LOS ANGELES, Calif. --(August 25, 1999) -- Styleclick.com Inc.,
(NASDAQ: IBUY), creator of www.styleclick.com, a premier fashion
e-commerce site, announced today it has signed a broadband
content syndication agreement with Intertainer, Inc., the world's
first interactive broadband network providing a full spectrum of
entertainment-on-demand to both the cable and telco industries.
The emergence of broadband provides a new vehicle for the
syndication of Styleclick.com's content which will appear on
Intertainer's service when it begins consumer deployments this fall.
Under the agreement, Styleclick.com will provide Intertainer with
content consisting of leading brand name merchandise imaged in
a 3D rich format. Styleclick.com and Intertainer will share revenues
from the sale of the merchandise featured on Intertainer's service.
Intertainer will showcase styleclick.com's content alongside
television programming, which includes sitcoms, how-to, and
children's programs, as well as featured in Intertainer's shopping
channels.
"Emerging broadband companies are looking to take advantage
of the visual media because of the compelling experience it
provides," stated Maurizio Vecchione, Styleclick.com's president
and co-chief executive officer. "We will provide Intertainer with top
brands from the largest data warehouse of digital 3D content
currently available."
"Styleclick.com will provide incredibly visual, rich, and dynamic
content that takes advantage of Intertainer's unique broadband
platform," said Richard Baskin, Intertainer's co-founder and
co-chief executive officer. "Their service will help us give our
subscribers the most dynamic shopping experience available on
broadband."
Intertainer, Inc. (http://www.intertainer.com), a leading provider of
home entertainment services on-demand, is defining the
convergence of entertainment and technology. Intertainer, with its
strategic partners - Comcast, U S WEST, Sony, Intel and NBC -
provides customers with a personal gateway to thousands of hours
of diverse movies, music, TV, shopping and information
programming to the PC or TV using high speed data lines over
cable or telephone connections. The company's
entertainment-on-demand, e-commerce applications and targeted
advertising will be the first services enabled by the popular
PersonalJava language on Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer® 2000
set-top box. Intertainer also has solid relationships with leading
companies in the broadband space, including Veon, Concurrent
Computer Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco Systems.
Intertainer is a charter member of Cisco's "Built for Broadband"
program.
Founded in 1988, Styleclick.com Inc., formerly Modacad, Inc., is an
enabler of e-commerce for manufacturers and consumers.
Participants in The Styleclick.com Network include
www.styleclick.com, www.fashiontrip.com, America Online,
Exite@Home, iVillage, Women.com, and leading brands including
Sbicca, For Joseph, FreeStyle USA, Pingcollection,com, and
Hunter Douglas.
Styleclick.com, the Company's premier site for fashion
e-commerce, offers many products in high resolution with the ability
to pan and zoom in to inspect fabric textures, stitching, buttons, and
beading. Featured products can be viewed in high resolution, three
dimensional rotation, providing visually rich images that allow
consumers to see products from all angles in order to make
informed purchasing decisions. Styleclick.com is the first
e-commerce site to provide image-by-image comparisons by
category where consumers can compare related products from
different manufacturers and visually compare the look of items, not
just the price. These features create a more realistic shopping
experience.