Product Launch

ADVFN.COM PLC
8 May 2001



                                                               8 May 2001

                ADVFN LAUNCHES NEW INVESTOR RELATIONS PRODUCT


ADVFN.COM Plc ('ADVFN'), one of the UK's leading providers of financial
information, today announces the launch of a new product focusing on providing
investor relations solutions.

ADVFN, who specialise in delivering real time stock market data solutions, a
vital component of any investor relations strategy, is ideally placed to
capitalise on the growing need to supply accurate financial information to
quoted companies.

To coincide with the official launch of ADVFN's investor relations product,
the company is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with Friends
Provident covering share data solutions.  ADVFN currently supplies Orange with
shares information on its website and are in negotiations with a number of
other companies.

ADVFN has appointed David Jones as head of sales for investor relations
products. David brings extensive practical experience of financial data
solutions sales and the investment market.

Martin Talks, Commercial Director of ADVFN, commented:

ADVFN is known as the UK's leading private investor website and so we are
ideally positioned to supply accurate and compelling data to companies'
investors and prospective investors. The Internet provides a unique and cost
effective platform to communicate with shareholders, an area which ADVFN
excels. The launch of our new product into a fast growing market has and will
continue to generate additional revenues for ADVFN.



For further information please contact:

Advfn.com plc
Martin Talks, Commercial Director                       020 7070 0946
David Jones, Investor Relations                         020 7070 0948

Buchanan Communications                                 020 7466 5000
Jeremy Garcia


Notes to Editors:

On ADVFN

ADVFN provides professional quality shares data to private investors from its
web site at www.advfn.com, its WAP services (http://mobile.advfn.com/wap/) and
its interactive television channels with Telewest.

It also provides education services through its wholly owned subsidiary,
Success Events Limited (www.success-events.com).

Since going live in the last quarter of 1999, ADVFN has quickly become a
leader in its market and recently announced that its web site had achieved 40
million page impressions in a month. ADVFN floated on AIM in March 2000.

ADVFN has begun a strategy of international expansion and recently announced
the opening of its French web site at www.advfn.fr.

Its current services include:

* Free real-time prices direct from the Stock Exchange
* Premium site with level 2 data at £35 per month
* User-configurable alerts to e-mail and mobiles
* Comprehensive fundamental data
* Stock monitor. Track stocks - with automatic updates
* Portfolio service. Update and track your portfolios
* Fast quotes
* Top Lists
* Newswire (RNS, AFX and ADVFN in-house journalists)
* Trade Analyser
* Charts (historic, intraday, Microscope)
* Data download area
* Informed and active Bulletin Boards
* Investment education through its subsidiary Success Events Limited
* Interactive Digital Television Channel in conjunction with Telewest
* WAP services directly and via Orange