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Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines, today announced a distribution partnership with National Lampoon, Inc., a dominant force in the U.S. comedy world for almost 40 years. Under the terms of the agreement, National Lampoon will utilize Pixsy’s advanced media search platform to offer custom branded video and image search to over five million unique users across their network of entertainment sites.
Pixsy’s award-winning media search technology enables National Lampoon to offer the most unique and advanced multimedia search product on the market, by custom tailoring the search index to comedy and entertainment. Pixsy technology makes it easy for any site to run a branded multimedia search engine with content customized to that specific audience, thereby creating new search activity and targeted advertising inventory.
“We chose Pixsy for their unique multimedia search product which can be customized to our user base,” said Daniel Laikin, CEO of National Lampoon. “Pixsy is particularly strong in the comedy and entertainment category.”
“We’re excited to be working with such a strong brand as National Lampoon in the area of multimedia search and see a lot of potential in this commercial relationship,” said Chase Norlin, CEO of Pixsy Corp.
About Pixsy
Pixsy Corporation (pixsycorp.com) is an award-winning media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines for websites and applications. Pixsy brings a new suite of tools to the multimedia search sector and is creating new search-based ad opportunities in the process. Pixsy’s multimedia spiders and index also let it create compelling vertical search applications for customers that can serve as multimedia launching points for vertical portals. Pixsy has offices in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA and was founded by a team of engineers and business leaders hailing from Microsoft and ValueClick.
About National Lampoon
National Lampoon, Inc. (nationallampoon.com) has been a dominant force in the U.S. comedy world for almost 40 years, and is currently active in a broad array of media and entertainment segments. These include feature films, television programming, online and interactive entertainment, home video, audio, and book publishing. The Company also owns interests in all major National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon’s Animal House, the National Lampoon Vacation series and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. National Lampoon reaches nearly one in four of all 18 to 24 year old college students in America today. The Company has three core operating divisions: National Lampoon Films, which includes production along with theatrical and video distribution of feature films; College Marketing Division; and National Lampoon Networks, providing humor content through a number of platforms. These include its National Lampoon College TV network, the National Lampoon Humor Network - the most trafficked humor sites on the web, Toga TV.com - the company’s broadband channel, the Drunk University Network, and the National Lampoon Video Network, which includes channels on YouTube, AOL, Yahoo!, Joost, and a number of digital video platforms across the Internet. These are all anchored by the award winning comedy website.
Contact
National Lampoon, Inc.
Alastair Duncan / Dawn Miller
310-300-0950 x 223/231
aduncan[.]LCOonline.com/dmiller[.]LCOonline.com.
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