VeriSign and Entriq Team to Offer Media Companies
a Comprehensive Platform to Create, Deploy and Manage High-Quality,
Broadband Media Businesses
Dynamic Combination of Content Delivery, Pay Media, Advertising and
Web Publishing Will Make Launching Internet Media Businesses Faster,
Simpler, More Profitable
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb. 21, 2007 – VeriSign, Inc., the leading
provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, today announced
that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Entriq, Inc., a company
that provides pay media solutions to manage, protect, and monetize multimedia
content worldwide.
The new joint offering combines Entriq’s rights-management
and commerce solutions with the VeriSign® Intelligent Content Delivery
Network (CDN) to offer media companies a comprehensive and cost effective
solution for managing, monetizing, and delivering their media assets
online. Entriq’s services include customer care, billing,
content geographic controls, download controls and support for a wide
variety of business models. VeriSign’s Intelligent CDN, introduced in
December 2006, is a market leader in delivering high quality video over
the Internet in a secure, scalable manner utilizing patented peer-assisted
technology.
The combined solution offers media and entertainment
companies a variety of delivery options for monetizing their valuable
media assets, including streaming, download and progressive download,
with the additional advantage of leveraging secure and legitimate peer
to peer when delivery speed and cost advantages are critical business
drivers.
“The market for online video is growing at an explosive
pace, but we keep hearing customers ask for less complex ways to publish
and distribute content online,” said Jeff Richards, vice president and
general manager of Broadband Content Services for VeriSign. “The
combination of the VeriSign and Entriq solutions takes the complexity
out of this equation. The Entriq/VeriSign offering utilizes two
of the market’s leading content platforms to enable the broadest range
of market participants – from large media networks to small startups
– to deliver and monetize video online.”
Entriq COO Scott Crowder said: “Posting Internet video
is relatively simple, as anyone who has visited YouTube knows, but delivering
high-quality video cost effectively– and then verifying that the digital
rights of the publisher are protected and enforced while also offering
customers excellent customer care – is another story. By integrating
Entriq’s pay media solution with VeriSign’s Intelligent CDN we’re
providing entertainment and media businesses of all sizes a chance to
build scaleable new media business. We’ve made it easy and affordable
to produce and generate revenue from high-quality Internet video.”
According to analyst firm eMarketer, Internet video
is exploding. In the United States alone, the Internet video audience
will grow 45.8 percent from 107.7 million in 2006 to 157 million by
2010.
The VeriSign Intelligent CDN combines the attributes
of a traditional CDN with the efficiencies of peer-to-peer technology
as an end-to-end managed service. The scale of VeriSign’s global
intelligent infrastructure, combined with the patented and proven Kontiki™
peer-to-peer technology, enables media and entertainment companies to
offer a superior download experience for end users.
Entriq is also launching the 3.6 version of the Entriq™
Download Manager which along with incorporating the Verisign Intelligent
CDN components has been upgraded to include:
- Transfer to PlaysForSure™ Devices – Entriq Download
Manager supports discovery of devices attached to the PC through USB
ports. It also supports transfer of appropriate media and licenses to
a PlaysForSure device.
- Configurable Delay in Auto-Deletion – customers can now determine
the interval for auto-deletion of the media file.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), operates digital infrastructure services
that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the
world’s voice and data networks. Additional news and information about
the company is available at www.verisign.com.
About Entriq, Inc
With over 20 years of pay media experience, Entriq, Inc. powers new
media business models by providing solutions for protecting, selling
and delivering content to broadband, mobile and IPTV connected devices
worldwide. Entriq gives content and service providers the tools needed
to manage and protect valuable media assets they wish to track and/or
sell. Entriq clients include some of the largest companies in the pay
media industry, including MTV Networks, World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE), NBC Universal, Viacom, Major League Baseball, UEFA, Channel 4
(U.K.), BT Media and Broadcast, and Intel. Entriq is based in San Diego,
Calif., and has offices in the U.K., France, China, the Netherlands,
Germany and Australia. Entriq is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly owned
subsidiary of Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN).
Trademarks
VeriSign, Kontiki and other trademarks, service marks, and logos are
registered or unregistered marks of VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries
in the United States and in foreign countries. All other trademarks
are property of their respective owners.
Copyright © 2007 VeriSign, Inc. All rights reserved.
For More Information:
VeriSign Media Relations: Allison Flerl, aflerl@verisign.com,
650-426-4649
VeriSign Investor Relations: Ken Bond, ir@verisign.com,
650-426-3744
Entriq Public Relations: Stephen Condon stephen.condon@entriq.com
Forward-Looking Statement
Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information
constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties
that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from
those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential
risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future
revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating
results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to successfully
develop and market new products and services and customer acceptance
of any new products or services, including VeriSign Intelligent Content
Delivery Network; the possibility that this service may not result in
additional customers, profits or revenues; and increased competition
and pricing pressures. More information about potential factors that
could affect the company's business and financial results is included
in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2005 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no
obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the
date of this press release.
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