FOSTER CITY, CA  (APRIL 17, 2001) - Live365 (www.live365.com), the world’s largest Internet broadcasting community with more than 30,000 Internet radio stations, announced today the appointments of Paul Evans to Vice President of Advertising Sales and Jeffrey Rodman to Director of Advertising Sales.  The new appointments further solidify Live365’s sales team and growth throughout the company.

“Paul and Jeffrey bring more than 30 years combined sales and management experience that will be invaluable to Live365’s continued development,” said John Jeffrey, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Live365.  “Their expertise will undoubtedly increase our revenue and profitability and help us remain the biggest name in Internet radio.”

Adams joins Live365’s Advertising Sales Group with over 14 years of experience in both hi-tech and traditional radio and television broadcasting sales.  Prior to joining Live365, Adams served as Director of Sales for Classifieds2000.com, where he helped secure their merger with Excite@Home.  Following the acquisition, he was responsible for many of Excite@Home’s distribution alliances as well as sponsorship and advertising sales of over $38 million dollars. 

Rodman joins Live365’s Advertising Sales Group with more than 18 years of experience.  Prior to Live365, Rodman was the Senior Sales Manager at Classifieds2000.com where he was responsible for sales, numerous channels and product packaging.  During his tenure at Classifieds2000.com he was instrumental in bringing in advertising, generating revenue and played a key role in helping secure their merger with Excite@Home.  Before joining Classifieds2000.com, Rodman was the Vice President of the Devon Group of Companies where he was in charge of overseeing property portfolio and operations management throughout the southern United States.        

ABOUT LIVE365

Live365 (www.Live365.com) is the world’s largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 content on the Internet, with more than 30,000 free stations available for users to listen to at anytime, and innovative proprietary technology for users to create their personal, unique station to broadcast to a worldwide audience.  Rated one of the largest aggregate network streamers in a recent report issued by Arbitron, Live365’s “Studio365” tools empower traditional radio stations, record companies, community groups and others with a free and easy solution to streaming audio over the Internet.  A leader in the development Internet radio through wireless devices, Live365 created the first streaming MP3 player for the Pocket PC, and offers all their stations on the revolutionary 3Com/Kerbango portable Internet radio player.  Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 has been named one of the “Top 6 Killer Apps” of streaming media by Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world’s top international investment banks, in its May 2000 report “Internet, Broadband, and Enhanced TV.”