SpotLife Announces Agreement with Yahoo! Mail

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Press Release

November 26, 2001

Create, Send and View Video E-mail through Yahoo! Mail

November 2001 (Newstream) -- SpotLife, the leading provider of integrated personal video solutions, and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global communications, commerce and media company, has announced an agreement to offer users video e-mail services through Yahoo! ® Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com). The addition of video e-mail services will enable users of Yahoo! Mail to easily create and send personalized video e-mail messages to friends, family and colleagues virtually anywhere in the world.

"SpotLife′s technology provides a significant value-add to the Yahoo! Mail service," said John Walsh, CEO of SpotLife. "Video e-mail offers Yahoo! the ability to provide their users with easy and reliable video e-mail capabilities, while ensuring that Yahoo! Mail maintains a superior service offering, and the best Internet video technology available on the market."

Under the agreement, SpotLife will provide video e-mail technology and service for Yahoo! Mail. The service enables Yahoo! Mail users to easily record video with a PC video camera, or upload video already existing on their PC. SpotLife′s technology automatically compresses and uploads video messages to SpotLife′s servers, eliminating the need to store large digital video/audio files on the end-users′ PC. Recipients of a video e-mail receive a notification message containing a link to a Web page on Yahoo! Mail where the customer can readily view the video through the SpotLife Player. The videos are composed and sent directly from a Yahoo Mail user′s existing account, and managed and stored by SpotLife. Whether consumers are using broadband or dial-up connections, the video e-mail service works with any Internet connection speed. All that is required to create and send video e-mail is a PC with the Windows operating system, an Internet connection, a PC video camera (or other video source) and a Yahoo! Mail account. Recipients of Yahoo! Mail video e-mails need only a Windows media player to watch video e-mails sent from Yahoo! Mail.

"We believe this new feature will provide Yahoo! Mail users with a unique new way to communicate with family, friends and business associates," said Lisa Pollock, director of Messaging Products for Yahoo!. "Our agreement with SpotLife further supports Yahoo! Mail′s strategy to continue to develop and integrate innovative, new features that add real value to people′s lives. We are also pleased to provide even more effective marketing services by offering rich media ads through this new feature."

The demand for Internet video technology continues to increase dramatically. Based on IDC Forecasts, approximately 60 million PC video cameras will be sold by the year 2005. This represents a significant market for the adoption of video e-mail services.

"Video e-mail is a great way for friends and family to keep in touch in an uncertain world," said Chris Chute, analyst, Worldwide Imaging Group, IDC. "The continuing popularity of PC cameras and adoption of new technologies will make it easier for this to happen."

About SpotLife

SpotLife is the leading provider of integrated personal video solutions enabling businesses to easily incorporate personal video into their Internet or wireless service offerings. SpotLife has developed a private label video publishing and delivery platform that allows organizations to offer end-users the ability to easily create, publish, share and view live or recorded videos - anywhere, anytime. Through partnerships with Compaq, Kensington, Logitech, Philips Electronics and Xirlink, SpotLife′s Personal Video Broadcasting service is currently integrated in 2 out of every 3 PC video cameras sold worldwide. This strong distribution base provides co-marketing opportunities for SpotLife′s infrastructure partners to reach new camera buyers. SpotLife also offers a full-featured Personal Video Broadcasting site, www.spotlife.com, which provides the strongest proven and scalable infrastructure in the Personal Video Broadcasting industry. Founded in July 1999, SpotLife is headquartered in San Mateo, California. SpotLife is privately owned, and funded by Atlas Venture, aventic partners (the venture arm of UBS), CMGI @ventures, Logitech and Philips Electronics. For more information about the company, please visit the company′s web site at www.spotlife.net or contact Rick Mitchell at (650) 356-6928.

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Produced for SpotLife Inc.

Contacts:

Rick Mitchell

SpotLife Inc.

650-356-6928

rick@spotlife.com

Melinda McRae

Fleishman Hillard for Yahoo!

916-492-5331

mcraem@fleishman.com

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