| ISMagazine.com | Internet Today |
October, 1999 |
InfoSpace.com to Offer Thousands of Digital Music Titles to Millions of Net Users
NEW YORK, Jupiter Plug-In Conference, July 21 – Audio Explosion, Inc., a leading provider of secure music delivery services via the Internet, today announced a strategic agreement with InfoSpace.com, Inc., a leading Internet infrastructure company, to provide a secure music download service to InfoSpace.com's extensive affiliate network. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of over 1,800 Web sites and Internet appliances.
This agreement with InfoSpace.com is a milestone in Audio Explosion's strategy to provide leading Internet sites with secure digital music, and underscores InfoSpace.com's commitment to provide the best in syndicated entertainment content. Digital songs will be offered through Audio Explosion's secure MP3 service, Mjuice. Audio Explosion began hosting and serving secure digital music in March 1999 with the launch of Mjuice.com.
"InfoSpace.com is excited to work with Audio Explosion in the secure music hosting and serving area," said Bhu Srinivasan, Director of Business Development for InfoSpace.com. "Now, InfoSpace.com's affiliates will be able to download and play back thousands of secure digital songs from major and independent artists."
"Audio Explosion is committed to growing the downloadable music business and we are very excited to work with InfoSpace.com to bring the Mjuice music service to even more people worldwide," said Arnold Brown, CEO of Audio Explosion. "Based on InfoSpace.com's leadership in reaching users of Internet appliances, we are excited to work with InfoSpace.com to bring digital-on-demand music delivery to their users of Internet music devices."
InfoSpace.com has an affiliate network which consists of over 1,800 Web sites that reaches over 85% of all Web users in the United States, according to Media Metrix. InfoSpace.com is a leader in handheld devices and Internet Appliances, which is a key asset as the market for portable devices that will play secure digital music expands. Audio Explosion is a member of SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), and will deliver an SDMI-compliant version of its Mjuice service in time for the commercial arrival of SDMI-compliant hardware devices.
About Audio Explosion:
Founded in 1998, Audio Explosion provides a music delivery service, Mjuice, that allows large and small Internet sites to offer high-quality secure digital music and entertainment content. Audio Explosion is dedicated to leveraging the power of the Internet to create new markets for music and new experiences for music fans. The company has developed an extensible music-on demand system that is compatible with emerging audio technologies, such as MP3 and AAC, and industry standards, such as SDMI. Audio Explosion was the first company to bring security and rights management to the MP3 format. Audio Explosion is based in San Francisco, California. For more information on Audio Explosion and the Mjuice service go to
http://www.mjuice.com.
About InfoSpace.com:
InfoSpace.com is a leading Internet infrastructure company. InfoSpace.com provides private label solutions for content, community and commerce. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 1,800 Web sites and Internet appliances. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Netscape, Microsoft, Lycos, Go2Net, Inc.'s MetaCrawler, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) and ABC LocalNet. In addition, InfoSpace.com has agreements with a number of providers of Internet access devices including PCs by Acer America and The Pixel Company (for Packard Bell NEC), cellular phones by AT&T Wireless and UnWired Planet, pagers by WolfeTech (for Motorola), screen phones by InfoGear, Mitel, Mitsui and Lucent, television set-top boxes by American Interactive Media, @Home, Lucent, On Command, Planetweb and Source Media, online kiosks by King kiosk platform and Lexitech kiosk platform, and personal digital assistants by AT&T Wireless, InfoGear and Unwired Planet.