INTELLIGENT INVESTING WITH BANJO,well sort of! (Ed-hmmmm-lol)

Galleon Holdings plc has three key divisions:Galleon Entertainment for entertainment type IP,Croco Worldwide for product IP,Phoenix for interactive TV services for broadcasters in China/South East Asia which includes Robot Information Technology (Lushy Assets ('Yunbo')) who are a wireless interactive platform service provider in China who will work alongside Phoenix to enable GON to hold on to a greater part of the generated revenue and so increase the profit margin......think that's the plan! :-)

This makes Galleon Holdings a 'One Stop Shop' to develop and complete new and existing IP's.

Financial PR Redleaf Communications


WEBSITES/LINKS


Galleon Holdings


The Galleon Group of Companies

Galleon Entertainment
Phoenix
Robot Information Technology
Croco Worldwide

Websites associated with GON

Dragonfruit Studios
Super Soccer Star-2nd Roll out-Malaysia
Fortune 5
Skunk Fu Website
Skunk Fu Merchandise-UK
Skunk Fu Merchandise-USA
Apollo's Pad>
The Hunt for Miss Apollo
Sokator442 Web Page
Mysti Web Page


Toy Shelf-website that appears to get updated regularly
Qube Media-Web Marketing/Production for Apollo's Pad
Lavish
Cake Entertainment
Cartoon Saloon & Their Skunk Fu Blog
FATKAT Animation Studios
Good Story Productions-The Series Producers for Apollo's Pad
Copernicus Studios Inc
The Internet Movie Data Base (Skunk Fu)


GON ANNOUNCEMENTS (updated-26/01/09)

CLICK HERE FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM 2006 TO LATEST PLUS OTHER BITS AND BOBS


Acquisition of Phoenix Investment Global Limited, Placing of Shares and Confirmation of Total Voting Rights-23/10/07
Galleon to buy China's Phoenix Investment for up to 5.5 mln stg UPDATE-23/10/07
Galleon Receives Supply Order for Latin America-25/10/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Ashcourt) 31/10/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Imagination Holdings Limited) 07/11/07
Interactive TV Agreement with TV3 - Malaysia's largest broadcaster 09/11/07
'Skunk fu!' - Global TV placement 12/12/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Cheyne) 13/12/07
Change of Adviser 17/12/07
Interactive TV Agreement with Metropolitan TV and CH 9 21/01/08
Results 30/01/08
Acquisition of Wireless Interactive Platform Service Provider in China 20/02/08
Galleon launches Soccer Show in China with Chelsea F.C. and Guangdong TV Sports channel 03/03/08
AGM Statement and Partnership with RDF Media 02/04/08
Galleon Holdings sees H1 revenues higher than previous full year 02/04/08
Skunk Fu! Breaks into US-27/05/08
Launch of Toyline in the US and Appointment of Licensing & Distribution Partners-09/06/08
Syndication of Super Soccer Star in Shanghai region-23/06/08
Interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2008-27/06/08
Agreement with Hunan Television in China-07/07/08
Roll-out of latest product IP-14/07/08
New Product Order-29/07/08
Agreement with MMTV in China-14/08/08
US distribution agreement for Skunk fu! toyline-19/08/08
Strategic US Partnership-17/09/08
Co-production agreement for Super Soccer Star in Malaysia & terms agreed for Super Soccer Star in Indonesia -29/09/08
Trading Update-07/10/08
First Earn-Out Payment - Yunbo 13/10/08
BAFTA Nomination & Appointment of Subsidiary Director-17/11/08
UK distribution agreement for Skunk fu! toyline-27/11/08
Yunbo launches Chinese lottery mobile application-10/12/08
Preliminary results for the year ended 30 September 2008 (Issued 19/01/09)
Acquires stake in US strategic partner-26/01/09

Latest News/Events

SUPER SOCCER STAR STARTS WEDNESDAY 7 JAN 2009.DON'T MISS IT!

CLIK HERE FOR SOME BACKGROUND INFO.ON Michael Koziol and Melissa Honabach (DRAGONFRUIT STUDIOS)

26th June 2008 Galleon – And Its 'Edgy' Strategy by Tom Bulford

Note both Phoenix and GON on blue board.

GON's website has been updated with a trailer (no,not the towing kind) for Super Soccer Star which is part of their sales pitch to other territories along with bringing advertising opportunities on-board.

Looks good to me,I especially like the way the Galleon logo is animated at end,very creative! :-)

http://www.galleonent.com/

"Revenues for the half year 2007/2008 will exceed that
of the previous full year."

"Part of our strategy is to grow our pipeline into the
region through the interactive services that we provide to the broadcasters.
Currently we provide interactive services to 5 broadcasters and we aim for this
to be at least 10 broadcasters by the end of the year.

Strategically we will leverage this network and business model by co-producing
with South East Asian and Chinese broadcasters on mass market interactive
entertainment brands."


"We have agreed to launch a second Galleon entertainment property with another
leading Chinese broadcaster in 2008. We will announce more details on this once
the broadcast schedule is confirmed."


"Partnership with RDF Media

Having validated the pipeline and demonstrated the flexibility of our business
model we have sought access to a library of entertainment content and production
expertise that we can exploit within China and SEA. To this end we are delighted
to announce that Galleon has entered into an agreement to work with RDF Media to
co-produce a select number of shows with leading broadcasters in China
leveraging the best of RDF creative content and Galleon's business model and
expertise in executing these shows in the territory."


http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200804020701343711R.html

The Lady with the Log has a few things to say:

"My log hears things I cannot hear. But my log tells me about the sounds, about the new words.Even though it has stopped growing larger, my log is aware."

"The Owls have been seen heading to the East,for they are wise!"

It's all coming to pass with GON maybe helping to sort the China/Tibet issue in some small way........I have posted the Twin Peaks theme mainly through the Lady with the Log along with the following clip years before GON's China/SEA interests!
Obviously I may be reading too much into this (Ed-errrr just a bit!) but very strange and yet interesting at the same time,you must agree?

Twin Peaks: Tibet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9kejvxRokg

The Annual Results for RDF Media are due next month,might make interesting reading!

Of interest,well to me anyway :-)

Video payback

Online video advertising may still be a fraction of the overall internet ad market but with rapid growth projected, competition is heating up. Microsoft is stepping up efforts to claims its slice of the action in Europe through MSN Video. Jonathan Webdale reports.

YouTube recently began beta testing AdSense for video in the US and AOL's Platform A launched its own video advertising product a week before its parent snapped up Bebo for a cool US$850m.

A few weeks earlier, Yahoo!, which will soon unveil is Apex ad platform, paid US$160m for internet advertising and online video specialist Maven Networks, while itself being in the midst of a US$44.6bn takeover bid from Microsoft.

Yahoo! and Microsoft are still at odds after the initial offer was rejected. In the meantime, John Mangelaars (below) isn't talking about Yahoo! No one at Microsoft is, officially (apart from CEO Steve Balmer via leaked letters).

"Online video has exploded in the past year and we're seeing growing competition for consumers' eyeballs as traditional media companies and new players enter the game," he says. "As advertisers follow these eyeballs, online video advertising is expected to be the fastest growing ad category on the web for the foreseeable future."

MSN's online video ad business has grown by 150% in the past year across EMEA, and Mangelaars is determined to make the portal and the Windows Live environment preferred destinations for major advertisers launching online video campaigns.

"There are over six million Europeans who regularly watch video through MSN and the number of video streams is growing at over 60% every month. The audience reach and engagement is attracting an increasing number of big brands across Europe," he says, citing Disney, Vodafone and BMW as examples of those that have recently run ads on MSN Video.

Core to drawing such big names is building partnerships between MSN Video and companies that can bring the kind of content users will want to watch and that advertisers will want to be associated with. Even in the US, where the MSN audience is 10 times the size of the UK version's 22 million monthly visitors, these collaborations were initially a struggle, however.

Partly out of frustration at the way in which the studios were hanging onto online rights to their programming, Microsoft launched an initiative called MSN Originals, bringing in the likes of Reveille and LivePlanet to produce original online series with advertisers heavily integrated. The initiative has yet to be replicated anywhere else but in the meantime content owners' attitudes to online distribution partnerships have thawed somewhat.

This recently resulted in Europe-wide agreements with MTV Networks International and Sony BMG, making clips from shows such as Pimp My Ride, Punk'd and South Park plus a string of music videos available via MSN Video. This followed a wide-ranging US$500m advertising and content agreement stuck between MSN and MTV parent Viacom in the US in December.

Mangelaars believes the ad formats offered by MSN Video - a mix of pre-roll and contextual ads around the video player - are less disruptive than others being trialled by rivals - with more being developed by Microsoft's AdCenter Labs. Content owners get a split of the revenues, and for the time being MSN Video is restricting its offering to clips rather than full-length shows.

This feature continues online. For the full version plus access to the rest of C21Media.net click here. To read it in the April edition of FutureMedia magazine, request a copy here.





C21's FutureMedia Weekly: Crunch


Americans tune into web TV
Kaan Yigit (below) is president of Toronto-based Solutions Research Group and study director for two ongoing trend surveys of technology and consumer behaviour branded Digital Life America in the US and Fast Forward in Canada. Here he shares his findings with C21.

Nearly 80 million Americans - 43% of the US online population - have watched one of their favourite TV shows on the internet at some point in the past, up significantly from 12 months ago when that figure was just 25%.

A full 20% of the American online population said they watch TV on the web on a weekly basis, and that's ahead of the 14% who say they take advantage of cable's video-on-demand offerings.

Our Digital Life America tracking study interviewed 1,150 online Americans in November 2007 and compared the results with a similar survey taken in October 2006. We saw a significant increase in the number of people getting their TV fix on broadband - whether via streaming or downloads. There are a number of reasons for this.

The first reason for the growth of broadband TV is the law of large numbers - more people have access. The number of US homes with broadband connections hit the 60 million mark in early 2008 (compared to only 37 million digital cable households with VoD access) so it's not surprising to see that more Americans are consuming broadband TV than ever.

Second is availability of content, legal or otherwise. All major network websites (as well as many cable channels in the US have most of their line-ups available for streaming. One in five (21%) visits to network sites are to stream a specific show. Top major network TV shows viewed on the internet include Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars, Ugly Betty, Chuck, CSI and House.

And while it's below the radar, a significant amount of TV content is easily available for download via peer-to-peer sites, a favourite source of TV in particular for the 15-29 age group. A recent article on Torrentfreak.com suggests that some episodes of popular TV shows such as Lost or Prison Break get up to 10 million downloads per episode. This is consistent with our research where we find that at least 20% of online Americans in the 20-29 age group use a torrent site on a monthly basis (and over 30% use Limewire).

Message to myself: Interesting that the 'Press' part of Apollo's Pad is down tonight!

Edit-back on and no major changes

C21 Formats Lab Weekly: Distributor profile


Naked ambition

Karrie Wolfe's recent promotion at RDF USA will see her scouring the world for adaptable formats. She tells Emily Brookes how she plans to go about it.

Buyers at US networks are getting bored, says Karrie Wolfe. "They feel like they've all heard most ideas in a different incarnation. They're looking for something really fresh."

In recent years, that has meant looking outwards for international formats that can be adapted for US audiences. "They think that there's something exciting about a show that has captured an audience's attention in a foreign country," says Wolfe.

Her employer, RDF USA, learned that lesson years ago and has already produced a string of successful shows based on UK formats - reality shows like How To Look Good Naked (below) for Lifetime and Wife Swap for ABC, and, through its scripted arm Pangea, upcoming fare like Mistresses for Showtime and NY-Lon for CBS - making it one of the leading producers of UK formats in the US.

But it has decided even this is not enough, and last month named Wolfe senior VP of scripted and unscripted programming, exclusively tasked with sourcing formats from around the world to be produced for US channels.

It may sound like an extreme measure, but Wolfe contends that RDF is simply getting the jump on a burgeoning trend. "We started seeing that the networks were buying formats not just from the typical countries like the UK, but from around the world," she says, pointing to recent green lights like CBS's pilot of Israeli format Mythological X or ABC ordering a pilot based on New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune. "We decided there was a whole other world out there that we needed to tap into," she adds.

Before she could head out into that world, the exec's first order of business was figuring out precisely what was boring her clients. Part of it, she says, is that script developers in the US are playing it too safe. "The creative communities outside the US take chances more often," she says, speculating that their audiences "aren't as easily shocked as US audiences."

A show like Wife Swap, for example, with its daring crossover of social classes and challenging of lifestyles and values, carries an instant appeal for buyers used to more politically correct fare. "They're envisioning how they're going to promote this show," says Wolfe. "If it's something that has shock factor, something big and different, they're going to latch on to it right away."

Currently, Wolfe is working on gaining rights to big entertainment formats from Turkey and Japan, and, from the Netherlands, an "emotional factual entertainment" series that hits a genre that Wolfe believes is likely to be big in the US in upcoming seasons, alongside 'shiny floor' formats like RDF's in-house series Don't Forget The Lyrics, on Fox.

Nice little up-day :-)

I cant stop laughing at the latest webisode,strong language so be warned! :-)

Ask Mickey: Things I'd Fuck (3)

Interesting news from RDF Media today:

Statement re Possible Offer

cash offer from a consortium including its executive directors

From the FT

Interesting when you read along with:

"Partnership with RDF Media

Having validated the pipeline and demonstrated the flexibility of our business
model we have sought access to a library of entertainment content and production
expertise that we can exploit within China and SEA. To this end we are delighted
to announce that Galleon has entered into an agreement to work with RDF Media to
co-produce a select number of shows with leading broadcasters in China
leveraging the best of RDF creative content and Galleon's business model and
expertise in executing these shows in the territory."

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200804020701343711R.html

I'm wondering now whether Phoenix had or more to the point is linked in some way to John de Mol...................or maybe I'm reading too much into it all?

Mean while,back at the ranch:

http://www.apollospad.com/standup/intro

http://www.apollospad.com/standup/show

Whether you like Apollo's Pad or not,what I believe is important is the concept/format as a whole which can be used for other IP's in GON's locker or transposed to a third parties programmes to give the 360' experiance which for example could be in China!

Of interest:


Tuesday, April 22, 2008
On Location- Sony F900 on "Apollo's Pad"

http://framediscreet.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-location-sony-f900-on-apollos-pad.html

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-04/28/content_6648613_3.htm

Viewing figures on youtube have picked up over the last couple of weeks regarding Apollo's Pad,still early days mind:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=apollospad&p=v

At last a new PR company,wooooo hoooooo:

Appointment of Financial PR Adviser


"Welcome
Redleaf Communications is a specialist media and investor relations agency that has seen exceptional growth since its launch in January 2000. Thanks to the team's vast experience in their respective fields, Redleaf is one of the most respected companies in the PR industry and one of its most successful."

http://www.redleafpr.com/

This interested me and I believe it shows the value of Phoenix as the conduit for GON within China but it's late and I could be wrong (Ed-never!)

Introduction of IFIC Inc.

1. About IFIC Inc.

IFIC Inc. is a leading financial advisor that provides high-class advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, strategic investment and private placement in New Media sector, including mobile and Internet area.

Established in 2001 by experienced venture capitalists and investment bankers, IFIC is a member of the Venture Capital Committee of Chinese Technological Finances Advancement Association and a member of Internet Society of China (ISC) and the VAS Committee of Chinese Association of Communications Enterprises (www.newtele.com).

IFIC is also a member of Shenzhen Venture
Capital Association and Shenzhen Association of Management Consultants, a director member of Jiangsu Venture Capital Association, and co-founder of Jiangsu Association of Management Consultants.

IFIC has become the largest financial advisor in New Media by focusing on this specific industry.

Up to now, IFIC has closed over 80 deals with a total transaction volume of over 1.6Billion USD. In 2005 alone, the amount of transactions by IFIC totaled 500 Million USD, accounting for 80% of the M&A financial advisory market share in China for wireless value-added services.

Consisting of professional teams with strong background in investment banking and finance, IFIC is determined to provide best financial advisory service to enterprises in New Media industry and add value to them by assisting them to achieve the goals.

IFIC is currently headquartered in Shenzhen with offices in Beijing and Shanghai.

2. Business Summary:

Mergers and Acquisitions Consultancy IFIC Inc. provides consultancy for clients in assets reorganization, equity transfer, mergers and
acquisitions, and corporate divergence. IFIC Inc. assists the clients in selecting objects for mergers and acquisitions, provides a practical capital operation plan, and helps to implement the plan.
Financing Consultancy IFIC Inc. introduces start-up firms and entrepreneurs to domestically and internationally renowned venture capitalists. IFIC Inc. also provides business planning service, valuation, a detailed analysis
of management team, technology advantage, market prospect, and financial conditions, forecast of its revenue and investment value in the near three to five years, and a professional assessment of the clients potential market, capital management, and exit strategies.


Sorry,this was the main bit:

Sole Financial Advisor to Yunbo Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Changshai)
The leading online-media service supplier in China
Successful sale to Phoenix Investment Global Limited in Feb,2008


http://www.theific.com/other/IFIC%20Inc.%20(Text%20Version).pdf