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Abacast, Inc., a leader in real-time streaming solutions has announced record revenue growth for 2008.  Growth over 2007 revenues came in at 38%, significantly exceeding the CDN industry average growth rate of approximately 28%.

Revenue growth was consistent across the full suite of Abacast's services including unicast and peer-assisted streaming, revenue generation services such as Ad Injection Service, and user experience enhancements via Abacast Premier and Custom Players.  Notably, hybrid and peer-assisted streaming revenue comprised almost 40% of Abacast's total revenue, demonstrating the clear value proposition of a hybrid CDN solution.

Abacast announces the appointment of John Morris and Jim Kott as Co-presidents and Kristy Surovic as VP, Administration. John Morris has been with Abacast since April 2001.  He was a key member of the Company's initial technology development team, ultimately promoted to the position of VP Engineering and Chief Technology Officer.   He will continue to serve in that position.

Abacast, Inc., a leader in real-time streaming solutions has announced the purchase of Tukati, Inc., a producer of peer-assisted on-demand delivery solutions. The acquisition brings a combined peer-assisted Live and On-Demand Service under a single entity, which was previously offered via a partnership between the two companies.

"The combination of these two companies' technologies enables the first hybrid peer-to-peer solution covering the complete spectrum of real-time and on-demand distribution." said Michael King, President of Abacast.  "Bringing Tukati into the Abacast family enables content publishers to make a single vendor choice for reliable content distribution, while getting a huge leap in distribution efficiencies."

Abacast was one of the sponsors of the official webcast for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2007 Emmy Awards for Technology and Engineering held opening day at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, January 7, 2008.

The webcast, was a featured event of CES, and powered by TV Worldwide, www.tvworldwide.com, who utilizes the Abacast Hybrid Peer-to-Peer technology to deliver content. The online audience had the option to view the event through 548Kbps of high quality video online.

The Technology and Engineering Awards honor development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals for breakthroughs in technology that have a significant effect on television engineering. The awards are given to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies that either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.

"Abacast's mission has always been to aid broadcasters in using new technology to create profitable business models online, making the business of streaming better. Abacast's ability to reach large audiences with high quality streams at a very low cost is the key,""

JumpTV represents an opportunity for broadcasters, worldwide, to develop a new online audience for their networks, enhance internationally based revenue streams, and develop previously unavailable demographic targeting of their audience.  With more than 300 channels from 75+ countries, JumpTV delivers its audience news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis (live) from all corners of the globe. Using Abacast's unique hybrid P2P technology will enable JumpTV to more economically offer its exclusive, hard to reach content for its broadcasters without sacrificing quality or performance. JumpTV offers video at 100Kbps, 450Kbps, and 1000Kbps.