MARCH 1, 2000 CNN Interactive's award-winning allpolitics.com is using Virage Interactive trade; services to enable users to search archived video of presidential candidates' speeches for specific issues, it was announced by Carin Dessauer, executive editor, Washington, D.C., election director, CNN Interactive. Virage's video infrastructure enables viewers to locate the televised speeches of presidential candidates quickly by any topic or keyword.

Using a familiar search-engine style interface, the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine returns relevant video clips for viewers to watch from a comprehensive archive of unedited C-SPAN footage that is growing over the course of Election 2000. The Virage search capability enhances allpolitics.com's already-robust video section, which includes candidates' key speeches and television advertisements.

"allpolitics.com's in-depth political coverage is now bolstered by Virage's video search capabilities that allow our users to quickly find speeches and speech topics by the presidential candidates," said Dessauer.

"We are pleased to be working with CNN Interactive on this project," said Carlos Montalvo, vice president of marketing at Virage. "CNN has been a long-time Virage customer, using our video indexing and search software as a core component of its state-of-the-art newsroom production system. With CNN Interactive's adoption of the Campaign 2000 Video Search Engine, CNN extends this powerful video search capability to its Internet community."

About Virage, Inc.

Virage is a leading provider of products and application services that allow owners of video content to deploy, manage, and distribute their video assets over the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage Interactive™ services provide content owners with the complete infrastructure for seamlessly integrating Internet-compliant video into their web sites. Virage¹s VideoLogger trade; and AudioLogger trade; software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan.

Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, Associated Press, BBC, Boeing, CBS, CNET, CNN, Compaq, C-SPAN, DaimlerChrysler, FBI, FOX Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, iVillage.com, Lifetime Entertainment, Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Times, NYSE, NTT, ON24, PBS, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, Telecinco, Yahoo! and Young & Rubicam. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Virage was incorporated in 1995 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. Contact Virage at http://www.virage.com/ or (650) 573-3210.

About CNN Interactive

CNN Interactive is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com as well as 10 other Web sites and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as PageNet pagers and iMagic's PowerPhones. The CNN Web sites, which include CNN.com, CNNfn.com and CNNsi.com, are among the leading news and information Web sites. The CNN Web sites served more than 613 million page impressions for the first month of 2000 and served more than 6.7 billion page impressions in 1999.