UK-based mobile content firm Mobile Streams (publicly traded on AIM on London) has made more forays into U.S., with acquisition of of the Nickels Group, the LA-based mobile production company. The Nickels Group specializes in the licensing and distribution of urban music. The deal will “significantly strengthen Mobile Streams’ content generation and distribution business as well as providing a strategic foothold on the West coast of America”.
The two companies were already working together on some projects, including Reggaeton Nation, The Hyphy Movement, and the new offering from Nexxt Mobile and Paul Wall’s G.R.I.T. Boys, the mobile reality series.
Founders Jonas Hudson and Daryl Young will join Mobile Streams as senior VPs.
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