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Evoke Communications to Premiere Streaming Audio on eBay Great Collections; Evoke Webcasting Enables Live Audio for eBay's Real-Time Bidding Technology
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Evoke Communications(TM) (Nasdaq: EVOK - news), the leading provider of integrated Internet communication services for delivery of Web-based voice, video and visuals, today announced that it will provide live online audio streaming for Live Auctions, a new feature on eBay® Great Collections. eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - news), the world's leading online trading community, will utilize Evoke Webcasting to provide controlled delivery of audio streams to Live Auction participants.
``We want to provide a rich multimedia experience for visitors to eBay Great Collections and we determined that Evoke Communications was the company to help us accomplish our goals,'' said Geoff Iddison, General Manager of eBay Great Collections. ``We selected Evoke Communications as our streaming media provider based on their depth of experience and solid reputation for providing high quality, reliable service.''
Through this agreement, Evoke Communications will be the provider of audio streaming services for eBay's new Live Auctions, which allows eBay users to listen to and participate in live auctions from some of the world's leading auction houses. eBay will use Evoke Webcasting to reach millions of online participants. According to Media Metrix, the eBay site alone receives approximately 1.6 million unique visitors each day, the highest number of visitors to any shopping site on the Internet. (Source: Media Metrix, August 27, 2000).
``Evoke Communications is playing a key role in the evolution of eBay Great Collections and by introducing Live Auctions technology they also provide users with the benefits of our live streaming services,'' said Paul Berberian, co-founder, president and CEO of Evoke Communications. ``eBay is one of the most popular sites on the Web and this agreement significantly expands Evoke Communications' customer reach and introduces large-scale auction audiences to our communications technology.''
The Live Auctions technology on eBay Great Collections allows individuals to participate in the excitement of a traditional live sale from anywhere in the world. For auction houses worldwide, eBay's new Live Auctions feature is a powerful tool that provides the opportunity to reach eBay's more than 15 million users. eBay Great Collections showcases fine antiques, art and rare collectibles from the world's leading auction houses and dealers and allows eBay's dynamic trading community to access products that are normally available only via the auction house floor.
Evoke Webcasting provides customers and strategic partners with a complete solution for controlled delivery of voice, video and visuals over the Internet. Content is captured content from a customer's live and recorded event, and is encoded, tracked and managed -- providing a complete, cost-effective streaming solution. Evoke Communications has streamed many high-profile consumer, business and entertainment events for companies such as A&E, Capitol Records, Cisco Systems, Destination Films, Excite@Home, Jetcast, Lycos, Miramax, Microsoft, New Line, TNN, Lycos and Variety. The agreement with eBay demonstrates Evoke Communications' ability to continue to expand its customer base for Webcasting services.
About Evoke Communications
Evoke Communications (Nasdaq: EVOK - news) is the leading integrated Internet Communications service provider that offers a comprehensive suite of Web-based voice, video and visual collaboration services. The company's core services include Evoke Webconferencing, which enables on-demand online conferencing; Evoke Mobile Webconferencing, which combines Webconferencing with wireless accessibility; Evoke Collaboration, which allows users to interactively communicate in real-time over the Internet and Evoke Webcasting, which provides audio and video streaming. Additional services include Evoke Web Talk, which allows live voice and text chat and Evoke Talking Email, which enables voice-to-email messaging. The company's back end service engines and system architecture converge voice, video and visuals into a single communication platform powering value-added services for some of the most heavily visited sites on the Web. For more information, visit www.evoke.com or call 800.878.7326.
This release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the functionality to be made available by integrating Evoke Communications' services with eBay, and the effect such integration will have in reaching millions of Internet users and the continued growth of its customer base. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause future events to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include the ability of Evoke Communications to successfully integrate its services, possible development or marketing delays with the services to be offered, potential defects in the services to be integrated and the acceptance by the market of these services. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements can be found in Evoke Communications' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration statement on Form S-1 that was initially filed with the SEC on February 18, 2000, and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on September 6, 2000. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gather analysis and retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. Evoke Communications assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document. |
