BusinessWire
December 06, 2007 05:00 AM Pacific Time

Kadoink Launches Powerful Web Telephony Platform That Extends Internet Communications to Mobile

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kadoink (www.kadoink.com), a powerful new communications platform that bridges the mobile phone and the web to allow consumers to share and publish content with friends and online communities through their phones, launches publicly today with popular music acts as diverse as Death Cab For Cutie, Third Eye Blind, Matt Nathanson, Rogue Wave and the Kottonmouth Kings from the Suburban Noize label. Artists can harness Kadoink’s platform to distribute songs or voicemails over the voice channel to thousands or millions of fans, send group texts or calls to fans located within a particular area code or region and create a mobile fan club where fans can receive all the latest happenings in a band’s daily life delivered right to their phone.

Kadoink provides a powerful new promotional tool for artists to send daily updates or securely broadcast never released songs over the voice channel eliminating the need and risk involved with sending a music file. Through Kadoink, labels can offer fans the ability to evangelize their favorite band or new music distributed by the artist instantly to their own group of friends through the phone.

“Kadoink makes a mobile phone the ultimate ‘by your side’ communications tool for people to always stay connected with large groups, whether its fans, friends or customers,” said Scott Cahill, CEO of Kadoink. “Kadoink offers an exciting media distribution tool for a wide range of industries including music, virtual worlds, brands and celebrities looking to create a deeper connection with audiences. We are thrilled to launch with such great artists and labels to help enable them to extend relationships with fans and make it possible to securely share, play and send music to any cell phone.”

“In using Kadoink we will be able to offer a unique value added experience to our audience,” said Jordan Kurland, founder of Zeitgeist Artist Management, LTD. “Kadoink, compared with other fan oriented mobile messaging platforms, is a 360 degree experience. I love that one day you can send a text message to your fans alerting them a new album is on the way and the next week send a streaming file of a new song directly to their phone.”

“We are really excited to use Kadoink to support the connection between our bands and the fans,” said Kevin Zinger, President for Suburban Noize Records. “Their platform is really unique because their service not only sends text messages to users, but recorded audio and music as well. This is key in further engaging fans as they use their phone more and more for social networking. Our label has always tried to keep a close connection between the bands and the fans. Kadoink brings us one step closer.”

Kadoink enables popular music acts to create a deeper connection between artists and their fans through the mobile phone. Death Cab For Cutie, Third Eye Blind, Matt Nathanson and popular rap act Kottonmouth Kings are the first artists to deploy Kadoink as a highly effective tool to inform fans of upcoming events, album releases and tours sent right to the palm of their hands. A customized and skinned widget will be embedded on each band’s web and MySpace page and used as another forum to engage with their fans on the social networking site. Fans of the bands will be able to ‘follow’ the band and receive text, music and audio updates via SMS and the voice channel instantly to their mobile phone. Fans can also embed the widget on their own personal pages and blogs.

Kadoink works on any mobile phone regardless of carrier and does not require a client download on the phone – meaning that any phone that has texting capabilities can work with Kadoink. The company has also developed a first-ever technology that allows users to send and receive audio files over the voice channel housed on the Kadoink server that can be securely streamed to one or one hundred thousand people with one simple text message. In addition, Kadoink enables users to record personal introduction messages that precede the music – making the experience more personal and intimate. With Kadoink, the mobile device is transformed into a powerful, easy-to-use communications and marketing channel that can service multiple and distinct verticals.

By embedding Kadoink customized widgets on personal blogs and social networking pages from blogspot.com to popular social network pages, users and partners can further manage and share content, receive regular updates on news and information, discover new music, and execute instant group calls and texts.

The Kadoink platform is built on a globally-scaled, redundant, load balanced infrastructure that combines a powerful CRM engine, and a carrier grade telephony backend, featuring patent-pending software which sets it apart from other mobile social networking companies.

About Kadoink

Kadoink is a powerful web-telephony platform that seamlessly integrates SMS, IM and voice into a single hosted system compatible with any carrier or handset. Through its patented technology, Kadoink provides a suite of communication widgets and services such as phonecasting, audioblogging, microblogging, instant and large scale group communication (calling & texting) as well as mobile advertising (SMS and audio interstitials). Kadoink untethers users from their computers and instantly expands their current mobile phone capabilities, giving them a fun, always-present, easy-to-use tool to anonymously connect with an expansive network of family, friends and online communities without ever having to disclose their actual phone numbers. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and was formed in September 2006. For more information and to sign up for Kadoink please visit www.kadoink.com.