Deloitte & Touche awards e-Media

e-Media L.L.C., a leading integrated streamingssolutions provider for global 1000 enterprises and emerging companies, announced that it ranked number 307 on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastestgrowing technology companies in North America.

Rankings

Overall, companies that ranked on the 2001 Technology Fast 500 had five-year growth rates ranging from 115,874 to 824 percent, with an average growth rate of 6,184.

e-Media offers intelligent streaming media and integrated hosting solutions to organizations that strive to improve communications and increase productivity.

e-Media's customer-centric culture and integrated delivery network, e-mediasphere allow it to provide its clients with reliable and secure streaming solutions, unprecedented service and access to specialized tools, which enable them to make informed decisions about their media content.

e-Media's integrated solutions include hosting web and streaming content, web casting, interactive audio and video presentations, media triggered contextual information, digital fights management, pay-per-view, stream authentication and integrated statistical reporting.

Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities.

Deloitte & Touche is the U.S. national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity.

The Fast 500 list is compiled from three sources: winners of the Deloitte & Touche's 22 regional North American Fast 50 programs, nominations submitted directly to the Fast 500, and public company database research. To qualify for the Fast 500, entrants must have had 1996 revenues of at least 50,000 U.S. dollars and 75,000 Canadian dollars forthe United States and Canada, respectively. Entrants are public or private companies headquartered in North America and must be a "technology company," defined as a company that develops proprietary technology which contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues, manufactures a technology-related product; or devotes a high percentage of effort to research and development technology.

Al Barber, chairman and chief executive officer of e-Media, credits the company's commitment to customer care, superior technical service, and specialized tools with its 1,801 percent revenue growth over the past five years.

"e-Media. is honored to be named a part of the prestigious Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500," said Barber. "Being one of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies 'in ,North America is a testament to e-Media's leadership and its superior technology and services. This win speaks to the vitality of e-Media's business and our growing presence in the streaming industry."

"With its ranking on the prestigious Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, e-Media's leaders have proven that they have the vision and the fortitude to excel in a highly competitive technology industry," said Mark A. Evans, managing director of Deloitte & Touche's technology & communications group. "We congratulate them on becoming one of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the United States and Canada."

In addition to ranking on the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, e-Media ranked number 11 on the Technology Fast 50, which is a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology firms in New England.