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The iMEDIA Market Report Publishes Interview Segments With SAVVIS, Glu Mobile, LiveDigital and Streaming Media Analysis by AccuStream Research

Business Wire, April 12, 2006

MONTEREY, Calif. -- The AccuStream iMEDIA Market Report (http://www.imediamarketreport.com) has published new audio commentary, analysis and interview segments with guests from prominent companies in mobile media, community-generated streaming media and streaming media analysis.

Show segments, hosted by Paul A. Palumbo are sponsored by AccuStream iMedia Research and Limelight Networks.

Guests this release cycle include Richard Metcalf, VP and GM of media services at SAVVIS Communications.

Metcalf discusses his company's plan to significantly upgrade its streaming media infrastructure, target new accounts and sources of revenue in the CDN segment and extend digital distribution relationships with existing customers.

Glu Mobile CFO Rocky Pimentel explains the market and strategic logic behind the acquisition of European mobile games publisher iFONE, valuation metrics post Electronic Arts' buyout of JAMDAT, and whether equity markets are ready to support another mobile games publisher.

Lawrence Ng, CEO of community video streaming site LiveDigital.com joins Palumbo to discuss content acquisition compared to similar sites, turning users into revenue and long-term business prospects for independent publishers.

Analyst Paul A. Palumbo discusses the top-line findings from three recently published AccuStream iMedia Research reports, including Streaming Media 2005 - 2010, CDN Market Share 2005 and 2006, and Streaming Video Anthology and Analysis 1998 - 2010.

Mr. Palumbo provides data points with background analysis of the streaming media market in 2005, which generated a total of 18 billion video views, up 50% over 2004. Broadband streams made up 85% of total streams served.

AccuStream's unique perspective, position in the industry and visibility into the CDN segment is profiled in another audio segment. The U.S. CDN market was worth in total about $450 million dollars in 2005, including retail contracts, backhaul provisioning, streaming advertising delivery, download and other subscription media delivery.

In another segment, Palumbo explains how streaming video has grown from a series of one-off events in 1998 with little or no destination based programming to a viable broadband channel online in 2005 and 2006 capable of supporting multiple content categories and business models.

AccuStream iMedia Research (http://www.accustreamresearch.com) publishes the numbers annual streaming media analysis and forecasting reports, streaming media advertising reports, streaming subscription and download media reports and much more.

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