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

but on a happier note :-)

Love Shack - B-52s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8NhJNpQlsY

Forgot to check the Croco part of GON's website last night.................amazing up-dates! :-)

See,the Log Lady knows best! :-)

Anyways,The article below mainly relates to Apollo's Pad at the present time,I've highlighted what I think are the main bits:

C21's FutureMedia Weekly: Mobile


Making the most of mobile

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With over two billion mobile phones in people's pockets around the world there's a clear opportunity to connect with their users in new ways - and an imperative to do so, writes Greg Brooks.
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Engaging your audience used to be what TV companies did best. Immersive dramas, innovative gameshows and explosive documentaries would draw in an audience that would either shout at or become glued to the magic box in the corner.

But in a schedule where many more reality and format-driven shows are finding a home, TV companies are increasingly turning to mobile interaction to provide the engagement and to add value to their shows' brands.

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A recent survey of more than 1,000 UK mobile users found that nearly half of respondents fail to respond to traditional advertising campaigns because they forget the brand name and contact details after their initial interest in the advertisement has passed. More than a third of people, however, had sent a text to a five-digit number (short code) in response to a competition, programme or advertisement, according to the research, commissioned by mobile companies 2ergo and O2.
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'Text to win,' 'text to vote,' 'text us your thoughts' have become the new mantras for TV companies that are switching on to the fact that not only do viewers feel more involved and engaged in a show if they can participate, but also that the industry can make some serious revenues.
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Mobile presents TV companies with two clear opportunities. The first is to engage the audience during the show through participation TV using the mobile channel. The second is to add value to shows by giving the audience extra content such as clips, wallpapers, ringtones and other assets through mobile WAP sites.

A series of high-profile participation TV scandals in the UK of late has hit public confidence, not only in phone-in voting but also in text activity. There have also been problems in other countries, such as India, where in June allegations that a number of text votes for the local version of Pop Idol were not counted resulted in shops being vandalised and the offices of the mobile operators being besieged by angry fans.

Andrew Bud (left), executive chairman of mBlox, which handles the infrastructure to enable mobile communication between viewers and broadcasters, says that despite the bad publicity, broadcasters are a lot savvier in their use of mobile than they were six months ago, and that the future of mobile and TV is far from dead.

"These malpractices didn't directly cause financial harm to the viewers, but it was scruffy behaviour and made the public concerned over its faith in what it sees on TV. Time needs to pass and services need to run without incident and public confidence will be slowly restored," he says.

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In the US, consumer research company Telephia claims Americans texted nearly 35 million times in the first quarter of this year in response to participation TV, generating roughly US$35m in revenues. The biggest shows in the market are American Idol, Deal or No Deal, Big Brother - which brought in 500,000 text votes in just two days in 2005 - and One vs 100.
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Mark Fitzgerald (left), MD at MX Telecom, which acts as an aggregator between content providers and networks and works with companies including the BBC, ITV, Sky and Endemol, says that the US market is moving quickly and has great potential, but is being bogged down by regulation. "American Idol has more voting than The X Factor in the UK, but the US market is much more regulated, so doing clever mobile marketing is difficult," he says.

In the US, every individual network operator must agree to the marketing campaign if it is to go to their subscribers, even if the mobile phone owner has previously opted in. This means that simple systems such as SMS voting dominate mobile marketing and prevent more sophisticated campaigns from being developed.

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

KidScreen-Best Of The year

Distributor of the Year

Cake Distribution
Landing a prime US spot for 2-D animated comedy/action series Skunk Fu! was a highlight for Cake Entertainment's new distribution arm in '07. The 52 x 12-minute series, which tells the story of a Western skunk learning martial arts moves at the feet of a wise old Kung Fu master, bowed on Kids' WB! airwaves this fall, after first launching on CBBC and ABC Australia. And the company has beefed up its sales initiatives by bringing on former Xilam EVP of business development, Ed Galton, as MD.
Acting as a third musketeer to co-directors Tom Van Waveren and Genevieve Dexter, Galton is focusing on international presales and overseeing brand positioning. He also brought a new revenue stream with him by way of an exclusive alliance with his former employer, Xilam - the French prodco has appointed Cake Distribution to handle sales of its entire library in all English-speaking markets. Besides Skunk Fu!, the distributor's most recent pick-ups include Edgar & Ellen and Total Drama Island. And as part of an effort to bolster its development slate, the company has started getting involved in indie-driven projects at a much earlier stage.

Our Man Len :-)



HOT TOPIC: Industry challenges in 2008

By Samantha Loveday

November 19

As the licensing business starts to look ahead to the New Year, Samantha Loveday asks a selection of execs what they think the biggest challenges facing the market will be, and how theyll be looking to get round them

"The biggest challenge for licensing in 2008 is the lack of good quality childrens television content. Ultimately, the licensing industry is most akin to the fashion industry it requires innovation and freshness to drive the market. This is a perennial issue for the industry rather than something specific to 2008. The ability for independent production companies to deliver this freshness is being eroded currently due to poor advertising revenues negatively impacting broadcaster production budgets. Thankfully for Galleon, Skunk Fu is driving strong ratings in the UK and the US and demonstrates that a fresh concept can cut through to the consumer, which in turn is leading to strong licensing interest.

Len Dunne, MD, Galleon


http://www.licensing.biz/features/16/HOT-TOPIC-Industry-challenges-in-2008

Let me give Croco centre stage,as they deserve it:

Croco Worldwide

Croco Worldwide designs innovative bespoke in-pack premiums for global FMCG companies.

Headquartered in London, with global representation, Croco Worldwide has the specialised design, manufacturing and operational capabilities to take an idea from concept through to market.

Croco Worldwide is a wholly owned subsidiary of Galleon Holdings plc, an intellectual property company based in the UK and is AIM (Alternative Investment Market) listed on the London Stock Exchange.


http://www.crocoworldwide.com/pages/home.php

Very interesting information:


Product Development

Design innovation gives Croco its competitive edge. We are in the unique position of having a full service product design and moulding facility within our business. Upon taking a client brief, we are able to go from concept to fully injected prototype in less than one week. As this is all in-house, confidentiality is guaranteed.

For in-pack premiums, innovative product solutions are key: Croco Worldwide is focused on developing concepts that have huge appeal, strong game-play and unquestionable collectibility.

Our ambition is always to create a new craze that will drive sales volume for our clients.

http://www.crocoworldwide.com/pages/productdev.php

Let me find a picture,too many wordings :-)

Wow-lolz

Today's the day Banjo :-)

Morning Krackett,
Not this morning but over the next few weeks.............

Obv.I'm no expert so,relating to GON and Licensing/Merchandising of Skunk Fu:

Lets take a bed duvet cover set (think that's what it's called-lol).Would GON go to a manufacturer and say I want X amount of these making with Skunk Fu prints on it or/and would a manufacturer knock on GON's cabin door and say we want to produce said article under your license and how much would that be per item/batch?

The Skunk Fu DVD (Warner Music Entertainment) due out this year or next?
There are a few sites that look like they are getting ready but may be hoax:

http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/Skunk_Fu_DVD__6786758

Any thoughts?

It's like a volcano but who knows when the eruption will start? :-)

Of interest:




The Result
Apollo's Pad is a fully bespoke Content Management System (CMS) with ecommerce and community features for the forthcoming TV show Apollo's Pad.

This highly complex site was brought up to release quality within 3 months of project start.

The site features a series of animations, music videos and blog entries together with community features including user content, polls and comments.

Users can download free content and can purchase music and videos. The site is controlled through a series of administrative panels designed to be intuitive and easy to use.


http://www.heavenlymedia.co.uk/

About Magpie

Magpies are canny little creatures, they like to steal only the shiniest of gems and hide them away in their nest. Our software is similar.

Because the web is alive, active, changing, distracting, chaotic, opinionated, influential and growing. And because you want to track, listen, observe, identify, measure, compare, learn, and predict.

We built Brandwatch.

Brandwatch is based on some simple observations about the character of the internet. The internet is getting more personal as it becomes ever more public. Conversation and reflection on the web is that strange thing - both personal and public, private and open. We watch as the web grows into a miriad of personal platforms, and see conversation, opinion, dialogue, monologue all following. Private conversation and personal reflection have become public and democratic.

So we started thinking about what all this could mean for the life of brands - how they behave on the web, how they work in the world of blogs, news sites, polls and discussion forums.

We at Magpie have built something which can pick up quickly what people are saying online about any brand, whenever and wherever it crops up. Brandwatch tells you what is being said about your brand, why, where and when.

To see how Brandwatch works, take a look at our quick online demo. For further information on Brandwatch, please contact info@magpie.net

Read more about how Brandwatch works.


http://www.magpie.net/whoweare.html

Apollo's Pad Community Site
We worked together with Qube and Magpie to build the popular community based website for the up-and-coming television programme Apollo's Pad.

The website featured a fully bespoke content management, video management, multiple blogs, user comments and polls, managed user profiles as well as a complex e-commerce system.

Find out how Heavenly Media helped make this project a huge success

http://www.heavenlymedia.co.uk/index.html

I posted this at time (probably) before I knew who Bradley Cayford was so will post again with his reply to article and other comments..........just out of interest :-)

Monday, October 29, 2007
Cayford Swings By Apollo's Pad

Bradley Cayford is amongst a small group of Flash artists who are elevating the Paperless 2D playing field. Adobe's Flash software has been labeled by many as a toy, or a degenerative force in animation, and folks like Cayford, who works out of Copernicus Studios, just keep cranking out beautiful work and ignoring the peanut gallery.

Cayford's latest project is a combined effort with Sony BMG and Galleon Holdings. It's called Apollo's Pad, a series of shorts that aim to revitalize music labels' back catalogs. Apollo's Pad features 2-minute comedy bits followed by classic songs re-recorded by contemporary artists. Here's The Monkees' chart-topping song I'm a Believer.

posted by Aaron Simpson @ 7:39 AM



At 10/29/2007 12:13:00 PM, Bradley Cayford said...

Thanks Aaron for the positive post. In some manner I agree that there are programs that do make it more accessable for people to animate and there are paths that some choose to walk down that are easy.
Getting something on TV is not difficult especially if one chooses to do it cheap. However, I never approach anything thinking money first by any means and I know that this video and all that I have been blessed to work on have come from the classical standpoint.

Every bit of storyboarding and design comes from my creative mind and the creative minds that I work with and nothing is done to a formula or expressed in a way that I feel is not fitting for the organic feel that classical gives you.

It's a fact that I am not the top of the chart when it comes to filmmaking and animation. That being said, I do enjoy animation thoroughly and I hope that it comes through in videos such as this one. There is more to animation than just a simple program or a finished product. I love working with the people I work with and I love to draw and express my art whichever way I choose. Animation is not just animation.

For animation to be considered an art it must have many mediums and must have many influences as well. Sure anyone can pick up flash and "animate" in flash, but I don't see it as a pox on the industry by any means. Not all animation was good before Flash...there were so many shows when I was a kid that weren't animated so great. That's just production. You could make the same argument for 3D as well. Point is in all of this...I just want to do art...it's open to the critics...I'm certainly not bound by Flash as my only medium of expressing art and I think people should look past the surface of animation at it's most technical standpoint and realize that there are artists making creative decisions behind it all.


I'm happy with how this video turned out and thanks to Galleon and Sony for giving us this project. It was a blast.

http://www.coldhardflash.com/2007/10/cayford-swings-by-apollos-pad.html

Forgot to post this,nicked from 'The Dark Side' :-)


Flash Animation 'Skunk Fu' Continues to Travel
December 3rd, 2007 3:46 PM by Aaron H. Bynum

'Skunk Fu' Grows Internationally


http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1559

"Galleon Holdings PLC
09 November 2007


Galleon Holdings plc
(the 'Company' or 'Galleon')

Interactive TV Agreement with TV3 - Malaysia's largest broadcaster

Galleon Holdings plc, the AIM-listed intellectual property owner and developer
in the entertainment sector, is pleased to announce that its Hong Kong based
media solutions company, Phoenix Investment Global Limited ('Phoenix'), has
signed a deal with TV3, the largest TV station in Malaysia, with 21 million
viewers. Under the terms of the deal, Phoenix will receive a fee for the supply
of its multi-platform interactive system to TV3. It will also receive ongoing
management fees and a revenue share on related activities, as a part of a
multi-year service agreement to provide sms gateway, interactive advertising
and sms campaign management."


I'm not saying this is part of GON's/Phoenix work but if you look on the website of TV3 at the bottom four horizontal squares the two on right are SMS based!:

http://www.tv3.com.my/

http://www.tv3.com.my/Terms---Conditions/Asian-Potpourri-SMS-Contest.aspx

http://www.tv3.com.my/Terms---Conditions/HEROES-SMS-CONTEST.aspx