Acquisition

ADVFN PLC
07 July 2005

News release

                                                                   July 7th 2005
Embargoed for release at 7.30am



                      ADVFN PLC ('ADVFN' or the 'Company')

The company announced that application is today being made for the admission to
trading on AIM of 325,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each (the 'shares').

The shares are being issued at a price of 3.1p each in consideration for the
acquisition of the Fotothing Website by a wholly owned subsidiary of ADVFN in
accordance with the terms for the acquisition agreed on 4 July 2005.  Admission
of and dealing in shares is expected to commence on 12 July 2005.

                                     -Ends-

About ADVFN

ADVFN (www.advfn.com) is Europe's number one stocks and shares Web site. With
full real-time coverage of the London Stock Exchange, the euronext-liffe, OFEX,
NASDAQ, Amex and NYSE, including FTSE, Dow and S&P indices, ADVFN provides
professional quality information to the person on the street.

ADVFN was established in the last quarter of 1999 and floated on AIM in March
2000. It now has over 500,000 registered users who generate in excess of 38
million page impressions a month.

We currently cover the following areas in the UK, France and America:

• Free real-time prices from the London Stock Exchange
• EURONEXT-LIFFE
• EURONEXT - Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam
• NASDAQ
• NYSE
• AMEX
• OFEX
• FOREX
• GTIS FOREX
• NYMEX
• COMEX
• Russian stocks and indices
• Canadian stocks, indices, options and derivatives
• German stocks and indices - Xetra
• Irish stocks and indices
• Greek stocks and indices
• Singapore stocks and indices
• Helsinki Stock Exchange
• Stockholm Stock Exchange
• Copenhagen Stock Exchange
• Warsaw Stock Exchange
• Swiss Indices
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• Johannesburg Stock Exchange and indices
• Level 2 data
• Comprehensive fundamental data
• Streaming stock charts, historic and intraday
• CREST stock loan data
• Portfolios
• RNS and AFX news
• UK's busiest financial bulletin boards
• Historical data downloads
• Stock monitors and filters
• Covered Warrants
• Trading signals
• Investor Relations Web site solutions
• PDA service
• SMS stock quote service
• Weather
• Headlines - news headline and archive search

For further press information, please contact Francesca De Franco on 020 7070
0932 or email [e-mail]


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