Live365.com Sees Explosive Growth In 2001

Jumps From #4 To #2 On Arbitron Top 25 Webcast Network Ranking

Foster City, CA (March 21, 2001) - Live365 (www.live365.com), the world's largest Internet broadcasting community with over 30,000 Internet radio stations, has seen the number of Internet radio streaming hours on their site rise by 92% while listenership is up by more than 70% since December 31, 2000.

This year's unprecedented growth coincides with this week's announcement that Live365 has jumped from the number four to the number two spot on Arbitron's Top 25 Webcast Network ratings list for December 2000. Live365 continues to be a leader in the ratings, which rank the aggregate hours of usage by a network, with 1.8 million.

"Live365 is experiencing unprecedented expansion and success during a period when many Internet companies are facing difficult times," said Alex Sanford, President and CEO of Live365.com. "We have continued to solidify our position as a leader of Internet radio and are excited about our tremendous growth since the New Year and our strong position on Arbitron's recent ratings list."

"It is impressive to see the steady growth in Live365's webcast audience since they joined Arbitron's Webcast Network Ratings," said Joan Fitzgerald, Director of Marketing and Research and Development, Arbitron Webcast Services. "Arbitron's Internet research shows that consumers seek out content online that they cannot find on broadcast radio. Live365 is creating compelling content for interactive Internet audiences, who want to create their own radio station and listen in a highly interactive environment."

About Live365

Live365 www.Live365.com is the world's largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 content on the Internet, with more than 30,000 free stations available for users to listen to at anytime, and innovative proprietary technology for users to create their personal, unique station to broadcast to a worldwide audience. Rated one of the largest aggregate network streamers in a recent report issued by Arbitron, Live365's "Studio365" tools empower traditional radio stations, record companies, community groups and others with a free and easy solution to streaming audio over the Internet. A leader in the development Internet radio through wireless devices, Live365 created the first streaming MP3 player for the Pocket PC, and offers all their stations on the revolutionary 3Com/Kerbango portable Internet radio player. Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 has been named one of the "Top 6 Killer Apps" of streaming media by Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world's top international investment banks, in its May 2000 report "Internet, Broadband, and Enhanced TV."

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