Wed
15th Oct
2008
Advertising-funded mobile email and mobile social community service hits 300,000 registered users in 3 months, targets 3 million users within 12 months.
London, 15th October 2008: ROK Entertainment Group (OTCBB: ROKE), the global mobile entertainment company and YuuZoo Corporation, the global mobile media company, jointly announce their mobile social network service, YuuROK, has passed the 300,000 registered user milestone and is on target to generate 1 million users within the next few months and 3 million users worldwide within 12 months.
Juniper Research predicts the number of active users of mobile social networking sites is expected to rise from 54 million in 2008 to nearly 730 million in 2013.
Advertising-funded, YuuROK is free to use providing the user has a data package in their mobile tariff. YuuROK is available from www.yuurok.com/web.
YuuROK is currently generating more than 20,000 new sign-ups a day worldwide through integrated promotional campaigns and through existing users notifying the existence of the service to their friends and families, virally.
"YuuROK not only delivers Blackberry-like mobile email functionality to mass-market WAP-enabled mobile phones at no cost to the user, it also provides a unique mobile social network service with several value-added applications such as ebooks, daily news and sports news feeds, daily comics and jokes all designed to encourage uptake and use of the service." said Ron Creevey, Group President of YuuZoo.
It is the email utility aspect of YuuROK which generates repeat usage which enables YuuROK to launch a multitude of additional services into the community.
"Mobile email is a very fast-growing service worldwide and YuuROK is a mass-market, all-devices capable mobile email service” said Laurence Alexander, Group CEO of ROK “but YuuROK is much more than just a mobile email service and we will shortly be adding our GeeSpark mobile social network application which allows people to communicate virally and send images and YouTube videos to each other from their mobile phones."
About ROK:
ROK Entertainment Group Inc., (OTCBB: ROKE) founded in 2004, is a global mobile entertainment company.
With approximately 200 staff worldwide, ROK has filed more than 40 international patents for its suite of innovative mobile technologies.
With 3.3 billion mobile handsets in use worldwide – forecast to grow to 5.8 billion within 5 years - the mobile entertainment industry is a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar business.
ROK TV enables the streaming of live and on-demand TV to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G, as well as over 3G and Wi-Fi.
Forward-Looking Statement
The information contained in this new release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these statements. Forward-looking statements regarding the timing of developing, testing and releasing existing and new products, of marketing and selling them, of deriving revenues and profits from them, as well as the effects of those revenues and profits on the Group's margins and financial position, are uncertain because many of the factors affecting the timing of those items are beyond the Group's control.
