Major Internet Destinations Team With Virage To Add Video Search Engines To Their Sites
SNAP.com, iVillage.com, govWorks.com and StreamSearch.com Adopt Virage and C-SPAN's Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine SAN MATEO, CA -October 12, 1999- Virage Inc., the recognized market leader in searchable and interactive video products and services, announced that SNAP.com, iVillage.com, govWorks.com and StreamSearch.com are utilizing the Virage Interactive™ video search engine service to add presidential election coverage to their sites. By incorporating Virage's video search engine into their sites, these major Internet destinations are now able to give visitors access to Virage and CSPAN's Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine, which contains the presidential candidates televised speeches on the road to the White House. Using Virage's service, televised video content of national importance is available on a national scale as searchable video content, delivered to viewers when they want it and by topics they select.
Virage's service, Virage Interactive, allows site providers to easily deploy video content on their web sites and to provide their viewers with access to video in a compelling, interactive manner that makes sense on the Internet. By providing users with immediate search-engine style access to streaming video, Virage's interactive video is at once bandwidth-friendly and format-familiar. Virage has chosen INTERVU Inc. (Nasdaq: ITVU) to provide the streaming video hosting for the C-SPAN Campaign 2000 project.
"Since the dawn of democracy, physical distances and communication technology have limited voters' ability to get the information they need about candidates directly from the candidates," said Paul Lego, CEO of Virage. "By using the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine, influential web sites, such as SNAP.com, iVillage.com, govWorks.com and StreamSearch.com, are able to easily provide their users with quick access to unfiltered information on candidates' positions. This technology promises to change the way we elect our next president." SNAP.com and Virage Snap.com announced that they have incorporated Virage Inc.'s and C-SPAN's groundbreaking Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine, dedicated to the upcoming presidential election season, into both Snap.com, http://www.snap.com, and Snap.com For Higher-Speed Users http://speed.snap.com, the first multimedia portal designed for high speed Internet users.
"As the first Internet portal service to make the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine available, Snap.com continues its leadership in providing compelling multimedia content to users of all connection speeds," said Edmond Sanctis, chief operating officer of Snap.com. "Snap is pleased to be working with Virage and C-SPAN to deliver this breakthrough video resource to voters via our flagship service and our groundbreaking rich media portal, Snap.com For Higher-Speed Users." iVillage.com and Virage iVillage.com: The Women's Network today announced the addition of the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine to its network. As the leading destination for women online, iVillage.com aims to become the place during the 2000 elections where women discuss their concerns and communicate their vision to candidates.
"iVillage.com members tell us how deeply they care about this election. They have powerful ideas for political change, and we want iVillage.com to be their hub for the national dialogue," said Nancy Evans, co-Founder and Editor in Chief of iVillage.com. "Virage's video search engine is a good fit for us because it provides women voters with the power to make decisions based on issues and real facts about candidates. It gives our members meaningful access to politicians and their platforms." govWorks.com and Virage govWorks.com, a New York City-based Internet company that is launching a nationwide service that creates, for the first time ever, a consumer-branded direct online link to local government, announced today that it will add the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine as part of its govCast application. govCast will complement the broader govWorks' information service offerings focused on local governments by adding important national political coverage.
"govWorks is designed to link citizens with local governments, providing both access to information and full transactional capabilities," said Kaleil D. Isaza Tuzman, CEO and Co-founder of govWorks.com. "The Virage video search technology and Virage's Interactive service adds rich interactive video content to our network and provides our users with valuable information on the national election in a dynamic and compelling manner." StreamSearch.com and Virage StreamSearch.com announced today an agreement to distribute C-SPAN and Virage's online coverage of the presidential campaign for the 2000 election. Users will be able to search for and view streaming video of candidate campaign speeches, primary and general election debates, press conferences and party fund raising events on the StreamSearch.com web site. StreamSearch.com plans to promote the campaign search capabilities by holding innovative contests and by encouraging users of their web site to get involved in the campaign and election.
"Virage's technology allows us to add compelling content to our web site in a form users can easily interact with," said Robert Shambro, president and CEO of StreamSearch.com. "Virage's video search engine also gives us a way to very easily link video content to interactive activities that foster community and information sharing on our site." The Campaign 2000 Search Engine enables the public to go to any of these sites and quickly search for and view video on any candidate, party or campaign topic throughout the campaign cycle. With Virage's video search technology, viewers are no longer forced to plan their schedules around special election events, or to rely solely on the opinions and sound-bites of the media. Voters can now immediately find topics of interest within any speech and quickly learn the information that is important to them. Furthermore, Internet users can compare and contrast statements made by a candidate as they speak to voters at different venues, and can track a candidate's position on a topic throughout the campaign process.
About Virage Interactive™ services Virage Interactive provides content originators, such as media and entertainment companies, enterprise customers, and premiere event and conference producers, with a complete solution for integrating searchable and interactive video into their web sites. Powered by Sun Microsystems' Enterprise servers and Solaris Operating Environment, the service translates video content from television, satellite or tape directly into a hosted and private-labeled video search engine. By providing a hosted index of searchable video, Virage Interactive allows site producers to weave video search throughout their site, retaining complete control over the functionality as well as the look and feel of the web pages.
About Virage Virage is the leading provider of products and services that maximize the value of video by making it searchable and interactive. Virage's VideoLogger and AudioLogger software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets/extranets. Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, BBC, CBS, CNET, CNN, Compaq, C-SPAN, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, and Telecinco. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Virage was incorporated in 1994 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets.
About SNAP.com Snap.com, the Internet portal service company from NBC and CNET (Nasdaq: CNET - news), operates the Snap.com flagship portal service (http://www.snap.com) and Snap.com For Higher-Speed Users, http://speed.snap.com, the first-ever rich media service of its kind. Snap.com's Internet portal services offer users powerful ways to organize and find anything on the Internet. Snap.com's Internet portal services feature content from over 100 leading Web publishers, and are distributed by more than 50 Internet Service Providers, telephone and communications companies, PC manufacturers and third-party marketers. At the heart of Snap.com's portal services is a directory of Web sites and over 500 resource centers, built by a team of editors and reviewers to ensure quality, freshness and usefulness. Users may either search the Snap directory by using keywords, or browse through the directory's 16 topic categories.
About iVillage.com: The Women's Network iVillage.com: The Women's Network http://www.ivillage.com and AOL keyword: ivillage) is the leading online destination targeted at women providing practical solutions and everyday support for women between the ages of 25 to 54. iVillage.com is organized into branded communities that focus on issues of most importance to women and provides interactive services, peer support and online access to experts through 14 content specific channels and three stores. Content channels include Parent Soup, allHealth, MoneyLife, Career, Work from Home, Relationships, Diet & Fitness, Click!: Where Computers Make Sense, Pets, Travel, ParentsPlace, Food, Book Club and Astrology and are complemented by stores such as iBaby and iMaternity and Shopping Central. Established in 1995 and headquartered in New York City, iVillage Inc. (Nasdaq: IVIL) is an online media company widely recognized as an industry leader in developing innovative sponsorship and commerce relationships that match the desire of marketers to reach women with the needs of iVillage.com members for relevant information and services.
About govWorks.com Founded in 1998, govWorks.com is a New York City-based Internet company that owns and operates a nationwide online network which revolutionizes government's relationship with its constituents by providing information, services and full transaction capabilities over the Internet. Additional information on govWorks can be found at http://www.govWorks.com.
About StreamSearch.com Founded in 1999, StreamSearch.com, Inc. is a global audio and video directory and search engine based in St. Louis, Mo. The company is dedicated to providing "The Remote Control" for the Web, enabling users to easily navigate through, locate, and play audio and video content. Through its proprietary, patented technology and processes, as well as its partnerships with key industry players, the company provides the most comprehensive audio/video directory and search capabilities available today.
About INTERVU INTERVU provides Web site owners and content publishers with services for the delivery or "streaming" of live and on-demand video and audio content over the Internet. INTERVU's services automate the publishing, storage and distribution of video and audio content. INTERVU uses a scalable, patented distribution network comprised of servers strategically located in major Internet hosting centers. INTERVU's customers use its video and audio distribution services to transmit entertainment, sports, news, music, business communications, advertising and distance learning content. INTERVU's current customers include CNN, House of Blues, Intel, Microsoft, MSNBC, NBC, Onradio.com, Quokka Sports, RadioWave.com, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Turner Broadcasting. Additional information can be found at http://www.intervu.net.
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