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Vinco Ventures and Emmersive Entertainment Launch First NFT Streaming Movie Soundtrack

Vinco Ventures, Inc. and ZASH Global  a leader in selective acquisitions and entertainment technology, today announced that its subsidiary EVNT Platform, LLC dba Emmersive Entertainment (Emmersive) will launch their first NFT streaming movie soundtrack, featuring Anderson .Paak, CeeLo Green, and Kota the Friend, among others, produced by Grammy winners Om'Mas Keith and Adrian Miller of A Tiny Universe (ATU).

ATU co-owners, Om'Mas Keith and Adrian L. Miller, have announced that the movie soundtrack for Karen, a modern dramedy thriller directed by Coke Daniels, will be exclusively available on the e-nft.com platform.  The movie's 11 record soundtrack features music from world-renowned artists such as Anderson .Paak, CeeLo Green, Kota the Friend, Knox Brown and V-Bozeman, as well as an introduction to new artists from A Tiny Universe music label‒ WxLF, Pregnant Boy, and Gumbo.Om'Mas Keith, a Grammy Award-winning music producer and current Secretary/Treasurer of the Recording Academy, is known for his work producing for Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Frank Ocean, among others. His partner at ATU, Grammy winning music producer/manager, Adrian L. Miller, is co-executive producer and music supervisor of Karen. Miller helped to launch the career of Anderson .Paak, and has worked with artists such as RZA and Flo-Rida.


When asked why the soundtrack for the movie Karen should be made available as an NFT, stated "the landscape ripened for interactive soundtracks giving fans and audiences a more immersive and intimate experience. With that in mind, we partnered with Emmersive Entertainment to make it happen!
                                                                                                                                           ATU partners, Keith and Miller,

Emmersive Entertainment is well versed in the space of streaming NFTs, having partnered with Tory Lanez on his August 10, 2021 released album, When It's Dark, to sell 1 million copies of his album in under a minute ‒ among other NFT driven projects. "It is exciting to be working with industry legends such as Om'Mas and Adrian. The soundtrack is another step in our focus on leveraging blockchain technologies to disrupt consumer facing industries," said Emmersive CSO, Brian McFadden. "With our partners at Lomotif providing traffic for our NFT platform we look forward to continuing our growth."

ATU is also offering a Limited Edition version of the NFT featuring 3 music videos, 9 pieces of art, behind-the-scenes with the film's Director Coke Daniels, and a downloadable score in addition to the soundtrack. The Limited Edition will sell for $20 with only 5,000 available.

Karen is a dramedy thriller, directed by Coke Daniels and starring Taryn Manning, about a young black couple who move to a white development and have to fight back against the increasingly racist and sinister Karen, their white neighbor who attempts to force them out of the community. The film title refers to the viral stereotype of the same name, and was released on September 14th on all platforms partnered with BET/BET-plus, and Quiver distribution. The film has seen early PVOD excitement; Amazon having reported it as #15 on their best-selling new and future releases.

About Vinco Ventures, Inc.
Vinco Ventures, Inc. (BBIG) is a selective acquisitions company focused on digital media and content technologies. Vinco's B.I.G. (Buy. Innovate. Grow.) strategy is seeking out acquisition opportunities that are poised for scale and will BE BIG. 

About ZASH Global
ZASH Global Media and Entertainment Corporation is an evolving network of synergetic companies working together to disrupt the media and entertainment industry. The ZASH team has both organically built and acquired an ecosystem of interrelated companies in the consumer entertainment technology space. ZASH is managed by a group of smart, if not somewhat brazen, consummate disruptors. ZASH believes its management team has an exceptional and unparalleled ability to pivot because their knowledge and experience is steadfast and unyielding.

EVNT Platform, LLC, dba Emmersive Entertainment
Emmersive Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vinco Ventures, pushes the limits of technology, unlocking the most creative solutions for complex artistic and technological NFT concepts. Emmersive partners directly with artists, celebrities and sports stars, specializing in crafting custom artwork in a variety of mediums, while advancing the NFT market by offering one-of-a-kind augmented digital and physical tokens.

About Lomotif
Lomotif is a leading video-sharing social networking platform that is democratizing video creation. Since its founding in 2014, Lomotif has been granted three technology patents uniquely focused on empowering creators to share and watch short videos with ease through remix and collaboration,  demonstrating its bold vision to build the world's largest video vocabulary to accelerate the world's transition to video-first expression. Lomotif, available in the Apple and Google stores, is a breakthrough downloadable app for hip hop, rap, and urban culture across the United States, Latin Aerica, Asia, Africa and worldwide. With 500 million historical downloads, Lomotif is a rapidly growing social media powerhouse and was selected by Snapchat as one of five partners for a bi-directional integration for posting stories between the two platforms.

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TelevisaUnivision and Charter Communications Announce Strategic Renewal, Expanding Distribution of Linear Networks

Charter Communications | January 25, 2024

TelevisaUnivision and Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) today announced a multi-year agreement to extend and expand their partnership. This agreement provides Spectrum customers with continued access to the most-watched Spanish-language news, sports and entertainment programming in the country. The modern deal framework is designed to enhance Spectrum's ability to serve the massive U.S. Hispanic audience with expanded access to an unprecedented amount of Spanish-language content. As part of the arrangement, TelevisaUnivision will create a new ad-supported premium subscription version of ViX, set to launch later this year. It will be available at no additional cost to Spectrum customers who receive TelevisaUnivision channels as part of their Spectrum TV Select or Mi Plan Latino packages. ViX's "Premium with Ads" offering will give viewers access to the entire ViX Premium content offering, including exclusive original series, novelas, comedies, movies, thousands of live exclusive soccer matches and tens of thousands of hours of library content with a moderate advertising load. The combination of ViX's premium streaming programming with TelevisaUnivision's market leading linear channels will create an unmatched Spanish-language content offering available to Spectrum customers at no incremental cost. In addition to giving Spectrum customers access to the forthcoming ad-supported premium version of ViX, the agreement enhances Charter's flexibility to offer its video customers high-value linear and over-the-top TV packages. TelevisaUnivision's U.S. channels will be included as an integral launch partner in a new, innovative, low-cost Spanish-language internet-delivered video package that Spectrum will launch in the coming months. "We're pleased to enter into an innovative deal with Charter that underscores a shared commitment to the growing Hispanic market and prioritizes their needs and interests, ensuring TelevisaUnivision's leading content remains available to viewers for years to come," said Mike Angus, Executive Vice President, Global Distribution and Streaming Partnerships at TelevisaUnivision. "This deal demonstrates the value we can deliver to our partners and consumers by continuing to invest in both the linear and streaming platforms to create a complementary Spanish-language content ecosystem." "We appreciate TelevisaUnivision's willingness to fully support our new distribution framework, which is good for customers and a significant step forward for the video ecosystem," said Tom Montemagno, Executive Vice President, Programming Acquisition for Charter. "With this agreement, our customers will continue to enjoy access to TelevisaUnivision's extensive Spanish-language programming, including entertainment and live sports, across multiple platforms. This furthers our goal of providing value to customers by including streaming apps with Spectrum services." Spectrum provides customers with access to TelevisaUnivision's networks, including Univision, UniMás, Galavisión, TL Novelas, TUDN, FOROtv, Bandamax, De Película, De Película Clasico, Telehit and Telehit Música. About TelevisaUnivision TelevisaUnivision is the world's leading Spanish-language media company. Powered by the largest library of owned Spanish-language content and a prolific production capability, TelevisaUnivision is the top producer of original content in Spanish across news, sports and entertainment verticals. This original content powers all of TelevisaUnivision's platforms, which include market-leading broadcast networks Univision, Las Estrellas, Canal 5 and UniMás, and a portfolio of 38 cable networks, which include TUDN, Galavisión, Distrito Comedia and TL Novelas. The company also operates the leading Mexican movie studio, Videocine, and owns and operates the largest Spanish-language audio platform in the U.S. across 35 terrestrial stations and the Uforia digital platform. TelevisaUnivision is also the owner of ViX, the largest Spanish-language streaming platform in the world. For more information, please visit televisaunivision.com. About Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the Company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice. For small and medium-sized companies, Spectrum Business® delivers the same suite of broadband products and services coupled with special features and applications to enhance productivity, while for larger businesses and government entities, Spectrum Enterprise provides highly customized, fiber-based solutions. Spectrum Reach® delivers tailored advertising and production for the modern media landscape. The Company also distributes award-winning news coverage and sports programming to its customers through Spectrum Networks.

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