Digital River Enables E-Commerce for Telltale
Supports Telltale sales through multiple online channels
MINNEAPOLIS, January 30, 2006 -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it is providing e-commerce services for Telltale, Inc., an emerging pioneer in interactive adventures and entertainment. Based on an agreement, Digital River is managing the online sale and digital and physical delivery of select Telltale products purchased through www.telltalegames.com and hundreds of online retail, content and portal sites in the Digital River oneNetwork™ online sales channel.
“Through the e-commerce expertise and best practices we have developed, we can advise our clients on how to effectively expand into new markets and efficiently promote and sell their digital products on a global basis,” said Dave Alampi, Digital River’s vice president of marketing. “We are leveraging our e-commerce services and world-class infrastructure to help Telltale sell through multiple online channels, which is one of the most effective strategies companies can use to not only generate a high level of exposure for their products, but also expand their sales opportunities.”
Through its branded online store and Digital River’s oneNetwork sales channel, Telltale is selling many well-known products, including games based on Jeff Smith’s Bone®, Telltale Texas Hold ‘Em as well as Sam & Max merchandise. In addition to powering Telltale’s online store, Digital River is processing order transactions using regionally-preferred payment methods as well as providing fraud screening and multi-lingual customer service support.
To deliver physical copies of its games, Telltale is using Digital River’s Physical-on-Demand™ service, which is designed to help lower product costs and eliminate inventory requirements for software publishers selling internationally. The automated service leverages Digital River’s production labs, which are in the United States, England, Germany and Japan, to produce, package and ship physical copies from the lab closest to the end user. As part of this service, Digital River also handles tax and export compliance.
“Digital River presented us with a comprehensive e-commerce solution that helped us tackle numerous requirements we had for our online business,” said Telltale’s chief operating officer, Troy Molander. “In addition to having a reliable online store that offers convenient shopping features, we are able to reap the benefits of Digital River’s physical product fulfillment services for shipping packaged games as well as merchandise, like t-shirts and prints without investing in additional infrastructure. Telltale’s products are off to a great start as evidenced by Bone: Out from Boneville, which launched in the fall and has received high acclaim from both fans and the press.”
About Telltale
Telltale delivers Tales for Your Imagination – high caliber interactive entertainment, which features engaging stories, strong characters and rich environments. A new era of interactive entertainment is emerging, with customers expecting more from their investment in play time. Telltale is developing and deploying cinematic-quality animation and storytelling technologies to create entertaining and exciting interactive adventures to meet these new expectations. Staffed with long-time industry veterans, Telltale currently is creating tales based on Jeff Smith’s Bone series, Steve Purcell’s Sam & Max characters and television’s popular CSI program in partnership with Ubisoft. Telltale offers content development and custom publishing services for license-holders interested in adapting their properties for interactive delivery. Telltale has created innovative tools, designed specifically for rapid development of high quality, space-efficient titles for digital distribution. Telltale titles can be downloaded from its Web site, powered by Digital River, as well as online partners such as Yahoo! Games, Big Fish Games, Direct-to-Drive, Trymedia Systems, Boonty and CNET. To learn more about Telltale, please visit www.telltalegames.com.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The companys comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
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