eMotion Announces New Platform for On-Demand Digital Asset Management; eMotion 6.0 Improves Efficiency and Expands Digital Asset Management Options for Marketing and Creative Services Organizations.

LOS ANGELES -- eMotion, a leading provider of hosted solutions for managing and distributing digital media assets and marketing content, today announced the immediate availability of eMotion 6.0, the latest generation of the company's suite of on-demand solutions that greatly enhance an organization's ability to maximize its rich media assets.

eMotion 6.0 features a number of significant advances, including a new Web services architecture and a unique modular design, providing each company a custom, targeted solution. At the core of the new platform is a powerful Web-based digital asset management (DAM) system with a patented natural language search engine. The robust solution allows users to store and organize photography, video, audio, logos, presentations, brochures and documents, while the natural language search makes it effortless for even casual users to find virtually any digital asset. With eMotion 6.0, corporations are able to distribute marketing materials more efficiently across dispersed offices, sales teams and vendors, and have the ability to enforce and ensure brand consistency around the globe.

The added features also include advanced security and controlled access features, giving customers the ability to track and deploy their library of digital media assets, while allowing secure access for users around the world. eMotion's permissions structure enables granularity down to individual assets and users for unprecedented security and flexibility.

Additionally, eMotion 6.0 introduces a set of software plug-ins for Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign, the leading page layout applications. As such, a company's graphic design team may access their corporate digital media asset repository from within the page layout application. This level of modularity offers customers added efficiencies for managing, distributing, repurposing, and deploying digital media assets. The optional function modules include:

--CreativePartner -- a project-based collaboration and media annotation tool for use in speeding up and simplifying the review and approval of creative work in progress;

--AdBuilder -- a dynamic document generation engine that enables user-customization of a document within pre-established brand guidelines;

--Presentation Builder -- enables users to create and manage PowerPoint presentations built within controlled brand guidelines;

--Logo Dispenser -- enables the delivery of brand identity elements through a defined decision tree;

--Color Management -- allows organizations to produce branded products in a color-managed environment;

--Page Layout Workflow -- provides access to the full eMotion library of digital media assets within page layout applications such as Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign; and

--Digital Watermarking and Tracking -- allows eMotion customers to track images being used in ways that don't conform to rights granted.

"The additional modules that eMotion 6.0 offers, integrated with the image licensing capabilities that are now available to customers through the acquisition by Corbis, yields the most compelling digital asset management service offering on the market today," said Jon Schupp, VP of eMotion. He added, "The hosted service model provides customers with higher value at a lower cost than traditional installed software. And, because we know that reliability is absolutely crucial in a 24/7 world, we have made substantial datacenter updates and continue to give our customers a 99.5% uptime guarantee."

Recent figures from industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan show that the worldwide DAM market is approximately half a billion and is estimated to grow to cross the billion dollar mark in 2008. eMotion has successfully delivered innovative DAM solutions to a wide array of brand-driven global companies who use eMotion's powerful hosted technology platform to realize the full value of their digital media assets.

"As small companies become global enterprises, they find themselves grappling with the reality of how to manage a worldwide brand without bleeding cash," said Frost & Sullivan Program Manager Mukul Krishna. "This new solution resolves the brand management issue via advanced digital preservation and superior storage architecture, be it static content such as images or dynamic content such as video."

eMotion and the Corbis acquisition

eMotion 6.0 was developed in close collaboration with Corbis, the world's preeminent provider of image licensing and related services, and with input from eMotion's blue-chip entertainment and broadcast companies, advertising agencies, and government organizations around the globe. Corbis' acquisition of eMotion was spurred by customer demand for the most advanced digital asset management tools as customers seek ways to manage the still and moving imagery they use in their creative projects. As one of the most established and well-recognized DAM vendors, eMotion gives Corbis the leading, best-of-breed solution for customers seeking to manage their burgeoning digital assets.

About eMotion

eMotion, Inc. is the leading provider of hosted digital asset management software and services that allow global marketing departments to quickly and dynamically manage, repurpose and distribute valuable digital media around the world without diluting their brands through image misuse. eMotion serves some of the largest brands in the world including ABC Television, Bechtel, Discovery Communications, Inc., Exxon Mobil, Kyocera, Lowe & Partners, Oracle and Starbucks. The company has offices in San Francisco and Vienna, VA. The company was acquired in 2005 by Corbis, a provider of image licensing and related services. Additional information about the company can be found at www.emotion.com.

About Corbis

Corbis (www.corbis.com) provides complete visual solutions used every day by publishers, advertising and design agencies, filmmakers, and other creative professionals to tell their stories with impact that goes beyond words. Our image licensing, assignment & representation, and rights services enable clients around the world to differentiate brands, sell products and services, support news stories, and entertain audiences. Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with 20 offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.