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The consolidated financial which were filed in September could be considered the start date for the Venture on several levels. So for anyone looking at investing in RTG Ventures, I would strongly encourage reading and re-reading the press releases starting with the financials released early September. I'll post and highlight the press releases and as you can see there is a GREAT deal happening. The focus on building the infastructure of the company while executing it's business plan has put us in a strong position moving forward to accelerate revenues with explosive growth, both organically and with acquisitions and joint ventures. Everything is coming together very quickly and with the stock near a 52 week low, RTGV could represent a huge and exciting investment opportunity. (disclosure: I own a large position and I'm long in the stock)

RTG Ventures, Inc. Files 8K-A, Including Consolidated Financials and Business Development Update 3:08p ET September 8, 2010 (Market Wire)
Today, RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) files an 8K-A containing its consolidated financial statements to May 2010. This completes the acquisitions made through the Share Exchange Agreement with RTG Ventures (Europe) Ltd, which was formerly called Cloud Channel Ltd. The audited financials of RTG (Europe) Ltd will be included in all future 10-K and 10-Q reports. The Company will file its annual 10-K, required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2010, by November 30, 2010. (Was due by the 30th but the company has a 15 day grace period which they will meet) Highlights of the RTG Ventures (Europe) Ltd's consolidated financials include revenues of $1,657,652 and gross profit of $688,679 to May 31, 2010. The filing will be available on Edgar and www.rtgventures.com once it has been filed with the SEC.

"Digital Clarity continues to exceed its forecasts, both top and bottom line, and is a real rising star for the Group. There's no hotter business sector than social media right now and the team at Digital Clarity is at the forefront of social media marketing. Ideally, we'd like to accelerate Digital's growth with an acquisition in the next 12 months."

Revenues to July 31, 2010 are approximately $2,000,000 subject to exchange rate fluctuation, and within 12 months the company is forecasting annualized revenues from organic growth of around $8,000,000 as its core technologies come online. RTG Ventures' joint-ventured payment systems business, to be called RTG Payment Systems, launched at the end of May 2010 and its first products have now entered testing prior to a full market release. Stephan Meloy-Antebi, RTG Ventures, Inc.'s Director of Business Development, has been evaluating business cases for the roll out of the RTG Payment Systems technology.

iPayu Passes First Round of Testing
10:42a ET October 1, 2010 (Market Wire)
iPayu, RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) payment systems technology business, a joint venture with International Financial Systems Limited, has successfully passed through its first full phase of testing prior to a commercial Beta release, which is expected later this year. The technology allows mobile phone users to send money to friends and family using simple SMS text commands and is built on a professional banking software system. Another planned application will enable consumers to use iPayu as a mobile wallet to pay for goods and services online and in-store and the system has huge potential in loyalty and promotional couponing too. 100 percent of mobile phones have SMS messaging technology.

Dominic Hawes-Fairley, RTG Ventures CEO, explained: "This phase of testing was focused on assessing speed, reliability and scalability of the product for the first commercial applications we roll out. I am happy to report that the core system is ready and the power of it is quite breathtaking. I can't overstate the importance of the fact that this system is built on a banking system. This is going to allow us to do things and create applications that our nearest competitors can't. It's a compelling competitive advantage and I'm really excited about being able to unveil the full products later this year.

"The next stage is tailoring user interface to the specific needs of our first vertical markets and performing a much needed upgrade to the public website, both of which are now underway."

iPayu will be launched and tested in the UK market and is expected to launch its first products in the USA in 2011. Business development activity has already begun on both side of the Atlantic and potential customers have endorsed the company's strategy.

RTG Ventures, Inc. Acquires Audigist.com
7:18a ET October 5, 2010 (Market Wire)
RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) has acquired Audigist.com, a digital distribution platform, for its Media Systems Division. The acquisition complements RTG Ventures' strategy to provide vehicles for independent musicians and record labels to sell direct to consumers, monetize and maintain control of their inventory at the same time. Audigist.com currently markets content for over 300 artists, mostly from the UK and the US, covering a wide array of music styles. (the redesign & update to the Audigist.com website is nearly complete)

Audigist.com was created in 2003 by music industry executives from Studio Nyne.com and Jersey Live who specialize in mixing and production, music event management and web design & development. The service was devised specifically to meet the needs of independent artists and despite iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and others' huge success, this huge area of the music industry remains under-served.

New artists are joining the company at the rate of approximately 10 per week and the site offers artists 'widgets' that they can embed in social media pages to enable sales to be made direct from MySpace, Facebook and artists' own websites too. The 'widget' is a small piece of code that replicates the e-commerce element of the Audigist user interface direct onto other websites allowing an artist to market content widely, but with the confidence that transactions will still be handled by Audigist.

Dominic Hawes-Fairley, RTG Ventures' CEO & President, said: "We're really pleased to have acquired a site with such strong potential and, with the skills and assets that we already have in-house, we can put this business on a rapid growth path. Digital Clarity is creating a new user interface and will also create and execute the site's marketing plan. BMC will offer branded merchandise solutions to artists and venues, which it will fulfill direct-to-consumer using its existing logistics channels. iPayu's vouchering technology will be integrated into the site to enable artists to issue promotional viral vouchers to drive traffic to the site and, of course, their own download section.

"While our Media System Division's primary focus is video, this platform can easily sell merchandise as well as audio tracks and enables us to offer turnkey sales and marketing solutions to independent artists and labels. The key cornerstone of a business like this is content. With a strong, relevant and current catalogue, we'll attract more and more members. The more members we have, the more artists we'll attract. But, to sign up bigger numbers of artists in the first place, the site needs to be fresh, easy to use and feature rich so these are our first priorities."

RTG Ventures, Inc. Appoints Steven S. Antebi as a Strategic Advisor to the Board
9:19a ET October 14, 2010 (Market Wire)
RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) has appointed Steven S. Antebi as a strategic advisor to the Board. Mr. Antebi brings 40 years of experience in capital markets and corporate governance focused on increasing shareholder value in a wide variety of industries. He is the President and Chairman of the Board of Maple Capital Management, an equity fund. He is also President and CEO of Galileo Partners LLC, and President of Blue and Gold Enterprises, Inc., funds that invest in PIPE Transactions, Registered Direct Investments, Private Placements and open-market equity transactions. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Geovax and has served as Chairman of Epinex Diagnostics since 2009. As Chairman of the Royalty Review Council, Mr. Antebi has extensive background in leading the evolution of the music monetization business.

Mr. Antebi had a long tenure at Bear Stearns & Company in senior positions including institutional sales, trading of the firm's capital, investment banking and syndication. In 1973 he began his career as a limited partner and left the firm in 1993 as a shareholder and managing director.

Mr. Antebi has been a member of the Board of Governors at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for over 10 years. Cedars Sinai is one of the largest medical/research centers in the world. He is also involved with Coach For Kids, the arm of Cedars which provides mobile medical units, caring for inner-city children living below the poverty line.

Mr. Antebi holds degrees from UCLA's Anderson School of Business and Loyola University School of Law.

Galileo Partners LLC has accumulated over 4,000,000 shares of RTG Ventures, Inc.

RTG Ventures, Inc. Management Team Continues to Strengthen
9:01a ET October 21, 2010 (Market Wire)
RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) has appointed a digital media senior executive, Colin Burgess, to the position of Technology Director in its Media Systems Division. Under the terms of a 12-month consulting agreement which is designed to convert into a permanent role, Burgess will drive the development of the company's media management application, CloudChannel. The technology will be 'disruptive' in that it will make a consequential change to the way the online media market operates and is thus expected to provide RTG Ventures with a significant competitive advantage.

Burgess joins RTG Ventures after four and a half years with the UK Government's Central Office of Information where he assisted organizations in planning, launching and running media-rich sites with particular focus on media asset management, licensing and interactivity. In addition to building over 20 sites, he also consulted in the creation of online TV services for Directgov -- the official site of the British Government www.direct.gov.uk. During his career Burgess has had proven success as an innovative online TV producer and digital director. He has launched three TV channels: Wingspan Air and Space Channel, Spine TV and adidas Originals TV, while specializing in online advertising, interactive micro-sites, mobile media, viral media and online catalogues.

Dominic Hawes-Fairley, CEO & President of RTG Ventures, said: "This appointment is a milestone for RTG Ventures, as the development of a media platform is at the heart of the company's business plan. Colin's combination of technology expertise and creativity provides unbeatable experience in this sector and he will bring both to bear in delivering the vision that we've articulated for our media products. Furthermore, he has already identified several ways of accelerating revenues for the Media Division by exploiting opportunities that exist in the short to medium term by tapping into his existing network.

"We've got aggressive revenue targets and adding a heavyweight like Colin to the team brings us a great deal closer to achieving those goals. If we're going to be a $50 million company in three years' time, we need to hire the best people in the business and with him, we've got just that."

In addition to his expertise in online media, Burgess has significant experience in business and strategy development for media businesses and will be fine tuning the product road map to ensure a strategic fit with the rapidly changing needs of the online media business.

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Burgess commented: "I instantly saw the power and scope of RTG Ventures' vision and I'm really pleased to be leading its delivery. RTG Ventures has devised a way of solving the issue of content control, common to media owners, so the potential of our application is unlimited. As streaming platforms have become easily available on the internet, rights owners are faced with significant problems when it comes to monetizing their assets. It's easy and cheap to stream content from point-to-point, but it's very difficult to monetize syndicated streams. That's what the Media Systems application and the Payment Systems platform combine to enable rights owners to do. Our primary focus is the live music market, but there are many other media sectors that will also be able to use our application to manage syndication of their content while retaining control of their assets and ensuring that their rights are properly observed. Ultimately, we'll be able to pay royalties direct to all stakeholders to ensure that every cent that's earned is received by the right people."

RTG Ventures has also appointed a Managing Director for its distribution business, Bitemark MC (BMC), in the Software and Services Division. Marie Barry succeeds Dominic Hawes-Fairley who co-founded the company in 2001, and she brings significant experience in retail, management and distribution of consumer goods. Barry's main challenge will be to continue the company's transition into more mainstream consumer products while maintaining revenues in an extremely competitive retail market.

Hawes-Fairley concluded: "BMC faces a challenging task over the next twelve months, repositioning the company in order to support the needs of the RTG Ventures' group. Marie is the right person to make this happen. In addition, we're spinning the manufacturing side of BMC out into a separate company, RTG Manufacturing, which will assume responsibility for product design, manufacturing and international distribution of own-branded goods. We will be announcing a Managing Director for RTG Manufacturing in the near future."

RTG Ventures' management team continues to develop its strengths through organic growth, while seeking joint ventures and acquisition targets to speed products to market, increase revenue streams and increase return on investment.

RTG Ventures Management Meeting "Full Speed Ahead": Acquisition of NUA Into BMC
9:02a ET November 22, 2010 (Market Wire)
RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) continues to make strong progress in execution of its business plan. In London last week, following a Board meeting, the operating companies' senior executives made presentations measuring their progress to date and identifying development milestones for 2011. This was the first planning and stewardship meeting since the company filed its consolidated financials in September 2010. In less than three short months, much has been accomplished and the company is reinforcing its intention to be opportunity-driven and nimble.

As reported in earlier announcements, RTG Ventures has been appointing new team members to drive development of its technology products and version 1.0 of both its payment and media monetization systems will be taken to demonstrations in Los Angeles and New York next month. The company has also entered discussions with significant potential global strategic partners to accelerate development, deployment and commercialization of its products.

Dominic Hawes-Fairley, Chief Executive Officer and President of RTG Ventures, Inc., said: "The meeting in London was electric. We've got a team of truly amazing people and to see them all in the same room for the first time was something special. There are so many synergies between our companies and meetings like this allow us to identify new revenue streams that can make an immediate impact to the bottom line. Great businesses are built by great people and we've got the best."

The Media Systems Division will shortly complete a pre-market release of its disruptive media monetization system, CloudChannel. The full system, which is due for release in 2011, creates a secure mechanism for rights owners of live music video to automatically distribute their content to digital media platforms with monetization built into the stream. The global live music market is estimated to be worth $22 billion and is still growing. The CloudChannel application is being built using best of breed technology from existing global IT vendors to aid speed to market, but the kernel of the system, the rights management and business rules engine, is being developed in-house.

A content accumulation program has commenced and in addition to monetizing content on behalf of other rights owners, the company will be acquiring rights by producing its own content. A rights acquisition strategy has been created and is being executed with four productions planned to be completed by mid-December.

The Media Systems Division is simultaneously developing a consumer-facing web TV service called Flowcaster.com which will stream live music video to digital devices including computers, mobile applications and pad computers. Flowcaster.com is fed content by the CloudChannel application and will offer subscription-based access to premium live music content.

The Audigist.com redesign is nearly complete and the service is being moved to new, bigger servers to cope with its rapidly expanding artist and MP3 databases.

Payment Systems Division The Payment Systems Division completed its pre-market release earlier this year and Digital Clarity's redesign of the iPayu website is nearly complete which will enable public marketing activity to commence. Wireless payments are one of the hottest areas of technology development. Last week, Google announced that it is working on a mobile telephone with a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip that will enable phones to transmit the payment information of the device's owner to vendors using compatible technology. Importantly, Google intends to forge partnerships with third party companies to handle the payment mechanisms. This is exactly the direction that iPayu is heading and the first commercial implementation of iPayu is due to be announced shortly.

The company has commenced a strategic partner acquisition program and has already met with two companies that offer complementary solutions to iPayu in order to accelerate adoption of the technology. These meetings have opened new opportunities for iPayu and should accelerate revenue generation in 2011.

Software and Support Division BMC has been re-aligning its wholesale business and in that strategic review, it was determined to take advantage of the difficult conditions in consumer markets and the inevitable consolidation that occurs. In line with RTG Ventures' strategy to vertically integrate in its markets, a boutique retail business, Nua, has been acquired and its operations will be merged with BMC to facilitate development of retail business in the US. There is a viable franchising model which could be implemented as the economy continues to improve. Marie Barry, the Founder and Managing Director of Nua, was previously announced as the Managing Director of BMC.

A new distribution agreement has been signed with a fast growing US beauty and lifestyle brand and the collection was launched in early November. The brand has a strong celebrity following with several major film and music personalities featured in its marketing campaigns. BMC expects its 2010 research and development projects to be commercialized in early 2011 and to enhance its product development capabilities, discussions are well progressed with a manufacturing partner in the Far East. The partnership will enable BMC to secure exclusive new products for distribution, speed time to market for new own branded, patented products and establish a Far East distribution center for the future.

Digital Clarity continues to outperform the targets set with new client wins monthly. A new initiative for RTG Ventures, led by Reggie James, will re-tool RTG Ventures' website as a flagship site for investor awareness and communication. Utilizing his expertise in search engine optimization (SEO) and the world of social networking, James will transform the site into a fully socially integrated destination with Twitter, Facebook and other state-of-the-art technologies utilized to aid powerful communication and promotion of the company. An announcement dedicated to this high priority initiative will be made early next week.

Digital Clarity is now contributing to the strategic marketing plans of all RTG Ventures companies. With specific expertise in developing analytics to measure market reach, demographics and detailed user data, Digital Clarity is key to securing competitive advantage online.

Digital Clarity has been upgrading its US activity and in a recent report in Growing Business Magazine (http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/), Reggie James says:

"NYC has always been the hub of the advertising industry worldwide, and we believed having a foothold there would help add weight to the company's activities in the UK, as well as open up new revenue streams in a mature market. We also believed it would be advantageous to be close to the sales and marketing hubs of the major search and social media companies."

After the solid interchange of ideas and with milestones set for the future, RTG Ventures sees progress in every operating unit with growth coming organically and by acquisition in a very bright 2011. The management team will continue to steward every aspect of the overall venture, while assessing any new opportunities presented and will provide that information to its shareholders and to the public as it occurs.

RTG Ventures Primes the Pump: Content Acquisition Strategy Kicks Off
9:42a ET December 2, 2010 (Market Wire)
RTG Ventures, Inc. (OTCBB: RTGV) has commenced a content acquisition program for its Media Systems Division as version 1.0 of its CloudChannel and Flowcaster.com applications near completion. RTG Media Systems will attract content into its system in several ways. In addition to working with artists, managers, promoters, publishers and record labels to monetize their existing content, RTG Ventures is commissioning its own productions. The first is a film of an acoustic set for up and coming band The Filthy Nights, which was filmed at the end of November and came out of post production on December 1, 2010.

Further productions are planned for the future and Colin Burgess, RTG Media Systems' Technical Director explains that content will not necessarily be restricted to concerts.

"What fans want," explains Burgess, "is access to artists. Simply watching a gig online isn't enough for today's media hungry consumer. They want a story and they want to play a part in the decision making process that drives that story. X Factor and American Idol aren't successes because of the quality of their artists. They're huge because audiences are participating, they're part of the act, they are driving the story line. Our productions will give artists the ability monetize fan access in ways that have simply not been possible before now."

CloudChannel is a rights management and auto-syndication system that allows owners of live music video to monetize their content through digital media platforms. Flowcaster.com is a consumer-focused Web TV platform that aggregates live entertainment video on digital devices. CloudChannel is the engine that powers Flowcaster.com and the raw material for both technologies is high quality live music video.

Burgess adds: "RTG productions will become valuable assets for the company as our library of footage grows. We've developed strict criteria and an exciting strategy for selecting artists that can attract a pay-per-view audience online so that we can deliver very strong return on investment for artists, their stakeholders and, of course our own shareholders. London's been at the heart of the global music business since the sixties and being based in London's creative center, Soho, we've got next year's biggest bands passing right by our door every day."