iShop Selected by Sonik Pollen for Music Aggregation and Download Service

Sonik Pollen is an online service for which the independent music market has been waiting. It enables artists and record labels to upload, distribute and sell their music. The service provides low upload costs, a simple to use system, automated monthly statements with revolutionary SMS database marketing capability.

Sonik Pollen has no membership fees or hidden costs; no recurring charges and independent music labels and companies earn 99% of net sales. Sonik's platform is built using MPP iShop solution which has functionality to ingest audio/video content and deliver automatically to over 500+ partner stores through a third-party aggregator.

Sonik Pollen selected MPP to power its online and music service and will sell a combination of physical and mobile/digital download music products and enable record labels and artists to upload music content via the internet from anywhere. The service can be found at the site www.sonikpollen.com.

Denver Thomas, CEO of Sonik Pollen says: "Sonik Pollen is a reflection of the reality age and we exist because there is a global need for change as to how music is heard and delivered to all media channels. We accept music from all genres from the independent music market and we have no A & R policy. Sonik Pollen means sound that pollinates, we believe that the next super sub-culture will be online; this is our golden age. We empower you to take control of your business within the music industry."

Paul Johnson, CEO at MPP comments: "It is fantastic to add Sonik to our growing list of music clients and we look forward to supporting them for all their current and future music management and eCommerce requirements."

About iShop
iShop provides a complete hosted and managed physical, mobile and digital store solution and is designed to client’s look and feel. iShop is equipped with search, navigation, basket and checkout tools for the purchase of any type of physical, digital, mobile or subscription based product or service. This means clients can add any combination of products (video, music download, CD, ringtone or fan club membership, etc) and pay for them all in one simple checkout process. MPP will deliver the music or video download to the consumer's desktop, a ringtone / game / wallpaper to their mobile phone, a digitised video clip to the fan's email inbox, subscribe the consumer to an online premium content service.

iShop provides all payment, shopping cart and physical/digital content management modules. Client’s staff manage iShop products from the MPP Management console, gaining access with a username and password. Once logged in, clients are able to upload content 24/7 via MPP's easy-to-use web-interface where all physical, mobile and digital products are managed such as editing product information, loading digital content, amending pricing, adding/editing categories within the store, availability, postage rules and so on.

Purchase is simple and future shopping is encouraged with a 4-digit PIN system making one-click transactions possible and repeat transactions in seconds. The fast-buy functionality enables music fans to simply click a "buy now" button on the site, and for the product to be purchased from their account. No forms to fill in, no credit card details to add, no text to send. One click and the product is purchased and made available for download, delivered to the mobile device or alerted to suppliers regardless of which country they are located in, to deliver merchandise and other physical products.

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MPP Global Solutions was established in March 2000 to provide clients with payment and marketing services which use its e-Wallet payment product, micropayment and mobile technology platform. The mobile technology platform consists of SMS, MMS, mCommerce, Mobile/ WAP Site Development and Location Based Services. From this broad range of capability, MPP is able to rapidly deliver off-the-shelf or bespoke applications to its clients.

MPP work with over 50 of the biggest names in UK sport, music, media and entertainment including: broadcasters, content providers, rights holders, media organisations, publishers, sporting governing bodies and Premiership Football Clubs.