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On2 Technologies Announces Worldwide Enterprise License of Flix(R) Publisher by Unilever
TARRYTOWN, New York, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Unilever Chooses On2 Flix Publisher for company-wide video communication On2 Technologies, Inc., (AMEX: ONT), a leader in video compression solutions, announced today that Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer products companies, has chosen its On2 Flix Publisher solution to provide enterprise video encoding and delivery services to Unilever's global community of marketers. On2 Flix Publisher is a unique browser-based encoding and publishing solution for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 8 and 9, based on On2's VP6(TM) video compression schemes licensed by Adobe. Publisher allows easy drag and drop video creation and publishing on a web page, without any special software installation on the user's PC. As a result, large enterprises, media companies, and video portals can allow anyone to become a video publisher without special training or equipment. Publisher's automatic workflow allows large number of videos from a large number of users distributed globally to be published without large infrastructure deployments and specialized management resources. "Video for communication and training is becoming a critical enterprise application, and Unilever is a pioneer in making this possible," said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2. "Flix Publisher is intended for such tremendous scale without the complexities, costs and infrastructure that one would associate with such a large undertaking." The Unilever US portfolio includes some of the best known and most loved food and home and personal care brands including Axe, "all," Ben & Jerry's, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Popsicle, Promise, Q-Tips, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Snuggle, Suave, Sunsilk and Vaseline. Unilever US generated nearly US$10 billion in sales in 2006. "Flix Publisher allows for a fast, easy and affordable deployment of a company-wide video publishing solution and gives our users a solution that requires no learning to get up and running immediately," said Giampiero Corona, Global Projects Manager at Unilever. "With Flash video available on all our PCs, we can focus on the business objectives of our knowledge management repository rather than overcoming technical hurdles." About On2 Technologies, Inc. On2 Technologies (AMEX: ONT) ensures a compelling video experience for any video application anywhere. From low bit rate to high definition, On2 provides optimized video compression technology enabling innovative solutions for application developers, content and service providers, chip vendors, device manufacturers, digital signage companies and beyond. Through continual innovation, On2 satisfies the toughest quality, bandwidth, and power requirements for video. The company's proprietary (TrueMotion(R) VP6(TM), VP7(TM)) and standards based (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, VC-1) codecs dominate the video market, with more than 1 billion deployments on desktops worldwide and more than 200+ million in mobile; they are also proven in silicon with over 25 semiconductor manufacturers globally. Established in 1992 and headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, On2 has offices and partners in Finland, Germany, UK, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea. Customers include Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Freescale, AMS, Atmel, Adobe/Macromedia, AOL, Sony, Skype, Facebook, VideoEgg, Brightcove, Move Networks and XM Satellite Radio. For more information please visit www.on2.com. About Unilever Unilever's mission is to add vitality to life. We meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries across the globe. Its portfolio includes some of the world's best known and most loved brands including twelve euro 1 billion brands and global leadership in many categories in which the company operates. The portfolio features brand icons such as Flora, Bertolli, Dove, Lux, Pond's, Lynx, Sunsilk, Persil, Cif and Domestos. Unilever has around 179,000 employees in approaching 100 countries and generated annual sales of euro 40 billion in 2006. For more information about Unilever and its brands, visit www.unilever.com. All trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Web site: http://www.on2.com http://www.unilever.com






