Medialink Forms Strategic Alliance With Getty Images

Agreement to Jointly Offer Video and Photography Services as Best-of-Breed Solutions for Marketing and Public Relations Professionals.

Furthering its mission to offer enhanced counsel on client projects with multiple visual components, Medialink Worldwide Incorporated (Nasdaq: MDLK - News), a significant global provider of diversified media services for professional communicators and marketers, has entered into a strategic alliance in the United States with Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content.

Medialink, a major producer and distributor of award-winning, short-form video and audio to broadcast and broadband media, and Getty Images, the world's leading imagery company, have mutually agreed to a preferred provider arrangement that will enable their respective public relations, marketing and creative services clients to leverage best-of-breed video production and distribution and photography services for news announcements, advertisements, or promotional initiatives.

"The Medialink and Getty Images brands are synonymous with excellence in our respective fields of visual communications expertise, and together we can extend a unique opportunity for our clients to ensure the best results on their video and still photography projects," stated Larry Thomas, chief operating officer of Medialink. "Public relations, public affairs and marketing executives with new product launches, executive announcements, trade shows, or internal conferences may now more effortlessly engage the services of two of the most creative and experienced visual producers in the professional media services industry."

"At Getty Images, we are always looking for ways to improve our customers' experience by providing the very best products and services," said Peter Orlowsky, vice president of sales at Getty Images. "This new relationship with Medialink offers communicators easy access to the best custom solutions for capturing images or video, enabling them to work smarter and faster while delivering top-notch results."

About Medialink:

Medialink (http://www.medialink.com) is a global leader in providing unique news and marketing media strategies and solutions that enable corporations and organizations to inform and educate their intended audiences with maximum impact on television, radio, print, and the Internet. The Company offers creative services and multimedia distribution programs including video and audio news and short-form programming. Through its majority-owned subsidiaries, Medialink also provides Teletrax(TM), a global television tracking and media asset management service to help clients determine return on investment from their programming and advertising efforts. Teletrax is 76%-owned by Medialink and 24%-owned by Royal Philips Electronics. Based in New York, Medialink has offices in major cities throughout the United States and an international hub in London.

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For more information:
Mary C. Buhay
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
Medialink Worldwide Incorporated
Tel: (212) 682 8300
mbuhay@medialink.com


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