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Destiny
Media Technologies Meets Milestones for year end
Company reaches key milestones set out in business
plan for Year Ending August 31, 2000
Oct
3, 2000
VANCOUVER,
BC, Oct. 3, 2000 - Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. (DSNY-OTC
BB) is pleased to provide an update of the key accomplishments
for the year ended August 31st, 2000 and to highlight some
of the targets for the next fiscal year.
Unaudited
revenues for the year ending August 31, 2000 show $110,000
(Cdn). This Q4 revenue is an increase of approximately 1000%
over Q3 of the current fiscal year. First quarter revenues
for the next fiscal are planned to increase further, as the
business plan shifts from the development phase to a more
focused sales and marketing effort.
As part
of Destiny's accelerated plan to improve business performance
in the near term and to capitalize on the company momentum,
it has streamlined its head office staffing to increase its
emphasis on the sales and marketing function. CEO Steve Vestergaard
says "Today's competitive environment demands that we operate
our business at maximum efficiency if we are to achieve our
target profitability."
This past
year Destiny completed and introduced their java based streaming
media product suite. The Clipstream™ suite: including Clipstream
for web pages, ClipstreamMail™ a streaming media email solution
and Bannerstream™ the rich media ad banner, were all well
received with over two hundred licensees in place. This bodes
well for future upgrade and service revenues in the next several
years.
The future
potential for Clipstream™ is great as it offers a number of
advantages over competing products. It uses industry standard
protocols, so any audio file can be archived for playback
on existing web hosting company's infrastructure as well as
distributed networks such as Akamai. This means Destiny's
customers will consistently deliver a scalable high quality
streaming service to users any where in the world. Also, because
Clipstream is java based, it will be compatible with java
enabled wireless devices, thereby allowing the Company to
target the future wireless market.
A prototype
of VideoClipstream™ was also introduced in Q4 and will be
ready for commercial introduction by the end of the 2000 calendar
year. Customer demand is strong and the company is planning
to establish relationships with resellers and encoding companies
in anticipation of the launch.
In the
coming year, Destiny plans to more fully integrate their products
providing a broader and more cohesive product strategy. A
new version of the RadioDestiny Broadcaster™ is currently
in Beta and is planned for an October 2000 launch. This new
streaming software will provide the industry with Destiny's
RD3 format, the highest quality audio stream. In addition
the same broadcast will simultaneously stream in MP3 format
and in Destiny's java based Clipstream format. Commercial
terrestrial stations could use this feature to syndicate their
signal across many different web sites.
Destiny
will raise the profile of their secure music distribution
technology, MPE™, in the coming months. MPE is a solution
to prevent pirating of digital music on the Internet. Says
Vestergaard, "We hit a number of milestones last quarter,
including a pilot with Atlantic Records recording artist Yve
Adam. The digital distribution of electronic music, books,
videos and research reports offers a significant opportunity
for Destiny in the coming year."
About
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.
Destiny
Media Technologies, Inc. (http://www.dsny.com) is a leader
in developing easy-to-use tools and enabling technologies
to distribute digital media through the Internet. The company's
suite of streaming and downloadable products includes: MPE™
(http://www.destinympe.com), a complete, secure media distribution
system that provides e-commerce and digital rights management
directly from within an MP3-compatible multimedia file; Clipstream™
(http://www.clipstream.com), a java-based tool which enables
web pages, e-mail and banners to stream audio without the
use of a player; Video Clipstream™ (http://www.videoclipstream.com),
a technology for embedding streaming video into a web page
or e-mail; and the RadioDestiny Broadcaster™ (http://www.radiodestiny.com),
which allows a user to webcast live or scripted internet radio
from a computer to anyone on the Internet. Established in
1991, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
For more
information contact:
| Destiny
Media Technologies, Inc. |
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Steve
Vestergaard
steve@dsny.com
President & CEO
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc.
604-609-7736 ext. 222 |
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