IODA Increases Partnerships with Physical Distributors; Deals Enable Distributors to Offer Their Labels Digital Distribution Using IODA's D3 Platform.

BERLIN & SAN FRANCISCO -- Big Daddy Music Distribution, Cargo Records UK, Challenge Records International, Select-O-Hits and Stomp Entertainment Add Tracks From Three 6 Mafia, the Plasmatics, the Bar-Kays, Daniel Johnston, Solomon Burke, Airway Lanes, Aurelia Saxophone Quartet and Others

IODA -- the leading digital distributor, marketer, and technology solutions provider for independent music -- today announced several new partnerships with physical distributors from the UK, USA, Netherlands and Australia, including Big Daddy Music Distribution Inc, Cargo Records UK, Challenge Records International BV, Select-O-Hits, and Stomp Entertainment. The deals enable the distributors to offer their client labels digital distribution using IODA's innovative D3 (Digital Distribution Dashboard) platform, giving them access to IODA's network of more than 250 digital retailers, mobile outlets and subscription services worldwide. The announcement was made today by IODA founder and CEO Kevin Arnold from the Popkomm conference in Berlin, Germany.

"The D3 platform enables our new partners to provide a comprehensive distribution solution to their clients and grow their digital businesses worldwide," said Arnold. "Partners like Big Daddy, Cargo, Challenge, Select-O-Hits and Stomp add quality as well as quantity to the IODA roster, and we look forward to helping them bring dozens of labels and thousands of tracks from all over the world to the global digital marketplace.

D3 provides an easy, fast, and low cost solution for physical music distributors to offer comprehensive digital services to their label clients, powered by a proven, industry-leading digital distribution platform. Distributors enjoy the benefits of a custom branded implementation of IODA's unique Rightsholder Dashboard tools and distribution platform while maintaining their label relationships directly. IODA takes care of all licensing, encoding and delivery, and accounting functions on behalf of the distributor. IODA also provides promotion and marketing support, through its dedicated marketing staff and through Promonet, IODA's promotional distribution network that provides qualified podcasts, blogs, Internet radio, e-zines and other promotional sites with access to thousands of pre-cleared, legal music tracks, videos, artwork, and other promotional assets from IODA's roster of leading independent labels.

"Big Daddy is looking forward to a mutually beneficial relationship with IODA as we continue to forge ahead in the physical and digital distribution of music," said Burt Goldstein, President and founder of Big Daddy Music. "Adding IODA to Big Daddy's own digital solution allows our labels to get the best of IODA and the best of Big Daddy."

"For forty-six years Select-O-Hits has been a leading distributor and promoter of independent music," said Johnny Phillips, Vice-President of Select-O-Hits. "Our IODA agreement helps us provide more comprehensive digital distribution. In tandem with our already worldwide 'brick & mortar' distribution, this agreement completes the 360-degree 'circle of service' we strive to offer to all of our labels."

Big Daddy Music Distribution is a leading indie distributor in the U.S., and is home to a slew of exciting new indie labels such as Dancing Ferret Discs, Amherst, Aware One, Metropolitan, Wow Records, Southern Records, Noir, V-12 Records and others. Big Daddy also has a rich catalogue of classic rock, pop, jazz, soul and R&B, including the sounds of the Plasmatics, Solomon Burke, the Stylistics, Charles Manson, Robin Trower and Spyro Gyra.

Cargo Records UK is a distributor of independent record labels selling to UK retailers and distributors around the world. Originally set up in the UK in 1992, it has since garnered a reputation for many groundbreaking acts and labels. Acts such as Blink 182, the White Stripes, Devendra Banhardt were all introduced to the U.K market by Cargo before being catapulted into mainstream media by major label backing. Cargo's catalog includes releases by Future eX Wife, Gay for Johnny Depp, The Go! Team, Daniel Johnston, Durutti Column, Supergroupies, Seachange and many others.

Challenge Records International BV based in the Netherlands, specializes in jazz and classical music, but also has a substantial amount of world, blues, soul and pop tracks in its catalog. Its Challenge Jazz label has released acclaimed albums by Eric Vloeimans and Harmen Fraanje, Enrico Pieranunzi, Frank Woeste and many others, while Challenge Classics and Fineline Classics have worked with renowned musicians such as the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, the Kuijken String Quartet, and Johannes Leertouwer. Challenge also distributes ECM Records in Holland, Intuition, Le Maquis, Chesky Records, Stunt Records, Skip Records, Storyville and others.

Select-O-Hits was founded in 1960 by Tom Phillips and his brother Sam Phillips, the legendary founder of Sun Records, the label that introduced to the world Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. Select-O-Hits distributes a wide-range of genres including hip hop, R&B, Rock, Roots, Country/Bluegrass, Comedy, Jazz, and Gospel, featuring artists such as Three 6 Mafia, Pastor Troy, the Bar-Kays, Goat, Radio Kings, Bellamy Brothers, and Canton Spirituals.

Stomp Entertainment is one of the leading and most respected independent distributors of cutting edge music and culture related entertainment in Australia. Providing premium distribution for international and local labels/artists, Stomp Entertainment covers a broad spectrum of genres such as rock, alternative, metal, indie and folk through to hip-hop, club, dance and electronica. Its catalog includes Airway Lanes, My Disco, and I Killed the Prom Queen. Stomp Entertainment is the exclusive Australian physical distributor for some of the most influential international and domestic music labels such as: Victory, Sub-Pop, Ryko, Century Media, Saddle Creek, Ferret, Peaceville, Tooth & Nail, Metalblade, Get Physical, Defected, Anticon, Slamjamz, Renaissance, OM Records, Azuli, NRK, Popfrenzy, Resist, Crookneck, MASIF and many others.

About IODA

IODA -- the Independent Online Distribution Alliance -- is the industry-leading digital distribution company for the global independent music community. IODA provides comprehensive services to record labels, physical distributors, and artists, including license negotiations; media encoding and metadata management; and royalty payment administration and reporting. The company also provides promotional support through the IODA Digital Marketing division and through Promonet. Founded in 2003, IODA represents a rapidly expanding roster of over 600,000 tracks from more than 2,700 independent labels around the globe. The IODA catalog ranges from established classics to modern up-and-comers in all genres, including favorites such as Animal Collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Fall Out Boy, MF Doom, London Symphony Orchestra, Sara Tavares, Aventura, Bebel Gilberto, Billie Holliday, They Might Be Giants, Tina Dico, The Wrens, Black Uhuru, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Fela Kuti, Master P, Seu Jorge, Pink Martini, Ray Charles, Mariza, and R L Burnside. IODA distributes its client catalog to all major digital music services including the iTunes Music Store, MTV Urge, eMusic, Verizon's V CAST, Napster, Virgin Mega, AOL MusicNow, T-Online's Musicload, Yahoo! Music, FNAC, RealNetworks' Rhapsody, and over 250 other retail outlets. IODA was named one of FORTUNE magazine's 25 Breakout Companies for 2005. The company's web site is located at http://www.iodalliance.com.