Vocal Announces Partnership with WatchMojo for Content Creation and Development

The two companies will create and publish written, SEO-first content for their existing and new video content; combined platforms present a unique new opportunity for brands.

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Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc.

Nov 15, 2018, 15:51 ET

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc., (OTCQB: JMDA) (the "Company" or "Jerrick"), a technology company and the creators of Vocal, today announced a partnership with WatchMojo, a content producer, publisher, and syndicator with over 12 billion all-time video views and more than 19 million subscribers on YouTube, to create written articles based around WatchMojo's new and existing video content, in order to interact with the growing and engaged audiences on Vocal.

Vocal is a social publishing platform for creation and discovery. Since its launch in 2016, Vocal has amassed over 350k content creators, with 7 million unique visitors a month and 34 genre specific community sites. By publishing content on the Vocal platform, WatchMojo is able to showcase their content to new audiences on Vocal, rank in search engines, and benefit from Vocal's read monetization opportunities. The content can be accessed on WatchMojo's Vocal page.

Additionally, the combined reach of the two companies will provide brands with unique opportunities to reach dedicated audiences for topics such as pop culture, anime, health and fitness, music, travel and more.

Said Vocal Founder Rick Schwartz, "WatchMojo has done an incredible job providing audiences with top quality videos for many years. They're the perfect partner for us as we expand Vocal - we have the same principles of giving online audiences what they want. With our extensive network of user generated content and niche communities, we're looking forward to helping WatchMojo find new audiences via the Vocal platform."

Said WatchMojo Business Development Head Thomas Punch, "Vocal is an exciting new platform, one that provides a different kind of immersive storytelling for our viewers with articles, e-commerce, and more. Between YouTube and Vocal, the opportunities for fans and brands alike to discover and engage with WatchMojo content is vast."

About WatchMojo

WatchMojo was founded by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan and launched its first YouTube channel just over 10 years ago. Since then, it has built an audience of over 25M subscribers and 115M monthly unique views. It boasts over 19,000 original videos on pop culture and infotainment and its Top 10 lists have generated over 12B all-time views, per the company. With offices in Montreal, New York, Los Angeles and London, WatchMojo maintains 35 wholly-owned channels on YouTube, along with growing audiences on Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.

About Jerrick

Jerrick is a holding company that develops technology-based solutions designed to solve for challenges that have resulted from disruption and evolution within the broad media and content generation environment. Its flagship product Vocal is a long-form, digital publishing platform focused on supporting content creators with content management tools that are embedded within digital communities. Vocal is architected to enable targeted marketing of branded content and e-commerce opportunities embedded within long-form content. Vocal's community sites are managed by a dedicated team, whose primary focus is on creating healthy communities and identifying monetization opportunities within them.

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