14 DAY TRIAL // Platinum Studios, a company that controls one the largest independent library of comic book characters, announced that it will use Bango's direct-to-consumer technology to power its Platinum Studio Mobile, a mobile website that features images, sounds, wallpapers and other mobile content from Platinum's library and from the DrunkDuck Web comics community. Consumers on any mobile network, anywhere in the world, can browse Platinum Studios' content and make purchases via their phone bill, by credit card, or PayPal.
"With Platinum Studios diverse library of comic book characters from all over the world, we needed to be able to deliver our content everywhere our consumers are and a technology provider which understood the worldwide mobile network complexity - we found both in Bango," said Howard Brodwin, head of Platinum Studios' digital publishing group. "Analysts predict that by 2008 there will be 3.2 billion mobile users around the world with 1.2 billion of them having access to the Internet - by using Bango's simplified technology, millions of comic book fans with a mobile phone will have the opportunity to discover, connect and download their favorite comic characters via the mobile Web."
Platinum's content library includes comics from Awesome Comics, France's Hexagon Comics, Italy's Bonelli Comics, Crisis Comics, plus other popular independent comic books such as "Blood Nation", "Cowboys & Aliens" and the recently introduced KISS Comics Group debut comic, "KISS 4K: Legends Never Die", based on the mythology surrounding the rock band KISS.
"As more and more people across the globe use their mobile phone to access the mobile Web, it creates new opportunities and sources of revenue for companies like Platinum Studios," said Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango. "Bango is becoming the partner of choice for companies looking to easily move to mobile."
The Platinum Studio Mobile website can be accessed HERE.