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Publishers Clearing House – the bankrupt sweepstakes firm that instructed its previous prize winners they’d not obtain their ‘forever’ funds – has a new CEO, who has a plan to guard the corporate’s prize winners.
Future winners. Past winners are still out of luck.
ARB Interactive, a cell gaming firm that now owns PCH, introduced Tuesday that Owen O’Donoghue will lead a “revitalization” of the 70-year-old model that ensures “all future sweepstakes payouts are fully secure,” in accordance with a press release. O’Donoghue, the new PCH CEO, additionally plans to make PCH a “mobile-first digital entertainment platform.”
The change comes after ARB Interactive stated that beneath the phrases of the gross sales settlement, it might not honor payouts for many who gained their life-changing prizes earlier than July fifteenth of this 12 months, leaving many so-called without end winners with out the sweepstakes checks that they had come to depend on for years.
Tuesday’s announcement doesn’t embody something about previous winners. But its CEO’s new plan is aimed toward defending future prize winnings ought to the corporate enter dire monetary straits once more.
The new “Price Protection Program” will be funded with “investment-grade assets held in FDIC-insured escrow accounts and managed through a bank-run investment vehicle, the program safeguards payments for large annuity prizes and reflects PCH’s commitment to trust and accountability,” the press launch stated.
O’Donoghue was most lately the chief income officer and cofounder of InfiniGods, a cell sport developer, and beforehand spent greater than a decade at Meta (neé Facebook) in its gaming division.
His appointment is a part of ARB Interactive’s mission to rebrand PCH “as a leader in mobile-first, advertising-supported entertainment while honoring its iconic sweepstakes tradition,” stated ARB Interactive CEO Patrick Fechtmeyer.
Miami-based ARB Interactive purchased PCH in July, and in the end plans to mix the model as nicely its famed “Prize Patrol” with its “flagship platform,” Modo Casino, a gaming app that pays out cash.