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Purpose of Document
This document is of a confidential nature and is not for public issue. Receipt of this document requires the recipient to have
signed a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement with Bluebox Devices. If you have not signed the agreement, or have
received this document in error, please contact Bluebox Devices immediately. This document is encoded with a unique
signature stating the name of the authorised recipient who is accountable for the security of this document. Sharing of the
document is expressly forbidden and in breach of the terms of the Bluebox Devices Non-Disclosure Agreement.
This document, entitled the Sophisticated Investor Information Memorandum (“the Document”), has been produced by
Bluebox Devices Pty Ltd (“Bluebox” or “Bluebox Devices”, as the case and context may be), and provides additional
information relating to a proposed investment by investors, who are entitled to be offered and issued shares, pursuant to
section 708 of the Corporations Act, without the need for a prospectus or an offer information statement. The Document is
distributed to parties who have expressed an interest in Bluebox Devices, and is only for sophisticated investors (as defined
in Part 7 of the Corporations Act). It is not a prospectus or offer information statement under the Corporations Act. The
Document has not been lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”).
The Document does not constitute an offer or invitation in any place in which, or to any person to whom, it would not be
lawful to make such an offer or invitation. No action has been taken to register or qualify the shares or the offer or
otherwise to permit a public evaluation of Bluebox.
Although Bluebox, its Directors and advisers have used due care and diligence in the preparation of the Document no
representation or warranty is made by Bluebox Devices’ Directors, officers or any of its advisers as to the accuracy or
completeness of the information in the Document. No information contained in this Document or any other written or oral
communication transmitted or made available to the recipient or advisers is, or shall be relied upon as, a promise or
representation, and no representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy of attainability of any estimates, forecasts or
projections set out in the Document. No liability will attach to Bluebox Devices’ Directors, officers or any of its advisers with
respect to any such information, estimates, forecasts or projections. The investment referred to in this Document should be
considered speculative.
Investors should read this Document in its entirety. If, after reading the Document, you have any questions about, or wish
to express an interest in, an investment in Bluebox Devices, you should contact the person who provided you with this
Document. Bluebox Devices reserves the right to decide whether or not to make offers and to issue shares to any person in
their absolute discretion.
Corporate Registry
Bluebox Devices Pty Ltd ACN 118 929 123
Chairman: Mr Bruce M Bilney
Patent Attorneys: Mr Nik Ramchand, Blake Dawson Waldron Patent Services
Corporate Counsel: Fetter Gdanski P/L
Accountant: Mr Max Davenport, Davenports
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary 5
Content Suppliers 11
Competitive Outlook 11
Path to Market 12
Investor Analysis 13
Earnings Potential 14
Assumptions 15
Verification of Assumptions 16
Investment Analysis 16
Forecast Scenarios 20
Risks 20
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Executive Summary
This document provides an overview of new component technologies under development at Bluebox Devices and how
these technologies are driving outstanding business opportunities for the company.
Bluebox Devices has developed a unique business model which fundamentally changes the advertising paradigm used to
support content consumption, offering consumers reward for viewing and advertisers precision targeting and dramatically
increased conversion potential.
Organisations including IBM, Intel, Internode, Starcom have established major commercial relationships with Bluebox to
bring this model to a commercial reality.
To fund this, Bluebox is offering a Series A1 equity investment opportunity by private placement of up to 200 million fully
paid shares at AUD0.10c to raise AUD20m.
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TV, print and radio maintain their reliance on interruptive broadcast advertising. Online mediums, particularly Google, rely
on interruptive advertising pushed out to consumers. While online may be considered a narrowcast approach to advertising,
it is still ‘hit and miss’ that is neither engaging, accountable nor capable of feedback.
The Bluebox environment contains core socio demographic information on our customers which is continually built upon
and supplemented by capturing consumer behaviour and consumption patterns. In doing this we refine and improve our
ability to offer increasingly targeted audience profiles to prospective advertisers thereby increasing the effectiveness of
advertising campaigns and consequently overall profitability.
Consumers: Consumers are paid by Bluebox for their time and feedback. They choose the ad categories of interest and
relevance to them, which are then only delivered on demand and under their control, not intrusively embedded into
content. Meander, Bluebox’s content search engine, allows consumers to easily search for content based on their viewing
preferences, history and the relationships between individual pieces of content, e.g. artist, directors, genres, etc.
Content Owners, ISPs and Telcos: Through Bluebox consumers can purchase content (Movies, Music, etc) by watching ads.
Content providers will realise increased revenues through decreased consumer use of illegal copying and file sharing.
Similarly Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecommunications Carriers (Telcos) currently carry the delivery burden of
Video-on-Demand (VOD) and IPTV traffic for no reward, and, in many cases, economic loss. Bluebox’s business model gives
them a share of the advertising revenues previously unavailable to them. By working & marketing within the ISP’s & Telco’s
network Bluebox will gain immediate access to, and be able to leverage their customer bases.
Consumer Electronics Manufacturers: With the international rollout, Bluebox is planning to release its family of digital
lifestyle products to extend the in-home viewing experience through to the consumer’s living room, which will be paid for
through the Paid for View credits. These devices are to be licensed as a technology platform in partnership with Intel
Corporation, supplying core componentry to the consumer electronics industry. Intel Corporation has recently signed a
share warrant co-marketing agreement with Bluebox for this purpose.
Bluebox has the potential to reshape the global Advertising and Video market with a model that resolves value issues with
Video on Demand resulting in real competition against DVD rental and TV broadcast markets by creating a unique Web 2.0
environment for content and advertising.
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Introduction to Bluebox Devices
Opportunity for Bluebox Devices
“The big opportunity to bridge the growing chasm between TV and the Internet”
Bluebox’s ‘Paid for View’ is a business system that challenges the conventional ad-supported content model presently used
throughout TV, print media and the Internet. The traditional model is built around advertisers paying for space or time, with
no value considered, accounted or monetised for the viewer’s role.
The limitations of the TV industry have become apparent over the last few years, which, for the first time since the
appearance of commercial television in the 1940’s, has begun a negative growth trend. This trend is largely due to the
emergence of the Internet and personal computers as the dominant entertainment medium amongst Generation X and Y
consumers. These consumers find the Internet a more efficient and fulfilling medium to acquire media rather than watching
TV alone.
In recognition of this shift in the market, advertisers are following the trend by reducing their budgets for TV and increasing
their budgets for online advertising and actively looking for new media options to get the advertising message to the
consumer. Online advertising growth rates are beginning to slow, however, as advertisers begin to question this new
medium’s campaign effectiveness, but few alternate options are available.
In the absence of a legitimate and competitive product the consumer culture of ‘free’, ingrained by TV for several
generations, has seen the proliferation of illegal Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing of TV, movie and music content amongst
young consumers as the most popular medium for acquiring ‘what they want, when they want it’. This has cost the movie,
TV and music industries billions of dollars. Bluebox believes there is a profound opportunity for media providers to meet
this market demand.
A free content medium, that overcomes the shortfalls of the traditional TV model while addressing the demand for choice,
immediacy and efficiency by today’s consumer, would open up vast new markets for content providers by providing the best
of both worlds. Of even greater appeal is a medium that both beats piracy and generates far better profits than is currently
possible for content providers. This is what Bluebox’s ‘Paid for View’ delivers.
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‘Paid for View’ – The new advertising paradigm
Meander’s value proposition to the consumer is simple: get the content you want, for free. Meander combines the functions
of a Digital Media Store (like iTunes Music Store), the ability to gain credit though ‘Paid for View”, and a media player, all
through a simple and intuitive graphical user interface. Meander can also manage consumer viewing preferences to assist
when searching through the vast libraries of viewing or listening choices.
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A compelling approach for Advertisers
Bluebox Control
1. Create
Upload: Start by giving your campaign a name and description then upload your Ad into
your new campaign.
Target: Set the targeting parameters for your campaign. Be as broad or targeted as you like,
from postcode to country, sex, interests and attitudes or tv programs.
Budget: Set the budget for your campaign, then set a start date, and choose an end date or
finish when the budget has been spent.
2. Run
Control: Here you have the control to directly start, pause or stop a campaign.
Monitor: Get daily updates on your campaign emailed to you. You can also set alerts to help
manage budgets or viewer responses.
Tweak: Are you are getting feedback from your campaign that you would like to incorporate
into your targeting or budget? Then pause the campaign, make the necessary changes, then
start the campaign again. Simple.
3. Report
Scorecard: At the end of the campaign a confidential standardized scorecard is automatically
generated for you, providing 'at a glance' vital stats on how the campaign ran.
Detailed Reports: If you want you can easily generate reports that focus on the interests of
media planning or your advertising customers such as ROI and successful impressions.
Download Stats: If you are interested in crunching the numbers, you can download the raw
data ready for import to Excel, or 3rd party reporting tools.
Bluebox is working collaboratively with advertising partners like Starcom MediaVest to ensure Bluebox Control provides
Media Buyers with the tools, control and information they want. Starcom’s director of digital says “Bluebox control provides
a source of hard data to the black arts of media planning. We see Bluebox control as a formidable weapon in a very
competitive market”
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Increasing business for Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) and
Telecommunication Companies (Telcos)
Bluebox is a complete ‘turnkey’ Content on Demand system, with comprehensive content, commerce management, storage
and delivery. Integration with Bluebox is simply a matter of connection from the Bluebox system into their network. Key
business drivers for ISP adoption of Bluebox are as follows:
• It recognises and capitalises on the significant demand for illegal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing of movies, music and TV
shows over the Internet. Up to 89% of Internet traffic (by volume) is from illegal file sharing with certain Australian ISP’s.
Having a legal and competitive alternative within an ISPs/Telco’s own network has the potential to monetise these users
and dramatically reduce ISP wholesale overhead costs for overseas trunk fiber access used by illegal P2P file sharers –
which is a major running cost for ISPs.
• When delivered though the ISPs own infrastructure, ISPs receive a revenue share on a transactional basis on every
consumer hire and purchase of movies, TV shows and music, creating a new source of revenue.
• Paid for View’ addresses the multi-billion dollar loss of revenue through illegal P2P file sharing, providing a legal and
competitive value proposition to consumers. At present the Content Supplier looses and the ISP has to provide a pipeline
to cope with the illegal file transfer, both loose. With Bluebox, get what you want, when you want it, get it for free, and
get it legally. ‘Paid for View’ achieves this whilst paying Bluebox partners for every unit of content consumed.
• Bluebox is an opportunity for product differentiation that encourages consumers to move to higher speed plans.
• There is no requirement for new or dedicated infrastructure. Bluebox runs on existing ISP IP high-speed Internet
infrastructure, minimizing capital investment demands.
• It’s complementary to existing service bundling – Bluebox is designed to compete with DVD rentals and Free to Air TV.
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Content Suppliers
Competitive Outlook
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• Bluebox has a vast and growing array of content, including, the major studios but also independent and niche content.
Bluebox is not solely a VOD business, but provides VOD as one of its product offerings.
Path to Market
International launch
This is scheduled for approximately three months after the full-scale commercial release in Australia. The International
launch will begin in the Singapore and the United Kingdom followed by rollouts into markets where broadband adoption
rates are high.
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Investor Analysis
Capital and Investment Structure
The purpose
To provide Bluebox with the capital required to complete product development and technology protection for
commercialisation, both domestically and internationally
The Offer
Bluebox is now entering a capital raising round for AUD20 Million, sourced from Australia, Asia and the United States. This
will be used to complete software development and its protection, followed by the Beta Trial subsequently enabling Bluebox
to stage the commercialisation first domestically then internationally.
Bluebox is offering equity investment opportunity by private placement for 200 million fully paid shares at AUD0.10c to raise
AUD20m. This will be done via three calls on the share capital scheduled as follows:
• 40% on application,
• 30% Q2 2009,
• 30% Q3 2009.
The first call scheduled for Quarters 3 & 4 of 2008 allows for the completion of Bluebox systems together with their
protection, and for the Beta Trial and launch.
The second call in late Q4 2008 is to fund the expansion of back end systems and infrastructure to support the growth in
customer numbers.
The third and final call schedule for the beginning of Q3 2009 will be utilized for international rollout.
Bluebox have a signed Memorandum of Understanding with Intel, where Intel will take an equity position. In addition,
negotiations have commenced for a further Intel investment of USD20-25m to support international rollout of Bluebox post
the Beta Trial
Bluebox’s current major shareholders share structure register is available upon request.
Exit Strategies
Bluebox anticipates an exit opportunity for investors, either by trade sale or listing, within three years. Currently three
distinct opportunities have been identified
• Six months after the start of the Beta Trial, Bluebox will have demonstrated revenues and have proven its business model.
These will enable Bluebox to list on either the ASX or AIM.
• Subsequent to this initial listing opportunity, and once Bluebox has completed six - twelve months of operations outside
Australia, it will be well positioned to list in the United States, on either the NASDAQ or NYSE, or proceed to the LSE to
bring the company into the major international exchange boards.
• Bluebox anticipates a third option through a trade sale, which, if commercially reasonable, could provide investors a
further opportunity to realise investment returns.
The final decision as to whether IPO or trade sale is adopted will depend on the business position, market conditions and
ultimate returns to investors.
To assist in expansion Bluebox may seek Joint Venture partners in OECD countries or markets entered, and invite local
institutional investment into the JV to conserve funds and devolve risk for Bluebox.
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Earnings Potential
Note: revenues are quoted in Australian dollars.
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Conservatively the Bluebox model would generate gross revenues of AUD275 per user per year in revenue. A more
comprehensive assessment of the potential revenue of Bluebox can be gained by running scenarios on the Bluebox financial
model, which will provide a more detailed assessment of the potential revenues and subsequent profit for Bluebox. The
financial model will be made available to investors under supervision by Bluebox.
Bluebox has been structured to deliver four distinct and complimentary revenue streams.
The four revenue streams are:
• Retail of digital content via Meander to the consumer – (included in the financial model)
• Advertisers paying to advertise on the Bluebox system to reach their target market - (included in the financial model)
• The supply of campaign information back to the advertiser once a critical mass of Bluebox users has been established.
This will present advertisers with a unique opportunity to analyse viewer response and preference in detail and utilise this
information to improve campaign effectiveness and targeting - (not included in the financial model)
• The fourth stream relates to the sale, licensing and joint venture revenues concerning the development and sales of
digital lifestyle products. This revenue stream is yet to be fully researched and quantified but will contribute significantly
to Bluebox’s profitability - (not included in the financial model)
Only the first two (retail content and advertising revenue, being the more immediately realizable and major revenue streams,
have been utilised in the preparation of this information memorandum.
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Assumptions Driving Sales and Market Penetration
Key factors in estimating sales volume relates to discretionary interest (purchase) from Generation Y, X and Baby Boomer
markets across innovator, early adopter and early majority buyer behaviours. These segments represent half the population
of a first world geographic market.
New technology adoption rates over time for comparable products and applications have been used in predicting the take
up of Bluebox- the technology product adoption curve referred to previously.
In practical terms the drivers for these groups are:
• Strong response to Innovation or level of improvement over incumbent product (TV, DVD, and illegal file sharing)
• Cool factor/sex appeal (design and presentation)
• Entry price sensitivity for Early Majority (34% of total market) – has to be the right price – Free has proven highly
successful
By making Bluebox a free software product, it eliminates the capital burdens of a hardware driven market entry. This
strategy also provides a very low barrier to entry for consumers.
“Free” has been the hallmark of the most successful Internet based products, a proven pre requisite to drive rapid adoption
and a leading market position. Providing a free product also allows Bluebox to quickly build a ‘ready made market’ into
which we can licence our digital lifestyle products with far lower commercial risk to Bluebox and consumer electronics
licences.
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The Gen X-er
Generation X-ers are critical, suspicious, want ownership and control, are notoriously hard to target as a market segment,
and love cult and retro movies, TV, and music. Generation X-ers have indicated that they will use a mix of both ‘Paid for
View’ and direct purchase of content.
Investment Analysis
The assumptions and forecasts in the financial model are based on industry norms where available. Where none exists, or is
accessible, research has been undertaken by Bluebox.
The most critical assumptions and information effecting Bluebox’s understanding of the likely performance of the business
relate to three key questions:
• how much content consumption is funded through ad viewing,
• how much will an individual consume,
• and how many consumers will Bluebox have?
These are addressed both below and in detail in the financial model. A listing of assumptions and data used to develop the
Bluebox financial model is available for examination. The Model is available for the execution of ‘what-if’ scenario under
supervision upon request.
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Approach to scaling growth
The philosophy of ‘Paid for View, as a more efficient commerce system, unlike other Internet and Dot.com companies, will
generate revenue from every transaction from day one.
‘Paid for View’ generates a strong cash position quickly, giving Bluebox the capacity to grow steadily as each user generates
revenue. This will ensure that Bluebox is able to grow from its own financial resources, beyond the capital raised under this
IM to enter the market.
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Critical factors effecting revenue streams
Building, maintaining and improving a strong consumer product is essential to generate a large and growing audience to
offer advertisers. Bluebox needs to achieve a critical mass of users to be considered a viable advertising medium. In Australia,
this is believed to be a market of 500,000+ users.
The larger Bluebox’s user base, the more valuable it is to advertisers. A strong consumer product will also encourage
increased individual consumption, which hinge on three factors: Free, easy to use, and a diverse array of content.
Revenue from hardware and software licensing are expected to contribute starting in years two and three (currently
excluded from the financial analysis, as the details have not been finalised). While content retailing and hardware and
software licensing may appear relatively small they are critical business components, as they broaden the Bluebox market
appeal by being able to ‘enter the living room’ to compete directly with broadcast TV and DVD rental which is a far larger
main stream market with broader demographic representation.
A critical factor to drive Bluebox growth beyond use on PCs and Macs though Meander software, will be achieved by getting
the CMA adaptor and or STB (set to box) into the market. Doing so will generally broaden Bluebox’s product appeal (as it is
more capable), and open up markets for mainstream consumers who see access to content though computers as to difficult
and awkward. A detailed description of the Bluebox hardware offering is contained within the Bluebox Technology
compendium.
Risks
Every endeavour has been made to identify and manage the key risks to Bluebox of technology, management and market.
Identifying risks to our business has helped discover limiting factors and roadblocks.
Immediate and medium term risks that Bluebox faces are summarised below (a comprehensive analysis is contained in the
document titled “Bluebox Detailed Description of our Business, Appendix 1”):
• Securing commercialisation capital in a timely fashion to ensure market entry on schedule.
• Delivering the Technology to market in a timely manner.
• Building a large content library – the diversity of our content library is critical in the offering of media people want
to see and hear.
• Securing advertisers – which directly affects the value of our product to the consumer, and to content suppliers
and advertisers.
• Securing commercial relationships with companies such as Internode and Optus to deliver over 1,250,000
potential users of the Meander application.
• Legislative blocking and lobbying from the TV industry – may slow down large scale implementation marginally but
will be a defensive move on their part.
• Competitive Risk – Bluebox is aiming to compete in consumer terms with principally the DVD rental, then Cable
and Free to Air TV markets. These markets are dominated by large and well established players. However given
that Bluebox is coming from the Internet, it is likely we will not be perceived as a direct competitive threat.
• IP – Success for Bluebox Devices will depend largely on its ability to obtain the use of patents, typically to support
licensing and to head off “Me too products”.
• No assurance can be given that the value of the intellectual property rights will be completely protected by a
combination of copyright, trade secrecy laws, patent, confidentiality and other intellectual property rights.
It is prudent for investors to make an investment only after considering the risks involved. The forecast returns are
connected to the risks of introducing a new product to market and developing a new business and is contingent on the
company’s success. Investors should undertake due diligence to their satisfaction before making an investment in Bluebox.
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Here at Bluebox we have the potential to reshape the global Advertising and Video industry with
our innovative business offerings.
By providing our consumers the ability to watch what they want, when they want, and on a cost
neutral basis we have created a unique commercial relationship of benefit to consumers,
content providers and advertisers alike.
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