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New Concert Dates Added – Bon Jovi 2011 Tour

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:56:54 +0000

New Concert Dates Added – Bon Jovi 2011 Tour

BON JOVI 2011 TOUR ADDS NEW CONCERT DATES BY OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 9th Tour Kick-Off to be Streamed LIVE to Hundreds of Media Websites Through NDN Ustream Powers Additional Viewing Opportunities

Tickets for Select Dates On Sale Beginning Friday, February 11th
February 3, 2011 – Due to overwhelming popular demand, Bon Jovi has just added another leg to their 2011 Tour, with newly scheduled concerts in Montreal, Atlanta, Orlando, Houston, Memphis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Columbus, and more (full itinerary below). Tickets for select dates will go on sale beginning Friday, February 11.

The 2011 tour is set to kick off on February 9th at Bryce Jordan Center in State College, PA and once again Bon Jovi will utilize the latest in web-based video technology to engage their fans worldwide, as a portion of the show will be broadcast LIVE via a free webcast. Cutting-edge digital video company News Distribution Network (NDN) will deliver the video to hundreds of the world’s top online media websites; and Ustream, the leader in live video will provide additional viewing opportunities.

NDN will stream the live concert to their publisher sites, which includes newspaper websites, online media outlets and radio websites, as Bon Jovi opens the digital doors to their State College performance on Wednesday, February 9th starting at 7:30 pm EST / 6:30 pm CST / 5:30 pm MST / 4:30 pm PST. Fans worldwide can tune in and rock out along with the group on the campus of Penn State University.To watch the band rock the Bryce Jordan Center LIVE, click www.BonJovi.com, www.facebook.com/BonJovi, http://ustream.tv/BonJovi, orhttp://live.newsinc.com/bonjovi/index.html. Viewers can also see the webcast by logging on to the websites of top national newspapers such asSan Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, New Jersey Star-Ledger, Boston Herald, New York Daily News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and many more.

Bon Jovi’s 2011 dates come fresh off the heels of the band earning the top-grossing worldwide
tour of 2010, according to both Billboard and Pollstar, an honor achieved for the second time in just three years. The band will perform concerts in the U.S., Canada and throughout Europe, presented by AEG Live. Globally, the Grammy® Award-winning band has sold more than 125 million albums, and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 35 million fans. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits (Island Def Jam Music Group) debuted at #1 around the world in November, with the band’s three-decade-spanning retrospective charting higher and selling more copies in its first week than their 1994 Cross Road release, which has sold more than 21 million copies to date. Previously, the band’s “Lost Highway Tour” was named the #1 tour of 2008. Nearing three decades of an incredible career, Bon Jovi shows no sign of slowing down.

For more information on all things Bon Jovi, visit www.BonJovi.com.

Bon Jovi 2011 North American Tour Itinerary
February 9 University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Center

February 11 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center

February 12 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center

February 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

February 15 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

February 18 Montreal, QB Bell Centre

February 19 Montreal, QB Bell Centre

February 21 Raleigh, NC RBC Center

February 24 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

February 25 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

February 27 Washington, DC Verizon Center

March 1 Boston, MA TD Garden

March 2 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center

March 4 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena

March 5 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

March 8 Chicago, IL United Center

March 9 Chicago, IL United Center

March 17 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center

March 19 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena

March 22 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena

March 25 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

March 26 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

May 3 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place- Just Added

May 4 Montreal, QB Bell Centre – Just Added

May 7 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun – Just Added

May 10 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena – Just Added

May 12 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena – Just Added

May 14 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena – Just Added

May 15 Orlando, FL Amway Center – Just Added

May 17 Houston, TX Toyota Center – Just Added

May 19 Memphis, TN FedEx Forum – Just Added

May 21 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center – Just Added

May 22 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center – Just Added

About AEG Live
AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance. AEG Live is comprised of touring, festival, exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions, fifteen regional offices and owns, operates or exclusively books thirty-five state-of-the-art venues. The current and recent concert tour roster includes artists such as Taylor Swift, The Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, Wisin & Yandel, Kenny Chesney, P!nk and Paul McCartney. The company is also currently producing shows in Las Vegas including Celine Dion at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casinos, and Barry Manilow at Paris. Our exhibition portfolio boasts the most successful exhibition of all time, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoaohs, which has attracted more than 7 million visitors since 2005. AEG Live is also the largest producer of music festivals in North America from the critically acclaimed Coachella Music & Arts Festival to Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

AboutUstream
Ustream is the leader in live video and its platform empowers any individual, public figure or brand to stream to a global audience of unlimited size. Ustream offers free broadcasting and viewing platforms for the Web and mobile devices. The interactive functionality within Ustream enables real-time engagement with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and AIM. Hundreds of high-profile broadcasters have partnered with Ustream to reach millions of people. Ustream (www.ustream.com) is a privately-held company based in San Francisco, Calif. Follow on Twitter (@Ustream) or fan at Facebook.com/Ustream.

About News Distribution Network
News Distribution Network, Inc. offers a unique video content syndication and advertising solution for the online media market with a centralized platform featuring a full array of premium news, finance, travel, entertainment and sports content. NDN’s state-of-the-art player suite and content management tools eliminate significant infrastructure and operating costs while creating monetization opportunities for publishers. NDN gives content providers increased brand presence and revenue streams by accessing a broader audience on trusted, established news destinations, and provides marketers with scale efficiency as well as rich targeting options for reaching premium online audiences. For more information, please visit www.newsinc.com.

CONTACT:
For AEG Live: Scoop Marketing,
Eve Samuels, esamuels@solters.com
For Bon Jovi: Sunshine, Sachs & Assoc.,
Tiffany Shipp, shipp@sunshinesachs.com
For Ustream: PR + Marketing
Tony Riggins, triggins@ustream.tvNDN: PR + Marketing
Lee McDuff, lmcduff@newsinc.com

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Fans Can Share Stage with Bon Jovi on His 2011 TOUR

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:04:25 +0000

BON JOVI INVITES FANS TO SHARE THE STAGE ON 2011 TOUR THROUGH ANIMOTO’S VIDEO CREATION TECHNOLOGY

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Winning Fan Videos to be Featured on Jumbo Screens During Band’s Performance of “Livin’ On A Prayer”

After earning the honor of being the #1 worldwide tour of 2010, Bon Jovi prepares to hit the road this February and will once again utilize the latest in web-based video technology to engage with their fans and bring them along for the ride.

Continuing their successful partnership with Animoto, the award-winning online video creation service, the iconic band is offering audiences in each upcoming North American tour market a spot in the limelight.

Using the fun and easy suite of tools available from Animoto, fans can quickly transform their photos and/or videos to create a personal video slideshow about their hometown set to Bon Jovi’s smash 1986 hit “Livin’ On A Prayer.” Throughout the tour, hundreds of user-generated Animoto videos will be featured on the tour’s giant screens to accompany the band’s live performance “Livin’ On A Prayer.”

“We have the greatest fans in the world and we’re excited to make them a part of our show through the wonders of technology,” said Richie Sambora. “We can’t wait to see all of the videos they’re creating.”

Starting today,fans are encouraged to create and upload their own personalized Bon Jovi music video slideshow for this unique opportunityto win a pair of tickets to the show, and see themselves jam on the big screen alongside Bon Jovi. Additionally, the official winners in each city will receive a deluxe prize VIP package including access to the VIP pre show party, an exclusive VIP messenger bag, and several commemorative VIP items. To learn more and to submit your video, visit the official “Livin’ On a Prayer” Website at http://prayer.bonjovi.com.

“We’re thrilled about the longstanding Bon Jovi & Animoto partnership,” commented Brad Jefferson, CEO and Co-founder of Animoto. “This social media promotion gives fans an opportunity to share their most creative Animoto videos set to one of the most popular songs of our generation, “Livin’ On A Prayer.”

Bon Jovi’s 2011 dates come hot on the heels of the band earning the top-grossing worldwide tour of 2010, according to both Billboard and Pollstar, an honor achieved for the second time in just three years. The band will perform concerts in the U.S., Canada and throughout Europe, presented by AEG Live. Tickets are on sale now and additional concerts in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Pittsburgh have already been added, due to popular demand.

Globally, the Grammy® Award-winning band has sold more than 125 million albums, and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 35 million fans. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits (Island Def Jam Music Group) debuted at #1 around the world in November, with the band’s three-decade-spanning retrospective charting higher and selling more copies in its first week than their 1994 Cross Road release, which has sold more than 21 million copies to date. Previously, the band’s “Lost Highway Tour” was named the #1 tour of 2008. Nearing three decades of an incredible career, Bon Jovi shows no sign of slowing down.

For more information on all things Bon Jovi, visit www.BonJovi.com.

Bon Jovi 2011 North American Tour Itinerary
February 9                    State College, PA             Bryce Jordan Center
February 11                   Pittsburgh, PA                   Consol Energy Center
February 12                   Pittsburgh, PA                    Consol Energy Center
February 14                   Toronto, ON                       Air Canada Centre
February 15                   Toronto, ON                       Air Canada Centre
February 18                   Montreal, QB                      Bell Centre
February 19                   Montreal, QB                      Bell Centre
February 21                   Raleigh, NC                       RBC Center
February 24                   New York City, NY             Madison Square Garden
February 25                   New York City, NY             Madison Square Garden
February 27                   Washington, DC                Verizon Center
March 1                          Boston, MA                        TD Garden
March 2                          Philadelphia, PA                Wells Fargo Center
March 4                          Uncasville, CT                    Mohegan Sun Arena
March 5                          New York City, NY              Madison Square Garden
March 8                          Chicago, IL                          United Center
March 9                          Chicago, IL                          United Center
March 17                        San Antonio, TX                 AT&T Center
March 19                        Las Vegas, NV                   MGM Grand Garden Arena
March 22                        Salt Lake City, UT              EnergySolutions Arena
March 25                        Vancouver, BC                    Rogers Arena
March 26                        Vancouver, BC                   Rogers Arena

About Animoto:
Animoto (www.animoto.com) is a video slideshow creation service that enables consumers to easily make professional quality, personalized videos that will amaze friends, family and others. The Animoto team, which includes entertainment and technology industry veterans, has leveraged their expertise to develop a web-based service that makes it easy for people to quickly create and share their stories through video – using photos and or videos. The heart of Animoto is its Cinematic Artificial Intelligence™ technology that thinks like an actual director and editor, using the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television and film. A fast-growing company, Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

About AEG Live
AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance. AEG Live is comprised of touring, festival, exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions, fifteen regional offices and owns, operates or exclusively books thirty-five state-of-the-art venues. The current and recent concert tour roster includes artists such as Taylor Swift, The Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, Wisin & Yandel, Kenny Chesney, P!nk and Paul McCartney. The company is also currently producing productions including Cher at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Our exhibition portfolio boasts the most successful exhibition of all time, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoaohs, which has attracted more than 7 million visitors since 2005. AEG Live is also the largest producer of music festivals in North America from the critically acclaimed Coachella Music & Arts Festival to Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

CONTACT: For AEG Live: Scoop MarketingEve Samuels, esamuels@solters.com / Erik Stein, estein@solters.com
For Bon Jovi: Sunshine, Sachs & Assoc.
Tiffany Shipp, shipp@sunshinesachs.com
For Animoto: CommStrat PR,
Kim Bardakian, kim@commstrat.com

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Bon Jovi Teams up with Innovative Digital Marketing Agency : Culture Jam Labs to use Twitter

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:02:48 +0000

Bon Jovi Teams up with Innovative Digital Marketing Agency : Culture Jam Labs to use Twitter

***BREAKING NEWS***

To celebrate their new album “The Circle” and their highly anticipated tour titled “The Circle Tour”, Bon Jovi teamed up with innovative digital marketing agency Culture Jam Labs to use Twitter to engage their circle of fans. Using Culture Jam Labs’ new Twitter promotion technology called PromoJam, Bon Jovi is inviting their fans to get in the circle with them and enter to win exceptional prizes such as: (2) tickets to see Bon Jovi live in concert at New Meadowlands Stadium and $1,000 to get you there, (2) $100 gift certificates for bonjovi.com, (3) $50 gift certificates for bonjovi.com, and (4) signed copies of the new album!!

How does one get entered to win one of these amazing prizes? You simply tweet for your chance to win at: http://twitter.bonjovi.com/

Bon Jovi has been very active on social media lately. For the first time ever at the Grammys they performed “Living on a Prayer” after it was voted on by fans across the US, they have almost 70,000 Twitter followers and almost 1.5 million fans on Facebook.

Jennifer Searle
Director of Public Relations
THINK PR Los Angeles
jsearle@thinkpublicrelations.com
www.thinkpublicrelations.com

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Bon Jovi Performance On “THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY® AWARDS – Fans Invited to Select Song

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:57 +0000

Bon Jovi Performance On “THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY® AWARDS – Fans Invited to Select Song

Fans Invited To Help Select Hit Song For Bon Jovi Performance On “THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY® AWARDS,” JAN. 31 On The CBS Television Network

One Of The World’s Biggest Rock Bands And Current GRAMMY Nominee Bon Jovi To Make Debut Performance On The GRAMMY Awards

For the first time ever, current GRAMMY® Award nominee Bon Jovi will perform on THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS, broadcasting live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, Jan. 31 (8:00-11:30 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. As part of the band’s performance, fans will have an opportunity to decide which hit Bon Jovi song the band will perform by casting their vote on www.CBS.com.

Beginning today, viewers can log on to www.cbs.com/grammys and vote in two phases for one out of six of their favorite hit Bon Jovi songs:

1.            “Always”
2.            “Bed Of Roses”
3.            “Have A Nice Day”
4.            “It’s My Life”
5.            “Livin’ On A Prayer”
6.            “Wanted Dead Or Alive”

There is no registration to vote, and fans may vote as often as they wish. Additionally, a 30-second clip of each song is available for listening. The deadline to vote on the first phase is Sunday, Jan. 24 at 11:59pm ET. The second phase starts on Mon., Jan. 25 when the list will be narrowed down to the top three songs and fans may again vote at www.cbs.com/grammys for which hit song the band should perform as part of their segment. Voting will continue up until Bon Jovi’s performance on THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS on Sun., Jan. 31.

GRAMMY winner Bon Jovi is up for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for “We Weren’t Born To Follow.”

Bon Jovi joins previously announced performers and nominees Beyoncé, The Black Eyed Peas, the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, P!nk, Taylor Swift and the Zac Brown Band. All five Album Of The Year nominees — Beyoncé, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, the Dave Matthews Band and Taylor Swift — are set to perform on Music’s Biggest Night®. Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced at a later date.

As previously announced on “THE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS CONCERT LIVE! – COUNTDOWN TO MUSIC’S BIGGEST NIGHT” on Dec. 2, music fans can upload a 20-second video of themselves singing along to a portion of The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” for a chance to have their video appear as part of the Peas’ performance on Music’s Biggest Night. Videos may be uploaded to www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/upload/ through Jan. 15.

For more information on THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS, please visit http://www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/.

THE 52nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS is produced by John Cossette Productions and AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy®. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are executive producers, Louis J. Horvitz is director.

About The Recording Academy Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards — the preeminent peer-recognized award for musical excellence and the most credible brand in music — The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs. The Academy continues to focus on its mission of recognizing musical excellence, advocating for the well-being of music makers and ensuring music remains an indelible part of our culture. For more information about The Academy, please visit www.grammy.com. For breaking news and exclusive content, join the organization’s social networks as a Twitter follower at www.twitter.com/thegrammys, a Facebook fan at www.facebook.com/thegrammys and a YouTube channel subscriber at www.youtube.com/thegrammys.

No purchase necessary. Open to legal residents of the US 18 or older at date of entry. Contest ends 1/15/10. Void where prohibited. See rules at www.cbs.com..
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