to 2006. This was primarily the result of the re-launch of the affiliate program PrivateCash. The affiliate program is now our biggest source of traffic. In the second quarter of 2008, the Company is launching a large number of niche sites focusing on specific genres and top stars with the key objective to offer customers content matching their specific desires. In addition to catering to a wider clientele and creating more shelf-space on the web, this will grow the affiliate program as webmasters will have more tools at their disposal to drive traffic. Finally, it will enable the Company to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. These excerpts taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 17, 2008. Internet Traffic to our sites increased by 85% to 20 million unique visits in 2007 compared to 2006. This was primarily the result of the re-launch of the affiliate program PrivateCash. The affiliate program is now our biggest source of traffic. In the beginning of 2008, the Company is launching a large number of niche sites focusing on specific genres and top stars with the key objective to offer customers content matching their specific desires. In addition to catering to a wider clientele and creating more shelf-space on the web, this will grow the affiliate program as webmasters will have more tools at their disposal to drive traffic. Finally, it will enable the Company to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. Internet SIZE="2">Traffic to our sites increased by 85% to 20 million unique visits in 2007 compared to 2006. This was primarily the result of the re-launch of the affiliate program PrivateCash. The affiliate program is now our biggest source of This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Nov 9, 2007. Internet Memberships to Private.com have grown 11% from last year primarily as a result of the re-launch of the affiliate program PrivateCash. The affiliate program is now our biggest source of traffic. Going forward, the Company is launching niche sites focusing on specific genres and top stars with the key objective to offer customers content matching their specific desires. In addition to catering to a wider clientele and creating more shelf-space on the web, this will grow the affiliate program as webmasters will have more tools at their disposal to drive traffic. Finally, it will enable the Company to take advantage of additional up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Aug 9, 2007. Internet Traffic to our sites has been growing steadily during 2006 and the number of unique visits has grown by 24% to 10.8 million compared to 2005. Driving the growth in traffic is the development of our affiliate program Private Cash. In February 2007, we launched the new private.com website. The key objective of the design of the new website is to increase conversion rates by more effectively marketing our products to site visitors. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed May 10, 2007. Internet Traffic to our sites has been growing steadily during 2006 and the number of unique visits has grown by 24% to 10.8 million compared to 2005. Driving the growth in traffic is the development of our affiliate program Private Cash. In February 2007, we launched the new private.com website. The key objective of the design of the new website is to increase conversion rates by more effectively marketing our products to site visitors. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Apr 2, 2007. Internet Traffic to our sites has been growing steadily during 2006 and the number of unique visits has grown by 24% to 10.8 million compared to 2005. Driving the growth in traffic is the development of our affiliate program Private Cash. In February 2007, we launched the new private.com website. The key objective of the design of the new website is to increase conversion rates by more effectively marketing our products to site visitors prior to them making a purchase. In the second quarter we contracted with a third-party in order to employ DivX technology on our sites. DivX is among the worlds most popular video technologies and has been downloaded over 200 million times. DivX enables consumers to both stream and/or download to own and play highly-compressed, high-quality video content on their PCs and TV sets. Since August 2006, visitors to the Private-to-Own section of our online shop can download to own videos and we expect this new feature to generate growth going forward. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Nov 14, 2006. Internet Traffic to our sites has been growing steadily during the last 12 months and in the third quarter we experienced a new record of 2.8 million unique visits. Driving the growth in traffic is the development of our affiliate program Private Cash, which has continued to attract increasing traffic thanks to its promotion across our webmaster base. Although our affiliate program is still in its infancy it has proved that it works, and as the number of webmasters signing up grows we expect traffic and sales to increase. In the second quarter we contracted with a third-party in order to employ DivX technology on our sites. DivX is among the worlds most popular video technologies and has been downloaded over 200 million times. DivX enables consumers to both stream and/or download to own and play highly-compressed, high-quality video content on their PCs and TV sets. Since August 2006, visitors to the Private-to-Own section of our online shop can download to own videos and we expect this new feature to generate growth going forward. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Aug 14, 2006. Internet Traffic to our sites has been steadily growing during the last 12 months and in the second quarter we experienced a new record of 2,607 million unique visits. Driving the growth in traffic is the development of our affiliate program Private Cash which has continued to attract increasing traffic thanks to its promotion across our webmaster base. Although our affiliate program is still in its infancy it has proved that it works and as the number of webmasters signed up grows we expect traffic and sales to increase. In the second quarter we contracted with a third-party in order to employ DivX technology on our sites. DivX is among the worlds most popular video technologies and has been downloaded over 200 million times. DivX enables consumers to both stream and/or download to own and play highly-compressed, high-quality video content on their PCs and TV sets. As from August 2006 visitors to the Private-to-Own section of our online shop can download to own videos and we expect this new feature to generate growth going forward. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed May 15, 2006. Internet During the second quarter of 2005, we contracted with a third-party in order to increase profitable traffic to our sites. The program was started in May and includes developing our sites from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective and creating an affiliate program, Private Cash, for webmasters around the world. During the second half of 2005 the number of unique visits to our main sites increased by 50% compared to the same period in 2004 and for the first quarter of 2006 this trend continues. Historically, we have not carried out any of the above activities and going forward we expect the SEO and affiliate program to increase Internet sales from both memberships and our online shop. In addition, the Company is opening up a localized custom made website for several countries in East Asia and the Company expects the business from this site to add to sales.
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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2006. Internet During the second quarter of 2005, we contracted with a third-party in order to increase profitable traffic to our sites. The program was started in May and includes developing our sites from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective and creating an affiliate program, Private Cash, for webmasters around the world. During the second half of 2005 the number of unique visits to our main sites increased by 50% compared to the period 2004 and for the first quarter of 2006 this trend continues. Historically, we have not carried out any of the above activities and going forward we expect the SEO and affiliate program to increase Internet sales from both memberships and our online shop. This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Nov 14, 2005. Internet
During the second quarter of 2005, we contracted with a third-party in order to increase profitable traffic to our sites. The program was started in May and includes developing our sites from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective and creating an affiliate program, Private Cash, for webmasters around the world. During the third quarter the number of unique visits to our main sites increased by 50% compared to the same quarter last year and for the month of October 2005 this trend continues. Historically, we have not carried out any of the above activities and going forward we expect the SEO and affiliate program to increase Internet sales from both memberships and our online shop.
This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-Q filed Aug 11, 2005. Internet
During the second quarter 2005, we contracted with a third-party in order to increase profitable traffic to our sites. The program was started in May and includes developing our sites from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective and creating an affiliate program, Private Cash, for webmasters around the world. During the second quarter the number of unique visits to our main sites increased by 47% compared to the same quarter last year and for the month of July 2005, the increase was 75% compared to the same month 2004. Historically, we have not carried out any of the above activities and going forward we expect the SEO and affiliate program to increase Internet sales from both memberships and our online shop.
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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2005. Internet
The Internet market for adult oriented content has expanded dramatically over the past years. There are numerous adult media content websites competing with ours, operated by companies that possess global distribution, broadcasting and branding.
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