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LicenseStream Creator Gains Momentum with Leading Photography Associations

ImageSpan Teams with NPPA, PMA and ASMP to Offer Discounts on Key LicenseStream Creator Services to nearly 35,000 Imaging Professionals

SAUSALITO, CA – February 24, 2009 — ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing automation platform for all media types and businesses, today announced that it is building momentum within the imaging community by teaming with the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations, and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) to offer discounts on key LicenseStream Creator services. Together, the premier photographers and imaging organizations represent a reach of nearly 35,000 creative professionals.

ImageSpan and the three imaging organizations will offer discounts on ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator and LicenseStream Creator PRO services, as well as on LicenseStream storage upgrades. The special offers make it easy and affordable for photographers and imaging industry professionals to access an innovative set of services, including automated content licensing and royalty settlement, that can help extend their reach online and grow their revenues. In exchange, the organizations will regularly promote ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator services to their membership.

"We are very excited to support these photography and imaging professionals with LicenseStream Creator services that provide everything they need to promote, monitor and make money from their digital assets," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. "LicenseStream Creator makes photos, videos and other creative work intelligent, so that it flows freely across the Web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling flexible pricing based on use. With these powerful services, imaging professionals can raise the profile of their creative portfolios online to accelerate distribution of their work, increase the pace of transactions, and drive additional revenues."

The NPPA, an organization of more than 9,000 top visual journalists worldwide, was the first major photography organization to team up with ImageSpan.

"ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator brings to NPPA's membership a powerful package of innovative services that opens their content for business by helping them to license, track and make money from it," said Jim Straight, Executive Director, NPPA. "By helping them grow their creative profiles online, these services will help them both create new market opportunities and grow relationships with the clients they already have."

PMA with ImageSpan will promote LicenseStream Creator to its 18,500 imaging professionals in 100-plus countries who actively contribute to the expanding $83 billion imaging industry. PMA is an 84-year-old organization that includes photographers, photo retailers and processors, manufacturers, commercial imaging labs, sports and event photography, custom picture frame shops, and scrapbook retailers.

"LicenseStream Creator offers a comprehensive solution that will resonate with our members who seek a way to bolster the visibility of their content on the Web, while giving them more control over their creative portfolios to maximize the value of their digital assets," said Ted Fox, Chief Executive Officer, PMA.

Eugene Mopsik, Executive Director, ASMP, says that ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator services address many of the challenges faced on a daily basis by his organization's more than 7,300 members who are publication photographers.

"ImageSpan offers professional photographers a powerful combination of innovative services that help them quickly and easily publish their work online safely," said Mopsik. "As a result, it frees them to focus on what they love best: producing innovative, powerful content and on getting that content to market fast."

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan is the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing automation platform for all media types and businesses, from individual creators to enterprises. LicenseStream makes content intelligent, so it moves freely across the Web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling pricing based on use. By making content intelligent, LicenseStream creates new efficiencies and frees resources to develop new distribution and marketing channels to drive incremental revenues. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the international, multi-industry standards body for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

About NPPA

The National Press Photographers Association is dedicated to the advancement of photojournalism, its creation, editing and distribution, in all news media. NPPA encourages photojournalists to reflect high standards of quality in their professional performance and in their personal code of ethics. NPPA vigorously promotes freedom of the press in all its forms. To this end, NPPA provides continuing educational programs and fraternalism without bias, as we support and acknowledge the best the profession has to offer. The NPPA's 9,000 members include still and video photographers, editors, students and professionals that serve the field of visual journalism.
To learn more about the NPPA please visit www.nppa.org

About PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations

As a professional trade association, PMA® helps the worldwide photo imaging community achieve business success and adapt to new technologies. Its commitment to its 18,500 members in 100-plus countries is part of an 84-year legacy that connects business owners to a network of knowledge and support. PMA furthers this purpose through the development of educational programs and business services, marketing research, publications, and trade shows. As a nonprofit organization, any success enjoyed by PMA in its endeavors directly benefits the industry, allowing PMA to provide continual services and activities for members.

About ASMP

Founded in 1944, ASMP is the leader in promoting photographers' rights, providing education in better business practices, producing business publications for photographers, and helping to connect purchasers with professional photographers. ASMP has 39 chapters across the country and more than 7,000 members, including many of the world's foremost photographers.

ImageSpan Media Contact: Laura Evenson Director of Communications ImageSpan Inc. (415) 465-2711 levenson@imagespan.com	NPPA Media Contact: Mindy Hutchison Membership Director National Press Photographers Association (919) 383-7246 Ext. 14 members@nppa.org
PMA Media Contact: Tom Crawford Corporate Communications Executive PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations (517) 788-8100 tcrawford@pmai.org	ASMP Media Contact: Eugene Mopsik Executive Director ASMP (215) 451-2767 Ext. 201 mopsik@asmp.org

ImageSpan and JaincoTech Partner to Help Photographers Digitize, Keyword, License and Track Images to Create New Revenue Streams

Partners to Offer Reciprocal Discounts on Services, including ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Creator, to Speed Image Processing, Licensing and Royalty Settlement

SAUSALITO, CA and SOLON, OH – January 13, 2009 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides digital content licensing and royalty settlement services, and JaincoTech, a recognized leader in outsourced digital imaging services, today announced they are partnering to offer photographers premium services to help them digitize and keyword their photo archives. They also will leverage ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator services to protect, track, create new revenue streams and settle royalties for new and existing photos.

The partners also will offer reciprocal discounts to each others' customers, making it easy and affordable for photographers to tap a powerful combination of services that free them to focus on producing innovative, powerful content and on getting that content to market fast. JaincoTech's keywording solutions will help ImageSpan's subscribers increase search accuracy for their customers. JaincoTech also will scan negatives, transparencies, prints, process raw digital files and upload processed high resolution images directly into LicenseStream Creator. ImageSpan through LicenseStream Creator will provide JaincoTech members with automated photo and video content licensing, a personalized stock gallery, content pricing and calculation, Web tracking and royalty settlement services.

"The partnership of ImageSpan and JaincoTech provides photographers everything they need to streamline their photo processing workflow and get their images into LicenseStream Creator quickly, so they can begin to track and make money from their work," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. "ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator makes photos, videos and other content intelligent so it can move freely across the Web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling dynamic pricing based on use. With these combined services, photographers can cut content processing, licensing and royalty settlement costs while raising the visibility of their images to expand revenue opportunities."

ImageSpan will offer discounts on services to JaincoTech customers. JaincoTech will provide their customers with a special promotion code, which they can use when registering for the LicenseStream Creator service at: http://www.licensestream.com/licensestream/Registration/select.aspx

JaincoTech also will offer discounts on a variety of services to customers who are LicenseStream Creator subscribers. An approved vendor to major image providers, including Getty Images, Corbis and Alamy, JaincoTech offers color correction, dust spotting and other digital services in addition to keywording, scanning, retouching and uploading services. ImageSpan customers may take advantage of the discounts by contacting JaincoTech directly for a quote. Retail pricing can be viewed at http://stockphotography.jaincotech.com/pricing.htm. Customers can send images to JaincoTech for processing or ask JaincoTech to pull the images from the customer's LicenseStream Creator account. JaincoTech will process the images per the customer's instructions, and ship the processed images directly back to the customer or upload the finished images directly into the customer's LicenseStream Creator account.

"As the demand for fresh content accelerates, this partnership offers professional photographers a powerful combination of innovative services to help them quickly and easily process, protect, find and monetize their images," said Jazz Mandair, President, JaincoTech. "JaincoTech is extending its business by offering more choices to our customers in the photographic community and by partnering with ImageSpan to gain the benefits of its marketing-leading licensing and royalty settlement services."

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online. We automate today's manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing automation platform for all media types and businesses, from individual creators to enterprises, including global advertising, content production and content delivery companies. Enterprise partners using ImageSpan's platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. We offer a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221

About JaincoTech

JaincoTech is headquartered in Solon, Ohio with production facilities in Solon, London UK, and Mumbai India, and a sales office in Kamakura, Japan.

As a leading provider of services, JaincoTech has a dedicated team of imaging professionals that convert negatives, transparencies, slides, photographs and digital media into high-quality digital images for a number of industries including stock, education, historical, printing and publication. In addition, JaincoTech is a leading provider of digital photo restoration, enhancement, colorization and manipulation services for the consumer market. JaincoTech services are used by stock/wedding/studio photographers, stock agencies, archive libraries, press associations, retailers and the general public.

ImageSpan Media Contact:

Laura Evenson
Director of Communications
ImageSpan Inc.
(415) 465-2711

JaincoTech Press Contact:

Hezi Dsouza
Director of Marketing
JaincoTech
(440) 374-6094

ImageSpan Services Offer Image Suppliers Quick Path to Implementation of New Licensing Standards Adopted by Leading Publishers

ImageSpan's LicenseStream Platform, Built with PLUS Standards, Streamlines Licensing Lifecycle to Dramatically Lower Costs and Speed Time-to-Market for Images and Other Digital Content

SAUSALITO, CA – November 19, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc. today announced that its award-winning digital content licensing and royalty settlement service offers image suppliers and other content providers a quick and easy path to implementation of licensing standards that have been adopted by three major publishers.

Representatives of McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson all announced at a recent event in New York that they will adopt licensing standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition, an international non-profit organization dedicated to simplifying and facilitating the communication and management of image rights.

The publishers said that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary in their contracts and that they encourage image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. The PLUS standards allow rights and attribution information to travel within image files in a machine-readable format that provides instant access and universal understanding. ImageSpan's licensing technology and Web-based services already comply with standards created by PLUS that simplify the process of granting, obtaining and managing the permissions necessary to use digital images.

"We are very excited that these major publishers have all agreed to support the PLUS standards," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. "We view this as a huge validation of our support and participation in the PLUS Coalition, and our market-leading integration of the PLUS standards in ImageSpan products. For three years, we have worked with the PLUS Coalition to ensure that our licensing technology complies with PLUS standards, and simplifies and streamlines licensing processes. A growing number of major customers are adopting the PLUS standards, and we stand ready to meet the needs of these customers and their image suppliers. Our experience and expertise with the PLUS standards uniquely positions us as the product-of-choice for image licensing."

ImaqeSpan allows image licensors and licensees to benefit from the PLUS licensing standards through its LicenseStream Creator PRO service for individual content creators and small agencies and through its API for media companies, advertising agencies and content production businesses.

Said Jeff Sedlik, president and co-founder of the PLUS Coalition, "In addition to supporting and participating in the PLUS initiative, ImageSpan has integrated the PLUS standards in LicenseStream, allowing image suppliers to provide their customers with embedded PLUS license information, streamlining previously manual licensing processes and dramatically lowering costs and accelerating time-to-market for digital content."

In support of the PLUS Coalition, ImageSpan developed two PLUS tools currently in beta distribution on the PLUS Web site, The PLUS License Generator is a browser-based application that allows for the selection of usage criteria, metadata capture and the generation of an XMP file that contains the PLUS media summary code, metadata and license details. The PLUS License Embedder & Reader allows an XMP file generated by the PLUS License Generator to be embedded into a digital file.

In addition to providing technology services to PLUS, ImageSpan separately offers the LicenseStream API Tool kit, which complies with PLUS standards and is fully capable of generating and decoding PLUS Media Summary Codes. The LicenseStream API Tool kit provides media companies and other image providers with a fully working embedded content licensing, royalty settlement and tracking service.

For more information about ImageSpan, go to www.imagespan.com

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today's manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. We offer a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221

ImageSpan Media Contact:

Laura Evenson
Director of Communications
ImageSpan Inc.
(415) 465-2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan Adds Digital Content Tracker to its LicenseSream Creator Pro Service, Helping Subscribers Find and Convert Non-Paying Consumers of Digital Content into Paying Customers

LicenseStream Creator PRO Now Offers Tracking, Licensing in one Service, Empowering Content Owners and Creators to Make More Money from Their Digital Assets

NEW YORK, NY – October 23, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, today announced the addition of a new content tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service, delivering the first service to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content. LicenseStream Creator PRO offers additional licensing, reporting and publishing flexibility and options to the standard LicenseStream service for photographers, videographers, illustrators and other providers of digital content.

The new tracker helps content creators find their digital content online, providing them with a view into where and how it is used. ImageSpan has also added automated options to convert non-paying content consumers into paying customers. This helps content creators obtain more value from their photos, video and other digital assets as they get distributed on the Web. Until today, tools this powerful were available only for large enterprises.

"Content creators and owners have long sought a combined service that provides visibility into where their content is going online, how it is being used, and then automates licensing and billing transactions to facilitate the flow of royalty payments," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer and president, ImageSpan. "With this new tracker feature, LicenseStream Creator PRO puts licensing and tracking control into the hands of content owners and creators, seamlessly helping them to pursue untapped opportunities for new licensing, advertising and distribution while providing a means to resolve potential infringement issues Internet-wide. The addition of this new tracker makes LicenseStream Creator PRO the complete solution."

LicenseStream Creator PRO enables subscribers to embed into their content’s metadata terms of use, including where the content can be used, for how long, in what geographies, etc. The new tracker continuously monitors billions of photographs, videos and other content on the Internet to locate a LicenseStream subscriber’s digital assets with high rates of accuracy. In instances where terms of use for content have been infringed, a subscriber can select from any number of automatically generated e-mail responses. These range from offering the opportunity to legally license the content, to requesting a link back to the content owner's site, inserting the content owner’s ad feed, sharing ad revenues or issuing a take-down request. The service monitors to see when action is taken and reports back to the content owner.

"It's a no-brainer for me to sign up for this new integrated service — it provides the support I need to track, market and to grow my business as a designer and provider of images," said Clement Mok, chief executive officer, Visual Symbols Library, who is widely recognized as a pioneer within the interactive marketing industry and the designer on the launch of the original Macintosh from Apple. "The ability to track content usage is a powerful idea. The addition makes LicenseStream Creator PRO a simple, flexible and invaluable tool and resource."

Today’s announcement was made at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo in New York.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today's manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the international, multi-industry standards body for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

ImageSpan Media Contact:

Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan AND WEVA Unveil New LicenseStream WEVA Portal, Along with Several New Features, at Wedding & Event Video Expo

ImageSpan Gives WEVA members a Digital Video and Photo Gallery and Request Forum and Now Provides All LicenseStream Users with Research Light Boxes, a Keyword Generator and Ability to Link to Their Public Gallery

ORLANDO, FLA – August 11, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides an enabling infrastructure for automated content licensing and billing, and Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA), the world's largest trade association for professional videographers, today unveiled a unique, new e-commerce portal called the WEVA LicenseStream Gallery. Designed for WEVA members, the new portal enables the nearly 10,000 WEVA and WEVA Latino members worldwide to easily license their digital video and photos locally, nationally and globally using LicenseStream, a new and simple-to-use content licensing service on the Web.

In addition, ImageSpan introduced many new value-added features available to all LicenseStream users, based on feedback from WEVA members and other prominent videographers and photographers. These new features include research light boxes, a keyword generator and the ability for any user to link to their own public gallery.

The public-facing WEVA LicenseStream Gallery provides a one-stop search and browse portal for all WEVA videos and photos uploaded to LicenseStream. To use the gallery features, clients can now register on LicenseStream and use the new portal without intervention from a WEVA member. However, if a client does not find the digital content searched for in the WEVA Gallery, the client can request the required video or photos via a new Request Forum and obtain the needed digital content from WEVA members directly.

"We are excited to unveil the new WEVA LicenseStream Gallery, which brings our intuitive, easy-to-use approach to content licensing to WEVA's huge membership of professional videographers," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. "Built specifically for WEVA members, we believe this gallery will become a community destination for anyone looking to find and license video clips."

Customized for WEVA members, the LicenseStream service will provide all members with ability to store their content, create licensing terms, review usage history, manage their licenses and track usage. WEVA members also gain access to all LicenseStream Pro features, which builds on ImageSpan's standard LicenseStream service to offer additional licensing, reporting and publishing flexibility and options.

"This exciting new service from ImageSpan provides videographers with an easy way to market, license and sell their digital videos and photos on a global scale," said WEVA International Chairman Roy Chapman. As an exclusive WEVA membership bonus, he added, "WEVA members will receive their own free LicenseStream account plus access to a customized e-commerce portal, which makes it possible for them to transact with buyers automatically, 24-hours a day. With LicenseStream, videographers and photographers can literally make money while they sleep."

ImageSpan also is rolling out a range of new features to benefit all LicenseStream users. The new features include:

• Light Boxes: Videographers, photographers and other content providers now can create light boxes of content that can be shared with clients for review as part of a research or proof-sheet workflow.
• Keyword Generator: A pop-up keyword generator now helps content providers apply words or phrases that Web surfers are likely to use when trying to find a specific type of video or photo. It also refines the process of entering custom keywords.
• Gallery Naming: Users can now create a separate gallery name for their gallery URL, with a gallery title for the gallery page header.
• Gallery Links and License Model: LicenseStream now provides users with a way to link to their public gallery, and users can choose the license model to appear on landing pages.

A robust and comprehensive digital content licensing and billing platform, LicenseStream provides unlimited video and still photo licensing, including standard and customizable licenses. These features allow a videographer to choose predefined licenses or define extensive licensing terms before putting content online, including geographic parameters, timeframe, purpose and fees. LicenseStream can process all aspects of the license, including billing, collections and royalty payments.

Industry-leading advertisers and media companies already are taking advantage of ImageSpan's licensing technology through CurbStream, an ImageSpan online service that provides access to WEVA members worldwide and streamlines the contracting process. WEVA members shoot local footage and upload the raw content via CurbStream's easy-to-use interface. ImageSpan then manages all licensing and sharing of content, ensuring that it is immediately rights-cleared and licensable for use.

WEVA members' access to LicenseStream offers benefits that would otherwise cost individual members hundreds if not thousands of dollars. For example, photographers have long relied on stock photo licensing to earn additional income. The LicenseStream service makes stock footage licensing for WEVA members a quick and easy process.

Today's announcement was made at the WEVA 18th Annual Wedding & Event Video Expo in Orlando, Florida.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today's manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the international, multi-industry standards body for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

About Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA)

Founded over a decade ago, WEVA International is the world's largest trade association for professional videographers and the industry's leading provider of professional development education that's on the cutting-edge of new technology. WEVA is dedicated to advancing the professional interests of wedding and event videographers worldwide through continuing education and system training at global events such as Wedding & Event Video Expo and WEVA's Wide World of Weddings & Events, technical support, group benefits, advocacy committees, and new media, including Wedding & Event Videography Resource Guide, streaming video on WEVA-TV and WEVA On-The-Air podcasts and vidcasts. For more information visit www.weva.com or call 941-923-5334.

ImageSpan Media Contact:

Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

WEVA Media Contact:

Dan Argenas
941.544.7800
DA@WEVA.com

ImageSpan Inc. Secures $11 Million Financing from Group Led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments

Series B Funding Will Solidify ImageSpan’s Leadership in Digital Content Licensing and Settlement Services

SAUSALITO, CA - June 17, 2008 - ImageSpan Inc., which provides enabling infrastructure for digital content licensing, today announced that it has closed a second round financing of $11 million from a group led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company.

Existing investors Greycroft Partners, headed by Alan Patricof, and Village Ventures also participated. Additional funds came from the New York City Investment Fund, City Light Capital Management and Ackerley Partners LLC.

The Series B financing comes as ImageSpan is launching new partnerships and rolling out its platform with major customers to extend its market leadership. ImageSpan currently provides extensive content licensing infrastructure for Omnicom’s Zimmerman Partners, Sports Illustrated, TAKKLE, Dealer.com and Visible World.

Built for the Web 2.0 world of mashups and projects with multiple copyright holders, ImageSpan has built the premier platform for licensing digital photographs, illustrations and video content.

"We have experienced tremendous growth recently and we now have the additional financial resources we need to meet rapidly growing customer demand,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Our automated digital content licensing platform and services address a major barrier to profitability for all sides: today’s manual transaction processes for digital content licensing."

As advertising service providers address client demands to produce a greater volume of more highly targeted campaigns in today’s transmedia world, they deal with many internal and external sources of digital image, video and audio content for creating those campaigns. ImageSpan streamlines the licensing process for all this digital source material and then defines rights to the newly-created content, tracks usage, and ensures accurate royalty reporting and payments.

By dramatically reducing the time and cost of licensing and royalty settlements, ImageSpan speeds the pace of transactions, enables faster campaign creation and expands revenue opportunities.

“We see ImageSpan solving a very serious pain point affecting the entire media landscape today – that of licensing and monetizing digital image and video content at a time when both of these content categories are growing increasingly important on the web,” said Richard Sarnoff, President of BDMI.

"Since our investment in ImageSpan last year, we’ve been impressed by their ability to deliver exactly what media companies, advertising agencies, marketing firms and those providing commercial- and user-generated local content have been demanding – a game-changing licensing automation platform for the management and monetization of digital media," said Alan Patricof, founder and managing director, Greycroft Partners LLC.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today’s manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing.

About Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI)

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) is a strategic venture investor focused on innovative digital media technologies, products and distribution channels across the globe. BDMI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company with over $25 billion in revenues and over 102,000 employees across more than 50 countries. For more information, visit: www.bdmifund.com

Bertelsmann AG is comprised of the television channels, television production companies, and radio stations of Europe's largest entertainment group, RTL Group (RTL Television, M6, Five, Fremantle Media), and the more than 120 publishing houses of Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher (Alfred A. Knopf, Bantam, Goldmann). Gruner + Jahr is Europe's number one magazine publisher (Stern, Geo, Neon, Capital). The Sony BMG joint venture in the BMG division is synonymous with creativity and strong international music brands (Beyoncé, Dixie Chicks, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera). The Arvato media and communications services division brings together distribution, service centers and customer-relationship management, state-of-the art printing manufacturing, storage media production, mobile services, and comprehensive IT services. Bertelsmann's direct-to-customer businesses are unified within the Direct Group: book, DVD, and music clubs (Der Club, France Loisirs), as well as book retailers in France and Portugal. For more information, visit: www.bertelsmann.com

About Greycroft Partners

Greycroft Partners, based in New York City, is a venture capital partnership formed to invest in promising digital media companies. The firm’s $75mm fund includes participation from leading corporate executives around the world. Greycroft also leverages an extensive network of media and technology connections to help investees gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and successfully bring their products to market. Greycroft’s portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on assistance in all phases of expansion. www.greycroftpartners.com

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

LicenseStream Creator Now Generally Available to Speed, Simplify and Cut Costs for Licensing and Billing of Digital Media

ImageSpan Provides New Plug-ins for Easy Access to LicenseStream Creator from Within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Popular Adobe Creative Suite 3 Software

SAUSALITO, CA– June 3, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides an enabling infrastructure for digital content licensing, today announced new features along with the general availability of LicenseStream Creator, a simple-to-use content licensing and settlement managed service for creators of digital media. Subscribers to the service can now access it via plug-ins for the Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ photography workflow software and the popular Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software, which provides a broad spectrum of creative options for all facets of print, web, film and video production.

LicenseStream Creator’s simple-to-use, intuitive interface makes it easy for professional and user-gen creators to register and license a broad range of digital content, including photographs and images, track and manage royalties, and bill and collect fees. This new automated platform also enables easy assignment of revenues to multiple parties, making it especially useful for the highly-distributed transactions typical of today’s Web 2.0 world of mashups and multi-copyright-holder projects. By eliminating time-consuming manual licensing processes, LicenseStream Creator simplifies the licensing and billing for digital media to speed the pace of transactions, expand revenues and cut costs up to 90 percent, freeing content creators and owners to focus on producing innovative, powerful content and getting that content to market fast.

“Content creators and licensors are looking for a smart, easy-to-use way to license and efficiently settle royalty payments in minutes for images, video and the full range of digital media,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan, an Adobe Solutions Partner. “LicenseStream Creator’s automated platform meets all of these needs without the time-consuming negotiations or middlemen that accompany manual licensing processes. We are excited to bring to creative professionals around the world a simple, intuitive content licensing service that can cut processing costs up to 90 percent and maximize profits as it minimizes paperwork.”

LicenseStream Creator subscribers can now use the new plug-ins to access the platform directly from within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the professional photographer's essential toolbox, which provides one application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. Subscribers also can access the platform from Adobe Bridge CS3 via an Adobe Flash® Plug-in that initiates the licensing process. Adobe Bridge CS3 is a media manager that literally serves as the “bridge” between the applications in the Adobe Creative Suite, enabling files to be moved quickly through varied workflows. Subscriptions to the LicenseStream Creator service will start at $39.99 per year.

The ability to access LicenseStream Creator directly via desktop applications puts licensing and transaction control back into the hands of creative professionals and amateurs. It seamlessly guides both content providers and licensees through the process and empowers them to define licensing terms, as well as price, license and efficiently settle royalty payments. The licensing technology developed by ImageSpan uses standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) that simplify the process of granting, obtaining and managing the permissions necessary to use digital images.

“Creative professionals and photographers require efficient methods for licensing and managing unique media assets within their specific workflows," said Tom Hogarty, senior product manager for Lightroom at Adobe. "ImageSpan’s technology uses the PLUS Standard to enable licensing and the free flow of content and commerce from within the Lightroom and Creative Suite experience. These combined solutions provide the control and protection our customers seek, enabling them to cut costs while bringing even more content online to grow their businesses.”

Photographers, illustrators and designers can now post their digital materials to a personal online gallery showcasing their content at LicenseStream.com, making it easy for prospective customers to view their work and initiate a licensing transaction. Creators or owners can post their content to their own or other popular Web sites, including Google Base, with links to the LicenseStream Creator service embedded in them, allowing them more control over their digital assets no matter where they are published online. In addition, LicenseStream Creator is a Web services-driven solution for third-party applications that can be embedded seamlessly and transparently into a Web site as a “white-label” managed service, and fully branded as the site’s own solution.

LicenseStream Creator is now available at two levels of subscription:

• LicenseStream Creator enables users to register, describe, license, manage their photo and video content library, publish and receive royalties. Users pay a commission fee of 10 percent in addition to the special introductory subscription fee of $39.99, which includes 2 gigabytes of secure, backed-up gallery storage space.
• LicenseStream Creator Pro builds on all the benefits of LicenseStream Creator. A robust, “business-ready” solution, LicenseStream Creator Pro offers additional licensing, reporting, the ability to customize their online LicenseStream Creator gallery space, and publishing flexibility and options. LicenseStream Creator Pro users pay a commission fee of 5 percent per transaction in addition to the annual subscription fee of $99.99, which includes 10 gigabytes of secure, backed-up gallery storage space.

For LicenseStream Creator, ImageSpan offers the ability to purchase an additional 5 gigabytes of gallery storage space at a steep discount bulk rate. LicenseStream Creator Pro user may purchase additional gallery storage space at steep discount bulk rates, packaged in 5, 10, 25 and 50 gigabyte packages.

For more information about the LicenseStream Creator service, go to www.licensestream.com

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today’s manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan Inc. Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Recognized for leadership in emerging technology for digital entertainment and media

Sausalito, CA – May 29, 2008 – ImageSpan Inc., which provides enabling infrastructure for digital content licensing, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. ImageSpan was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria--innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

ImageSpan along with the rest of the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood & BRiM event on June 10-11, 2008 at the Sofitel Hotel in West Hollywood, California. OnHollywood gathers executives from both the entertainment and the technology industries to identify and debate emerging trends in addition to building relationships and taking advantage of potential new business partnerships. The first annual Broadband Rights Marketplace (BRiM) will launch an online network that supports new creative projects and offers a digital-rights exchange and auction.

“This year’s OnHollywood 100 represents the brightest of the innovators in the new media space. We are enthusiastic about gathering the leaders in a collaborative environment that fuses these two industries together, culminating in the richest, most progressive conversations on Hollywood’s digital movement,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn.

The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts.

ImageSpan’s enabling infrastructure for content licensing addresses a major barrier to profitability for entertainment and media companies and advertising agencies: today’s manual processes for digital content licensing. Current manual processes do not work for transactions on complex, distributed networks. Built for the Web 2.0 world of mashups and multi-copyright-holder content projects, ImageSpan can track and distribute millions of royalty payments to affiliates, content partners, creators and advertisers. ImageSpan uses patent-pending license token technology, running as a managed service. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan also is deploying with Adobe Systems, among others.

“We are honored to be recognized for a second time by AlwaysOn for addressing a massive need for the licensing of licensing intellectual property across widely distributed networks,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Both LicenseStream, our simple-to-use, online content licensing service, and CurbStream, our hyperlocal video production network services, streamline the process of content acquisition and syndication to dramatically lower costs and accelerate the time-to-market for all types of digital content so entertainment and media companies and advertising agencies can meet changing market conditions and make the most of their digital assets.”

A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site here.

June 10-12 @ The Sofitel Hotel, West Hollywood, California

OnHollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Our editors will also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies and feature the Best of Broadband "BOB" Awards. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. We automate today’s manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

About AlwaysOn

ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan to Deliver Rights-Cleared Video for Dealer.com’s Award-Winning SmartSites

ImageSpan’s Pioneering CurbStream Builds Momentum in the Auto Industry as Dealer.com Offers Local Area Content Creation Service to a Network of More than 3,000 Auto Dealer Websites

SAUSALITO, CA and BURLINGTON, VT – February 12, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides an enabling infrastructure for automated content licensing, and Dealer.com, a leading provider of online marketing solutions for the automotive industry, today announced that ImageSpan’s content creation network, called CurbStream, has been selected to provide local area content for Dealer.com’s SmartSite websites for auto dealers. CurbStream will be offered through Dealer.com’s just released Video Upgrade Package to a network of more than 3,000 dealer websites.

CurbStream, the only affordable and scalable national content provider network, gives Dealer.com access to more than 10,000 professional videographers. Once a dealer requests a video package, Dealer.com will use the CurbStream service to send a local professional videographer to the dealer location to capture video of the dealer’s lot, inventory, showroom, service department, and the owner or manager. The videographer then uploads the content into CurbStream for delivery to Dealer.com. All pieces of the process are automatically licensed, eliminating the time-consuming process of manually licensing content.

“We are excited to work with Dealer.com, an innovative and award-winning company, to introduce CurbStream’s local area video content creation service for dealer websites,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Dealer.com’s choice of CurbStream demonstrates our growing momentum in automotive marketing, where we are already providing local ad content.”

ImageSpan’s CurbStream addresses growing demand for video on websites as broadband adoption becomes widespread. The demand for a service that will capture and deliver video to showcase local and franchise dealers is especially critical in the automotive industry, where local and franchise advertising plays a significant in the $130 billion automotive advertising market.

“Increasingly, video is becoming the killer app for dealers to connect with their online audience, and the most progressive ones are seeking cost-effective ways to customize videos for their websites,” said Marc Bonfigli, founder and chief executive officer of Dealer.com. “CurbStream provides a unique and powerful solution for our SmartSite dealers who want to tap into this medium, and integrate video of their actual store locations into their website presence.”

Dealer.com’s chief technology officer, Rick Gibbs, singled out CurbStream’s game-changing service: “Because CurbStream focuses on local content, it offers a perfect solution for dealers who want to distinguish themselves in their particular markets,” said Gibbs. “We look forward to including CurbStream’s unique offering as part of our SmartSites Video Upgrade Package.”

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights to their work and transact online in minutes as we automate today’s manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising and content production and delivery businesses, including Omnicom and Adobe Systems. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

About Dealer.com

Founded in Burlington, VT in 1997, Dealer.com is a leading provider of online marketing solutions for the automotive industry. Dealer.com offers the only fully-integrated web-based closed-loop marketing platform that measures the effectiveness of every marketing program while tracking responses, and respondents, from exposure to closure. The platform includes NADA award-winning automotive dealer websites, user-friendly lead management tools, the most proven local search engine advertising solutions available, and unparalleled metrics and web analytics. Dealer.com is the only company to truly revolutionize the online marketing and sales effectiveness for auto dealers with an unmatched level of speed, precision and ease-of-use. For more information, please visit www.dealer.com or call 888-894-8989.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

Dealer.com Media Contact:
Andrea Krull
Racepoint Group
781.487.4639
akrull@racepointgroup.com

ImageSpan and WEVA Bring Lincensing-With-A-Click to WEVA, World's Largest Professional Videographer Trade Association

ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Service Gives WEVA Members the Ability to License Digital Content via the Web

LAS VEGAS, NV – January 31, 2008 — ImageSpan Inc., which provides an enabling infrastructure for automated content licensing, and billing, and Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA), the world’s largest trade association for professional videographers, today announced at PMA 08 that all WEVA members now will be able to easily license their digital video locally, nationally and globally, thanks to a new long-term agreement. The agreement provides the nearly 10,000 WEVA and WEVA Latino members worldwide with access to ImageSpan’s LicenseStream service, a new and simple-to-use content licensing service via the Web.

LicenseStream, a subscription-based content licensing service that costs non-WEVA members $99 annually, offers a revolutionary new way to license content in minutes anytime, anywhere, and drive revenues by speeding the pace of transactions. With a few mouse clicks, videographers and content creators may upload, register, describe, define rights to their work and then license that work online without paperwork, pricing hassles or middlemen. LicenseStream also helps WEVA members collect royalties while cutting traditional licensing costs by up to 90 percent.

“We are excited to bring licensing-with-a-click – an intuitive, step-by-step approach to sophisticated content licensing – to WEVA’s huge membership of professional videographers,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “By taking care of many back office tasks, LicenseStream helps videographers and other content creators focus on what they do best: create innovative, powerful content and get that content to market as fast as possible to drive revenues and profit from their work.”

The new service will be enhanced through ImageSpan’s creation of an Internet video portal, customized for WEVA members, that will provide each member with access to two gigabytes of storage where they can keep content, create license terms, review usage history, manage their licenses and track usage. The portal will provide automatic Flash previews of any piece of content it stores, enabling both videographers and their clients to quickly locate videos for licensing.

Cutting-edge advertisers and media companies already are taking advantage of ImageSpan’s licensing technology through CurbStream, an ImageSpan online service that provides access to WEVA members worldwide and streamlines the contracting process. WEVA members shoot local footage and upload the raw content via CurbStream’s easy-to-use interface. ImageSpan then manages all licensing and sharing of content, ensuring that it is immediately rights-cleared and licensable for use.

WEVA members’ access to LicenseStream will provide benefits that would otherwise cost individual members hundreds if not thousands of dollars. For example, photographers have long relied on stock photo licensing to earn additional income. The LicenseStream service makes stock footage licensing for WEVA members a quick and easy process.

LicenseStream provides unlimited video and still photo licensing, including standard and customizable licenses. These features allow a videographer to choose predefined licenses or define extensive licensing terms before putting content online, including geographic parameters, timeframe, purpose and fees. LicenseStream can process all aspects of the license, including billing, collections and royalty payments.

The licensing technology developed by ImageSpan uses standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) that simplify the process of granting, obtaining and managing the permissions necessary to use photographs and illustrations. PLUS has been adopted as a creative industry standard by leading enterprises, groups and agencies.

Today’s announcement was made at PMA 08, the annual photo trade show and convention for photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs, custom picture framers, scrapbook retailers and event videographers from around the world.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights to their work and transact online in minutes as we automate today’s manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising and content production and delivery businesses, including Omnicom and Adobe Systems. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221.

About Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA)

Founded over a decade ago, WEVA International is the world's largest trade association for professional videographers and the industry's leading provider of professional development education that's on the cutting-edge of new technology. WEVA is dedicated to advancing the professional interests of wedding and event videographers worldwide through continuing education and system training at global events such as Wedding & Event Video Expo and WEVA's Wide World of Weddings & Events, technical support, group benefits, advocacy committees, and new media, including Wedding & Event Videography Resource Guide, streaming video on WEVA-TV and WEVA On-The-Air podcasts and vidcasts. For more information visit www.weva.com or call 941-923-5334.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

WEVA Media Contact:
Dan Argenas
941.544.7800
da@weva.com

ImageSpan Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner

Recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion

Sausalito, CA, January 22, 2008 – ImageSpan Inc., today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. ImageSpan was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

ImageSpan and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEO’s from Silicon Valley leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

Fifty of the top CEO’s from the OnMedia 100 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a “CEO Showcase.”

“The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation.”

The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around the world.

ImageSpan’s enabling infrastructure for content licensing addresses a major barrier to profitability for advertising and media companies: today’s manual processes for digital content licensing. Current manual processes do not work for transactions on complex, distributed networks. Built for the Web 2.0 world of mashups and multi-copyright-holder content projects, ImageSpan can track and distribute millions of royalty payments to affiliates, content partners, creators and advertisers. ImageSpan uses patent-pending license token technology, running as a managed service. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan also is deploying with Adobe Systems, among others.

A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/

“We are excited to be recognized for addressing a massive need for licensing and the self-provisioning of licensing intellectual property,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Both LicenseStream, our simple-to-use, online content licensing service, and CurbStream, our hyperlocal video production network services, streamline the process of accessing and managing rights-cleared so advertisers and media companies can meet changing market conditions and make the most of their digital assets.”

For more information about the LicenseStream service, go to www.licensestream.com

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with all types of media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call 1-415.259.4529.

About Always On

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital, Stanford Summit, and Going Green)and quarterly print “blogozine”. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan Teams up With Takkle to Deliver Dynamic Video for High School Sports Social Networking Sites

ImageSpan’s 10,000-Strong CurbStream Network Captures Video for SI-TAKKLE Top 100 Player Rankings

Sausalito, Calif., and New York, N.Y. – December 4, 2007 — ImageSpan™ Inc., the first comprehensive licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, and TAKKLE, Inc., the premier online social network for high school sports, today announced an ongoing partnership in which TAKKLE will tap ImageSpan’s CurbStream™, a managed hyperlocal content creation network, to capture video of top high school athletes across the United States in various sports, including football and basketball.

ImageSpan’s CurbStream™ network already has begun delivering video of top high school football athletes to accompany the Sports Illustrated-TAKKLE Top 100 Player Rankings available on TAKKLE and Sports Illustrated magazine’s Web site, SI.com. Athletes, coaches, college recruiters and fans can see interviews with top high school players and coaches and video clips of top players in action. For example, fans can click in to see safety Rahim Moore of Dorsey High in Los Angeles anticipate the quarterback’s throw as he darts, dodges and dives to provide pass coverage, or watch as offensive tackle Michael Brewster of Edgewater High in Orlando, Florida, sends opponents literally running for cover.

“This partnership makes it easier than ever for TAKKLE to tap our nationwide network of professional videographers who bring to life the heart-pounding excitement of high school football,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “With CurbStream, TAKKLE can constantly update and enrich the SI-TAKKLE Top 100 High School Football Player Rankings with action-packed videos that are both compelling and compliant.”

With ImageSpan’s CurbStream, TAKKLE can gather a range of highly original video content, including field action shots and interviews with high school athletes, allowing it to generate up-to-date, highly social and localized high school sports video with viral advertising potential.

“ImageSpan’s CurbStream network is helping TAKKLE engage hard-to-reach young audiences by pairing the power and immediacy of video with a social network created specifically for high school athletes,” said David Birnbaum, chief executive officer, TAKKLE. “With the explosive growth of social networking – especially among teenagers -- this joint offering is certain to become a top-ranked experience for high school sports fans and a key feature on TAKKLE.com, Sports Illustrated’s SI.com and other Web sites.”

CurbStream provides on-demand access to more than 10,000 local videographers and photographers across the country who are members of the Wedding and Event Videographers Association (WEVA). Based on specifications provided to CurbStream by TAKKLE, these videographers and photographers shoot local high school sports stars during a game and then deliver video clips of athletes in action to TAKKLE via ImageSpan’s easy-to-use online service. The content is immediately rights-cleared and licensable for use by TAKKLE and SI.com.

Built on LicenseStream, ImageSpan’s simple-to-use yet powerful licensing automation platform, CurbStream is the only service globally that embeds into all video content full digital content licensing information and capabilities – from usage and permissions to rights and settlement. All pieces of the process are handled automatically via the Web-based service, eliminating the time-consuming and costly paperwork, pricing hassles and middlemen typical of manually licensing, settling and tracking digital content across social and advertising networks.

Starting in December, ImageSpan will begin capturing video of top-ranked men’s and women’s basketball players nationwide for the Top 100 Player Rankings that appear on TAKKLE.com, SI.com and other Web sites.

Today’s announcement was made at PMA 08, the annual photo trade show and convention for photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs, custom picture framers, scrapbook retailers and event videographers from around the world.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with all types of media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call 1-415.259.4529.

About Takkle

TAKKLE, the premier online social network for high school sports, connects athletes, coaches, fans, friends, and recruiters for all high school athletics. On TAKKLE, high school athletes can track and compare their stats, post team schedules, scout rivals, and share videos and photos with their teammates and opponents.

TAKKLE offers advertisers and marketers the ability to strategically target a passionate, engaged audience of high school athletes and fans. TAKKLE’s investors include Wasserman Media Group LLC, Greycroft Partners LLC, IJ Smith Enterprises LLC, and Jack Schneider, Managing Director at Allen & Company, Inc.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

Takkle Media Contact:
Jeff Rutherford
413-369-4128
jeff@jeffrutherford.com

ImageSpan to Bring Simple-to-Use Content Licensing to More than 100 Million Designers Worldwide

ImageSpan Technology Gives Every Content Creator the Capability to License, Sell Digital Content Created with Popular Adobe Creative Suite 3 Software

SAUSALITO, CA — October 9, 2007 — ImageSpan™ Inc., the first comprehensive licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, today announced that it is making LicenseStream, its simple-to-use content licensing service, available to professional and user-gen creators in a revolutionary new way. ImageSpan will offer the subscription-based service to more than 100 million designers around the world who use the popular Creative Suite® 3 software from Adobe® Systems.

Now any digital content creator can use ImageSpan’s LicenseStream platform to define rights to their work and then sell that work online without paperwork, pricing hassles or middlemen. LicenseStream enables content creators to cut licensing costs by up to 90 percent and focus on what they do best: create innovative, powerful content and get that content to market as fast as possible.

ImageSpan has made it possible for LicenseStream subscribers to access the platform directly from Adobe Bridge CS3, the easy-to-use media manager that lets Adobe Creative Suite 3 users transfer media they have created from one program to another. Subscriptions to the LicenseStream platform will start at $39.99 per year.

LicenseStream enables content creators to define extensive licensing terms before distributing their content on the Web. With a single click, any advertiser, social network or content developer can see licensing information and initiate a Web-based licensing transaction without lawyers and phone calls. Currently, billions of dollars of content licensing transactions occur every year but most of these are time-consuming and inefficient, taking place offline because the process has never before been successfully automated. With LicenseStream, the entire licensing process becomes completely transparent, avoiding liability, copyright infringement and transaction settlement headaches.

“We are excited to offer this extremely valuable add-on to the Adobe Creative Suite 3 user base,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “ We are bringing licensing-with-a-click — a simple, intuitive approach to sophisticated content licensing — to millions of creative professionals around the world. This offering uniquely positions ImageSpan to become the platform-of-choice for intellectual property licensing worldwide.”

The Adobe Flash®-based application puts licensing and transaction control back into the hands of creative professionals, seamlessly guiding them through the content licensing and billing process and empowering them to define licensing parameters, as well as price and license content. The licensing technology developed by ImageSpan uses standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) that simplify the process of granting, obtaining and managing the permissions necessary to use photographs and illustrations.

“Creative professionals require efficient methods to both license and manage their digital art and other content,” said Kevin Connor, senior director of product management, Adobe Systems. “The ImageSpan technology uses the PLUS Standard to enable licensing and facilitates the free flow of content and commerce from within the Creative Suite experience. We want our customers to have access to solutions that positively impact their businesses and ultimately, protect their work.”

Cutting-edge advertisers and media companies are already taking advantage of ImageSpan’s licensing platform through CurbStream, an ImageSpan service that provides on-demand access to thousands of local videographers and photographers in virtually every community in the country. These videographers and photographers shoot and then upload raw local area content for any advertising or video content network via ImageSpan’s easy-to-use interface. The content is then immediately rights cleared and licensable for use.

For more information about the LicenseStream service, go to www.licensestream.com

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with all types of media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call 1-415.259.4529.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

ImageSpan and PLUS Coalition Streamline Image Licensing Process

Increased clarity, reduced complexity and better protection for everyone involved in image licensing, worldwide

SAUSALITO, CA and LOS ANGELES, CA — November 30, 2006 — The demand for licensable digital content is at an all-time high, yet image licensing remains a complex and often confusing process. Today, the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition, the global standards body for image licensing, has selected ImageSpan Inc. as the exclusive technology provider for the PLUS License Registry. Now under development by PLUS and ImageSpan, the PLUS License Registry will provide a framework through which licensors and licensees may more effectively track the rights associated with image licenses. ImageSpan has also worked closely with PLUS to develop tools facilitating the use of the PLUS standards, including the PLUS Media Selector/Decoder, PLUS License Generator and the PLUS XMP Embedder/Reader.

PLUS a non-profit, cooperative multi-industry initiative is a four-part system: PLUS Glossary, PLUS Media Matrix, PLUS License Format, and the PLUS-ID System that simplifies and facilitates the image licensing process. Licensors and licensees will use the PLUS standard when granting, acquiring, tracking and managing image licenses. With standardized licensing language and a machine-readable coding architecture, image licenses become more transparent and much simpler for everyone involved in the licensing process.

ImageSpan Inc. offers a Licensing Automation Platform that extends far beyond the scope of the services they provide to the PLUS Coalition and the PLUS License Registry. The key components of the ImageSpan Platform include: content management, content aggregation, intellectual property rights management, and license history tracking. ImageSpan independently offers an e-commerce enabled license and transaction engine, transaction settlement and royalty processing and payment modules, allowing users to price, transact, settle and pay royalties. What has previously been a myriad of different licensing models and approaches varying by organization can now be simplified through ImageSpan’s Licensing Automation Platform.

“When paired with the international image licensing standards developed by the PLUS Coalition, ImageSpan’s comprehensive licensing and settlement services make for a natural partnership. ImageSpan offers a platform that will protect content owners, quickly enable transactions and maximize the value of their content,&rdquo stated Iain Scholnick, president and CEO, ImageSpan Inc. “We are proud to have played a key role in the development of the PLUS standards, and now to power the PLUS License Registry. The PLUS team has done a fantastic job of bringing together the major trade organizations as well as the leading brands such as Microsoft, Adobe, Getty Images, Corbis and Jupiterimages, creating a comprehensive organization dedicated exclusively to improving the image licensing process. ImageSpan will be among the first to integrate the standards in our applications.”

“ImageSpan’s support and participation in the PLUS Coalition has been critical to our success in creating the world’s first image licensing standards. As the leading licensing automation platform, ImageSpan is the ideal technology provider for the PLUS Registry,” says Jeff Sedlik, president and co-founder of the PLUS Coalition.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with all types of media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months.ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call 1-415.259.4529.

About PLUS

The PLUS Coalition (Picture Licensing Universal System) is an international trade association with a mission to simplify and facilitate the licensing of images through the development of a system of image licensing standards and tools. PLUS is a 501(c) 6 non-profit organization, with significant support received from PLUS Leadership Circle Members Adobe, Microsoft, Pentagram, Jupterimages, Adbase, Belay Development, Digimarc, Digital Railroad, ImageSpan, IPN, IPTC, Photo District News, PhotoServe, StockPhotoFinder, and Wong Doody. To learn more about PLUS, visit www.useplus.org.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

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ImageSpan Partners With Visible World to Build Revolutionary Marketplace for On-Demand Customization of Ads

ImageSpan’s New Automated Content and Copyright Management and Licensing Platform Will Combine with Visible World’s IntelliSpot Dashboard to Meet Advertisers’ Demands for Dynamic and Affordable Localized Content

SAUSALITO, CA and NEW YORK, NY — June 11, 2007 — ImageSpan Inc™, the first comprehensive licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, today announced that it will team with Visible World, a leading video advertising technology and services company, to build a revolutionary new marketplace for rights-cleared content that also will allow advertisers to customize ads in real-time at a fraction of the usual cost.

The platform will combine ImageSpan’s CurbStream and Visible World’s IntelliSpot Dashboard. ImageSpan’s CurbStream provides on-demand access to thousands of local videographers and photographers in virtually every community in the country. These videographers and photographers shoot and then upload raw local area content for any advertising or video content network via ImageSpan’s easy-to-use interface. The content is then immediately rights cleared and licensable for use with Visible World’s IntelliSpot Dashboard, where advertisers can electronically create, customize, deliver, and monitor intelligent video spots.

“Advertisers are on the front lines of a complex new world of mashups and multi-copyright-holder content projects due to increased demands to scale campaigns and tailor them to local markets in near real time,” said Iain Scholnick, chairman and chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Having spent four years in stealth mode working to address these evolving needs, ImageSpan is poised to revolutionize $8 billion a year rights management and clearance industry by bringing the manual rights clearance process into the Internet age. The combined ImageSpan-Visible World platform provides a marketplace where advertisers can electronically secure rights-cleared images and video to create, customize, target, tailor, monitor and actively change ads on-the-fly to reflect changing market conditions and help companies make the most of their advertising dollars.”

Until today, companies in the advertising industry had to endure costly, time-consuming person-to-person negotiations to license and acquire rights-cleared images and video. With ImageSpan, a process that used to require a lawyer and a contract is now automated and requires only a few clicks of the mouse. As a result, ImageSpan helps reduce costs by as much as 90 percent. That translates into a huge savings for creative advertising promotions, where more than $8 billion was spent last year on licensing and acquiring rights-cleared content.

“Advertisers need a way to manage complex copyright tracking and license billing issues in an environment where they want to increase global brand control and ad consistency, but with greater flexibility to tailor and dynamically change messages to better target local markets and individuals,” said Tara Walpert, President, Visible World. “The marketplace we’re creating with ImageSpan will make it easier and more affordable for advertisers to secure the content and rights they need for on-the-fly customization of video advertising to any market and on any screen — from TV to PC to mobile. As a result, companies will be able to more effectively promote their businesses in local markets, and eventually to specific households and individuals, at greatly reduced costs.”

ImageSpan puts licensing and transaction control back into the hands of the content stakeholders, the buyer and seller. It enables them to protect and profit from the legal exchange of content by providing licensing and billing automation for rapid and legal content catalog creation, distribution, syndication, and settlement. ImageSpan has four applications that leverage its licensing platform:

• LicenseStream: Delivers a licensing and billing utility platform to manage the complete media transaction cycle of: rights, permissions, and pricing assignment, license generation and ecommerce management, royalty and billing settlement services for existing and newly-created content.
• CurbStream: Provides a local on-demand advertising content network. ImageSpan has access to more than 7,000 videographers and independent photographers available to shoot and upload raw content on demand for any advertising or video content creation network via a simple-to-use interface. The content is then immediately rights cleared and licensable for use.
• OneStream: Offers on-demand access to millions of rights-managed images.
• License MashUp Tool: Enables content holders to assign rights, permissions and license models for multiple pieces of digital content.

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan is a Licensing and Revenue Automation platform for digital content running as a managed service. The company independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with the licensing of all types of digital media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.ImageSpan.com or call 415.259.4529.

About PLUS

Visible World provides a complete, cross-platform solution for electronically creating, delivering, and monitoring dynamically customized video ads within any media plan. The integrated IntelliSpot(R) solution enables advertisers to edit content on-the-fly, automatically, anywhere and anytime ads run to reflect the time, location, and context in which the ads appear. Visible World, which lists WPP, Comcast and Time Warner as investors, was founded in 2000 by advertising and media veterans and is based in New York, NY. http://www.visibleworld.com/

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com

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ImageSpan and Zimmerman Advertising Partner to Bring the Next Generation of Image Licensing and Local Area Content Creation to the Automotive Industry

SAUSALITO, CA, and Fort Lauderdale, FL — June 25, 2007 — ImageSpan Inc.™, a licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, and Zimmerman Advertising, an Omnicom Group agency, announced their partnership to embed ImageSpan’s licensing automation technology, LicenseStream, into Zimmerman’s Pick-n-Click Ads.com™, the world’s first virtual advertising agency.

In addition, Zimmerman and Pick-n-Click Ads.com™ will adopt ImageSpan’s local area content creation network, CurbStream, as the exclusive provider for all local area content creation needs. CurbStream provides the only on-demand national network of more than 7,000 professional independent videographers and photographers.

Pick-n-Click Ads.com™ enables any of the more than 22,000 U.S. auto dealerships to create compelling local advertising in real time from any internet enabled computer. Dealers can now choose from hundreds of top quality automotive campaigns created by the country’s largest retail automotive advertising agency and customize them with video or photos of their dealership supplied by accredited ImageSpan video professionals. All pieces of the process are automatically licensed, eliminating the time-consuming process of manually licensing content.

“We are excited to be chosen by Zimmerman to significantly enhance this groundbreaking product for the automotive industry,” said Iain Scholnick, chairman and chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “Developing a simple process for efficiently acquiring local area content, and delivering it with an automated licensing and transaction system, means that Pick-n-Click Ads.com™ clients can create truly impactful, compliant advertising in just minutes.”

"The future of advertising has arrived," said Michael Gelfano, vice president of retail technologies, Zimmerman Advertising. "Local and franchise advertising is a significant part of the $130 billion automotive advertising market. The Pick-n-Click Ads.com™ and ImageSpan partnership enables exactly what our clients have been demanding — the ability to create and localize their advertising in real time to capitalize on the ever-changing needs of their local retail market."

About ImageSpan

ImageSpan is a Licensing and Revenue Automation platform running as a managed exchange service. The company independently offers a comprehensive suite of applications and tools for use with the licensing of all types of digital media, connecting buyers and sellers to find, buy and legally settle royalty payments in minutes, rather than months. ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.ImageSpan.com or call 415.259.4529.

About Zimmerman Advertising

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale Florida, Zimmerman Advertising, an Omnicom Group™ company, is currently the 15th largest advertising agency in the United States, with more than 1,000 full-time associates and offices throughout the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Atlanta.

Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

ImageSpan Media Contact:
Laura Evenson
415.465.2711
levenson@imagespan.com