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Velocix Announces the World’s 1st Free Content Delivery Network

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Cambridge, UK – April 29th 2008. Velocix™ (www.velocix.com),
provider of the world’s leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, today
announced the availability of its revolutionary new FREE Velocix
Accelerator digital delivery service.

The new service is aimed at the growing and vibrant community of
entrepreneurs and new start-up ventures, as well as larger
organisations looking to distribute rich media such as video, music,
games and software on-line.  To be successful, these ventures need help
from a global digital delivery partner to ensure that their website
visitors receive a high quality consumer experience when downloading
content, viewing videos or simply browsing web pages from anywhere in
the world.

“Velocix Accelerator is already helping the brightest and most
innovative get their on-line rich media offerings off the ground” said
Phill Robinson, CEO at Velocix. “With our help, these new ventures are
able to offer high performance, rich media website destinations to
their growing audiences around the world, for free. Velocix is
committed to disrupting the traditional CDN marketplace with
breakthrough delivery performance, economics and control. Our Velocix
Accelerator service exceeds this commitment in every respect, and turns
the CDN sector on its head”.

The new offering includes a 500GB per month delivery allowance for
file download, video progressive streaming and website acceleration
services – all provided at no charge.

Craze Productions (www.crazedigital.com)
is a 100% digital record label, specialising in pushing music into
various digital domains. Their catalogues include exclusive rights to
songs and videos from the world's top artists. Craze Productions were
one of the first to introduce their music video channels on the
recently launched Adobe Media Player (AMP).

“Velocix is helping us deliver our music content, through AMP and
other digital outlets, to audiences around the world”, said Uri
Levanon, Head of Technology at Craze Productions. “With Velocix
Accelerator, we’ve taken a big step forward a lot sooner than we had
planned, extending the reach of our high quality services from our home
territories into international markets”.

Fifzine (www.fifzine.com) is an
innovative new online destination for the creative, cultural and
commercial worlds and is aimed at everyone who is interested in
viewing, creating, sharing and commercially developing the best in
creative content. Fifzine is currently beta testing this community,
with a goal of providing a platform for creativity, in audio, written,
still or moving forms.

“We are delighted to be early users of the Velocix Accelerator digital
delivery service”, said Alan Wogan, Managing Director at Fifzine. “Our
technical partner, Saviso Consulting was impressed at how easy it was
to get started as all they needed to do was provide our website address
and, within minutes, our content was being accelerated via Velocix to a
worldwide community of creatives”.

Uploaded.TV (www.uploaded.tv) is a next generation social network where users can appear on TV and buy airtime as easily as booking an airline ticket.

“Velocix Accelerator is perfect for our needs right now as we build
our audience and drive awareness and adoption of our unique business
model” said Adam Urban, CEO at Uploaded.TV. “Our users around the world
are already benefiting from Velocix with uninterrupted video playback,
and a highly responsive Uploaded.TV website”.

Velocix offers the broadest and most innovative range of digital delivery services
available today. The company’s global network provides a digital fast
lane for delivery of digital assets like video, music, software and
games. This means that high quality streamed video plays uninterrupted
from start to finish and file downloads complete without failure in a
fraction of the time.

About Velocix
Velocix provides the world’s leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, a
new generation Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to meet the rich
media needs of the 21st century Internet.

Velocix is relied upon globally by owners of large digital assets -
including video, software, games and audio - to provide unparalleled
quality of service and on-line delivery performance, with affordable
economics. Velocix does all this whilst also providing new levels of
control over the global digital distribution chain. Velocix was
formerly known as CacheLogic. For more information, visit www.velocix.com.

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