Viva Entertainment Group Welcomes a New Member to Its Board of Directors

Thomas Ashley, Director, Viva Entertainment Group 

Thomas Ashley is an unprecedented CEO who brings two decades of experience in the film industry. As founder and CEO of FlixFling, Ashley has created the largest privately held streaming movie service in North America. FlixFling is the only service to offer both streaming music and movies for one low monthly fee. Through its partnership with Music Choice, FlixFling is also the only streaming service to offer streaming music videos across 25 channels. Flixfling boasts over 10,000 titles, with Ashley negotiating all content deals for the company with partners including Warner Brothers, Sony, Paramount, Universal, Starz Digital Media, Magnolia Pictures, Image Entertainment and VuBiquity  among others. A veteran in the Advertising Industry Ashley's experience is paramount in marketing to mainstream audiences. As CEO of Invincible Pictures, Ashley has created a major independent entertainment group pioneering digital film and television distribution. In November of 2008 Ashley opened Philadelphia Sound Stages a 70,000 Square feet facility including Sound Stages, Production Offices and warehousing for Invincible's pick, pack and ship operations. In May of 2014 Ashley closed his 2nd film acquisitions fund Invincible Entertainment Partners. A follow up to his highly successful 2008 fund IP Film Partners, both with the mission of acquiring, producing and licensing motion picture properties for distribution on a global platform. As part of the fund Invincible co-produced Kevin Smith's newest $5.5MM film "Yoga Hosers" Starring, Smith and his Daughter Harley Quinn, as well as Johnny Depp, and his daughter Lilly-Rose. This is the first time Depp and his daughter shared a screen together. Other notable cast includes Stan Lee, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez.  Ashley is a proud member of the board for the Philadelphia Film Society, the non-profit organization behind the Philadelphia Film Festival, A Member of the Entertainment Merchants Association and Volunteer at the Abramson Cancer Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Ashley himself is a cancer survivor and shares a home with wife and son in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

About VIVA Entertainment Group, Inc. 

VIVA Entertainment Group, Inc. is a global entertainment and technology company connecting content owners and video distributors to deliver premium content on any smart device with a screen. Viva has developed an OTT system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal and cable television formats. Viva, your entertainment partner, provides subscribers access to the content they want anywhere, anytime. With a WiFi connection our customers can watch Live TV from around the world, TV shows, as well as movies on demand, Tele-video conference and many other interactive features. Independent and Major film studios, television networks, Telecoms, Cable Companies, and emerging ISPS partner with Viva for enhanced capabilities in multi platform video distribution. The only true end-to-end provider of premium content technology services, VIVA looks to license and deliver to traditional and OTT video distributors across the world. VIVA is a publicly traded company under the stock symbol OTTV http://www.vivagroup.tv

About FlixFling:  

FlixFling, is Music, Movies and more. FlixFling is the only streaming service where customers can access all of their favorite music and movies for one low monthly fee, with Premium and New Release titles available to rent or purchase. All customers who buy content have it stored in their personal digital locker MyFlix, free forever! FlixFling offers a diverse movie catalog with thousands of titles including FlixFling Exclusives, such as the Kevin Smith's newest film "Yoga Hosers" major new releases, Like "Star Trek Beyond" and "Ghostbusters" and many hidden gems not found on any other service. Music lovers can stream their favorite songs and music videos from top artists anywhere, anytime. Subscribers also receive one free Premium or New Release rental of select titles every month. Customers who choose to only rent or purchase movies can, sign up for a free FlixFling On Demand account. FlixFling also offers special genre and themed subscription channels including, the award winning documentary channel DOX, other channels include Monsters and Nightmares, Warriors and Gangsters, Nature Vision, CineFest, the Spanish language channel CineReal, and the LGBT movie channel CinePride. For more information, visit http://www.flixfling.com

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