October 2008

Muze Expands Geographic Footprint and Accelerates Delivery of New and Advanced Media Information Solutions to International Markets

New York, NY and London, England- October 6, 2008 - Muze Inc., the only independent provider of entertainment information products, media preview and discovery services, today announced the completion of its buyout of Muze Europe Ltd. Muze Europe provides media information on UK and European music, video/film and video game releases to companies to increase their sales of entertainment products and to attract and retain audiences to Internet destinations and mobile environments.

As a wholly owned subsidiary, Muze Europe will be able to offer its customers in the UK and continental Europe access to a much broader range of normalized metadata, expert editorial content and images in video/film, music, video games and books. Muze will continue to support all current Muze Europe entertainment information solutions and media preview services.

Over the coming months Muze Europe media information products will be integrated with the new Muze Media Information 2.0 suite of solutions. These integrated products will offer significant advantages in marketing and merchandising entertainment products, while enriching consumers' experience on internet destinations, social networking sites and within mobile applications. Integration of Muze Europe products with Muze Media Information 2.0 is planned to begin the second quarter of 2009.

"The buyout is a critical step toward better serving our customers worldwide by providing broader international coverage says Janice P. Anderson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Muze. "

Expanding our international footprint will allow us to enter new markets, create new partnerships and continue to deliver new and innovative media information solutions that meet the needs of our global customers."

The new Muze Europe Media Information 2.0 products will offer greater breadth and depth of content with millions of new data elements, provide greater interoperability for faster and easier deployments, and will be optimized to deliver information to a variety of consumer devices including PCs, mobile phones and media servers. Some key new features of the forthcoming Muze Europe Media Information 2.0 will include:

About Muze Inc.
Established in 1991, Muze provides solutions to businesses that enable search, discovery, sharing, and purchasing of entertainment products. Our media information products and our sample and discovery services provide the foundation for making all types of entertainment products available on-demand anywhere, anytime, and are used by hundreds of companies worldwide to develop audiences and customers. Our clients range from in-store and online retailers, portals, community sites, and auction sites, to consumer electronics manufacturers and mobile services providers, all of whom rely on Muze's rich entertainment content and digital sample services to support both physical and digital retail commerce. Clients include Yahoo!, eBay, Best Buy, hmv, Blockbuster, Overstock, iLike, Packet Video, Hot Topic, and many others. Muze is based in New York City with operations in North America and the United Kingdom. To learn more, please visit www.muze.com and www.muzeeurope.com.

MuzeGames UK launched

Muze Europe has launched its brand new games data service - MuzeGames UK. Available as a standalone service, or for use alongside Muze's music and video data services, MuzeGames UK is the ideal source of video games data for any online entity wishing to sell games.

With detailed information in advance of street date and a back catalogue of thousands of games, MuzeGames UK saves licensees vital resources on the sourcing, standardising and databasing of games content. In-depth meta-data is combined with rich content to help retailers sell games more effectively.

For more information on MuzeGames UK click here

Meet Muze at Popkomm

Muze will be sending representatives to Popkomm 2008. Held on the 8th, 9th and 10th of October, Popkomm is the international music and entertainment business trade show held each year in Berlin.

Head of Business Development Scott Winchester will be meeting clients, prospects and industry friends. To book an appointment with Scott, drop him a line or give him a call - click here for contact details.

HEW moves to Muze for video listings

Video industry magazine HEW has moved to Muze for its weekly video listings. The magazine now publishes a weekly schedule of video releases taken from Muze's comprehensive database.

Said Andrew Clough, publisher at HEW: "It's great to be able to work with a supplier who innately understands our and the market's needs and is undoubtedly one of the premier suppliers of music and DVD data, giving our readers the best advanced information on release in the market

"I'm delighted that Muze has teamed up with HEW to publish weekly listings of video releases. This new service enables HEW readers to view advanced release information from Muze, the leading provider of UK video release information" added Doug Marshall, publishing director of Muze Europe.

Muze and Nielsen launch Marc Format Service

Muze Europe and book information provider Nielsen Book have signed a deal that sees Nielsen Book provide Muze's music and video data in formats built especially for libraries. Music and video data will be available in the Marc formats UKMARC and MARC21 as a BookData Record Supply Service. Development of this service has now been completed and the service is launched 10 March.

January 2008

Muze for Mobiles

Muze provides a number of innovative solutions for companies wishing to enhance their music services. Whether you are a network operator, device manufacturer or application provider, or wapsite publisher, Muze can enrich the end users' music experience - with standardised databases, artist biographies, search and discover tools, and our new multi-national music news service.

Muze album information brings credibility and searchability to any mobile music service. MuzeMusic can provide clean, standardised music meta data to enable better searching of titles and artists.

Muze album data is fast becoming the European standard - with live services covering releases in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain, with more databases to follow soon.

MuzeMusic also features cover scans, album annotations and press excerpts for maximum user engagement. Album annotations can be provided in bite sized versions - ideal for WAP pages.

Muze Artist information provides invaluable search and discovery tools - helping users make exciting discoveries, and helping you increase sales. Shorter biographies, band images and related links makes for an interactive experience.

MuzeNews is our new daily service of music of tour news, release updates and industry gossip. Currently available in Dutch, Italian Spanish, with new services being launched soon.

Want to increase your ad inventory? With Muze you can set up band pages - with biographies and music news. This is now a multi-national service.

January 2008

MuzeStills

2008 will see the addition of the new MuzeStills service to Muze Europe's already comprehensive portfolio of music and film data products.

MuzeStills is a library of over 1200 studio photographs and film stills from definitive cinematic works and has been compiled in association with the distinguished Rex Features picture library. Designed to work in conjunction with MuzeVideo UK in the online retail sector as a rich-data 'add-on' product, it will make an essential addition to any video database and can be integrated with most existing data sets.

For any online video retail or rental site MuzeReels will give an additional level of detail on the title or star that will engage film enthusiasts and online shoppers and help customers to recognise releases and actors and help generate sales. Unlike many other picture library services using MuzeStills will dispense with the hassle and additional costs of royalties, and can be licensed from Muze Europe as a complete product ready for use on you website or database.

December 2007

USB Memory Sticks introduced to MuzeMusic UK

USB Sticks have been added to the MuzeMusic UK database as a new format. Included on the database is Keane single 'The Night Sky', the debut album 'Not Here to Please You' from new rave group Hadouken, and the re-released Rolling Stones compilation 'Rolled Gold+'. Twelve releases are currently featured on the database.

Commenting on the releases, Muze's music editorial manager James Wilkinson commented: "USB Sticks is a new format in a market dominated by CDs in the last 20 years. Their advantage over CDs is their memory - whole back catalogues can be stored on one USB as EMI have just done with their 4GB Radiohead release. There is also more flexibility with the shape and packaging. Plus there is the ability to store your own files and use as a normal storage device."

The launch of MuzeReels now provides the online video retailer with a fully integrated film trailer service. MuzeReels responds to customers' ever-higher expectations of the e-tail experience by providing over 6,000 unique cinematic trailers for cinema releases in both the UK and US.

Complementing and fully integrated with the existing MuzeVideo UK data set MuzeReels enables online retail websites access to engaging additional content which will provide a richer experience to customers and help improve stickiness to a website. MuzeReels follows in the footsteps of our other rich-data services including Essential Artists and the Muze EPM to provide an industry standard in film and music data services to the online retailer.

Trailers carry the same certification as the counterpart video and can be supplied in several formats and bit-rates. This enables MuzeReels a great flexibility in its applications, and the ability to provide different levels of service to suit different budgets.