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ZapSpot, INC. Announces Syndication Partnerships with
Top Entertainment AND DOWNLOAD Portals
Comet
Systems, Inc. and Uproar, Inc. partner with ZapSpot™
technologies and content to create viral desktop marketing
campaigns.
New York, NY,
August 19, 2000 - ZapSpot, Inc., a privately held New York City-based company,
announces that Comet Systems™ download, and Uproar, Inc., one of the top entertainment
destination portals on the Internet, have partnered with ZapSpot to
use ZapSpot's marketing and software distribution technologies to
virally extend the reach of their networks.
As
part of the partnership and marketing agreements, ZapSpot will
provide both companies with special, customized versions of its
proven, play-tested software titles which each company will
distribute to their respective customers using various electronic
promotional vehicles. Because each application will be fully enabled
with ZapSpot's Desktop Companion™,
users that receive these applications will be able to install them
to their machines and share them with their friends with a single
click.
Once
a Desktop Companion is installed on a user's machine, it creates a
persistent, ongoing communication channel directly to that user.
Both Comet Systems and Uproar will be able to use that channel to
advertise products, drive customers back to their Web-sites, and
more.
"We
are incredibly pleased to be working with Comet Systems and Uproar
on these campaigns," says Dan Frumin, President and CEO of
ZapSpot, Inc. "Comet Cursor is one of the most successful
software downloads of all time, with over thirty-million downloads.
And Uproar is consistently ranked as one of the top entertainment
properties on the net. The fact that both companies have recognized
the value of creating a persistent desktop presence using our
technology in addition to their standard services demonstrates the
value of our product offerings, and we are eager to work with them
on an ongoing basis."
About
Uproar, Inc.
Uproar Inc., producer of uproar.com, a leading online
entertainment destination offering games and game shows such as
Family Feud, Puzzle A-Go-Go, Trivia Blitz and Blowout Bingo, with
chances to win prizes. With approximately 8.3 million registered
users and 5.8 million unique users per month, Uproar ranks among the
top 50 Web properties and reaches 7.6 percent of the online
audience. The uproar.com network has consistently ranked among the
five "stickiest" networks on the Internet. More than
41,000 sites are Uproar syndicate members and Uproar sites are
available in 14 languages worldwide. Headquartered in New York with
offices in San Francisco, London, Hamburg, and Budapest, Uproar is
publicly traded on both the Nasdaq National Market system and the
European Association of Securities Dealers' Automated Quotation
system.
About Comet Systems, Inc.
Comet Systems, Inc. (www.cometsystems.com)
is the developer of the Comet Cursor, a patented rich media
technology that lets Web-sites and Web advertisers broadcast a
customized graphic or animation in place of the conventional
"arrow" cursor. The Comet Cursor has been installed by
more than thirty-one million Web surfers and has reached more than
25% of the Web surfing public. Cometsystems.com is consistently one
of the top 200 domains on the entire World Wide Web as recorded by
Media Metrix or by Nielsen//NetRatings. Comet Systems' technology is
now used on over 50,000 Web-sites; licensees include Warner Bros.
Online, AT&T WorldNet, Comedy Central, Mattel, Universal Studios
Online, and Paramount Digital Entertainment. The 50-person company
was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New York's Silicon
Alley. For more information, contact Ben Austin at 212-231-2000 ext.
103 or marketing@cometsystems.com.
About ZapSpot,
Inc.
ZapSpot,
Inc. is creating the world's first person-to-person application
sharing platform that lets users find, collect, and share small
software games. The ZapSpot platform also provides businesses with a
personalized, persistent and powerful viral desktop channel to
acquire new customers, generate incremental revenue, and maintain
ongoing customer loyalty and communications. Based in New York City,
ZapSpot has received over one million downloads of its applications
from over 100 countries in just three months. For more information
visit www.ZapSpot.com.
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