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Bolt Media Re-Launches bolt.com; Company Focuses on 18-34 Year-Old Creation Generation, Connecting People via Their Creativity; Bolt's Original Core Membership Grows Up.


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 -- Bolt Media's 10-year-old web site, bolt.com, relaunched early today. The upgraded site enables its 10.8 million monthly unique users to create, store and market their personal content - including videos, photos and music.

Combining creative networking with social interaction, Bolt.com motivates people to build a personal audience. Bolt caters particularly to the millions of burgeoning auteurs
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 looking to distribute their content to their own personal audience.

As part of a concentrated emphasis on creative networking, the revamped site features free enhanced member functionality, such as:

--Social Search: Search for content based on who you know and who you like.

--Content Syndication: Post every piece of content on the site anywhere on the Web including Myspace, Xanga, and Livejournal.

--Unlimited Storage: Keep videos, photos, blogs and more on their profiles at no charge.

--Browse and Search functionality enabling users to navigate the ocean of consumer-generated content on the site.

"We are living in the most prolific explosion of creativity since the Renaissance, said Aaron Cohen cohen
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 ago, young people went to Blockbuster to rent a movie. Today, those kids regularly film, edit and distribute their own movies on the Internet. Bolt has evolved from a teen-focused community 1996 to a leading platform for creative expression and distribution that includes teens and 18-34 year-olds."

Bolt Media's traffic has been on the rise over the past few months, jumping 300% in 2005 to 10.8 unique users per month, compared with the prior year, according to according to
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 Jupiter's Media Metrix. This increase, due primarily to increased functionality through product development and acquisitions, has attracted more advertisers, including Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , Cingular, Coca Cola Noun 1. Coca Cola - Coca Cola is a trademarked cola
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, Fox Television and Sony Pictures among its top 50 advertisers.

Started in 1996 as a teen community, Bolt has evolved into a creative network focused on helping 18-34 year old find an audience. To provide value to its original audience, Bolt Media today also launched Bolt2.com, enabling kids, tweens, and younger teens to create content, meet people, and play games in a safe, no pressure, and age-appropriate environment. Bolt2.com is organized around games, pop culture and self-discovery.

About Bolt Media

A creative network constantly changes. Social interaction begins with creativity. Bolt members upload anything - a photo, video, comedy sketch, song - to get feedback. Feedback spurs more creativity and the formation of a broader audience. Based in New York with 10.8 million unique users, Bolt gives members an audience. In turn, they put up more content.
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