Clipta has
secured $500,000 in financing through Angel investment. In addition, Clipta also revealed
it has successfully implemented the advanced self-learning deep Web crawler technology
that will propel the company toward its goal of indexing one billion online videos
worldwide by 2010.

Clipta.com has operated as one of the fastest growing worldwide video search provider
since its first release in May of 2008. Over six months, Clipta’s servers indexed
approximately 35 million videos. Based on dramatic growth in online video and with
the onset of Clipta’s new deep crawling technology, Clipta expects to meaningfully
index all searchable and available online videos.

With self-learning deep crawlers implemented in eight languages around the world,
Clipta is already a leading global video search. Today, Clipta also has a complex
multilingual conversion script and Web platform that offers the site to users in English,
Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese and Ukrainian. The company
plans to roll the site out in ten additional languages by the end of 2009. The new
technology will combine with Clipta’s already sophisticated tools and applications
to offer users instant access to millions of the most relevant videos on the Internet
through an innovative and unique platform.

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comScore released
data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 25.9 million German Internet
users viewed more than 3 billion videos online in August 2008. comScore Video Metrix,
which was the first video tracking service introduced in the U.S. more than two years
ago, has become a leading service for online video measurement and is the only service
of its kind in Germany.

Google Sites Ranks as Most Popular Online Video Viewing Property

Google Sites, driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 95 percent
of all videos viewed on the property in August), attracted a 52-percent share of all
online videos viewed in Germany. Ranking after Google Sites were two German properties,
ProSiebenSat1 Sites (1.5 percent share) and RTL Group Sites (1.1 percent share).

    Top German Online Video Properties* Ranked by Videos Viewed
    August 2008
    Total Germany - Age 15+, Home & Work Locations**
    Source: comScore Video Metrix
              Property                Videos (000)      Share (%) of Videos
    Total Internet : Total Audience    3,052,670                100.0%
    Google Sites                       1,590,301                 52.1%
    ProSiebenSat1 Sites                   46,237                  1.5%
    RTL Group Sites                       33,527                  1.1%
    Megavideo.com                         31,522                  1.0%
    Universal Music Group                 27,534                  0.9%
    Microsoft Sites                       11,816                  0.4%
    Lokalisten.de                         10,497                  0.3%
    Viacom Digital                         9,748                  0.3%
    Yahoo! Sites                           8,322                  0.3%
    Dailymotion.com                        7,377                  0.2%

    German Internet Users Watched 118 Videos per Viewer in August

Nearly 26 million German Internet users watched an average of 117.6 videos per viewer
in August. Google Sites also had the most viewers (16.7 million), who watched an average
of 95.5 videos per person. Universal Music Group drew the second most viewers (8.9
million), followed by RTL Group Sites (4.4 million) and ProSiebenSat1 Sites (4 million).

    Top German Online Video Properties* Ranked by Total Unique Viewers
    August 2008
    Total Germany - Age 15+, Home & Work Locations**
    Source: comScore Video Metrix
                                          Total Unique         Average Videos
              Property                    Viewers (000)          per Viewer
    Total Internet : Total Audience          25,958                117.6
    Google Sites                             16,652                 95.5
    Universal Music Group                     8,879                  3.1
    RTL Group Sites                           4,449                  7.5
    ProSiebenSat1 Sites                       4,007                 11.5
    Megavideo.com                             2,090                 15.1
    Microsoft Sites                           1,915                  6.2
    Viacom Digital                            1,643                  5.9
    Yahoo! Sites                              1,375                  6.1
    Fox Interactive Media                     1,342                  3.5
    Axel Springer AG                          1,083                  5.2

Other notable findings from August 2008 include:

• 73.2 percent of the total German Internet audience viewed online video.

• 16.4 million viewers watched over 1.5 billion videos on YouTube.com (95.3 videos per
  viewer).

• The average online video duration was 4.3 minutes, the longest of any of the five
  comScore Video Metrix countries (which also include the U.S., Canada, U.K. and France).

• The combined German online video viewing audience watched a total 219 million hours
  of video content.

• According to comScore M: Metrics, 3.1 million mobile phone subscribers used their
  phone to watch any kind of TV or video in Germany, of which 46.7 percent were younger
  than 25 years of age, based on a three month average ending August 2008.

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AOL will
adopt Brightcove for online
video content management, publishing and video playback throughout the AOL Network.
This partnership will combine AOL’s video content offerings with Brightcove’s market-leading
online video platform. Beginning in early 2009, AOL Programming and AOL Video (http://video.aol.com)
programming partners will use Brightcove to deliver video to the millions of people
who visit AOL sites each day. Brightcove’s integration with AOL’s global advertising
platform, Platform-A, will also expand opportunities for content partners to monetize
video with online advertising.

Brightcove recently announced a new version of their service, Brightcove 3, which
includes an enterprise edition to address the specific needs of aggregators, portals,
carriers and operators. AOL Video is the first major portal to take advantage of Brightcove
3.

The announcement extends the relationship between the two companies, which began in
2006 when AOL became a minority stakeholder in Brightcove.

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AOL Selects Brightcove Platform for Online Video Content Management

NYTimes.com launches
a new video platform that introduces video into more sections of the site and provides
enhanced user functionality. This new platform emphasizes The Times’s strong commitment
to video as an important journalistic medium. Players, now using a high-definition
format, are available on the home page, article pages, in blogs and in the video library,
making video an even more integral component of the NYTimes.com experience.

The video platform also introduces:

• Widescreen format – high-definition videos are now displayed in a 16×9 widescreen
  frame;
• Redesigned video library -
  library offers a clean layout and a black background for optimal viewing comfort;
• Individual video pages – an individual playback page for each video that provides
  a better viewing experience and enhanced searchability;
• “Most Viewed” – a continually updated list of the most viewed videos across the site;
  and
• Share tools – the ability to share videos to social sites such as Digg, Facebook,
  LinkedIn, Mixx and Yahoo! Buzz.

The Times produces over 100 original videos per month, featuring breaking news and
analysis, as well as enterprise and investigative reporting by Times journalists around
the world, many of whom are shooting video themselves. The Times also continues to
develop video series by well-known journalists such as David Pogue, Mark Bittman (The
Minimalist), David Carr (The Carpetbagger) and A.O. Scott (Critics’ Picks). NYTimes.com/video
currently houses over 3,000 videos. NYTimes.com also offers select videos from CNBC,
MSNBC, Reuters and Bloggingheads.tv, as well as more than 15,000 movie trailers and
clips. In recent weeks, NYTimes.com has begun hosting video at the top of the homepage,
including live streaming video of the presidential and vice presidential debates.

The new video experience uses Brightcove 3, the latest version of Brightcove’s online
video platform; The New York Times Company is an investor in Brightcove Inc.

According to Nielsen Online, NYTimes.com had 20.1 million unique visitors in September
2008, and was the No. 1 newspaper Web site in United States, a position it has long
held.

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BroadbandTV tops
YouTube Canada’s Entertainment Most Viewed Charts this past month by taking spots
at #1, #2 and #4 and YouTube Global Entertainment Most Viewed Charts this past weekend
by taking spots at #4, and #6.

BroadbandTV’s YouTube portfolio includes 20 channels with more than 7000 premium uploaded
video assets. All together, BroadbandTV’s content licenses garner more than 13 million
monthly views. With a dramatic 17% month over month growth rate, BroadbandTV is creating
a large and valuable inventory of contextually relevant advertising impressions. Advertisers
can choose which video content they would like to have their ads associated with.

Advertisers love the fact that BroadbandTV can deliver in-depth analysis on the demographics,
geographic and context of content on a per channel and program basis. This helps advertisers
tune their message to the right audience and attain higher levels of performance and
return on investment for their advertising dollars.

As a substantial force in online distribution of licensed video content, BroadbandTV
consistently uploads 3000 videos monthly from various genres. All meta information
associated with the videos is optimized using BroadbandTV’s “Opti-Find” technology
to assure greater viewership and impression growth. By drawing in more than 13 million
visitors per month and growing, BroadbandTV is becoming harder to ignore as a channel
to reach potential consumers.

BroadbandTV also grabbed spots #1, #2, #4, #10, #12, #16, #18, and #19 on “Canada’s
Entertainment Partners Channels Most View This Month” chart. This means that 8 of
the top 20 Most Viewed Channels This Month are related to BroadbandTV content.

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BroadbandTV Tops the Charts on YouTube Canada