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eDiets.com(R) Launches Personalized Online Magazine
A New Branding Opportunity for Advertisers

eDiets.com, Inc. , the
online destination for diet, fitness and motivation launched eDiets
"Watching Your Weight," the Internet's first personalized online magazine
for consumers, and a new way for online advertisers to deliver branding
campaigns.
eDiets debuts as a weekly magazine with one million wired subscribers
delivering professional advice, information and news to people interested
in watching their weight. The first issue consists of two of 13 planned
topics ranging from Lifestyle to Healthy Heart, to Living with Diabetes. An
advertiser's overview can be seen at www.ediets.com/advertisers.
To attract subscribers, eDiets.com personalizes each magazine based on the
subscribers' areas of interest. As an example, a subscriber who chooses
Living with Diabetes as their primary interest receives the magazine with
that topic as the cover followed by all content related to that subject.
The 12 other topics follow.
"Our core business of personalized diet plans is off to a record start as
online dieting goes mainstream," commented David R. Humble, CEO of eDiets.
"10% of our revenue comes from the sale of advertising, and to grow this we
changed our strategy, created a pure branding medium, and established a
clear point of differentiation between eDiets.com and other sites that sell
online advertising."
"eDiets.com originated the successful personalized online diet and we
applied the same principle to our new magazine. Internet content is
expanding dramatically, and we believe an important differentiator in the
future of online publishing will be the ability for consumers to receive
content organized according to their interests," added Humble.
To attract advertisers, eDiets.com has eliminated the direct response
banner and adopted the proven branding format found in conventional print
magazines. Subscribers flip pages horizontally and all content and ads are
above the fold. Full page ads are featured, and advertisers can link
their ad to any one the 13 different topics. Viewers are no longer
inconvenienced by "scrolling" and advertisers do not lose 20% of banners
paid for, but never seen when viewers fail to scroll down the page.
"Print magazines provide the advertiser with the space to communicate the
total branding message in one place, something the banner will never do,"
Humble continued. "Our solution to online branding is giving the
advertiser the space they need to do what they can do in print, without
asking the consumer to click away."
For a limited time, a subscription to eDiets "Watching Your Weight" is
free. A preview of the current edition can be viewed at
www.ediets.com/magazine.
About eDiets.com
eDiets.com, Inc. the premier online diet, fitness, and
healthy living destination offering professional advice, information,
products and services to those seeking to improve their health and
longevity. Since 1997 and as of September 30, 2004, over 1.8 million
consumers worldwide have become eDiets.com members. Among other honors and
awards received, eDiets.com has been named a Forbes spring 2004 "Best of
the Web" in the diet and nutrition category, and a PC Magazine "Editors'
Choice" in May 2004.
eDiets.com offers more than 20 personalized online programs including the
Atkins Nutritional Approach(TM), The Slim-Fast® Optima Diet, Bill
Phillip's Eating for Life, Trim Kids®, and more than a dozen proprietary
Healthy Living plans for those with special needs, including the "Living
With Diabetes" and the eDiets.com "HeartSmart" plans. The revolutionary
eDiets.com|Solutions(SM) program gives all dieters, whether dieting on
their own or following a formal plan, support to help them succeed, with
exclusive access to its wide range of award-winning expert and peer-based
online support services, including Online/Anytime Meetings (SM) that
provide on-demand expert guidance and inspiration in a streaming video
format, among other resources.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Deerfield Beach, FL, eDiets.com
operates Web sites at www.eDiets.com and www.eFitness.com, and publishes
one of the Internet's leading electronic newsletters with an opt-in
circulation base of over 13 million subscribers. eDiets.com also owns
eDiets Europe Ltd. ("eDiets Europe"), which operates www.eDietsUK.com in
Ireland and the United Kingdom, www.eDiets.de in Germany, and
www.eDiets.com.es in Spain. eDiets Europe has also entered into an
exclusive licensing agreement with Tesco.com, the world's largest online
grocer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesco plc , to use
eDiets.com's personalized diet technology in the U.K. and Rep. of Ireland.
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sufficient outside financing, when and if required, on acceptable terms,
changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in product
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Company, the termination of contractual relationships with the Company's
brand partners which license certain brand components and other proprietary
information to the Company in the creation and branding of the Company's
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uncertainties associated with eDiets.com's business, reference is made to
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2003, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and
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