Vuze Joins the Broadbandtv Network

Vuze Joins the Broadbandtv Network

'Vuze to Offer Powerful Lineup of Premium Video Content with Broadbandtv Alliance'

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadbandtv Corp. (Broadbandtv), a North American leader in the aggregation, optimization and distribution of video content via Internet, and Vuze, Inc., the rapidly growing high-res IPTV platform, with an installed base of 18 million client downloads, announced a strategic alliance to offer Broadbandtv's premium content to Vuze on an advertising supported basis.

Broadbandtv will deliver premium television content for Vuze and will make the programming free to download for Vuze users worldwide. Broadbandtv's extensive library of premium TV and movie programming exceeds 15,000 titles from around the world and will provide optimized meta-tags utilizing its intelligent "Opti-Find" automated keyword generation technology. This feature will facilitate content searches and ensure that users connect with their desired Broadbandtv entertainment.

"Vuze has an amazing roster of premium content partners," said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Vuze, Inc. "Today's partnership with Broadbandtv will expand Vuze's expansive library of premium entertainment content to our growing audience of users. Beyond delivering an excellent library of titles, Broadbandtv is at the forefront of content discoverability, which is important because Vuze delivers more than one million hours of high-quality video per month."

"We are thrilled to add Vuze to the Broadbandtv network, a truly first rate IPTV platform that is exhibiting staggering organic growth," said Shahrzad Rafati, CEO of Broadbandtv. "We are focused on providing our content partners with unparalleled distribution opportunities with the top InternetTV properties on the net and working with a market leader like Vuze is a big part of that strategy."

The partnership will offer premium, licensed television content for free online. Broadbandtv and Vuze will share advertising revenue generated from paid sponsorship of Broadbandtv's content. More than 100 titles from Broadbandtv will be live by the first week of February 2008. Vuze can be downloaded without charge or subscription from http://www.vuze.com/.

About Broadbandtv

Broadbandtv is a media & technology company that specializes in the aggregation, optimization, tracking, monetization of video content via Internet Protocol (IP). With a library of over 15,000 titles, Broadbandtv creates compelling distribution opportunities for its content partners and income generation opportunities for its network and advertising partners. Broadbandtv is a leader in the development of cutting edge technology to help content owners identify, secure and monetize pirated and premium content.

About Vuze

Vuze is the world's most popular entertainment platform for DVD-quality and HD video content. With an installed base of 18 million unique client downloads in its first year, 500,000 new viewers joining per week and more than 100 content partners to date, Vuze is experiencing unprecedented organic growth. Vuze attracts and features high quality content from a growing roster of global television networks, premier production studios and thousands of maverick content creators, on the most advanced, most open entertainment platform ever created. Vuze is a Red Herring 100 Award Winner, recently named one of the top 100 tech startups of 2007. Vuze, Inc, formerly known as Azureus, Inc., is headquartered in Palo Alto, with offices in Los Angeles and New York.

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:

Source: Broadbandtv Corp.

CONTACT: Michael Moeschler of Voce Communications, +1-650-228-5176,
mmoeschler@vocecomm.com, for Broadbandtv Corp.; or Lewis Ball of Broadbandtv
Corp., +1-604-288-2704, pr@broadbandtv.ca

Web site:

http://www.broadbandtv.ca/
http://www.vuze.com/

-------
Profile: intent