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VITAMINIC ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH LIVE365
Users Can Now Create Their Own Personal Internet Radio Stations Utilizing Vitaminic's Extensive Music Catalogue and Live365 Broadcasting Tools San Francisco, CA (October 19th) Vitaminic, the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of digital music on the Internet and other digital networks, announced today an agreement with Live365, the world's largest Internet radio provider. Under the agreement, visitors to the Vitaminic site can now create their own personal Internet radio stations using songs from Vitaminic's extensive music catalogue and Live365 broadcasting tools and streaming service. In addition, visitors to Vitaminic can access any of the 20,000 existing Live365 radio stations, covering a wide variety of music genres. To access the service users simply click on the Live365 section of the Vitaminic site, located at www.vitaminic.com. "This important partnership allows Vitaminic to provide an entirely new service to our loyal audience," said Gianluca Grechi, managing director, Vitaminic. "Visitors who create their own Live365 station via the Vitaminic site will have an extraordinary library to choose from, accessing songs by the more than 15,000 artists featured on Vitaminic." "We're excited to be able to offer Vitaminic users the ability to create an Internet radio station of their own for free," commented Alex Sanford, president, CEO and founder, Live365. "In addition, we are pleased that Vitaminic will be part of our burgeoning international expansion initiative." Vitaminic is the leading platform for the promotion and distribution of digital music on the Internet and other digital networks, embracing all standards and utilizing the latest broadband and wireless communications technologies. The company offers content from both independent artists and record companies, delivering music to consumers through the Vitaminic network of localized communities and via major Internet portals, ISPs and mobile operators. Vitaminic, operating in complete accordance with copyright regulations, offers artists and record labels an opportunity to promote and sell their music online, and gives music fans access to one of the Internet's widest and most complete digital music catalogues. Visitors to the Vitaminic site can stream and listen to tracks, and can download CD-quality files in digital format, purchasing single tracks or burning CDs, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Founded in April 1999, Vitaminic currently has offices in eight countries: seven in Europe (Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden) and one in the United States. Each office runs its own local site reflecting the individual market in which it operates. Since Vitaminic's launch in August 1999, more than 400 labels and 15,000 artists have uploaded and sold their music through the Vitaminic network. Live365 is the leading global Internet broadcasting community for individuals, artists and organizations to create, broadcast and listen to Internet radio stations. Providing free tools and the bandwidth necessary to broadcast, Live365 allows anyone with a computer to create a unique Internet radio station. With over 18,000 simultaneous broadcasts, Live365 currently features more radio stations than the entire United States radio broadcast network. Live365 was called one of the "Top 6 Killer Apps" of streaming media by Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world's leading international investment banks, in its May 2000 report "Internet, Broadband and Enhanced TV." Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 is the single largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 audio content on the Web. For more information on Live365.com, please contact: pr@live365.com
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