RingTales Launches Animated Dilbert / New Yorker Cartoons Globally For Nokia Ovi Store

Nokia Customers Worldwide Can Now Purchase and View Dilbert and New Yorker Cartoon Videos and Mobile Greetings Directly From Nokia’s Ovi Store. RingTales, the leading premium content producer and distributor of animated comics across all digital media, launched animated Dilbert and New Yorker cartoon packages and mobile greetings through the Nokia Ovi Store worldwide. Nokia customers worldwide can now purchase and view full seasons of animated Dilbert and New Yorker videos as well as themed packages and greetings directly on their Nokia smartphones.

RingTales, the leading premium content producer and distributor of animated comics across all digital media, today launched animated Dilbert and New Yorker cartoon packages and mobile greetings through the Nokia’s Ovi Store worldwide. Nokia customers worldwide can now purchase and view short and full seasons of animated Dilbert and New Yorker videos as well as themed packages and greetings directly on their Nokia smartphones.

RingTales owns the exclusive right to produce animated versions of many of the most popular print and online comics including Dilbert, Over the Hedge, Bloom County, Pearls Before Swine, Lio, Cul de Sac, Pooch Café and the 100,000 cartoon library of The New Yorker Magazine. Nokia will distribute these animated Dilbert and New Yorker cartoon video packages and greetings in Ovi stores globally.

“RingTales is proud to distribute our content globally with Nokia’s Ovi Store to expand distribution of the world’s most popular comics including Dilbert and the New Yorker, in animated form, directly to Nokia customers’ mobile devices,” says RingTales founders Jim Cox and Michael Fry.

“The RingTales episodes look amazing on Nokia mobile displays and the Ovi Store is a robust direct-to-consumer video offering perfectly suited to mirror how fans have consumed comics all their lives,” says Laura Anne Edwards, who heads up business development for RingTales.

In addition to the launch of Dilbert and New Yorker video Season Packages worldwide today, later this summer RingTales will add additional titles to their Ovi Store offering. Pricing for Season Packages and greetings will be similar worldwide, adjusted only for local currency.

RingTales partners with Fireworks International, the television and digital distribution arm of ContentFilm plc, on international distribution of Dilbert, including the production of dubbed episodes for French territories.

Units available to the Nokia’s Ovi Store today:

3 x 6pack - Dilbert "Themed" 6-Pack - 6 episodes = .99
3 x 6 pack- New Yorker "Themed" 6-Pack - 6 assorted episodes = .99
1 x 13 units Short Season Dilbert - 13 assorted episodes = 1.99
1x 13 units Short Season New Yorker - 13 assorted episodes = 1.99
1 x 22 units Full Season Dilbert - 22 assorted episodes = 2.99
1 x 22 units Full Season New Yorker - 22 assorted episodes = 2.99
1 x mobile greeting = .99

RingTales has over 800 digital cartoons in its library that have been viewed more than 175 million times on sites like Babelgum, MSN, YouTube, Hulu, iTunes, NewYorker.com and Dilbert.com as well as branded mobile applications. In 2009, despite the economic slowdown and reduction of advertising rates, RingTales’ revenues increased. With expanded production and new distribution channels, RingTales is projecting significant growth in 2010.