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What is Supa Pirate Booty Hunt?

Supa Pirate Booty Hunt (SPBH) is the hit online animated series that follows the raunchy and hilarious adventures of Captain Zack Stevers and his sidekick Daniel the turtle. The first webisode quickly grabbed 5,000 views on YouTube its first week online. Since then viewers across the world have laughed at the pirate’s failed pick-up lines and eternal determination to find love…despite having a shark biting down upon his groin and other calamities. The appeal of super heroes, rock stars, and pirates is undeniable in today’s market. Thanks to mainstream venues like MTV, the success of comic book movies & TV shows, and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean the appeal has crossed over from kids to teenagers and college students/young adults. And with the success of adult oriented animation such as Family Guy and the Adult Swim line-up, the market is ripe for an edgy new show. Enter Supa Pirate Booty Hunt—from the creative mind of Steve Sievers, producer, creator and the voice of Daniel the Turtle in the show, and Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy, producer, creator and animator. It's sex, drugs and rock 'n roll all on the high seas! Supa Pirate Booty Hunt is a cartoon intended for a hip, young adult audience. The show’s success is no accident. Steve Sievers is a professional blogger who has produced online marketing campaigns for multiple companies while managing all promotions and events for his own clothing line, Level27. Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy, , has concepted promotions for companies including Coca-cola, GM, Toshiba and more while running Smorgasbord Productions, his own design and animation studio. Our team is well versed in EPK’s, press releases style guides and creating explosive branding. We not only produce a great cartoon show but are master promoters! Let us work for you!

What benefits does my company get if I sponsor Supa Pirate Booty Hunt?

Advertising with SPBH targets our large and expanding group of devoted viewers. Potential advertisers are only contacted because we, ourselves, enjoy their products and feel our viewers will. The businesses benefit by expanding into an exclusive niche market and we benefit by offering a valuable resource to our viewership. Our demographic appreciates companies that are tapped into current trends and pop culture. With your company’s logo prominently place on our episodes, website, marketing materials and events, you will make a strong and lasting impression. Many partners appreciate the benefit of exposing their products and services to our demographic. Such businesses make excellent income from SPBH events, more importantly, form a lasting relationship with our viewers. For example, Supa Pirate Booty Hunt hosted the “Peglegs & Pistols” art show that launched the Phantom Gallery in Orange, CA, an event that brought in nearly a thousand people its opening night and resulted in the sale of many pieces of art and merchandise. As a result, the gallery continued to host multiple art shows and events. We are open to your ideas. We want to collaborate with your company to create promotions that create maximum exposure for your brand and reach your target audience. This document contains options that have worked but you know your company best so we welcome your proposals.

What is SPBH Target Audience and viewership stats?

TARGET AUDIENCE (VIEWERSHIP) Our target audience includes: • Online Viewership: 70% male viewers ages 17 through 34 years old. 30% female viewers ages 17 through 34. SPBH has an international audience with a high viewership in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, India, Finland, Philippines, Portugal, Australia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Germany, Argentina and Japan. Please refer to the Customer Behavior Chart for a Case Study SPBH fan spending. • Our Viewers Pay Attention. Our audience not only watches SPBH videos to the end but the majority rewind them to watch multiple times. SPBH Videos are hot, earning 5 stars with the highest possible audience attention levels. They also leave comments, response videos and repost the videos on their own websites and social networking sites, causing SPBH to pop up all over the web. We have SPBH fan clubs that promote online (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.). Our fans also promote at concerts, conventions and other events. Our fans are extremely creative, creating fan art, banners, dressing in costumes, and even tattooing their body with SPBH characters. * Indicates information provided by YouTube. SALES AND CIRCULATION • We are guaranteeing your branding will make a minimum of 30,000 impressions and this number should be much greater as we are constantly promoting through events, conventions, concerts, art shows, networking events, and street teams. VIEWERSHIP STATISTICS: • February 2008 was the launch of the first SPBH video on YouTube that created a buzz through our companies’ existing fan bases. March was the launch of the first SPBH animated episode “Love Bites” and with it came an exponential climb in views to approximately 5,000 views per video in the first week. • By December 2008 SPBH had over 30 videos generating nearly 50,000 views and a viewership that had spread to four continents. Devoted fans had created online clubs including ones in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, UK, Italy, Australia, Spain and Canada.

Tell me about SPBH Promotional & Organised Events. Can you SPBH organzie an event for my company?

PROMOTIONAL EVENTS: We are constantly working with event producers to promote the the SPBH brand along with the brands of our sponsors. • To date SPBH has been featured at the following events, generally with both booths and panels: San Diego Comic-Con, Warped Tour, Fangoria, Anime Expo, Mikomicon, Anime Art Expo, First Friday Las Vegas, Punk Rock Benefit Concert, Pacific Media Expo Cherry, Blossom Festival, New York City Comic Con, San Francisco Wondercon, Flashapalooza, the Valley Flash Panel and more. • SPBH sponsored the GET HAPPY TOUR with Level 27 Clothing. The tour invaded 11 dates in Europe, including dates in the UK, France, and Germany. The tour featured Bowling for Soup, Bloodhound Gang, Zebrahead, and Army of Freshmen. Supa Pirate Booty Hunt postcards and tattoos were given out every day. SPBH ORGANISED EVENTS To date SPBH producers have created the following events to promote SPBH and our sponsors: • The Horror Pirate Fest, a rock concert/film festival that featured pirate games, a costume contest. The event was hosted video gamer/model Sci-Fi Channel personality Starslay3r and sponsored Draven Shoes, Coffin Case and others. • Peglegs and Pistols Art Show, an art show centered around SPBH artwork featuring work from many famous artists from Disney, Fox, Cartoon Network and other studios. • Peglegs and Bagels Art Show at Verdugo Bagels in Eagle Rock featured SPBH artwork, pirate games & prizes, animation screening and supa sushi bagel samplings. • Supa Pirate Booty Hunt sponsors Championship Wrestling, which airs on the CW in Virginia & West Virginia every Wednesday at Noon. • Rock Show at Dream Street, San Diego. SPBH creators performed on stage with other bands a live rendition of “Love Bites” and had a Bad Pick-Up Line contest. • Sake & Pokey After Party at Bonevista Lounge at the Westin Hotel, Downtown LA • Sake & Pokey Karaoke Party in Little Tokyo, LA. SPBH fans sang the show’s theme song as they supa arm wrestled and drank supa concoctions.

What online exposure can SPBH get for my company? How can I contact SPBH?

ONLINE EXPOSUREOnline exposure is definitely one of greatest benefits of working with SPBH. Our producers invest a great deal of time to make sure our brands and videos are broadcast across all the major social networking and video sites with hourly updates and viral marketing. SPBH was featured online through Mobilized TV, an interview on PixelHeadsNetwork.com and CoinOp TV, imdb, Stickcam.com, LATimes.com, linkedin.com, a SPBH design was featured as “Today’s Best” on Zazzle.com, OvationTV, gawk.com, comment-thai.com, indieanimator. com, listal.com, asianweek.com, gvsmedia.com, sluniverse.com, dinkymusic.com, 24-7pressrelease.com, beatniktv, wefollow. com, anime-expo.org, comic-con.org, goodcharlotte.com, deviantart.com, buddytv.com, burningstars.net, videoiskalnik.si, booty.blosfera.org, searchforvideo.com, technorati.com, kindertent.nl, video-shqip.shqiperia.gr lunch.com, lostzombies.com, ar.buzzear.net, wowsports.org, annecy.org, technorati.com, flickr.com, gazotube.com and more! OTHER PUBLICITY • SPBH street teams post flyers throughout major cities. • Currently SPBH has an article in Vanity UK Magazine with a full spread photo shoot. • SPBH has a radio commercial on 20 different online radio stations. • SPBH was featured in a television commercial for a benefit concert that ran on MTV • SPBH is currently planning its own comic book series but also has comic book advertisements in other publications such as atomicpopart. net. • A Feature Film Documentary from Sweden is also featuring SPBH creators in their upcoming film on the creative process. It will be in festivals worldwide. SPBH PROMOTIONAL ITEMS Promotional Items included postcards, a SPBH website, temporary tattoos, t-shirts, mousepad, coffee mugs, ties, shoes, and pins. A Daniel the turtle vinyl toy was produced and quickly sold out. COMPARABLES Although there is no series quite like Supa Pirate Booty Hunt, comparables include online marketing on video streaming websites such as Hulu, Crunchyroll and the TV.com. IGN Entertainment, News Corp.’s Web site for video-game fans, charges as much as $45 per thousand impressions. Sites such as Hulu charge up to $60 per thousand impressions. Advertisements with SPBH are a fraction of the price of these companies plus we include live event promotions with all our packages where samples and/or flyers featuring sponsors’ logos are distributed. SPBH Sponsorship Services Email: booty@supapiratebootyhunt.com Website: www.SupaPirateBootyHunt.com Phone:213-925-9918, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 381208, Hollywood, CA 90038-9998

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