NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jun 26, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Disney.com reached
record traffic levels as guests logged on to watch the full-length Disney
Channel Original Movie “Camp Rock.” The online event, which began at 5 p.m. PT
Monday, June 23 and ended at 11:59 p.m. PT Tuesday, June 24, attracted 863,000
video plays and increased traffic to Disney.com by 37 percent (6/23/08 vs.
6/22/08).

Camp Rock’s online success follows the movie’s unprecedented multi-platform
premiere weekend which delivered an impressive 24.5 million total televisions
viewers across the U.S. and Canada and reached 6.0 million Kids 6-11 and more
than 6.1 million Tweens 9-14, ranking as the week’s #1 TV program in those youth
demographics. Disney Channel’s debut of “Camp Rock” ranks as cable TV’s #1
entertainment telecast of the 2007-08 season (8.9 million Total Viewers). On
ABC-TV, the movie was the #1 summer Saturday entertainment telecast on any
broadcast network in almost six years, and is ABC Family’s #1 movie broadcast
ever among Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14.

Key performance highlights for the Disney.com Camp Rock online streaming event
include:

– Camp Rock video plays totaled more than 863,000

– Traffic to Disney.com increased by 37 percent on Monday, June 23 (vs.
6/22/08)

– Camp Rock Web sites (video player and supersite) scored 1.9 million visitors
and 10 million page views during the entire event (6/23-24)

– Unique visitor traffic overall to Disney.com XD (DXD) on Monday, June 23 was
more than twice the previous one-day record (953,592 vs. 465,421)

– The Camp Rock Channel in DXD, which hosted the video player, had more page
views in one day (6/23) than any other DXD Channel has ever recorded in a full
week.

“This is one of those inflection points for online entertainment at Disney.com
and really shows the power of marrying great content with a great online
experience,” stated Paul Yanover, executive vice president and managing
director, Disney Online. “Disney Channel has created another sensation with
‘Camp Rock’ and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to feature it again on
Disney.com.”

Video streaming services for the Camp Rock online event were primarily provided
by Limelight Networks. Limelight Networks provides a variety of content delivery
services, including live event services, on-demand delivery, website
acceleration, and professional services across select Disney properties. The
companies have had an ongoing relationship since 2006.

All data sources are internal tracking.

SDS has long owned the domain missionkimpossible.com but we are proud to announce that we have now set it up as an alternate address for the Mission Kim Possible yahoo group. Check it out, it’s much easier to use and to link.

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June 24th, 2008 is Save W.I.T.C.H. Day!

Make sure to post a link to http://savewitch.org/day.php on any W.I.T.C.H. related websites & forums you belong to and/or forward this email to any friends that like the show. Together we can make a difference!

Then tell us what you did on our forum at disneyswitch.org.

Thank you for your support!

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In a word, “Meh.”

In several words, “Demi did okay, but the movie had no soul. It was just a bunch of random songs”

In detail: http://dcfans.tv/2008/06/22/my-thoughts-on-camp-rock/

While doing some SEO work on our Save WITCH website, I found that the domain savewitch.com was available, so I registered it and pointed it to our existing site savewitch.org.

Back when I was looking for and settled on savewitch.org for our website, savewitch.com was unavailable. I am glad that we have been able to acquire it so that anyone who tried the .com ending instead of the correct .org will still find the site.

It was not nearly as difficult to move the forum as I thought it would be - which is good.

The forum has moved over to the new host and can now be accessed at http://sdsforum.com/. The old url forum.savedisneyshows.org has been set up to forward to the new URL.

There are only a few minor things left to move over before we finally transfer the savedisneyshows.org domain over to the new host.

During the domain transition, the SDS forwards won’t work, so be sure to bookmark either all the new URLs or this blog which contains the URLs.

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The Save Disney Shows forum is currently disabled while I move it over to the new host. I hope to have everything back up Friday night, but it may be Saturday night. Hopefully no later! Updates will be posted here.

As I continue to move and upgrade sections of Save Disney Shows and it’s affiliated movements, I am now proud to announce that the Save Phil of the Future Website, formally located at savedisneyshows.org/phil has now moved to it’s new location - http://savepotf.com/

The save Phil website has also been modified to display news feeds from the SDS Blog in it’s news section.

Source: http://blogs.accesshollywood.com/archives/2008/06/meet-the-fresh-faces-of-high-s.html

Considering this latest incarnation of “High School Musical” has the added line of “Senior Year” to its title, I think we can all be pretty sure this is the last we will be seeing of Zac, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Monique or Corbin in the halls of East High. Unless of course someone wants to make “College Musical.” Instead, should this feature film version of “High School Musical” be a huge hit, I think Disney may keep its franchise alive by introducing us to a brand new class of kids.

That’s exactly why I think such a big deal has been made about the three new cast members making their debut in HSM3. Disney held an international casting search involving over 1,000 teen actors across the United States, Canada, and the U.K. to find three sophomore Wildcats. Matt Prokop, Justin Martin, and Jemma McKenzie-Brown were the lucky three plucked out of near obscurity.

17-year-old Matt’s biggest role to date was a small part in “Hannah Montana”. 14-year-old Justin played Simba in “The Lion King” on Broadway. British born Jemma had a role in a BBC show called “The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard.” After this film comes out October 24th, I have no doubt their names will become as familiar to pre-teen and teenage girls everywhere as the rest of the HSM cast.

I traveled to the set and had a chance to sit down with the three newbie’s who seem to be fitting in with the group quite perfectly. Ashley Tisdale has taken Jemma under her wing. Vanessa Hudgens admits to whipping out her English accent around Jemma. Corbin Bleu has the gang over to his room almost every night to play video games. Everyone is giving the trio tips on how to stay grounded should fame strike.  According to Matt their main advice was not let fame go to their heads,

“Be yourself mainly. That’s the one thing they said. With all of the success, just don’t change. Just be who you are and true to yourself.”

Matt, who before this role never sang or danced, plays Jimmie “The Rocket” Zara, a basketball player who idolizes Zac’s character, Troy Bolton. He told me being famous is not why he took this part,

“I think we’re all in it just to be an actor and just enjoy acting more than the fans and the fame.  It’s all about a career.”

Justin is Jimmie’s “partner in crime” as he calls it, Donny, who is the basketball teams ball boy. He’s a small little guy with a huge personality who wants to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington. Justin’s big personality landed him at the hospital though with a bad bruise while on set a few weeks ago,

“I have no gymnastics or tumbling background and I decided I was going to do a back flip on some cement and it didn’t work out well.”

Jemma comes to East High as Tiara Gold; a British foreign exchange student who has her sights set on Sharpay and becomes her personal assistant. She told me that from the moment the news came out she was cast her life changed,

“My friend wrote me and said just type in McKenzie-Brown in Google. I typed it in and flash, flash, flash. Matt Prokop, Justin Martin, Jemma McKenzie-Brown all over. It was crazy!”

Those Google searches are only going to grow and grow when the film comes out on the big screen this fall!

I think it’s crazy how just being announced as a star in an upcoming DCOM gets people so much attention. Just look at what’s happened to Demi Lovato - And Camp Rock’s still a week away!

As apart of my ongoing efforts to improve Save Disney shows and it’s affiliated movements, I am proud to announce that the Save Kim Possible website, formally located at kp.savedisneyshows.org has now moved to it’s new location at http://savekp.com where it shall remain forever (in theory).

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