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.

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