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Ranks atop Apple’s Lifestyle ranking for Paid Applications!
(NEW YORK – July 23, 2009) – Sports Illustrated’s “SI Swimsuit 2009” iPhone application, which launched yesterday, is now the number one in the paid lifestyle category. This marks Sports Illustrated’s first swimsuit application, which pairs sports schedules and scores with SI’s Swimsuit models.
The application is the mobile extension of the SI Swimsuit franchise, which reaches more than 66 million adults, and retails for $2.99. The application delivers video of SI’s Swimsuit models, hundreds of SI photos and allows users to create their own daily sports calendar, customizable to follow up to six pro or college sports teams.
SI partnered with Azuki Systems to create the app and it can be downloaded from iTunes, iPhone or apple.com.
About SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ®
SI is a multimedia sports brand that takes the consumer into the heart and soul of sports. The SI franchise is anchored by Sports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism which reaches a weekly audience of nearly 21 million adults, and http://www.SI.com, the magazine’s 24/7 sports news website that delivers more than 150 original stories to its users each week. The SI franchise also includes Sports Illustrated ® Kids (http://www.sikids.com), a monthly magazine targeted to kids age 8 and up; Golf Magazine and http://www.Golf.com; http://www.FanNation.com, a social networking and sports-news aggregation platform; http://www.SIOncampus.com, a website dedicated to college sports and the college sports lifestyle; SI Presents, the magazine’s specialty publishing division; as well as SI Books, SI Pictures, SI Productions, SI Digital and SI Events. Founded in 1954, SI is a division of Time Inc., the world’s leading magazine publishing company and a subsidiary of Time Warner.
About Azuki Systems
Azuki offers a software service for media companies to deliver a new generation of mobile websites and applications. Azuki powers high quality video, rich community features, and compelling true-to-brand consumer experiences. With Azuki, content providers scale on proven infrastructure and extend desktop services seamlessly across the mobile web. Based in Acton, Mass., Azuki is led by an executive team that has built some of the communications industry’s most successful companies. For additional information, please visit http://www.azukisystems.com, follow Azuki on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/azuki_systems or call 1.978.844.5100.