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Multiplied Media announces mobile distribution agreement with Idearc Media’s Superpages.com for Poynt users in the United States

April 1, 2009
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CALGARY, April 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Multiplied Media Corporation (TSX-V: MMC), an award-winning, Calgary-based provider of local search services, is pleased to announce a new distribution agreement with Idearc Media LLC. Idearc Media’s Superpages.com(R) directory will be available to users of Multiplied’s flagship product, Poynt for BlackBerry(R) smartphones.

Under the agreement, which takes effect immediately, Superpages.com advertiser content is delivered to users of the Poynt for BlackBerry smartphone application when the user generates a query for local business information. Revenues are generated when those queries connect users to Superpages.com’s performance-based advertisers.

The user count for the Poynt application has increased by over 70,000 in the past 80 days, with a current total of over 107,000 mobile users. Multiplied is currently experiencing growth of approximately 1,000 net new users per day.

“We are pleased to extend our relationship with Idearc Media to the mobile space,” said Andrew Osis, CEO, Multiplied Media. “Approximately 75 percent of our mobile user-base is performing local business searches in the U.S. This agreement, coupled with our continued growth in user numbers and associated queries, should have a positive impact on projected revenues and our continued operations.”

Poynt is a convenient and timesaving service that connects consumers to local businesses and theaters at the moment they want to buy or acquire products or services. By entering search terms, the consumer is able to find businesses and movies near their location, get phone and address information as well as access enhanced features such as mapping and directions.

Poynt is a free program* and is available to BlackBerry smartphone owners in Canada and the United States. To download Poynt, visit http://m.mypoynt.com from your BlackBerry(R) Browser.

    * Wireless charges may apply. Please check with your wireless service
        provider.

    About Multiplied Media Corporation
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Multiplied Media (www.multiplied.com) has developed the award-winning application Poynt (www.mypoynt.com), the local search service available over BlackBerry smartphones. Through agreements with Yellow Pages Group in Canada, Idearc Media (Superpages.com) in the United States and t-info and Infobel in Europe, Poynt simplifies finding and connecting with businesses, retailers and events wherever and whenever it is most convenient for the consumer. Headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada, Multiplied Media trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol MMC.

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SOURCE Multiplied Media Corporation


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