SkyMall Catalog Featured on theglobe.com

Business Wire, Dec 15, 1998

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1998--As part of its continuing Internet strategy, SkyMall Inc. (Nasdaq:SKYM) Monday announced that leading online community theglobe.com (Nasdaq:TGLO) now features the popular SkyMall catalog in the Marketplace area of its Web site.

Averaging more than 7.5 million unique visitors per month, theglobe.com is setting the standard for online communities by providing members with a wealth of services and content but distinguished by its personality and people.

SkyMall will be featured under the catalog shopping area of theglobe.com's Marketplace, which also offers products and services from leading retailers such as Barnes & Noble and F.A.O. Schwarz. Banner ads running throughout theglobe.com site will direct users to the SkyMall catalog.

"We are very pleased to have joined forces with theglobe.com, which we selected because of their impressive user network and rapidly growing Web presence," said Robert M. Worsley, president and chief executive officer of SkyMall. "Through this agreement, we will make it easier than ever to purchase quality SkyMall merchandise over the Internet, both for theglobe.com members and the general public."

About theglobe.com

theglobe.com's intuitive site is designed to foster a user's creative and interactive experience. Content providers for 10 themes of interest (Arts, Business, Entertainment, Life, Metro, News, Romance, Sports, Technology & Travel) include Reuters, E! Online, CNET, Thomson Investors Network, UPI & Cnet. Member content is promoted in every area of redesign, integrated around the abundance of data and news available at theglobe.com.

By satisfying its users' personal and practical needs, theglobe.com seeks to become their online home. The company's primary revenue source is the sale of advertising, with additional revenues generated through e-commerce arrangements and the sale of membership subscriptions for enhanced services.

Members of the community shop in a Marketplace with more than 35 retailers, including Barnes & Noble, F.A.O. Schwarz and Lens Express. Additionally, globeStores offers small business e-commerce solutions to members. Advertisers featured at the site include Sony, Office Depot, Visa and Coca-Cola.

About SkyMall

SkyMall(R), the largest in-flight catalog company in the United States, makes high-quality products and services available to more than 400 million airline passengers per year and, through Internet alliances, to millions more through online shopping at www.skymall.com. The company markets and sells premium merchandise from participating merchants, including major catalog companies and specialty retailers.

SkyMall's in-flight catalog program and electronic commerce initiatives are being leveraged through international expansion and incentive programs aimed at broadening the company's product lines and expanding its customer base. Through its subsidiary, Durham & Co., SkyMall offers high-quality logo merchandise to corporate America and other organizations.

For further information and prior news releases, visit SkyMall's Web site.

This news release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those factors detailed by SkyMall Inc. in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.