imeem Strikes Strategic Music, Video Partnership with EMI Music

- Fans now have on-demand access to EMI’s entire digital audio and video catalogue
- EMI is third major label to offer ad-supported music through imeem

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October 29, 2007 – San Francisco, Calif. – imeem, a leading social network, and EMI Music, one of the world's leading digital music companies, today announced a comprehensive music and video content partnership that will give fans free, on-demand access to stream EMI Music’s available global digital catalogue on imeem’s ad-supported online service. Starting today, imeem's 18 million users will be able to enjoy music and video from artists such as Radiohead, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, 30 Seconds to Mars, Norah Jones, Interpol, KT Tunstall, Daft Punk, Joss Stone, the Beastie Boys and more.

Having pioneered and launched the first ad-supported and interactive music streaming service earlier this year, imeem is the only social network offering both full music and video streaming in partnership with major and independent record labels. Using unique full-featured social media applications available as part of imeem’s service, members can upload their favorite music, video and photos for streaming, create custom playlists and slideshows, and share them with friends and fans on imeem and across the Web. imeem.com was recently named Best of the Web 2007 in the AdWeek Third Annual “Digital Hot List.”

“We think imeem offers fans a great music discovery experience and personalized media features through its unique social networking environment,” said Lauren Berkowitz, Senior Vice President of Digital for EMI Music North America. “We look forward to working with imeem to develop innovative promotional opportunities and also to building new advertising and commerce revenue streams that will benefit EMI’s artists.”

“We are thrilled to work with our newest record label partner EMI Music to expand the great content available free to our users on our ad-supported service and bring imeem a significant step closer to creating the world’s largest media community," said Dalton Caldwell, founder and chief executive officer of imeem.

About IMEEM
imeem is the leading social network where users can create, recommend and discover new content and connect directly with people of similar tastes in music, film/video, art, and pop culture. With over 18 million active users, the imeem service offers innovative media expression and interactive discovery features such as custom music playlists, video channels, photo slideshows and blogs. Since the launch of its Web-based community in March 2006, imeem has attracted online fans, artists, bands, directors and content partners from around the world. comScore named imeem the fastest growing social site in the United States in September 2007.To learn more about imeem, visit www.imeem.com

About EMI Music
EMI Music is the recorded music division of EMI Group Limited, one of the world's largest independent music companies. Its EMI Music division represents artists spanning all musical tastes and genres. Its record labels include Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Nashville, EMI Classics, EMI CMG, EMI Records, EMI Televisa Music, Manhattan, Mute, Parlophone and Virgin. Artists on EMI labels include Lily Allen, The Beatles, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Gorillaz, Norah Jones, The Kooks, Korn, Kylie Minogue, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Joss Stone, 30 Seconds To Mars, KT Tunstall, Keith Urban and Robbie Williams, as well as international artists such as Amaral (Spain), Diam’s (France), Utada Hikaru (Japan), LaFee (Germany), Radja (Indonesia), RBD (Mexico) and Vasco Rossi (Italy).

EMI has been at the cutting edge of the rapidly growing digital music marketplace since it released David Bowie’s Hours as the world’s first ever album to be offered as a digital download in 1999. EMI has signed agreements with hundreds of digital partners to distribute its music across the globe, including most recently its premium DRM-free, higher-quality offering sold through partners including Apple iTunes, Amazon.com and more. It continues to facilitate the development of a growing range of new digital business models to enable fans to experience and purchase its artists’ output through a number of different platforms including, legal peer-to-peer agreements with QTrax, Mashboxx and GNAB, and a deal to offer advertising-supported videos on mobile phones in the US through Rhythm NewMedia.

For further information on EMI, please visit: www.emigroup.com.

Source: EMI Group Limited