New Orleans – NATPE 2000 - (January 25, 1999) - Following recent successes in the international market through the acquisition of new customers and strategic relationships, MediaSite, Inc., the technology leader in navigational video products and services, announces the formation of an international business unit. The objective of this unit is to support MediaSite’s position as the worldwide leader in navigational video for Web applications.

The international business unit will expand all MediaSite overseas’ activities, including acquiring customers, building relationships with strategic partners and content owners, plus developing distribution channels, local subsidiaries and joint ventures.

International customers and relationships for MediaSite’s international business unit include Kamera Interactive, of Stockholm Sweden; Enformatica and Digeo, both of the U.K.; and R, a Spanish broadband portal.

Howard D. Wactlar, founder, chairman and CEO of MediaSite, says, "We find the international market very rewarding, and, going forward, we see significant business opportunities beginning to surface."

Per Sjofors, vice president and general manager of MediaSite’s international business unit, says, "There are no doubts that a focused effort on the international market will further increase our penetration into the video tools market for Internet applications."

MediaSite Inc. is the technology leader in enabling the interactive video economy™. Video content providers increase their revenues and extend their brands by creating searchable and interactive video websites using MediaSite products and professional services. MediaSite offers a total solution through its Publisher Suite™ software to deliver a flexible, automated approach for publishing searchable and interactive video on the Web. Users can easily browse, search and navigate specific video segments and view video summaries faster than real time. MediaSite's V-commerce™ (Video e-commerce) capabilities offer content providers the ability to convert their content to currency through targeted advertising, syndication, direct sales, and subscription.

Mediasite customers include: Time Warner Cable (NY1), Warner Brothers, CBS Affiliates (WCBS, KDKA), Internet Broadcast Systems, US Air Force, US Holocaust Museum, and HealthInfo. MediaSite solutions are based on patented ISLIP technologies – Integrated Speech, Language and Image Processing – developed in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, one of the world's top universities in computer and information sciences.

For more information, visit www.mediasite.com.

MediaSite, the MediaSite Digital Library System, MediaSite Logger, MediaSite LoggerPlus, MediaSite Builder, MediaSite BuilderPlus, MediaSite Finder, MediaSpeak Solo, MediaSpeak Chorus, Full-Media Indexing, and "Unlocking the value of video" are trademarks of  MediaSite. All other brands or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.