Screaming Media and Synacor Partner To Provide Hosted Solutions For Service Providers and Small To Medium Businesses

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Harley-Davidson are first customers to receive ScreamingMedia’s robust content solutions through Synacor’s portal framework

December 11th 2001

NEW YORK, N.Y. & BUFFALO, N.Y. – ScreamingMedia Inc. (NASDAQ: SCRM), a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, and Synacor Inc., a provider of provisioning, messaging, collaboration and portal solutions, today announced an agreement to integrate ScreamingMedia’s technology and content into Synacor’s portal framework, providing service providers and small to medium-sized businesses with a complete end-to-end hosted portal and content solution. Through a variety of sales, marketing and technology initiatives, ScreamingMedia will promote Synacor’s portal and messaging services to its enterprise and service provider customers and in turn Synacor will deliver ScreamingMedia’s content feeds as an integral part of its portal solution.

“Some of our customers and prospects require a portal framework in which to aggregate and display our content,” said Scott Harrison, vice president of business development at ScreamingMedia. “Working with Synacor we will be able to offer our customers the ability to integrate our content through a turnkey hosted portal solution.”

Synacor’s portal solutions will enable ScreamingMedia customers to build customized and informative portals for consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. Additionally, ScreamingMedia will promote Synacor Consumer E-mail and Synacor Business Messaging to customers requiring robust communication services. Synacor’s hosted model enables the delivery of these solutions as supplementary service options to ScreamingMedia customers.

Synacor’s hosted portal solutions will feature ScreamingMedia content options including international, financial, entertainment and sports news. With more than 3,000 providers in its digital content network, ScreamingMedia can ensure that Synacor’s channel partners receive the general-interest or niche content perfectly filtered to their unique business objectives.

“Our channel partners are finding that in today’s more competitive market, they must provide more value and services to their customers,” said Ron Frankel, president and CEO of Synacor. “Partnering with ScreamingMedia was a natural fit for Synacor. We provide enhanced data services while they offer us enriched content, so both companies can deliver more valuable and complete solutions.”

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Harley-Davidson are examples of Synacor partners that currently use Synacor Community Portal and will benefit from ScreamingMedia¹s content solutions.

About Synacor
Synacor (www.synacor.com) delivers a suite of enhanced data services and a turnkey provisioning platform that enables CLECs, ILECs, Telcos, VARs and Service Providers to quickly deploy portal, messaging and collaboration services to consumers and small to medium businesses. With offices in Buffalo, New York and Emeryville, California, Synacor powers a global network of partners.

About ScreamingMedia
ScreamingMedia (Nasdaq: SCRM) provides complete content solutions for all enterprise platforms. Powered by its state-of-the-art technology platform, ScreamingMedia offers its clients robust content and technology services to meet all their business needs. ScreamingMedia’s technology powers the aggregation, integration and distribution of content into Websites, Intranets, Wireless solutions, iTV, and virtually any other platform. ScreamingMedia specializes in turnkey and custom applications for information-intensive industries, such as finance, healthcare, technology, publishing and consumer-focused businesses. Serving the United States, Europe and Latin America, ScreamingMedia is headquartered in New York City and has offices in San Francisco, Coralville, Iowa, London and Sydney, Australia through an exclusive agreement with BecomeMedia. For more information, visit ScreamingMedia’s website at www.screamingmedia.com.

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