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Swarmcast and iClips.net Partner to Deliver Live Concert Streams

Leading provider of live concerts online selects Swarmcast for high-quality video streaming

Minneapolis, MN - December 05, 2007

Swarmcast, the leader in high-quality online video delivery, and iClips.net, the leading provider of free online concert streams, have partnered to offer concert promoters, managers and individual artists a solution for drastically increasing the size of their audience and further monetizing their live performances. Under the terms of the partnership, all live and on-demand concerts available through the iClips network will be broadcast using the Swarmcast Live streaming solution.

Launched in December 2006, iClips.net is a network of live and archived concert feeds where users can watch their favorite artists perform or upload their own content for other users to view. Since its debut, iClips.net has been the leader in streaming live concerts and music festivals in their entirety including the recent VooDoo Music Festival which was held in New Orleans and featured such artists as Ben Harper, Common and Wilco. Other artists that have their concerts or performances available through iClips.net include Les Claypool, Phil Lesh and friends, The Flaming Lips, Paolo Nutini and Porcupine Tree.

The Swarmcast Live solution offers an innovative suite of live, HD-quality video delivery services built on the company's patented multi-source streaming technology. With Swarmcast Live content owners and distributors are able to instantly and seamlessly scale their offerings for millions of simultaneous users, ensure the highest quality viewing experience for each individual user and syndicate the video for future viewings and revenue generation. Compatible with most media platforms, Swarmcast Live also works seamlessly with content providers’ existing Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.

Executive quote

“iClips.net has built one of the pre-eminent repositories of live music content on the Internet and continues to push the envelope on improving the customer experience and expanding the audience of its content,” said Justin Chapweske, founder and CEO of Swarmcast. “Live content providers such as iClips are well positioned for the future as more and more artists are migrating online and their fans are beginning to follow. Transparent to the end-user, and offering all new revenue streams for the distributor, Swarmcast Live is the ideal solution to guide the online viewing revolution.”

Customer quote

“iClips.net was created to give audiences more control of and more variety in their music experiences and as a way for musicians to bring their shows to a global audience,” said Nate Parienti, co-founder and chief strategy officer of iClips.net. “The Swarmcast Live solution enables us to scale our network to accommodate our global audience and delivers a broadcast quality experience while taking the guesswork out of syndication and streaming.”

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About Swarmcast Live
Swarmcast Live delivers broadcast-quality live streaming video over the Internet. Streaming packets of content from multiple servers simultaneously and optimizing users' incoming broadband connections, it provides unprecedented quality, reliability, and scalability, giving global audiences a high-quality viewing experience optimized for their individual connection speed.

About Swarmcast
Swarmcast is dedicated to transforming the Internet into a reliable medium for distributing high-quality video. The company’s mission is to enable content providers to engage global audiences through high-quality viewing experiences.
The Swarmcast Platform offers an innovative suite of delivery services built on the foundation of the company’s patented file swarming technology. This next generation of content delivery services enables HD video, reliable live and on-demand streaming and accelerated downloads, while managing delivery costs.
Swarmcast is privately held and backed by Bridge Capital Fund (BCF) and Nippon Venture Capital. For more information about Swarmcast, please visit www.swarmcast.com
For more information about Swarmcast, please visit http://www.swarmcast.com

About iClips.net
The iClips Network began its initial Beta Launch in December of 2006, and since that time http://www.iclips.net has quickly become one of the world’s premier internet destinations for live concert streams. Additionally iClips creates, produces, and films unique original and world-class content. Throughout 2007, iClips.net has continued to add to its base of content and expand its offerings into webisodic series, independent films, documentaries, shorts, and events with world leaders such as The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. The iClips Network has produced, filmed and or streamed hundreds of sets of music throughout 2007 and has a full schedule of events planned for 2008 including some of the worlds biggest and most well-known music festivals. For more information please visit: http://www.iclips.net

Contact details

Michelle Homes
LEWIS PR
415 992 4400
Swarmcast@LewisPR.com

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