Fox Mobile Distribution (FMD) is one of the world's leading mobile entertainment providers, with the potential to reach nearly one billion mobile users through partnerships with carriers and OEMs, and via its well-known consumer services. FMD has the industry's broadest array of mobile products available directly via mobile phones, and offers more branded popular content from around the world, more chart-topping ringtones from top music labels, more mobile games from renowned game developers, and more original content made exclusively for mobile phones than any other mobile content distributor. Fox Mobile Distribution is a unit of Fox Mobile Group, the global leader in mobile content distribution, production and services. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Beverly Hills, Calif., Fox Mobile Group includes Fox Mobile Distribution and Fox Mobile Studios. It is wholly-owned by News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

One of Fox Mobile Distributions most well-known services are the Jamster and Jamba  portals in more than 30 countries worldwide. Jamster's content library includes branded popular content from more than 800 content providers around the world, content from popular Fox entertainment brands like The Simpsons, high quality music from top music labels, mobile games from renowned game developers and original, made-for-mobile content from its sister-unit, Fox Mobile Studios. The service supports more than 2,800 handsets and provides billing connectivity to more than 125 operators worldwide. Fox Mobile Distribution delivers innovative mobile content including fulltrack music, games, videos, ringtones, graphics, alerts as well as SMS and MMS push services directly via mobile phone to consumers around the world.  

Besides portals like Jamster and Jamba Fox Mobile Distribution runs the dating platform iLove. iLove was launched in 2003 and is by now one of the leading European portals for dating, flirting, finding friends with over six million members in German-speaking countries and is one of the top 40 websites in Germany in terms of reach. iLove has been recommended by Safer Dating as an initiative that promotes security for the users of online dating portals as a safe and responsible service. The target group is young, trend-conscious singles and non-singles between 16 and 30 years old. The portal is currently available in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Russia.

In retrospect

In 2000, the three brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer set up the company under the name Jamba together with certain resourceful partners from the "old economy", such as the business group Metro and debitel, a leading telecommunications service provider in Germany.

Since then, the company has developed into the world's leading provider of mobile content and digital entertainment services. Whereas at the beginning the company employed a staff of 30 in a 1,300 m² loft on the banks of the Spree in Berlin-Kreuzberg, it now employs more than 700 people at its headquarter in the Berlin DomAquareé directly on Alexanderplatz as well as about 50 employees at the headquarter in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills.

Since October 2008 News Corporation has full ownership of the company with its purchase of the 49 percent stake previously held by VeriSign, which took over the company in 2004. To mark the change the company Jamba was renamed into Fox Mobile Group and reorganized its business into three distinct operating units: Fox Mobile Distribution, Fox Mobile Entertainment and Fox Mobile Studios. This move aligned the company's business strengths to the global market opportunities in mobile entertainment, enabling it to underline its leadership in mobile content distribution, licensing and production as well as offering its customer a broad and up-to-date portfolio of mobile entertainment content further on.

Other milestones in our company's history have been for example the launch of The Simple Life mobisode® in February 2007 on all Jamba/Jamster portals worldwide. Also the in-house music download portal Jamba Music (www.jamba.de/music), which was launched the year before, was shortlisted for several international awards, e.g. the Global Mobile Content Award in the category Best Music Service. 2005 was the year of Axel F., also known as Crazy Frog. For the first time then an originally ringtone made its way to the top of the charts worldwide.

One of the recent great successes from our company is Schnuffel Bunny, which made it to the top of the German single charts and achieved platinum status with his song Kuschel Song February 2008. By now Schnuffel is available in 15 languages, already released two albums and a radio play as well as a lot of digital products like wallpaper, videos and a mobile game and "real" merchandise products like bed linen, cups and much more. In the future a lot of further innovative products will be available, like magic tricks for the mobile phone available recently as well as new characters from the Fox Mobile Studios, which are planned to conquer the mobile market.