USA's Cricket Media Partners With Magzter for Digital Expansion


NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - October 01, 2015) -

Cricket Media, a renowned education media company in the USA, chooses the world's largest digital magazine newsstand, Magzter, to feature all 11 of its magazine brands. Cricket Media's exclusive brands for toddlers through teens are now available for Magzter's 26+ million global readers in over 200 countries and territories.

The most sought-after magazines of Cricket Media have won 60 Parents' Choice Awards since 2012. Prized titles for children and young adults, namely, Babybug, Ladybug, Click, Spider, Ask, Cricket, Dig, Muse, Cobblestone, Faces and Cicada can now be read on the go, anytime and anywhere via Magzter.

Cricket Media provides award-winning content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families and teachers across the world. The Company's innovative web-based K12 tools for school and home include the ePals community and virtual classroom for global collaboration as well as In2Books®, a Common Core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical thinking skills. Cricket Media serves approximately one million classrooms and millions of teachers, students and parents in over 200 countries and territories through its platform and NeuPals, its joint venture with China's leading IT services company Neusoft. Cricket Media also licenses its content and platform to top publishing and educational companies worldwide.

Here's what you can read from Cricket Media on Magzter:

Babybug offers the best in story time content for infants and toddlers. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Ladybug offers full-length stories as well as short, fun little poems about animals, kids and imaginary creatures, for kids of age group 2-6. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Click opens up a universe of wonder by introducing kids between 3-7 years to the world of science, nature, and the environment. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Spider weaves a web of fun stories, poems, articles and activities for kids between 6-9 years, who are excited about reading on their own. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

ASK is specially designed for kids between 7-10 years to investigate the world with past and present inventors, artists, thinkers and scientists. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Cricket feeds the minds and imaginations of kids between 7-10 years with stories, puzzles, recipes and articles that stimulate their imagination and help them discover the world around them. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Dig Into History is the magazine where history and archaeology meet for children between 9-14 years. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Muse is for kids between 9-14 years who love to learn about new things. Each issue has articles to satisfy every curiosity about our world, from genetics to space to geology. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Cobblestone is the award-winning American history magazine for kids between 9-14 years. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Faces helps kids between 9-14 years understand how people in other countries and cultures live. Published 9 times a year, this magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

Cicada is a literary magazine for teenagers and young adults who are passionate about the written word. This bi-monthly magazine is priced at US$24.99 for an annual subscription on Magzter.

"This partnership is a significant step in Cricket Media's efforts to expand the reach of our high-quality digital media products internationally. Magzter's tremendous global reach makes them an ideal partner in ensuring children worldwide have access to content that engages, enlightens and educates young minds." - Katya Andresen, CEO, Cricket Media - USA

"At a time when kids and teenagers grow with the exposure to latest technologies and inventions, it is essential to keep them engaged constructively through these scientific advancements. We are thrilled to take Cricket Media's informative magazines, which impart knowledge the fun way, to young children all over the world." - Girish Ramdas, CEO, Magzter Inc.

"We are very excited to offer Cricket Media's acclaimed line of children's magazines to our fast-growing global audience. There is tremendous demand for this kind of exceptional content worldwide and we firmly believe that our global audience will be elated to read these titles on their favorite devices." - Vijay Radhakrishnan, President, Magzter Inc.

About Magzter

Magzter Inc. is the world's largest and fastest growing self-service, cross-platform digital magazine store and newsstand with over 26 million digital consumers, more than 6,500 magazines from over 2,500 publishers. Headquartered in New York, Magzter has its local presence in London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Chennai and Singapore and will soon be expanding to other countries. Founded by global entrepreneurs, Girish Ramdas and Vijay Radhakrishnan in June 2011, Magzter enables magazine publishers around the world to create and deliver digital editions of their titles to global consumers. Powered by its proprietary OREY Click Publishing® System, that allows publishers to upload their magazines with a single touch, Magzter also enables them to publish interactive/audio-visual content in the magazine as it supports HTML5.

The FREE Magzter app is available on Apple iOS, Android (Google Play), Amazon App Store and Kindle Fire as well as the web with more platforms coming soon. Users can buy their magazines on any of the devices/platforms mentioned above and seamlessly port their purchases to any other devices, a feature unique to Magzter.

Magzter also launched a path-breaking "All You Can Read" subscription service called Magzter GOLD in January 2015, which gives digital readers unlimited access to thousands of magazines for a low monthly price.

The company counts among its publisher customers some marquee names including Hearst (USA), American Media (USA), Bloomberg (USA), Dennis Publishing (UK), Time Inc. UK, Media24 (South Africa), Edipresse Asia (Hong Kong), India Today Group (India), WorldWide Media (India), Maxim Inc. (USA), Black Enterprise (USA), Singapore Press Holdings (Singapore), RBA (Spain) and Grupo Expansión (Mexico). Magzter has been rapidly increasing its publisher base with magazines from over 50 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.; making it truly the #1 choice for magazine readers and publishers globally.

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Contact Information:

Vijay Radhakrishnan
Co-founder and President
+1-646-756-2524
United States
press@magzter.com

Cricket Media