Band Uses Live Video Streaming Site to Interact With Fans While Producing Upcoming Album

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - April 9, 2008) - Stickam.com, the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming, today announced Grammy-nominated metalcore band Underoath will live stream directly from the studio on Stickam.com as it records its next album, slated to release on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 on Tooth & Nail Records / Solid State Records.

Through Underoath's use of Stickam.com, the band is able to provide fans with unique insight into the recording process. The site also serves as an online community, enabling Underoath to interact with viewers in addition to performing impromptu, personalized sets. Stickam.com's online delivery of the next album's production enables the band members to increase bonds with fans, communicating with them directly regardless of location, and also enhances awareness of the upcoming record.

"Stickam.com provides bands with the opportunity to connect with fans and generate anticipation for their upcoming albums virally in a community environment," said Steven Fruchter, chief executive officer of Stickam.com. "As the first Web site dedicated to live interactive streaming, we currently have the largest user base, providing musicians with a powerful platform to connect with a substantial audience, whether to perform, chat or simply provide access to their lives."

Additionally, alternative-rock band Street Drum Corps will broadcast live each day at 4:20pm PT on Stickam.com as it travels with The Used on the Rockstar Get a Life Tour. After the road show ends in mid-May, the group will begin recording its new album and plans to use Stickam.com to stream live from the studio.

Stickam.com is a strong supporter of the music community. The company attends music and film conference South by Southwest (SXSW) each year to feature interviews with up-and-coming bands, as well as host exclusive live performances. It also streams live from concerts and listening parties. Other artists have used the site to broadcast from their recording studios, including the Rascal Flatts and MxPx. Additional music acts Stickam.com has hosted fan chats and live performances for include Bo Bice, Dierks Bentley, Drowning Pool, Jeffree Star, Metal Skool and Tila Tequila.

To access Underoath's live stream on Stickam.com, please visit www.stickam.com/underoath or www.stickam.com/underoath2. The band will broadcast from the studio throughout the month of April.

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http://mashable.com/2008/03/31/mashmeet-la-caught-on-tape/

Video site Stickam conducted live interviews throughout the night at the massively successful MashMeet LA event on Saturday. Below, see Pete Cashmore, Veronica Belmont and a variety of startups giving their thoughts on the LA tech scene.

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For those of us who aren't going to SXSW yet still feel the need to torture ourselves with live footage from the interactive, film, and music festival, the live video streaming site Stickam will webcast from the Austin Convention Center and the overrun streets of the city for a good chunk of the event, including a couple of hosted recap shows.

Stickam can't get you into the hottest concerts, but there is a live music aspect: performances by Afrobots, Aaron Lacrate, Pink Enemy and Lies in Disguise, live from in or around the convention center.

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LOS ANGELES, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- fix8, a new media company that provides rich, interactive media tools for user-generated content, and Stickam(TM), the Internet's most powerful video communications player, today announced a joint partnership bringing fix8's interactive avatar creator to Stickam's groundbreaking live video broadcast technology. fix8's free software brings a new world of user-generated reality to Stickam's over 550,000 members, enabling users to animate live video with a universe of virtual costumes and props and even create their own unique avatars.

"This is a powerful partnership that is revolutionizing the online video experience by providing Stickam's fast growing community of live video broadcasters with a breakthrough live animation tool to unlock limitless possibilities for rich, live user generated content," said Scott Flacks, Vice President of Marketing and Operations, Stickam.

By downloading fix8's free software, Stickam users can choose from avatars, creative "dress-up" accessories, flash animation and more to create live animated videos. Stickam users can also let their imagination run wild with fix8's personal photorealistic avatar creator. The companies will cross- market the service. fix8 will also create unique avatars, accessories and images for the Stickam community as a premium software offering.

"The new universe of user generated content is live, spontaneous, and real," said Linh Duy Tang, president and CEO of fix8. "We are proud to team up with Stickam to bring live animation to the masses like never before."

fix8's groundbreaking software animates human expressions and gestures in real-time. The only requirements are a PC, a webcam and a dash of creativity. As another value-add to the Stickam community, who are heavy users of live video chat, the fix8 software also works across IM services including MSN, Yahoo and Skype. fix8-animated videos can also be saved and posted across any social networking or blog site.
About fix8

fix8 is a new media company that blends Internet, television and mobile platforms with rich, live streaming animated video creation, editing and sharing capabilities. fix8 is a FREE, fun, creative new way of communicating and inspired Auditions(TV), a powerful platform for broadcasting high quality, real-time media to support interactive TV. fix8 was recently named one of Launch: Silicon Valley's "Top 30 Tech Innovators 2007." Developed in response to rapid growth in video sharing, social networking and user-generated content, fix8 is the future of rich interactive communication. Headquartered in Los Angeles, fix8 has offices in China and Vietnam. fix8 is a division of Mobinex, Inc. Cr8 -- Rel8 -- Communic8. Download at www.fix8.com.

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Warner Bros. Records Teams With Stickam(TM) for Next Generation Live Broadcast From the Set of Jamie Kennedy's New Music Video

Kennedy Takes Behind-The-Scenes To New Level of Interactivity With First Fully Participatory All Day Broadcast Event

BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time ever, Warner Bros. Records and Stickam(TM), the Internet's most powerful video communications player, are teaming up to provide fans the unique experience of being able to watch the making of Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone's latest music video all day on Saturday, December 2nd in New York City. The two stars are filming the music video for their Internet hit "Circle Circle Dot Dot" from their album and MTV show "Blowin' Up."

Kennedy and Stu Stone, along with the director and cast, will provide real-time, behind-the-scenes access to the shoot using Stickam's breakthrough technology. Far more immersive than a traditional live broadcast or Webcast, the "Circle Circle Dot Dot" event brings viewers closer to the action than ever before by allowing them to dynamically interact with Kennedy and Stone using Stickam's revolutionary video chat tools. The technology also allows fans to see how a music video is shot, the entire process, uncensored.

Fans can logon to http://www.stickam.com and http://jkssrecords.com this Saturday and will have access until the production wraps for the day. The video is being directed by Wormseye Films.

"The social networking generation is all about being hands-on, whether it's designing their own t-shirts online, meeting up with friends on the fly through location-based, cell phone tools or keeping track of their favorite bands on a second-to-second basis," said Hideki Kishioka, CEO of Stickam. "The traditional concept of a live broadcast with a passive viewing audience is becoming increasingly outdated for this group, which places a huge premium on instant interactivity. We are extremely pleased that Warner Bros. and Jamie Kennedy have chosen Stickam to create this breakthrough, behind-the- scenes broadcast and anticipate a great response."

With over 200,000 users, Stickam(TM) is one of the Internet's fastest growing broadcasting and social networking Web sites. The site features free video chat for members and provides entertainers with a unique way to share their live performances or events with fans.

About Stickam(TM)

Stickam(TM) is the Internet's most powerful, free video communications player offering live streaming video and video conferencing with unlimited bandwidth. The download-free Stickam(TM) player allows consumers to easily add dynamic, live video to their personal Web pages, blogs and auction sites by simply cutting and pasting the Stickam(TM) HTML code into the appropriate area of the site of their choice. Consumers can also upload pre-recorded video, music and photos to their Stickam(TM) players for site visitors to access at their convenience. The video can be viewed by virtually anyone and will play on any operating system including Linux, Windows and Mac.

Contact:
Robin Bechtel
Head of New Media
Warner Bros. Records
818.953.3555
robin@warnerbrosrecords.com

Jason Avila / Peter Epstein
5W Public Relations on behalf of Stickam(TM)
310.566.7030
javila@5wpr.com / pepstein@5wpr.com

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Stickam.com celebrates Halloween with West Hollywood broadcast, online costume contest and other treats

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 – As West Hollywood prepares for its highly-anticipated Halloween Costume Carnaval, the rapidly-growing broadcasting and social networking website Stickam (www.stickam.com) has announced plans to stream the world’s largest Halloween street party live on October 31.

Stickam will broadcast the festivities from the heart of flashy Santa Monica Boulevard. And with more than 450,000 enthusiastic party-goers expected at this year’s event, there should be no shortage of Halloween revelry for the site’s 170,000 plus members.

Visitors to Stickam’s special Halloween page will have access to three separate feeds of the 6-hour extravaganza, which features an outrageous costume contest, DJs and other musical performances.

In addition to the live broadcast of the 19th annual event, Stickam will also showcase special in-person commentary from one of online video's star attractions, GayGod.

As one of Stickam’s most popular live broadcasters (www.stickam.com/profile/gaygod), and YouTube’s 7th most subscribed to member (http://youtube.com/profile?user=GayGod), GayGod (aka Matthew Lush) will share his colorful observations direct from the event with some of his hundreds of thousands of online fans.

“It’s so cool, I’m really excited,” said Lush, who will be a first-time attendee at this year’s West Hollywood Halloween celebration.

In just three months, the popular video blogger and Los Angeles transplant has generated tens of thousands of views of his Stickam profile page.

Stickam’s unique multi-stream Halloween broadcast is part of a series of festivities featured on the site throughout October.

Today, Stickam kicks off its Halloween Costume Contest, featuring a $500 first place prize and webcams for 19 runners-up. Members can upload their videos and photos from a computer or cell phone, and vote for their favorite submissions on the site until November 6.

In another Halloween treat, Stickam visitors can also watch and chat about the classic horror films “Night of the Living Dead,” “Nosferatu” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” all streaming consecutively on Stickam’s special Media Chat page.

About Stickam(TM)

Stickam(TM) is the Internet's most powerful, free video communications player offering live streaming video and video conferencing with unlimited bandwidth. The download-free Stickam player allows consumers to easily add dynamic, live video to their personal Web pages, blogs and auction sites by simply cutting and pasting the Stickam or HTML code into the appropriate area of the site of their choice. Consumers can also upload pre-recorded video, music and photos to their Stickam players for site visitors to access at their convenience. The video can be viewed by virtually anyone and will play on any operating system including Linux, Windows and Mac. Stickam(TM) is a product of Los Angeles-based Advanced Video Communications. (http://www.stickam.com/)

CONTACT: Mandy Willingham
Stickam
213-228-8763
mandy@stickam.com

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YouTube stars prove real identity live on Stickam

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 05 -- Many of us might consider five hour live broadcasts the stuff of charity telethons, lengthy award shows, and championship sporting events with revealing half-time performances.

But for popular YouTube and MySpace personality Ben, known as “boh3m3,” a recent five hour live broadcast using the rapidly growing video chat and social networking site Stickam (www.stickam.com) was the perfect opportunity to confirm his true identity to thousands of online fans.

The identities of video bloggers have come under suspicion recently after YouTube phenomenon lonelygirl15, a supposed 15 year-old girl home schooled in the Midwest, was exposed as a 19 year-old actress led by a group of creative Los Angeles entrepreneurs.

In response, genuine high-profile video bloggers like boh3m3, who creates YouTube's 9th most subscribed channel (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=boh3m3), are using Stickam’s unique broadcasting and social networking site as a valuable tool for confirming their true identities live.

Citing the “voyeuristic appeal of YouTube and web cam feeds," the 21 year-old waiter from Huntsville, Alabama used his Stickam player to broadcast live late September to many of his 2,000 MySpace friends and 11,000 plus YouTube subscribers.

“I think it's quite an awesome site,” boh3m3 said about Stickam. “I wouldn’t be surprised if more YouTube people started using it as a tool to talk to the fans.”
boh3m3 achieved instant popularity on Stickam after announcing his plans to “Go Live” on the site. Just hours after his post appeared on YouTube, nearly 1,000 new Stickam accounts were created, and hundreds of members signed onto boh3m3's friend list (http://www.stickam.com/profile/boh3m3). His profile received almost 10,000 views in just two days.

The success of boh3m3’s broadcast even inspired tributes from some devoted fans.
“It’s real, it’s live, it’s continuous -- you can’t stop. It’s amazing,” exclaimed an enthusiastic member of the sibling video blogging team “bermudeztriangle” in a post revealing their obsession with boh3m3’s marathon webcast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6hl9h7gsI).

Other top YouTube stars are joining boh3m3 on Stickam, including Hollywood-based “GayGod.” In addition to receiving over 16,000 page views, the humorous 18 year-old hosts his own Stickam channel for over 1,000 friends (http://www.stickam.com/profile/gaygod).

“BowieChick,” an 18 year-old Oregon vlogger named Melody, is another YouTube personality (http://youtube.com/profile?user=bowiechick ) enjoying Stickam’s combined live broadcasting and social networking features.

“I love Stickam,” she posted the during boh3m3’s broadcast. Like thousands of other viewers, she couldn’t resist the appeal of a real live attraction.

Since its launch this February, Stickam has expanded the online broadcasting and media sharing experience for more than 150,000 members worldwide, including some online video’s most popular personalities.

About Stickam(TM)

Stickam(TM) is the Internet's most powerful, free video communications player offering live streaming video and video conferencing with unlimited bandwidth. The download-free Stickam player allows consumers to easily add dynamic, live video to their personal Web pages, blogs and auction sites by simply cutting and pasting the Stickam or HTML code into the appropriate area of the site of their choice. Consumers can also upload pre-recorded video, music and photos to their Stickam players for site visitors to access at their convenience. The video can be viewed by virtually anyone and will play on any operating system including Linux, Windows and Mac. Stickam(TM) is a product of Los Angeles-based Advanced Video Communications. (http://www.stickam.com/)

CONTACT: Mandy Willingham
Stickam
213-228-8763
mandy@stickam.com

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Breakthrough Application Brings Live Streaming Video of Event's Hottest Presentations to Internet Users

LOS ANGELES, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Can't make it to Anime Expo(R) (AX) this year? For the first time ever, fans across the globe can experience the action live from the Main Events Hall with Stickam(TM), the Internet's most powerful video communications player. The live feed from Anime Expo(R) will be available completely free on www.AXBackstage.org and Stickam.com to fans everywhere -- all with nothing to download or configure.

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Advanced Video Communications Debuts Stickam™ Media Player With Free Webcam Giveaway

Breakthrough Application Brings Live Streaming Video, Video Conferencing and Multimedia to Web Pages and Blogs; No Downloads Necessary!

Five Lucky Users Each Day to Win Webcams for Setting Up Free Account! User With Most Referrals to Score Video iPod!

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