SEPTEMBER 11, 2000 ---MBAY---
Members:
MediaBay, Inc. (Nasdaq MBAY) is currently trading well below book value and has tremendous potential to return to its highs of earlier this year when it was over $16 per share.
* Take a look at just a few of these company highlights and then read on to find even more high potential facts about this very under-valued and over-looked company.
MediaBay Highlights
· Audiobookclub.com is the third most visited site of all bookselling websites behind only Amazon and BN and ahead of Borders, Powell's and the rest. (Source: PC Data Online - June 2000)
· Audiobookclub.com is in the top 100 of all shopping/e-commerce websites online with approximately 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and 10 million monthly page views. (source: PC Data Online June 2000)
· Audiobookclub.com is one of the fastest growing websites. (source: PC Data Online)
Symbol: MBAY (Nasdaq)
Price: 2 1/2
Shares Out: 13.4 Million
Float: 5.2 Million
Market Cap: $33.5 Million
12 Mo. Revenues: $50.8 Million
**Book Value: $5.00 / Share
MediaBay, Inc. (MBAY) is the dominant provider of premium spoken word audio content and products in hard goods and digital download formats both online and offline which it markets to its customer database of over 2.5 million spoken word buyers and its more than 2 million unique monthly Web site visitors. MBAY is the world's largest marketer of audiobooks through its Audio Book Club membership club, which markets and sells tens of thousands of audiobook titles through direct mail and the Internet at www.audiobookclub.com. It is the largest (and only) audiobook club, having acquired Doubleday's Audiobooks Direct and the Columbia House Audiobook Club, bringing it's total club member file to over 1.9 million names. MBAY is also the world's largest marketer of old-time radio shows and classic videos through its Radio Spirits subsidiary which markets and sells its content library of over 60,000 old-time radio shows (most of which are exclusively licensed or owned) and 3,500 classic videos on audio cassette, compact disc and video cassette through MediaBay.com as well as through direct mail and retail channels. The Company's old-time radio and classic video customer base consists of over 500,000 buyers.
MediaBay Highlights
· Audiobookclub.com is the third most visited site of all bookselling websites behind only Amazon and BN and ahead of Borders, Powell's and the rest. (Source: PC Data Online - June 2000)
· Audiobookclub.com is in the top 100 of all shopping/e-commerce websites online with approximately 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and 10 million monthly page views. (source: PC Data Online June 2000)
· Audiobookclub.com is one of the fastest growing websites. (source: PC Data Online)
· As part of the acquisitions of the Columbia House Audiobook Club and Doubleday's Audiobooks Direct, The company's Audio Book Club division gained access to the mailing lists of over 34 million existing members of their clubs.
· The Company has an opt-in email address database of more than 650,000 spoken audio enthusiasts; more than 15,000 affiliates in its affiliate program and more than 10,000 online members acquired each month at Audiobookclub.com.
· Radio Spirits old-time radio and classic video library includes "War of the Worlds" The Lone Ranger, Superman, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, The Life of Riley and Lights Out and recordings of stars, such as Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra and Jack Benny; Abbott and Costello and, Burns and Allen.
· Radio Spirits sells its radio and video programs on a wholesale basis through major retailers and online retailers, including Costco, Best Buy, Sam's Club, Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks, B. Dalton Booksellers, Borders and Amazon.com.
· MediaBay.com also webcasts live events including music concerts such as Woodstock '99 and the American Express Blue Concert Series including live webcasts of Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty and others in addition to other types of web casts including a recent celebrity gala in Hollywood hosted by Dick Clark honoring Stan Lee formerly of Marvel Comics and the launch of his new generation of Internet super heroes.
· MediaBay, Inc. also has other premium sticky content available to its users including audio horoscopes (which can be seen at MediaBay.com and is advertised on the home page of Microsoft's www.windowsmedia.com media portal, celebrity interviews with famous actors, sports personalities and politicians and interviews of famous authors.
· MediaBay, Inc. has content alliances with major media portal sites including Microsoft's www.windowsmedia.com, www.rioport.com (Diamond Rio's media Portal) and Real Network's www.real.com which enable the company to drive tremendous traffic to it's website pages in order to sell its products and build its email address database.
· The company's shareholders include Time Warner, Sony and Harvard University Endowment Fund. #######################################################
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