Profil

Personal profile

Mark Frieser is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur best known for founding the mobile market consultancy Consect and the creation of the US Ringtone Charts with Billboard Magazine and is the founder of the music licensing exchange, Disconic. Under his leadership, Consect successfully organized mobile entertainment industry conferences with audiences averaging 500 people per event, developed content businesses for companies including Lagardere, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom and Index Holdings and published a series of mobile industry newsletters and reports. The ringtone charting system, launched in October 2004 with more than 85% of US sales tabulated weekly and endorsed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), served as the foundation for Nielsen Mobile, and was developed - from conception to launch - in under six months. In the US mobile content market, Frieser was responsible for a number of firsts, including conceiving the world's first Hip-Hop ringtone brand and label (Blingtones), launching the first carrier-billed service featuring an adult star (ClubJenna Chat with Jenna Jameson), the first mobile entertainment partnership with a major celebrity (Carmen Electra) and the first SMS-based game of skill for prizes and rewards (Text2WIN) As SVP of Marketing, BD and Content at Zedge.net, IDT's 18MM member mobile content portal, he successfully co-managed and developed the site's redesign, helped grow Zedge.net from 5MM to 13MM members, implemented SMS-based content services, and managed high-level branded content services with partners that included Lionsgate, Overture Films, Starz Media, Ghost House Mobile, Music World Music (Beyonce and more than 30 other artists), Thomas Dolby, DEVO, among others. As an interactive content expert, Frieser has been quoted extensively in leading business and consumer publications and outlets that include The Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Shimbun, The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, Essence Magazine, USA Today, NPR, NY Post, LA Times and Wired, and is a frequent speaker at conferences covering interactive entertainment, content and technologies.

Company profile

Disconic is a bridge between the sellers of content rights and the parties interested in buying them. As such it provides the transactional layer to smoothly by and sell, a rich, scalable content database, and user profiles for both buyers and sellers that provide powerful tool to make the sync licensing experience simpler, more accurate and more profitable.