Distribution Deal with Yahoo! for Sports Content

365 Corporation PLC 17 March 2000 365 Corporation and Yahoo! agree distribution deal for English, Spanish and French sports content 365 Corporation plc ('365') announces that agreement has been reached for it to supply multi-sports, multi-lingual content to Yahoo!. This means that users of Yahoo! UK and Ireland's sports service will be able to access 365 content covering football (sourced from football365.com), rugby (planet-rugby.com), motorsport (planet-F1.com), cricket (cricketline.com), and horse racing (racetips.com). English speaking Yahoo! users will thus be able to access breaking news, live match commentaries, profiles, results and statistics. In addition to the agreement covering English language content, 365 will also supply Yahoo! with football and rugby content in French and Spanish. This will be provided by 365's existing services in those languages, Football365 France (football365.fr), Rugby365 France (rugby365.fr), Futbol 365 (futbol365.com), Rugby 365 Espanol (espanol.rugby365.com) The deals mean that 365's unique, high quality, content will be made available to Yahoo!'s vast European audience. During the month of December 1999, Yahoo! Europe had 18 million unique users. Commenting on this key step in 365's strategy of providing best of class content to a global audience, Dan Thompson, CEO of 365 Corporation plc, said: 'We are delighted to be working with Yahoo! in a mutually beneficial relationship. Yahoo!'s users can now enjoy our great content and the 365 network of sites will benefit from increased traffic.' Enquiries: 365 Corporation plc Tel: 0171 505 7800 Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer Simon Morris, Marketing Director www.365corp.com Financial Dynamics Tel: 0171 831 3113 Giles Sanderson Fiona Meiklejohn NOTES FOR EDITORS 365 Corporation plc CURRENT CONTENT AND SERVICE OFFERINGS Consumer + Sport Football -www.football365.com and www.futbol365.com and www.football365.fr Football content is provided on three web sites, each in a different language. The English language site is branded Football365 and is one of the leading football web sites in the world. Futbol365 is a Spanish language web site. In 1999 365 acquired C-Sports Communication SA, the creators of cfoot.com, a leading French football web site, now branded www.football365.fr. Football content is also being leveraged on a cross platform basis via TalkFootball365, the recently launched telephone and Internet service (www.talkfootball365.com). This service allows users to leave voice messages for other users to respond to, to discuss football with other users and to hear their views on news items provided from the Football365 website, which may include the personal views of Danny Kelly and Andy Gray. Cricket - www.cricinfo365.com Through its joint venture with CricInfo (one of the world's largest single sports web sites), 365 produces a daily e-mail publication - CricInfo365. www.cricketline.com A leading site for International cricket boasting the complete scorecards of every Test match ever played and an exclusive column from South African legend Allan Donald Rugby - www.rugby365.com Rugby365 was launched in August 1999, in anticipation of the Rugby World Cup. The service is based in South Africa and produced in four language versions (English, French, Spanish and Afrikaans). Contributors to Rugby365 are some of the top rugby players in the world. During the 1999 Rugby World Cup, Rugby365 partnered with ITV to produce their Rugby World Cup site. 365 established a North American presence in December 1999 with the acquisition of e-Merchants Inc. and the website, www.rugbyrugby.com. www.planet-rugby.com A market leading online rugby resource including breaking news, unique statistics and world class contributors such as Stephen Jones and Michael Lynagh Racetips: www.racetips.com. A site dedicated to Horse Racing giving the inside track on news, form and the horses to follow. Planet F1: www.planet-f1.com Unique resource for the world of Formula 1 featuring news, features and a searchable archive of every race in F1 history. Sportszine UK: www.sportszine.co.uk A complete guide to sport on the Internet through a searchable database of over 40,000 individually reviewed websites. Sportonair.com: www.sportonair.com The UK's first dedicated sports audio website with hourly news, features and interviews. + Entertainment Music - www.music365.com Music365 was launched in November 1998 and provides reviews of albums and singles, interviews with artists and personalities and topical stories. It also provides an on-line chat forum for users to express their views on current music issues. In addition, the web site offers on-line shopping facilities for users to purchase concert tickets, CDs and videos. Music365 provides the content for the Freeserve Music channel and has an arrangement with the BRITs to provide the official BRIT Awards' web site and online voting facility. Competitions - www.win365.co.uk 365 launched 'Win365' in September 1999, a cross-platform competition based product. Planet Trivia: www.planet-trivia.com A network of live, multiplayer trivia games where users can compete in real time against anyone else in the world on a variety of topics including television, education, history, entertainment and sport and win prizes. Television Most recently the company created a new division, 365Television. The first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK fight, was commissioned by the BBC and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2. + Lifestyle Companionship - www.personals365.com The primary content in the lifestyle sector is companionship. 365's lifestyle services provide the community forum for users to socialise with other people or establish relationships. Historically these services have been phone- based, but in October 1999, 365 launched, as part of its convergence strategy, Personals365, an on-line companionship product, and more recently a multi- platform product www.theswitch.co.uk. Advisory services 365 has an agreement with Infogenie to provide telephone-based services to users. 365 provides telephone lines and systems and Infogenie procures the advisory services, currently for legal services and veterinary services. Business The Business Division provides communication services and Internet applications to small and medium sized enterprises in the UK and Ireland. It aims to provide a 'one stop shop' of communications services and Internet applications to its customers. 365 currently provides voice and data access, telephone systems, mobiles, Internet access and related hardware. In order to work towards national coverage, 365 has formed equity joint ventures with 12 telecom systems dealers across the UK. Under these arrangements, 365 contributes its expertise and access to its customer service and billing infrastructure, while the dealer contributes local sales and marketing expertise. The existing customer base of the joint venture partners provides the initial target for 365's marketing efforts.

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