More Than Just Music…More Than Just Videos…More Than Just Games...

Mediaport’s MediaATM™ is revolutionizing the Entertainment Industry!

Mediaport’s vision is to be the digital distribution system company providing entertainment content to consumers at easily accessible locations.  Mediaport’s MediaATM™ solution is a patented, modular software platform that can reside on different hardware configurations: (1) An unmanned point-of-sale kiosk store; (2) a manned station with multi-headed touch screen units, and (3) remote terminals to a server solution. 

Mediaport is a leader in developing and patenting digital download solutions.  Founded in early 2001, Mediaport’s management team is committed to quality, its intellectual property, its scalable technology solutions, and its content strategies.  The Company delivers its customer-driven kiosk solutions to its targeted verticals: retailers, military bases, universities, and travel centers.

Mediaport’s website (www.mediaport.com) and MediaATM™ solution:

• Sells all of the products that you would find in a 100,000 square foot media store - music (from Warner Music Group, EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sanctuary Music Group, Tommy Boy Entertainment, Tantara Records, Excel Entertainment, among others), games, videos, DVDs, e-Books, ringtones, software – anything digital;
• Is scaleable and adaptable worldwide;
• Provides real-time reporting and remote monitoring on a 24/7/365 basis;
• Allows consumers to burn customized CDs or digitally download tracks, full albums, or consumer-selected playlists to a USB or Windows media compliant digital devices
• Offers end-to-end customer solutions – content to infrastructure to monitoring to reporting to maintenance.

The Company has completed technical rollouts in several vertical markets, and continues to adapt its products to meet customer needs – ranging from numerous kiosk configurations to kiosk software licensing solutions.

Clockwise from left: Stand-alone model, Listening station, Sanity Music model, Software modules, and LoveSac model

Competitive Advantage

According to a recent independent industry study, “…consumers make 70% of all purchase decisions while in the store shopping …that is the #1 reason why the store is the new platform for brand marketing.”  Mediaport believes that within five years, customers will buy entertainment content – not just from the Internet or a specialty store, but wherever their needs can be met.  Mediaport can meet this need today.

Mediaport is a leader in developing and patenting digital download solutions, and has expertise in: (1) Understanding kiosk development in a retail environment; (2) Infrastructure; (3) Software and architecture; (4) Content, and (5) Partnerships.  Mediaport’s marketing strategies reach key demographic niche markets, and have been designed to meet the needs of the Company’s partners as well today’s increasingly demanding consumers.  Each MediaATM™ can be profitable from Day One, and the MediaATM™ platform can easily adapt to emerging technologies such as cell phone music downloads.

Key Partners and Customers

Mediaport has partnerships with worldwide solutions provider IBM, NeoProducts Pty. Ltd. - internationally recognized as the second largest kiosk manufacturer in the world, BuyDRM - a licensed Microsoft DRM Provider, and iriverAmerica - the world’s leading innovator in portable digital media devices.

Mediaport’s reference customer is Brazin Ltd. (Brazin), one of Australia’s top lifestyle and music retailers with the following brands: Virgin Entertainment, BNT (formally Bras n Things), Dome Exchange (Aztec Rose & Cheetah), EzyDVD, HMV, and Dusk.  Starting in January 2006, Brazin will roll out MediaATMs™ to its Sanity Music retail stores with over 300 units slated for deployment in the next 12 months in Australia and New Zealand.

Key Personnel

Helen Seltzer, CEO.  Ms. Seltzer has been CEO of two profitable start-up companies, Messageclick and BDM Technologies, where she was successful by focusing on sustained growth and execution.  As a Vice President for Bell Atlantic, she managed a $15 billion Access revenue stream, and achieved results 18% over projections.  As a senior executive for MCI, she held positions in engineering, operations and marketing, including managing large account marketing ($5 billion).  She also has significant experience deploying and managing technology on a national basis.

Jon F. Butler, President.  Former Executive Director of Olympic Aid, and Vice President of Marketing for a billion dollar recreational resort development company, Mr. Butler founded Mediaport in 2001.  He has over 17 years of experience in strategic planning/marketing and significant franchise experience as an owner/operator in the rent-to-own industry.  Mr. Butler also developed marketing strategies for three U.S. Senate campaigns, three Gubernatorial campaigns, and eight Congressional campaigns - winning two national awards for his television advertising.

Randy S. Overturf, COO.  A senior operations executive with more than 25 years of field service and customer relations experience, Mr. Overturf was the former Vice President of Customer Service for Integrated Healthcare Systems and Vice President of Field Operations for Coinstar, Inc.  At Coinstar, Mr. Overturf built the field service department to over 300 employees and managed more than 10,000 kiosk deployments.  He successfully increased customer satisfaction and retention by establishing a customer call center, instituting customer satisfaction programs and standardizing recruiting processes and training curriculum.  Mr. Overturf is a member of AFSMI (Association Field Service Management International), where he serves on the Educational Committee.

Mark W. Nakada, Vice President.  Prior to joining Mediaport, Mr. Nakada was Director of Marketing at Overstock.com.  Mr. Nakada is an accomplished professional musician, broadcaster, and a member of the American Federation of Musicians.  He brings 15 years marketing and sales management experience and start-up experience as Vice President of Marketing for All Star Delivery and Jennysmarket.com.  Mr. Nakada holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois, an MBA, and is a recipient of the Drake-Chenault Broadcasting Award.

Bob Merlis, Publicist.  Mr. Merlis is a music industry veteran with 30 years experience at Warner Bros. Records, where he was Senior Vice President of World Wide Communications.  Through his company M.f.h., he continues to work with The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, ZZ Top, John Fogerty, and others.  He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee and is a Director of The Blues Foundation.  Mr. Merlis provides industry contacts and oversees publicity for Mediaport.

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