A new out-of-home content distribution deal will see current news about top movies and hot celebrities on digital displays in more than 550 bars and nightlife venues in Canada.
The Montreal-based Zoom Media & Marketing Social digital place-based media network is working with TV About Movies and its information service REELZCHANNEL Movie News.
The companies are partnering on the content production and distribution. All content is dynamically updated by pulling the latest online news and information directly from the authoritative www.reelz.com website.
Viewers are not only continually informed about the latest box office results, celebrity information and entertainment news, and what movies to watch in theatres & at home, they are exposed to advertisers’ creative, running adjacent to the REELZCHANNEL content.
“We see our new relationship with Zoom as a great way to expose people to what REELZCHANNEL is all about – TV About Movies,” said John deGarmo, SVP of Sales and Distribution for REELZCHANNEL. “Zoom’s Social Network allows us to provide great entertainment and information for people at these establishments while providing awareness for REELZCHANNEL.”
The REELZCHANNEL-TV About Movies cable and satellite network currently reaches more than 56 million homes on DIRECTV channel 238, Dish Network channel 299, Verizon FiOS TV channel 233, AT&T U-verse channels 799/1799HD and cable systems in the U.S.
“We’re very excited about our new partnership with REELZCHANNEL as it allows us to provide expert-quality, continually updated movie content that we know adds value to Zoom’s Social Network,” said Dan Levi, Zoom’s SVP of Digital Media & Strategic Partnerships. “Nielsen measurement shows that Zoom’s Social Network has an extremely high composition of 18-34 year-old viewers, exactly the consumers who are passionate about movies and crave the latest news and information.”
Zoom Media provides out-of-home media solutions and digital signage solutions to reach distinct target audiences in specific environments
The company’s Chairman and Chief Coaching Officer is François de Gaspé Beaubien, who as co-CEO of Telemedia, oversaw the creation of one of Canada’s largest Radio companies (over 80 radio stations). He and his siblings sold all their media properties (magazines and radio) by the end of 2002 in order to focus on the growing billboard industry, specifically indoor billboards with their acquisition of Zoom Media in its entirety in 2003 (having been shareholders since 1995
He has been the Chairman of Zoom since 2001 and the Chairman and CEO since 2003. He has identified the future of the company as “going digital”. Zoom currently owns over 80,000 targeted billboards (mostly in North America) of which over 26,000 are digital screens.
Owned by Hubbard Media Group, REELZCHANNEL is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM with an entertainment bureau in Los Angeles.
Zoom is owned by the de Gaspé Beaubien family and ABS Capital Partners.
Source: Zoom Media
