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Consumer Software by Alberto Montesi
Flycell’s, throughout Montesi’s four-year leadership, saw uninterrupted growth, expansion into new markets and profitability. Montesi likewise established the company as a premier worldwide mobile and online entertainment destination with annual revenues exceeding $75M. Flycell enjoyed quarter over quarter growth. In fact, it recently announced its two best-ever quarters, with Q1 2009 being the most successful in the company’s history.
Leading a team of nearly 100 people nationwide, Montesi boosted the mobile industry by creating a service that actively responds to the consumer’s desires and needs, while staying at the forefront of technology innovations and trends in digital entertainment.
Despite forecasts of the mobile entertainment industry which cited reduced discretionary spending for services, specifically on ring tones, which leads to a decline in mobile content and entertainment revenues, Montesi sees a different trend impacting his company. Montesi believes that many of the hurdles to mass adoption of mobile content have been significantly reduced. Over the last year in particular, people have discovered that they can use their mobile phone for more than just calls and text messages. More capable phones increase people’s desire to personalize their devices with ringtones, games and applications. “Despite the faltering economy, the low price point has made mobile entertainment an appealing purchase, as demonstrated by our financial performance,” says Montesi.Montesi continues to innovate and expand his vision for the industry, building on Flycell’s success. With millions of dollars in sales and thousands of new users coming to the site daily, Montesi is a true industry leader. In 2008, Montesi was named one of Mobile Entertainment’s Top 50 Executives and his vision and leadership recently earned him a place on the exclusive Silicon Alley 100 list.
Flycell is the leading platform for digital entertainment content distribution. Flycell delivers next generation web and mobile personalization and entertainment services, giving consumers access to a wide variety of entertainment content from leading media companies and Flycell’s original content team.
Flycell delivers online media and mobile entertainment and personalization services on the fly to customers all across the globe. Thousands of new subscribers each day come to Flycell to personalize their phones with the newest and hottest entertainment, sports, games, ringtones, wallpapers, themes, and other mobile and online content to reflect their unique digital lifestyles. Flycell’s innovative delivery and marketing platform makes it easy for users to discover, manage, store and share mobile content online and on their wireless devices.
Flycell offers customers bundled subscription packages and the option to purchase and download individual media elements. One of the benefits of buying content at Flycell is everything you download is yours to keep forever. Some carriers who sell their own content put “expiration dates” on items like ringtones and wallpaper, and after a set number of weeks or months it’s automatically deleted from your phone. Once downloaded, Flycell customers’ media elements are stored in their locker on their My Flycell page, and are available for download again at anytime free of charge.
With its track record of growth and high customer satisfaction, many wireless operators partner with Flycell to offer subscribers new, compelling mobile content services.
Founded in 2005 by Mobile content visionary, Alberto Montesi, Flycell employs 85 people and is headquartered in New York, N.Y. with operations in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Italy, Spain and Turkey. Flycell is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian mobile-messaging pioneer Acotel Group SpA. Acotel trades publicly on the Milan Stock Exchange under the symbol ACO.MI.
About the Author
Alberto Montesi, a true mobile industry visionary, started his career in Rome and led Italian businesses to expand into new markets. Montesi joined the Italian-based wireless services company Alcotel in 2001, a company which quickly rose to be one of Europe
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