Warner Bros. Online/Time Warner Executive, Patrick Barry, Named Vice President of Business Development and Animation of Brilliant Digital Entertainment

Business Wire, Jan 10, 2000

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000

Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Inc. (AMEX: BDE), a pioneering Internet content and tools developer, announced today that Patrick Barry, former Director of Affiliate Market Development for Warner Bros. Online, a Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) subsidiary, has been named Vice President of Business Development and Animation. Mr. Barry will focus on expanding distribution for Brilliant Digital's 3-D digitally animated interactive content on the Internet.

Kevin Bermeister, Brilliant Digital's President commented, "We are pleased to welcome Patrick, a proven and respected entertainment and technology industry executive, to head our business development efforts for our Internet Animation division. With over seven years of business development and marketing experience as well as a broad base of industry relationships, Patrick is ideally suited to help in enhancing our network distribution model for Brilliant's properties on the Internet. Through this effort, we expect to achieve significant increases in viewer advertising impressions from our content during the first half of 2000."

Prior to joining Brilliant Digital, Patrick Barry was Director of Affiliate Market Development at Warner Bros. Online, where he was responsible for distributing and syndicating online entertainment programming to traditional and new media networks. Mr. Barry has worked with Time Warner companies for the last seven years, including Warner Advanced Media, the technology platform unit of Time Warner that co-invented DVD technology with Toshiba Corp. On the original business development team, Barry was instrumental in launching the successful DVD-Video and DVD-ROM markets. Before joining Time Warner, Mr. Barry held strategic marketing roles at Intel Corp.

Mr. Barry earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California Berkeley and will conclude his Masters of Science in Management, with a concentration on Technology, from Pepperdine University in the spring of 2000.

About Brilliant Digital Entertainment

Brilliant Digital Entertainment is a pioneering entertainment content provider and technology developer for the converging Internet and television markets. The Company is focused on two principle market segments: (1) The development and distribution of 3-D, digitally animated interactive content, distinguished by its small file sizes/shorter download times and full-screen images, developed using Brilliant's proprietary software. (2) Live Internet and television auction broadcasts as well as real-time Internet and telephone bidding and e-commerce services, in conjunction with top auction houses, through its The Auction Channel subsidiary. More information on Brilliant Digital Entertainment may be found at http://www.multipathmovies.com and on The Auction Channel at http://www.auctionchannel.com.

Information about Forward Looking Statements

Statements in this news release that relate to Brilliant Digital Entertainment's projection of adoption of 3-D animation on the Internet, the significant increase in viewer advertising impressions for its content during the first half of 2000 and Mr. Barry's ability to enhance Brilliant's network distribution model for its properties are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended. Actual circumstances may differ materially due to a variety of factors set forth in Brilliant's most recently filed Form 10-KSB report and 10-QSB report and are available from Brilliant Digital Entertainment's Investor Relations department and may be obtained by calling or writing to our investor relations company, Jaffoni & Collins at 212-835-8500 or bde@jcir.com.