About Sprint Media

Sprint Media is a mobile media technology company that creates, builds, and markets phone paid entertainment services directly to the mobile phone user, for example Gaming, Social Networking, Competitions, Mobile Content.

Operating both directly and indirectly through partnerships with Mobile Network Operators. Our services are now available to millions of potential customers across 4 continents.

Sprint Media identifies, develops and markets phone paid entertainment services that can be used by as many people as possible. Through creativity, focus, innovation and determination, Sprint Media will be recognized as the most progressive and dominant player in the industry.

Key Milestones

Services

Vavazoo

MEET | CREATE | PLAY

Vavazoo® is a social platform built around user-content creation & sharing, allowing users to meet other like minded people for free!

Vavazoo® also has many additional features that are exclusively available to premium subscribed users such as exclusive content creation tools, advanced dating features, competitions for amazing prizes, social messaging, alert services and much more!

To add to this extensive feature set, all users can purchase credits and use them to download premium mobile content such as smartphone & feature phone applications, music & videos that they can rate and share with their friends, all in the same site!

With its huge variety of content, features and creative tools embedded into a full featured social network, that works seamlessly across all handsets, Vavazoo® is truly a unique offering in the global mobile landscape.

Jigglez

Mobile Adult Entertainment

Jigglez is the most flexible mobile adult content service around. It fully scales and adapts to any handset and the content is also adapted to a country's grading requirements, making it a truly global service.

Jigglez offers premium subscription members access to top quality images and videos from the most popular themes on the web, amateur, babes, user pics.

We work with some of the best content suppliers in the business. If you're a supplier and want your content on Jigglez don't hesitate to contact us on content@sprintmedia.com

Doodapp

Mobile Application and Mobile Web Development

Doodapp® strives to deliver new technologies and social entertainment to consumers, utilising a rich and long experience in mobile application and mobile web development since 2000.

Doodapp® focuses on cross-platform smart phone application development for iOS, Android and Blackberry, often to bridge customer experience between applications and the mobile web.

As such Doodapp® has to stay at the forefront of mobile technology by permanently educating itself and looking for new opportunities for monetization and utilisation of application technology in the mobile web context.

Basebone

Basebone® provides the system that manages all of Sprint Media Group’s services, mobile billing connections and development. Thanks to a very sophisticated and robust architecture the system operates flawlessly and plays a key role in the company's success. The system has been completely developed in-house and is independent of third-party software developers. Basebone® is under constant development and today offers key features such as:

Comprehensive Reporting
Basebone® allows users to view detailed billing and service reports that allows users to quickly identify problems and opportunities. Reports can be broken down into specific categories, for example: per billing solution, short code, network, application or project. This solution allows us to have visibility of the services we run to the minutest detail, for example the ability to see the number of billing attempts vs billing success and the reasons for failures, if available – all in real time, of course.

Content control
Basebone® features a content management system that allows for quick and easy organization and online publication of our content portfolio which includes User Generated Content, Mobile Content, Competitions, Feeds and Online Stores. In addition to an easy overview, the CMS offers the facility to organize by campaign type, category or by name. It is optimized for all content types used across mobile and web devices.

Powerful marketing
Basebone® includes an advertising system that can host, monitor and manage landing pages, allowing on-the-fly changes to configuration and content. Landing pages can be assigned to projects, advertising networks (such as MobParter), countries, remote campaigns (such as AdWords) or to a billing solution.

Financial vision
Basebone® generates detailed profit and loss statements per account, broken down by project or month, and includes all expenses and revenue generated as well as key performance indicators such as subscriber development. Everything can be viewed in real time, with multiple currencies and automatic currency conversion. Reports are split into sections such as advertising costs per campaign, streaming SMS, applied penalties, product shipment, HRL and others.

Corporate

Latest News

Meet Sprint Media at Mobile World Congress

Marbella, January 14th 2013

From February 26th through to February 27th 2013, members of the Sprint Media team will be attending the annual Mobile World Congress hosted in Barcelona.

This event allows us to assess the future of the mobile device as well as check out on forthcoming trends and emerging markets. We also make the most of this opportunity to meet with existing suppliers as well as source new suppliers such as content partners, aggregators and publishers. So if you're interested in arranging a meeting with a member of our team, please email operations@sprintmedia.com and we will get in touch to organise a convenient time.

Key Milestones

In 2008, mobile entertainment services including mobile music, mobile games and mobile video services generated worldwide revenues of nearly $24bn. A report from Juniper Research valued the Mobile Entertainment market at $33bn for 2010, rising to $54bn by 2015, driven by the continuing escalation in smartphone adoption and the attendant increase in downloads of consumer-oriented applications.

A constant growing demand for mobile entertainment services and with emerging markets only just opening up Sprint Media is in the right place at the right time.

Key Milestones:

2006Sprint Media founded with offices in Marbella, Spain offering B2B services across Europe.
2008Launches Direct-to-Consumer division

Develops and Markets 'Veage' a Pier-2-Pier SMS solution for consumers in Spain
2009Develops and Markets 'PointForge' a mobile rewards programme in Spain and South Africa

Roll-out of Veage in South Africa

Develops and Markets 'Chatarette' a mobile dating solution in Spain

Launches Hotmob: a Glamour Entertainment Portal
2010Roll-out of Veage and Pointforge in Kenya
2011Launches Mobmatic, a mobile social network service

Roll-out of Mobmatic and Hotmob into European, Australasia and African markets
2012Launches IVR (voice) services in Australia

Launches its mobile social network service in Argentina

Creates Jigglez, its umbrella service for all adult glamour brands

Creates Vavazoo, its umbrella service for all mobile social network brands

Creates Doodapp, its umbrella service for smartphone apps

Made 2 Key acquisitions to build upon it's expansion in international markets.

Partners

Key Partners

Compliance Ethos

“Working proactively to build a communications industry that is safe for the consumer to enjoy”

Sprint Media works proactively with regulators, industry bodies and mobile network operators to ensure the environment for the promotion, content and overall operation of premium rate services is safe for the consumer to use.

Executive Team

As The Group continues to grow, it has established a first class team of experienced executives to lead the way.

Michael Holmqvist

Group Chief Executive Officer

Michael, a mobile visionary has over a decade experience within the mobile media industry having worked with 3Net Communications, mQuest Ltd, Monstermob Group PLC (now part of Zed) and is a proven entrepreneur having set up his first international business at just 21 years of age.

In 2008 he moved to Spain to take up the role of CEO at Sprint Media. Michael has overseen the rapid development of the business and has put in place a strong management team that shares his objectives and vision which culminated in 2012 to the company making 3 key acquisitions to build upon its expansion in international markets.

Thomas Schmidt

Group Chief Technology & Operations Officer

Thomas has over 15 years experience in managing and leading technical teams within the mobile entertainment sector. He started his career with Novadoc, a German based outsourced IT/Technical agency and was responsible for providing mQuest with their technical division.

mQuest was a leading supplier of mobile content in the UK, that was acquired by MonsterMob PLC (Now part of Zed Group). At this time he worked closely with Michael Holmqvist (Sprint Media's CEO) on the future direction of mobile content and the technical capabilities required to deliver such content to an end users mobile handset.

Benito Alvarez

Group Chief Marketing Officer

Benito studied multimedia design in Ireland and upon completing his university courses, he began his marketing career in the international division of a furniture manufacturer, designing and marketing pieces for the likes of Laura Ashley and other well know UK high street stores.

In 2010, Benito decided to return to his hometown in Spain taking up the position of Chief Designer with Sprint Media, with responsibility for designing the user interfaces for all our mobile products. In 2011, Benito became Head of Marketing for the company with responsibilities for products, design and marketing across the globe and promoted to CMO in 2012.

Maria Liston

Group Chief Financial Officer

Maria has over 12 years experience leading finance teams across a variety of industries. She started her career with KPMG based in the UK as an Audit Manager of IT clients. After several years, she joined Freixenet, Spain's leading Cava (Sparkling Wine) producer as UK Finance Manager managing an FMCG division with an annual turnover of in excess of £20m before moving to Centrica Energy Plc. as Senior Accountant.

In 2005 being Spanish but brought up in the UK, Maria decided to return to her roots, and took up the position as Group Corporate Controller with Club La Costa Plc., managing accounts exceeding £25m. In 2006 Maria became Financial Manager at Taurus Administration Services S.L. responsible for high-risk investment funds before joining Sprint Media as Chief Financial Officer.

James McNab

Non-Executive Director

James has over 12 years experience and has held senior executive positions working across telecoms, mobile, broadcast, content, IPTV, Social Media and Gambling/Gaming specialising in mobile technologies and applications globally across B2B - B2C. He is currently responsible for Basebone, a Pan-African provider of mobile integrated messaging solutions.

In addition to this he works closely with the regulatory bodies and organisations in Australia, Kenya, Netherlands, Spain, UK, and in South Africa where he sits on both the Lobbying Working Group and Codecom Committees. Having spent 2 years as Group COO at Sprint Media, he continues to advise on the strategic direction of the group.

Employment Opportunities

Current Job Offers

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Our people are our biggest asset - who through innovation, creativity, focus and determination propel our business forward every day.

Want to join the Sprint Media Team?

We love what we do. We want to add value and we expect individuals in Sprint Media to have passion for competition, initiative and achievement.

We expect everyone in Sprint Media to respect each other, as well as customers and competitors. Respect for competitors is the key to avoid undervaluation.

We keep learning from other people, team members, managers, colleagues, day-by-day work, customers, competitors, and from other businesses to improve our abilities, skills, processes, quality and speed. We invest in our team and continuous improvement is the key to Sprint Media's success.

We expect individuals in Sprint Media to take responsibility for everything they do, for their own decisions, actions and results.

We expect individual performance above the standards of our industry. Each employee can and must take the challenge and make the difference. Individuals determine the character and strength of Sprint Media.

Teamwork is essential to Sprint Media's success. Individuals are encouraged to interact with all levels of management, sharing ideas and suggestions to improve Sprint Media's effectiveness. It takes all of us to win.

The attitudes and behavior of managers toward their people are of primary importance. Employees should be able to trust the motives and integrity of their supervisors. It is the responsibility of management to create a productive environment where Sprint Media's Values flourish.

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Inquiries from Content Producers:content@sprintmedia.com
Inquiries from Carriers and Network Operators:carrier@sprintmedia.com
Inquires from Press and News groups:press@sprintmedia.com
Corporate Communications and PR:operations@sprintmedia.com
Customer support:support@sprintmedia.com

Service Support Per Country

Spain: 911436522
South Africa: 0213002334
Australia: 1300132536
Netherlands: 0765727099
Kenya: 0719786143 (Safaricom) / 0736431448 (Zain)
Mexico: 01800 1116732

Head Office:

Sprint Media S.L. Centro de Negocios Puerta de Banus, Edificio E, Oficina 33, 29660 Marbella, Malaga Spain

Tel:+34 952 814 087 / Fax: +34 952 818 545