Press release

Today Agora and Bebo are launching a Polish version of one of the worlds largest social media networking service. The new platform will allow Polish users to set up their personal profiles and to share and distribute favorite pictures, video clips and music content throughout their friends network.

Bebo.gazeta.pl is targeted at users aged 15-25. It will also offer video content provided by Agora and its partners and by Bebos media partners such as BBC, CBS, Endemol, MTV or Yahoo!.

Agora is Bebos exclusive partner for Poland. The partnership assumes Bebo to provide a Polish translation of its social networking platform and to support its further development. Agora is responsible for ad sales and service promotion.

- Our cooperation with Bebo is a very important event. Today we are combining Agoras solid position in online communities in Poland with Bebos global experience and know-how. We want our joint service to become a leader in the Polish social networking area. Our clients will receive innovative formats to target the audiences which are difficult to reach by traditional media says Tomasz Józefacki, Director of Agoras Internet Division.

According to Joanna Shields, President, Bebo: The spectrum of social networking is evolving beyond utilities and applications. Bebo is a Social Media Network where culture and content come together and people use media and entertainment as a means of self-expression. Our partnership with Agora allows us to draw on their industry leading position in Poland and bring the richness of the media and entertainment world to a growing community of Polish Bebo users.

Bebo is the worlds leading global social media network. Building on the notion of traditional social networking websites, Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, discover and share professional and user-generated content through the Bebo website. Bebo has 11.4m unique users in the UK and a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide. Bebo also ranks as the UK's most engaging website with the most page views per usage day amongst the top 100 most popular sites *.

*Source: comScore World Metrix