Virage's Growing Broadband Syndication Network Provides Video Search to The Wall Street Journal

Virage Provides Searchable Video Coverage of Campaign 2000 to WSJ.com Readers

SAN MATEO, CA—April 3, 2000—Virage Inc., a leading provider of interactive video search products and services, announced today that The Wall Street Journal® is now providing its online subscribers with on-demand searchable video coverage of the American presidential campaign using Virage's video search engine technology and services. The coverage is located in the "Politics & Policy" section at WSJ.com®, the leading commercial subscription site on the Web. The online Journal joins Virage's growing broadband video syndication network, a wide diversity of premier news and information organizations now providing Internet users worldwide with Virage-enabled, on-demand video coverage of the American presidential campaign.

"Giving our online readers searchable access to extensive video coverage of the campaign is a perfect complement to The Wall Street Journal's insightful coverage of politics and WSJ.com's around-the-clock news updates and campaign archives," said Neil Budde, editor and publisher of WSJ.com.

WSJ.com uses Virage Interactive™ services and Virage's Internet video infrastructure to integrate video search seamlessly into its site, enabling viewers to locate the televised speeches of presidential candidates quickly by any topic or key word. Using a familiar search-engine style interface, the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine returns relevant video clips for viewers to watch from a comprehensive archive of unedited C-SPAN footage that is growing over the course of the 2000 campaign.

About WSJ

Introduced in April 1996, WSJ.com features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated news staff, supported by the global resources of The Wall Street Journal. Subscribers have access to more than 22,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also access the vast Dow Jones Publications Library that features current and past articles from 6,000 newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. WSJ.com has paid circulation of more than 375,000 subscribers. The online Journal, WSJ.com, was recently cited by Forbes magazine as "Simply the best online news site on the Web."

About Virage

Virage is a leading provider of software products and application services that allow owners of video content to deploy, manage, and distribute their video assets over the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage Interactive™ services provide content owners with the infrastructure for integrating Internet-compliant video into their web sites. Virage's VideoLogger™ and AudioLogger™ software enable real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, Associated Press, BBC, Boeing, CBS, CNET, CNN, Compaq, C-SPAN, DaimlerChrysler, FBI, FOX Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, iVillage.com, Lifetime Entertainment, Lockheed Martin, MGM, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Times, NYSE, NTT, ON24, PBS, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, Telecinco, Yahoo! and Young & Rubicam. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Virage was incorporated in 1995 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. Contact Virage at http://www.virage.com/ or (650) 573-3210.

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