CollegeHumor to Distribute Original Video Content on Joost

CollegeHumor's CHTV original videos will be made available on Joost through the newly launched "CHTV: CollegeHumor Original Videos" Joost channel (http://joost.com/3020001). Initial programming includes a collection of CollegeHumor's most popular original series, including "Street Fighter: The Later Years," "The Michael Showalter Showalter," "Prank War," and "Hardly Working." Additionally, CollegeHumor will provide hit video satires "Brohemian Rhapsody," "Minesweeper: The Movie," and "Facebook Off." Moving forward, as CollegeHumor continues to launch new original videos the company will continue to make them available to Joost viewers through the CHTV Joost channel.

"We are excited to be partnering with Joost to launch the CollegeHumor channel because it gives us an opportunity to introduce our original videos to a new, savvy audience," said Ricky Van Veen, Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of CollegeHumor. "Joost's high quality, full screen platform is one of the few places where our high definition widescreen originals can look as good as they do on CollegeHumor.com."

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, executive vice president of content strategy and acquisition for Joost, said, "CollegeHumor is a pioneer in online video entertainment, and a perfect partner for Joost. Their shows -- which are written and produced specifically for web audiences -- are hysterical, and because of their commitment to high production values, they look great on Joost."

Founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, Joost combines the best of TV and the best of the Internet by offering viewers a full-screen audiovisual experience enhanced with the choice, control and flexibility of Web 2.0. Joost is the first online, global TV distribution platform, bringing together advertisers, content owners and viewers in an interactive, community-driven environment.

ABOUT COLLEGEHUMOR.COM

CollegeHumor.com, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), was founded in a dorm room in 1999 as an online depository for all of the content that floats around collegiate computer networks. The site has since grown into a daily updated source of original web content and now boasts a loyal following of over 6 million unique readers a month and more than 200 million monthly page views. With major blue chip companies such as Ford, Universal Pictures and Procter & Gamble now advertising on the site, the release of Penguin Books' The CollegeHumor Guide to College and Faking It ... How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself," and a movie with Paramount in the works, CollegeHumor has quickly emerged as an icon of today's young adult culture.

ABOUT JOOST(TM)

Joost(TM) provides a new way of watching video that combines the best of full-screen TV entertainment with the interactive and community benefits of the Internet to bring broadcast-quality video to viewers anytime, anywhere. Based on a state-of-the-art, secure, peer-to-peer streaming technology, Joost can be accessed with a broadband Internet connection and offers video content to viewers for free. Joost features more than 400 channels with programming across all genres, including: cartoons and animation; entertainment and film; sports; comedy; lifestyle and documentaries; and sci-fi. Channels and programs available on Joost vary by geographic region, based on copyright ownership.

    To learn more about Joost, visit www.joost.com.

    Contact information:

    IAC Corporate Communications:
    Leslie Cafferty/ Stacy Simpson
    212-314-7326/ 7470

    Joost:
    Kerry Vance
    646-330-0737 mobile
    212-331-1290 office
    kerry.vance@joost.com

SOURCE CollegeHumor.com

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