Dolphin Entertainment and FTX Announce Partnership To Create NFT Marketplace Programs for Major Sports + Entertainment Brands

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial right here.

MIAMI, FL / ACCESSWIRE / August 2, 2021 / Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLPN), a number one leisure advertising and premium content material manufacturing firm, and West Realm Shire Services Inc.( “FTX” or “The Company”), proprietor and operator of FTX.US, as we speak introduced a partnership to create large-scale, consumer-facing NFT marketplaces for main sports activities and leisure manufacturers.Dolphin will develop and execute the inventive branding, manufacturing and advertising of those applications alongside FTX, who will use their crypto change providers and technical growth because the spine of the marketplaces. Together, the award-winning manufacturing and advertising groups of Dolphin and the industry-leading staff at FTX behind one of many largest crypto exchanges on the earth will develop and program world NFT marketplaces concentrating on manufacturers throughout the sports activities, movie, tv, music, gaming, eSports, culinary, way of life and charity industries.”We see the buying and selling of NFTs as way more than only a listing of digital merchandise – we view our market experiences as the way forward for fandom for internationally-recognized manufacturers and franchises in sports activities and leisure,” mentioned Bill O’Dowd, CEO of Dolphin Entertainment. “To obtain this imaginative and prescient, we now have searched for the very best expertise associate. We are unbelievably excited to associate with Sam, Brett, Avi and all the staff at FTX, who we think about the market chief for buyer expertise within the crypto and blockchain worlds.””Buying NFTs as we speak is clunky,” continued O’Dowd. “To be capable to provide a seamless consumer expertise, the place the pockets and the product are multi function place; to permit the patron to pay with crypto, bank card or conventional forex; to have the product out there on wholly-owned and programmed on-line locations; to have the identical product out there for buy straight in app; and to even have precise buyer help, when needed, are monumental differentiating elements that FTX gives. Combined with Dolphin’s unparalleled entry and relationships throughout the movie, tv, music, gaming, eSports, culinary and sports activities industries, our joint choices are distinct from the remainder of the market and, most significantly, instantly put NFTs on a stage enjoying subject with all different shopper merchandise out there for buy on-line.”Brett Harrison, President of FTX.US commented on as we speak’s information, “Dolphin’s attain and scale throughout all of popular culture may be very spectacular to us. We are excited to construct marketplaces with Dolphin, each due to their capacity to entry content material and IP, but additionally as a result of they’re leaders in public relations and influencer advertising for each main vertical of leisure. With that mentioned, there are a number of gadgets on the horizon that we won’t wait to launch collectively.”Dolphin’s wholly-owned subsidiaries embrace 42West, ranked essentially the most highly effective PR agency within the leisure {industry} by the New York Observer, with the preeminent content material advertising division for movies and tv, and an expansive and various superstar roster; Shore Fire Media, believed to be the biggest music PR agency on the earth, with an artist roster that spans nearly each style of recorded music; The Door, a market-leading superstar chef, hospitality and way of life PR agency; BHI, a division of 42West, servicing the gaming, eSports and leisure shopper merchandise industries; Be Social, a top-tier influencer advertising firm, executing each shopper campaigns for quite a lot of main manufacturers and managing a considerable roster of well-known on-line celebrities; and Viewpoint Creative, an award-winning inventive company.About Dolphin EntertainmentDolphin Entertainment (NASDAQ: DLPN) is a number one unbiased leisure advertising and premium content material growth firm. Through our subsidiaries 42West, The Door and Shore Fire Media, we offer skilled strategic advertising and publicity providers to most of the prime manufacturers, each particular person and company, within the movie, tv, music, gaming and hospitality industries. Viewpoint Creative and Be Social complement their efforts with full-service inventive branding and manufacturing capabilities in addition to social media and influencer advertising providers. Dolphin’s legacy content material manufacturing enterprise, based by Emmy-nominated CEO Bill O’Dowd, has produced a number of characteristic movies and award-winning digital collection. Dolphin’s Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) division, Dolphin Digital Studios, is devoted to designing, producing, distributing and selling NFTs for itself and its shoppers throughout the movie, tv, music, gaming, culinary and expertise industries. The NFTs division is comprised of executives throughout all six of Dolphin’s wholly-owned subsidiaries mixing their inventive experience in inventive providers, digital design, manufacturing, advertising, gross sales and public relations. To be taught extra, go to: https://www.dolphinentertainment.com.About FTXFTX.COM is a cryptocurrency change constructed by merchants, for merchants. It provides progressive merchandise, together with industry-leading derivatives, choices and volatility merchandise, tokenized shares, prediction markets, leveraged tokens and an OTC desk. FTX.COM strives to be an intuitive but highly effective platform for every kind of customers, and to be essentially the most progressive change within the {industry}. FTX.COM has grown rapidly since its founding, changing into one of the crucial revered cryptocurrency exchanges on the earth in 2 years. To be taught extra about FTX.COM, please go to: https://ftx.com/.About FTX. USFTX.US is a US-regulated cryptocurrency change, constructed from the bottom up with clients in thoughts. Its mission is to develop the digital forex ecosystem, provide US and worldwide merchants a platform that conjures up their loyalty, and to grow to be the main US crypto change by quantity throughout the subsequent two years.To be taught extra about FTX.US, please go to: https://ftx.us/.This press launch comprises ‘forward-looking statements’ throughout the that means of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward-looking statements might tackle, amongst different issues, Dolphin Entertainment Inc.’s providing of widespread inventory in addition to anticipated monetary and operational outcomes and the associated assumptions underlying its anticipated outcomes. These forward-looking statements are distinguished by means of phrases resembling “will,” “would,” “anticipate,” “anticipate,” “imagine,” “designed,” “plan,” or “intend,” the unfavorable of those phrases, and related references to future intervals. These views contain dangers and uncertainties which might be troublesome to foretell and, accordingly, Dolphin Entertainment’s precise outcomes might differ materially from the outcomes mentioned in its forward-looking statements. Dolphin Entertainment’s forward-looking statements contained herein converse solely as of the date of this press launch. Factors or occasions Dolphin Entertainment can’t predict, together with these described within the threat elements contained in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, might trigger its precise outcomes to vary from these expressed in forward-looking statements. Although Dolphin Entertainment believes the expectations mirrored in such forward-looking statements are based mostly on affordable assumptions, it may give no assurance that its expectations might be achieved, and Dolphin Entertainment undertakes no obligation to replace publicly any forward-looking statements because of new info, future occasions, or in any other case, besides as required by relevant legislation.CONTACT:James CarbonaraHayden IR(646)[email protected] MorakisM Group Strategic Communications (For FTX)(646)[email protected]: Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.View supply model on accesswire.com: https://www.accesswire.com/657931/Dolphin-Entertainment-and-FTX-Announce-Partnership-To-Create-NFT-Marketplace-Programs-for-Major-Sports-Entertainment-Brands

You May Also Like

About the Author: Amanda