Feb. 3, 2011 (Marketwire) --
NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA and TORONTO, CANADA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/03/11 -- Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: INT)(OTCBB: ITMTF) announces its social media, real time, translation platform, Ortsbo.com is poised to capture the growing social media markets in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) group of countries, Europe, North America and other major international regions. Ortsbo users originate primarily from the following top 10 markets:
1. China2. Taiwan3. South Korea4. United States5. Brazil6. Germany7. Canada8. Russia9. Ukraine10. India
The top 10 markets for Ortsbo users have an estimated population of 3.4 Billion, or approximately 50% of the total global population. Today, Ortsbo users are from over 170 countries / territories around the globe.
In his January 15, 2011 Globe and Mail article, SURFIN' IN TONGUES, Steve Brearton reports that nearly one-third of Internet usage currently occurs in English. But within five years, Chinese is expected to surpass English as the most-used language on the Web.
Christian Arno, founder of Lingo24, stated in a November 15, 2011 Mashable.com article, "In the last ten years, the use of Arabic online has increased by over 2500%, while Chinese and Spanish rose twelve and seven-fold respectively. And English? It didn't even triple."
Arno goes on to say, "Today, 42% of all Internet users are in Asia, while almost a quarter are in Europe and just over 10% are in Latin America. These stats shouldn't sway businesses towards targeting one region over another, though - Latin American countries account for over 200 million people on the web."
According to ComScore, Latin American tweets are up over 300% between June 2009 and June 2010, followed by 243% in the Asia Pacific region, 142% in the Middle East and Africa, and 106% in Europe. By comparison, North America only increased by 22%.
Ortsbo's real time multi-session, multi-platform and multi-lingual application connects to PC and Mac computers, mobile devices as well as all major search engine chat platforms including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! along with Facebook, iChat, AIM, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Ovi, Lotus Sametime, LiveJournal and Tencent QQ and QQ International, China's largest chat platforms and Twitter.
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To review Ortsbo's weekly performance metrics and the Company's corporate blog, please visit www.intertainmentmedia.com/blog.
About Ortsbo: www.ortsbo.com
Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com) enables real-time conversational translation in over 50 languages and seamlessly integrates with today's most popular social media platforms.
Ortsbo Inc. is a division of Intertainment Media Inc., a Rich Media Applications leader, focused on delivering leading edge technology and marketing solutions enabling clients to power enhanced branding, loyalty initiatives and consumer engagement. Selected as a Microsoft Global Agency Initiative partner, Intertainment has joined an elite group of interactive agencies worldwide that Microsoft recommends to its Partners and Customers.
Intertainment Media owns and operates a number of key properties including Ad Taffy, itiBiti, Ortsbo and Magnum.
Headquartered in the Toronto, Canada region, with offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Mateo, CA, Intertainment Media Inc. is listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol "INT" (TSX VENTURE: INT) and in the US under the symbol "ITMTF".
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Contacts:
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