Digital Island Announces Web Marketing as Customer to Deliver Streaming Banner Ads at Leading Portals Worldwide.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000

UK-based Online Ad Provider Streams Thousands

of Banner Ads Using Digital Island's Global Network,

Guaranteeing Fast Experience for Web Viewers

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that Web Marketing Ltd. is using Digital Island's network services to dynamically stream banner ads to Web viewers in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa.

Using Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network, Web Marketing has already streamed ads to thousands of visitors through major portals, such as Lycos, promoting major companies, including Sony, Peugeot and Nokia. Digital Island's ability to serve thousands of concurrent steams, while still guaranteeing a rapid response, prompted Web Marketing to use Digital Island's high-performance global network, rather than co-locating its own cache servers in the U.S., South Africa and Europe.

"The majority of companies we work with are multinationals, and Digital Island's global focus and ability to deliver high-performance streaming worldwide are the perfect combination for us," said Mark Lewis, CEO at Web Marketing. "We are totally confident that, no matter how many surfers hit our streaming banner ads, a fast experience is always guaranteed."

"Advertisers are investing heavily in more sophisticated ways of attracting eyeballs online, and the capacity to serve streaming ads quickly and non-intrusively is a powerful advantage that Digital Island offers online advertisers," said Tim Wilson, vice president of marketing at Digital Island. "Web Marketing ensures viewers are totally receptive to ad images by creating a positive first impression using Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network."

Web Marketing is a full service online advertising agency, devoted to driving Internet users to clients' web sites with effective and entertaining advertising. Web marketing is responsible for providing live and recorded video content on its clients web sites, which prolongs the internet user's visits and entices the user to return more frequently. Web Marketing was founded in 1999 and has offices in central London and New York with an increasing number of alliances in Europe. www.wm-europe.com

Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 24 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.

Important Notice

Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the possibility that the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form S-1.