New York City-based ZILO NETWORKS, INC. is the leading integrated entertainment and marketing "narrowcast" network designed specifically for college students and young adults. ZILO provides a direct connection to this taste making, early adopter audience with a potent "triple-threat" delivery system: in dorm rooms via the nation's largest campus cable television network, ZILO TV; on and off campus with live events and promotions; and via new media, including online and mobile delivery.
ZILO TV broadcasts a diverse programming roster created especially for the college audience. Launched in September 2000, the network is now seen on more than 275 college campuses (the #1 college dorm room network in the nation) with 5.5 million subscribers plus 3.2 million additional broadcast households. ZILO's original programming runs 12 hours per week in 2-3 hour blocks on colleges' own cable networks. ZILO's narrowcasting also reaches campus retail locations where we provide in store TV to the nation's largest chain of independent campus bookstores, reaching an additional 2.4 million enrolled students.
ZILO TV features Exiled, the first ever college student-produced reality series; Glamour on Campus, a weekly look at the latest fashion, beauty, health, fitness and lifestyle news from the experts at Glamour Magazine; celebrated film series the Inside Reel; plus History Channel favorite Digging for the Truth. Exceptionally popular show Get $tupid takes CollegeHumor.com founders Josh Abramson & Ricky Van Veen on the road to invade college campuses across the country. Other featured weekly programs include Zilo live event specials; You Know You Want..., a cutting edge entertainment news magazine show starring Billboard Award winner Liza Goncalvez; and music specials including Radiohead TV and Reggae Nation. Zilo Live, our third-party event and video production subsidiary, is currently producing the Iron Ring, a reality series featuring hip-hop celebrities and mixed martial arts, for BET.
Zilo realizes that today's college students are on the go and not just watching our TV programming (although as part of their school's own lineup our shows are part of the most watched channel on campus). Zilo takes our programming and youth lifestyle expertise directly to campus, delivering live events and promotions that range from the adrenaline-powered Extreme Team College Games, the first-ever college extreme sports competition, to campus guerilla promotions to fraternity versus fraternity text messaging contests. Other notable events include our Off the Hook Comedy Tour which travels to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and is released nationwide on DVD by Image Entertainment; Zilo's Lotus Women's Music Tour with Michelle Branch and Lisa Loeb; POWERADE's All Terrain Challenge: Air-Land-Sea our annual 3-week Spring Break spectacular from Cancun, Mexico; and Zilo's College Music Awards(TM), the college music scene's showcase tour and awards gala.
The third leg of ZILO's triple threat offers original interactive & mobile programming and state-of-the-art media delivery. High speed ZILO ONLINE provides a crucial hub for all of our on campus and programming activities. In addition, ZILO's online line-up also features affiliate sites CollegeHumor.com, the hugely popular viral site dedicated to lampooning everything imaginable, and online bookseller CampusHub.com. In addition, we actively work with college students as they create their own videos, podcasts, and cell phone short films, and then help them develop and distribute their work to the widest possible audience.
Driving the network's efforts are a dynamic and experienced management team, top-lined by co-founder and CEO David Isaacs, former COO of BMG Music's Semaphore Entertainment Group, and co-founder and President Campbell McLaren, former President of SEG Productions. ZILO's corporate plan is buoyed by strategic relationships with the Nebraska Book Company, MJS Communications, Sound Thinking New York, Plainsight Technologies/Owl Multimedia, the Institute for Global Futures, LatCom, StudentCity, StudentExpress, Black Labs, and Team Marketing; clients including Comcast, Yahoo!, AOL, General Motors, BET, Court TV and the ACLU; as well as the committed financial backing of Sutter Hill Ventures of Palo Alto, California.
