AEG Digital Media Facilitates and Manages Record Number of Events and Millions of Streams in its First 60 Days of Operation

The new digital and production business unit of AEG gets immediate traction with a wide spectrum of events and services in the digital media industry

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2009 -- International sports and entertainment presenter AEG today announced that its newest business unit, AEG Digital Media, has been an immediate and major success in its strategy to digitally produce and distribute events both from its AEG venues and from any location around the world. Delivering more than 25 events in less than 60 days, AEG Digital Media has stormed onto the scene of a rapidly growing market to meet consumer demand for high quality Internet broadcasting and live streaming media.

A provider of complete, turnkey, no-fail multimedia broadcast solutions, AEG Digital Media launched in early October when AEG acquired live Internet streaming company, Incited Media. In less than two months, the company has facilitated and managed a record number of events including:

·       Live event production and webcasting of the Alicia Keys concert on Google’s YouTube live music channel direct from AEG’s Nokia Theatre Time Square in New York City to viewers in 168 countries, including the U.S. and Canada.

·       The first webcast in Hollywood Bowl history for the LA Philharmonic presenting its ¡Bienvenido Gustavo! event featuring classical music sensation and icon Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil for the very first time in a live HD webcast.

·       FarmAid ’09 from the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in St. Louis for the 6th consecutive year.

·       Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte’s launch of his water conservation philanthropy, One Drop, featuring a live stream from the Russian Space Station he was aboard.

·       MTV Latin VMA’s live webcast - continuing a multi-year and multi-event engagement between Incited Media and MTV that also includes Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards, the MTV VMA’s, and the MTV Movie Awards.

·       And displaying its diversity, the company also powered a series of live webcasts with Penguin Publishing in the month of October with select Penguin authors reading from the latest works at Borders Bookstores around the country.

“We are incredibly pleased with the traction of AEG Digital Media and the broad spectrum of content they are actively managing across many exciting content verticals including music, sports, publishing, movie premieres, award shows and digital television,” said Tim Leiweke, president & CEO of AEG, the Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company.

AEG Digital Media provides complete turnkey creative and technical production services which were also on display at the premiere of the Michael Jackson movie, “This Is It” which occurred at AEG’s Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE.  AEG Digital Media produced the feed for both webcast and traditional broadcast while simultaneously producing and streaming a Cobra Starship/Boy Like Girls concert in the AEG’s Club Nokia that was delivered on Ustream and to Nokia mobile handsets.

“Our strength and focus has been the ability to take on complex projects that are intended to reach mass online audiences and the past 90 days have been exemplary of those capabilities and ability to deliver broadcast quality services,” said John Petrocelli, VP of Sale and Business Development at AEG Digital Media.

Supported by a $25 million technical operations center and an expert team that has produced and powered hundreds of live events, AEG Digital Media has quickly emerged as a leading provider of digital media services.

“After a successful start in mid -2009 we are very excited about further expansion of our product scope, client roster and capabilities in 2010 with new projects and engagements across both the digital and production verticals, globally” said Michael Goldfine, President, AEG Digital Media.

About AEG Digital Media

AEG Digital Media is a full service, multiplatform, multimedia/media services company specializing in the technical and creative production of music, sports, reality and special event programming throughout the world. AEG Digital Media takes a broadcast approach to streaming media to enable the world’s most watched, and most innovative, webcasts and live events. The company creates, produces, and distributes content over multiple platforms including television, mobile and broadband for major brands, broadcasters, sports leagues and media properties including YouTube/Google, News Corp., Nokia, 19 Entertainment, Proctor and Gamble, Penguin Publishing, Nintendo, AT&T, Intel, Comcast, American Express and Viacom.

With a nine year track record of empowering and enabling the defining moments in Internet broadcasting and live streaming media, AEG Digital Media is regarded as a provider of complete, turnkey, no-fail multimedia broadcast solutions. Some of those defining moments and live events include Live Earth, YouTube Live, The Democratic National Convention, the Olympic Games, the MTV Video Music Awards, Farm Aid, The Grammys, the People’s Choice Awards, and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards.