USERPLANE TAKES TOP HONORS AT FLASH™ FILM FESTIVAL VIDEO AWARDS

LOS ANGELES (March 5, 2004) -- Userplane (www.userplane.com), a pioneer in developing innovative web applications, today announced that its site for Red Bull’s Re:Evolution of Sports -- an extreme sports TV show airing on Fox Sports Net – has won top honors at this year’s Flash™ Film Festival in San Francisco.

FlashForward 2004 and the Flash Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is the world’s largest gathering of Flash users. Thursday evening’s gala awards ceremony honored the most groundbreaking Flash applications on the web. Re:Evolution of Sports, one of the first television shows broadcast online, was one of four finalists in the competition’s Video category.

Using Macromedia Flash Communication Server, Userplane developed a streaming video library of television episodes for the program, a show that focuses on the unique lifestyle of extreme athletes and the sports they represent. Fully streamed episodes can be viewed on the Re:Evolution of Sports web site at www.reevolution.tv.

“This is a tremendous honor for everyone involved in what truly is a groundbreaking project,” said Michael Jones, president, Userplane. “Re:Evolution of Sports has brought together the collective creativity and resources of Red Bull, Fox Sports Net, Macromedia and our own team. Together, we’ve been able to showcase a new way of fusing the Internet and broadcast television and, perhaps, demonstrate where this new medium is headed.”

This year's FlashForward festival featured 16 categories overall, with 15 winners selected after two rounds of evaluation by expert judges. Userplane’s Re:Evolution also competed in the 16th category, the "People's Choice," where one favorite from the full list of 60 finalists was determined by the public. Earlier this year, Userplane received Macromedia “Site of the Day” recognition for the Re:Evolution of Sports site (www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=sotdarchive&loc=en_us).

About Userplane
Userplane (www.userplane.com) is a pioneer in offering Flash-based Web applications that support live text and audio/video communication. Based in Los Angeles, the company is an innovator in enterprise community messaging that enables a broad range of Web sites to run branded communication applications. Using Macromedia's Flash Communication Server MX technology, Userplane Apps are deployed internationally on sites ranging from online communities to intranets. The application suite reaches tens of millions of users and supports more than one million live conversations each month. Userplane continues to provide forward-thinking Web and software development for industry-leading clients including Red Bull, Honda, 1-800 Flowers and Juicy Couture.