IAC's Dictionary.com Selects Addictionary to Power New Wordplay Offering
2009年5月18日 - 7:00PM
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Deal Marries Dictionary.com's 35 Million Monthly Users With
Addictionary Features To Create Powerful User Engagement Engine
PARK CITY, Utah, May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SpectrumDNA (OTC
Bulletin Board: SPXA) has partnered with Dictionary.com, an
operating business unit of IAC, to license its award-winning
Addictionary, a SaaS (software-as-a-service) user-generated
dictionary that lets people create their own words and definitions.
Dictionary.com, the world's leading online provider of language
reference products and services, will leverage the Addictionary
platform of games and widgets to capture and nurture their
community's passion for words. Addictionary, including the
super-popular "There Oughta Be A Word" feature, will be embedded
throughout Dictionary.com and the umbrella site, Reference.com,
enabling its over 35 million monthly visitors to create and discuss
words, engage in word games and challenges, and transport their
favorite content to their social networking profiles, all the while
preserving the connection to Dictionary.com. "Word reference and
wordplay are two sides of the same coin," said Jim Banister, CEO of
SpectrumDNA and creator of the Addictionary. "Not only are
neologisms -- new words, phrases and expressions -- engaging and
entertaining, they are a serious area of linguistic study and a
window into our society as the English language continues to
evolve. The authoritative online destination for anyone with a
question about words is Dictionary.com. So our Addictionary is a
natural programming and marketing solution for the destination, as
it unlocks user-creativity, increases time-on-site and generates
higher engagement and more of a 'conversation' with the user
community, providing premium ad revenue and sponsorship
opportunities for the Reference.com family of properties. We're
very excited about this pairing." The deal marks SpectrumDNA's
first entree into IAC's network of sites and follows distribution
deals with NBC Universal and several Comcast Networks properties.
SpectrumDNA, a social media studio that creates Digital Network
Applications and engines of engagement (or "Enginets") for media
outlets and advertisers, is collaborating with IAC to package and
sell their branded Addictionary as a one-of-a-kind, online
sponsorship and viral marketing platform to attract premium
brand-advertising dollars. The Dictionary.com Addictionary joins a
Network which includes NBC's "The Office" Addictionary, E!
Entertainment's Celebrity Addictionary, Comedy Central's Political
Addictionary and FEARnet's soon-to-be launched Horror Addictionary.
Addictionary recently took first prize in the Amusement Category at
the 12th Annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards Ceremony. About
SpectrumDNA Based in Park City, Utah, SpectrumDNA, Inc. is a
digital studio that creates social media applications that are
engines of engagement (or "enginets"), empowering users to take an
active, measurable role in their online communities. These
private-label applications can be easily configured and branded for
media outlets and advertisers to capture specific audience
behaviors and to develop advertiser-safe user-generated and
user-marketed content. Enginets can be leveraged for both
short-term promotions and for building long-term assets and employ
both a centralized experience (online or mobile web destination)
and distributed experience (widgetry, iPhone apps, feeds, etc).
DATASOURCE: SpectrumDNA, Inc. CONTACT: Lewis Goldberg,
+1-212-896-1216, , or Anne Donohoe, +1-212-896-1261, , both of KCSA
Strategic Communications, for SpectrumDNA, Inc. Web Site:
http://www.spectrumdna.com/
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