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Asiacontent.com Announces 95% Sequential Increase in Q1 Revenues to US $1.5M for the Quarter Ended March 31,
2000

HONG KONG and NEW YORK, May 17, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Asiacontent.com
issued the following:


Results Summary
Q1`00 Results Highlights
-- Strong revenue increases of 95.5% QoQ to US$ 1.5 million, while
operating expenses increased by 40.7% QoQ to US$ 7.7 million excluding
amortization of goodwill and intangibles
-- Accelerated operational growth with 5 new Web sites launched during
Q1`00. At quarter end, Asiacontent.com operated a total of 15 premium
branded destination Web sites in 5 languages across 8 Asian markets
including Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India
and Taiwan.
-- 179.0% increase in average daily page views on the Company`s network of
vertical destination sites
-- The Company extended its partnerships with CNET and MTV into joint
ventures, and completed a new joint venture with NBCi.
-- Asiacontent.com expanded its content portfolio in the sports segment
with SportsLine.com and Sports.com and signed exclusive licensing
agreements with HearMe and Fashion TV.
-- Strategic investments were completed in Net Megastore and Cityline.
-- The Company completed an initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of
its Class A Common Stock on NASDAQ on April 17, 2000, raising US$ 70
million.

Asiacontent.com. (Nasdaq: IASIA) (hereinafter "Asiacontent.com" or the
"Company"), is a leading multi-local Internet company that provides a robust,
integrated platform for premium branded media publishing, on-line advertising
sales and e-commerce. Asiacontent.com partners with leading international media
and Internet companies, including DoubleClick, CNET, Viacom`s MTV Networks, E!
Online and NBCi. The Company operates 20 Web sites providing Asian audiences
with high quality, locally relevant international, regional and local content in
five local languages across 8 Asian markets with the potential to reach 93% of
Asian internet users. The Company also operates DoubleClick Asia providing
targeted advertising solutions to Asia`s leading advertisers and maximizing
revenues for Asia`s leading Web publishers.


Operating Highlights

Strong Revenue Growth and Increasing Number of Web Sites

Revenues in Q1`00 totaled US$ 1.5 million, up 95.5% compared to US$ 0.7 million
in Q4`99 and up 1,416.6% compared to US$ 0.096 million in Q1`99. For the
quarter, Asiacontent.com reported operating losses of US$ 7.7 million, excluding
amortization of goodwill and intangibles, up from US$ 5.5 million in Q4`99. Net
loss for the quarter totaled US$ 8.1 million compared to US$ 5.9 million in
Q4`99.

"Our strong revenue growth in the first quarter demonstrates our commitment to
execution, resulting in the accelerated expansion of our businesses in Asia`s
eight most important Internet markets", said Chris Justice, CEO of
Asiacontent.com. "We exceeded all of our operational targets for the first
quarter, and at the same time successfully completed our initial public
offering. The outlook for growth of the Internet in Asia continues to be strong,
and we look forward to similar growth in the second quarter."

Successful Initial Public Offering

Asiacontent.com completed an initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its
Class A Common Stock in the United States on April 17, 2000. The Class A Common
Stock is quoted on the Nasdaq National Market (ticker symbol: IASIA). Total
outstanding shares after the offering amounted to 34,335,420 shares. Proceeds
before expenses to the Company from the IPO were US$ 70.0 million.
Asiacontent.com plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes and
expansion of its operating infrastructure. Additionally, proceeds may be used to
acquire or invest in complementary businesses, technologies, services or
products and for the Company`s investment in Cityline.

Q1 `00 Financial Results: Year-over-Year and Quarter-over-Quarter Comparison

Revenues

Revenues in Q1`00 totaled US$ 1.5 million, driven mainly by strong gains in
traffic across the Asiacontent.com network of premium branded sites, as well as
an increased number of affiliate publishers in the DoubleClick Asia network.


Table 1. Revenue Breakdown by Category (in US$ millions)
Q1`99 Q4`99 Q1`00
Advertising and sponsorship 0.1 0.4 1.1
Online advertising agency services n/a 0.2 0.3
E-commerce n/a 0.1 0.1
Total 0.1 0.7 1.5

Online Advertising

In Q1`00, revenues from advertising and sponsorship increased to US$ 1.13
million up 150.8% from US$ 0.449 million in Q4`99. (Table 1: Revenue Breakdown
by Category). DoubleClick Asia served over 408 million ad impressions in Q1`00,
a sequential increase of 155% from 160 million in Q4`99. Monthly impressions
served in the month of March increased 40% to 175 million. The number of
publishers in the DoubleClick Asia network increased by over 40% to 71
publishers at the end of the quarter. The total number of advertisers increased
by 48% to 139 and the categories of advertisers broadened to include consumer
goods companies.

High profile publisher Web sites were added to the network, including Elle, Sony
Music, GigaMedia, PC Weekly, Kimo, Chollian, Korea Thrunet and Joins.com.
"Highlighting the first quarter was the launch of DoubleClick Korea, an exciting
new growth area for DoubleClick Asia," said Steve Moss, CEO of DoubleClick Asia.
"DoubleClick Korea is well-positioned to become the partner of choice for
successful advertisers and web publishers in Korea`s Internet economy." The
impact of DoubleClick Korea should begin to be realized in the second quarter of
this year. DoubleClick Asia now operates in Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and
Singapore. New markets earmarked for expansion include China and Malaysia.

Costs and Expenses

Total cost of revenues was US$ 0.926 million, up 134.9% from US$ 0.394 million
in Q4`99 and up 398.9% from US$ 0.186 million in Q1`99. Cost of revenues from
advertising and sponsorship rose 195.8% to US$ 0.870 million from US$ 0.294
million in Q4`99. The increases were mainly due to initial license payments
related to new site launches and service fees paid to DoubleClick Asia third
party Web sites which are calculated as a percentage of revenues from
advertisements delivered.

Gross Profit

Gross profit increased to US$ 0.529 million, up 51.2% compared to US$ 0.350
million in Q4`99 and up from negative gross margin of US$ (0.089) million in
Q1`99.

Operating Expenses

Total operating expenses excluding amortization of goodwill increased to US$ 7.7
million in Q1`00, up 40.7% from US$ 5.5 million in Q4`99 and up from US$ 0.584
million in Q1`99. General and administrative expenses increased to US$ 3.1
million in Q1`00, up 4.0% from US$3.0 million in Q4`99. Increases in operating
expenses are in line with the acceleration of the business expansion plan; the
number of offices in Asia grew by 4 to 14 compared to 10 in 4Q`99 and the number
of employees increased to 396, up from 250 in Q4`99.

Expenses are expected to grow at a reduced rate through effective leveraging of
the Asiacontent.com pan Asian publishing platform and existing multi-local
infrastructure of personnel, technology and offices.

Loss from Operations

Losses from operations increased to US$ 8.3 million in Q1`00 from a loss of US$
6.0 million in Q4`99. Net loss increased 36.7% to US$ 8.1 million in Q1`00 from
US$ 5.9 million in Q4`99.

Basic net loss per share was US$ 0.59 for Q1`00 compared to US$ 0.43 in Q4`99
and US$ 0.07 in Q1`99.


Operational Highlights

Content

Asiacontent.com continues to build its position as the leading producer of high
quality content in each of the vertical segments in which it competes. The
Company saw extraordinary growth this quarter in terms of average daily page
views and registered members. Traffic on the Asiacontent.com network of Web
sites increased by 379% reaching 2.3 million page views per day, with an
aggregate total of 77.5 million page views for the quarter.

The Company introduced a new registered member program that gathers and tracks
full user profiles consisting of 12 fields of data. The program resulted in
220,000 new registered members in the first quarter. The Company expanded its
high value product mix by increasing the number of destination sites in the
Asiacontent.com network. The number of branded destination sites in the
Asiacontent.com network increased 50% with 5 new sites launched, increasing the
total number of Web sites from 10 to 15 at the end of Q1`00. To generate
increased traffic on its network of branded destination sites, the Company has
signed over 100 distribution agreements with portals, ISP`s and search engines
in Asia to distribute content in exchange for user traffic, which is driven back
to the network of Asiacontent.com Web sites.

Table 2 illustrates the sequential quarterly growth in the number of branded
destination Web sites launched by Asiacontent.com since the beginning of Q1`99.


Table 2.Changes in Number of Web sites as of March 2000

Q1`99 Q2`99 Q3`99 Q4`99 Q1`00
New Web Sites 1 0 2 3 5
Quarter-End Balance 5 5 7 10 15
Growth in Number
of Sites -- -- 40.0% 42.8% 50.0%

Table 3 provides the complete listing of branded destination Web sites in
the Asiacontent.com network as at end of Q1`00.

Table 3. Web sites in the Asiacontent.com Network
Brand Market Language Web site

CNET Singapore English www.singapore.cnet.com
Hong Kong English www.hongkong1.cnet.com
Hong Kong Traditional
Chinese www.hongkong.cnet.com
Taiwan Traditional
Chinese www.taiwan.cnet.com
Malaysia English www.malaysia.cnet.com
China Simplified
Chinese www.china.cnet.com
MTV Asia
Online Regional Site
- Southeast Asia English www.mtvasia.com
Taiwan/Hong Kong Traditional
Chinese www.mtvchinese.com/BIG5
South Korea Korean www.mtvkorea.com
E!Online Regional Site
- Southeast Asia English www.asia.eonline.com
Hong Kong Traditional
Chinese www.hongkong.eonline.com

Taiwan Traditional
Chinese www.taiwan.eonline.com
Mplayer
(HearMe) Hong Kong Traditional
Chinese www.17play.com
Taiwan Traditional
Chinese www.17play.com.tw
SoccerAsia Singapore
/Malaysia English www.soccerasia.net

The Company believes the sites in the Asiacontent.com network continue to be the
sites of choice for users seeking focused, informative content within targeted
content segments, thus validating the Company`s leadership position and ability
to create and attract substantial, high value audiences across the Asia Pacific
region. Ongoing product development ensures that new features and enhancements
are added into existing sites, continuously enriching the user experience.
During Q1`00, product development saw the introduction of features such as
real-time voice chat and voice messaging, enhanced message board functions,
contests, voting and price comparison-shopping on selected CNET sites.

"Asiacontent.com is at the forefront of developing and delivering premium
content across major vertical categories including technology, music, sports,
entertainment, fashion and games. We continually develop new sites in addition
to evolving our existing highly interactive sites to enhance user experience,
increasing the `stickiness` of each site as well as time spent on the sites",
said Peter Shoppert, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Development.
"This ensures we are always giving the user a unique online experience while at
the same time providing them with the relevant global and localized information
they are seeking."

Number of Offices

The Company`s accelerated execution plan is well ahead of schedule. As such, 4
new offices were opened including the DoubleClick Korea office and
Asiacontent.com offices in Japan, Malaysia and India.

Number of Employees

With the opening of new offices, and the acceleration of several Web site plans,
the total number of employees increased from 250 to 396. The primary positions
hired were for local editorial and content development, sales and technical
support for Web production / development.

Key Appointments - General Manager for DoubleClick Asia/ Thomson Financial
Investor Relations

Stephen Moss was appointed as CEO of DoubleClick Asia Ltd. to oversee all
operations of DoubleClick Asia. Mr. Moss is responsible for the overall
performance of DoubleClick Asia`s media business. Mr. Moss joins DoubleClick
after serving as Vice President, Managing Director-Asia at Business Week
Magazine.

Additionally, in March 2000, prior to its initial public offering,
Asiacontent.com appointed Thomson Financial Investor Relations to act on behalf
of the Company for all investor relations activities.


Corporate Development: Key Expansion Initiatives

Addition of New Joint Venture Partners

The Company continued its rapid expansion of product mix through the completion
of three strategic joint ventures with premium media brands CNET, NBCi, and MTV.
Asiacontent.com has a controlling stake in all three joint ventures. The Company
also entered into a memorandum of understanding with SportsLine.com and
Sports.com to establish a joint venture to create, operate and market a family
of SportsLine-branded Web sites targeted specifically to Asian sports audiences,
in relevant local languages.

Exclusive Licensing Agreements

As part of its strategy to continue to roll out premium media brands across
Asia, Asiacontent.com completed exclusive licensing agreements with Fashion TV
and HearMe. The Fashion TV partnership will create, operate and market a family
of fashion Web sites streaming the latest catwalk shows and profiling the
world`s leading designers and models from around the world. The license
agreement with HearMe (Nasdaq: HEAR) enables Asiacontent.com to bring
interactive services, including real-time voice chat and interactive
entertainment to key Asian markets, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
and Singapore.

Strategic Fundraising

In Q1`00, the Company completed a second-round financing raising US $30 million
from world-class Internet and venture capital companies. Key investors included
global Internet brands NBCi and CNET Networks; premier Asian private equity firm
Newbridge Asia, part of Newbridge Capital; and Trans Cosmos., a leading Japanese
Internet business development and joint venture firm. Investors from the first
round of financing also increased their investment in Asiacontent.com by
participating in the second round.

Business Outlook - Recent Initiatives

Asiacontent.com expects that the number of Internet users in Asia will continue
to grow rapidly. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), Internet
users in Japan will increase by a compounded annual growth of 31.0% and across
the remainder of Asia by a compounded annual growth rate of 59.8%. Accordingly,
Asiacontent.com anticipates revenue growth rate for Q2`00 will keep pace with Q1
growth rate.

The Company is continuing to grow its business and leverage its unique pan-Asian
content publishing, advertising and e-commerce platform. In the second quarter,
the Company has already successfully launched 3 new sites in China, with the
launches sponsored by top international advertisers including Compaq and
Cadbury. In Japan, Asiacontent.com has laid the foundation for new revenue
growth and unch sites in three content categories. Explosive growth, with daily
page views on selected sites increasing by 100% over the prior month,
demonstrates the increasing popularity and reach of the Company`s content.

Having established a leadership position in content development and delivery in
the Asian region Asiacontent.com is now in a position to leverage its
proprietary publishing platform to quickly and cost effectively introduce more
sites and vertical categories across the region. A key development in the
Asiacontent.com business strategy will be to expand distribution platforms to
include wireless and broadband content offerings, and leverage these
distribution channels to create e-commerce transactions. In line with this
e-commerce strategy, Asiacontent.com completed a strategic investment in Net
Megastore to enhance the e-commerce strategy of MTV Asia.com. Net Megastore is
the parent company of discvault.com, Asia`s largest online music store. The
investment in Net Megastore will enhance the ability to monetize traffic on the
growing family of MTV Asia music sites by converting surfers into members and
members into buyers. Asiacontent.com made a strategic investment in Cityline
(Hong Kong) Ltd. (http://www.cityline.com.hk), Hong Kong`s leading Internet and
telephone ticketing service for movies and events, through its purchase of an
11% stake in Cityline, with the potential to increase this to a 100% ownership
position at a future date. Cityline plans to expand its platform to include
ticketing services for sports events, concerts and possibly travel.
Asiacontent.com plans to integrate the Cityline service into its family of
entertainment brands including MTV Asia Online, E! Online, SportsLine and
Fashion TV.

The statements included above and elsewhere in this news release that are not
historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
"safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Asiacontent.com cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based
on Asiacontent.com`s current expectations and views of future events and involve
a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks that could
cause the Company`s projections regarding revenues and net income to vary
include, but are not limited to, a decrease in user traffic, inability to secure
advertising commitments, failure of advertisers to meet their commitments, the
launch of new lines of business, and further acquisitions. More detailed
information as to & administrative 3,125.6 311.1 3,006.3


Amortization of goodwill 1,102.9 0.0 900.6

Total operating expenses 8,829.5 584.6 6,393.9


Operating loss (8,300.0) (674.3) (6,043.8)

Interest income 152.8 0.0 99.7
Interest expenses (0.1) 0.0 1.1
Other 0.0 0.0 0.0
Loss before income tax (8,147.4) (674.3) (5,942.9)

Provision for income tax 0.0 0.0 (19.0)

Net loss before
minority interests (8,147.4) (674.3) (5,961.9)
Minority Interests 29.4 0.0 120.6
Net Loss (8,118.0) (674.3) (5,841.3)

Basic net loss per share (0.59) (0.07) (0.43)
Weighted-average no.
of shares outstanding 13,803.6 9,780.2 13,540.2

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data :
Cash and cash equivalents 26,489.9 228.8 7,312.7
Working capital 21,807.0 (248.2) 5,712.4
Total assets 74,910.8 1,048.6 25,145.3
Total shareholders` equity 61,623.9 447.7 20,221.7

SOURCE Asiacontent.com

CONTACT: Cindy Chupak of Asiacontent.com, 852-2143-1733,
[e-mail]; or Ayako Muto of Thomson Financial Investor Relations,
212-701-1820, [e-mail]
(TOC IASIA)

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[Brainstorm01]

Hi NixWasa,

hab meine Sina.com heute auch verkauft zu 58,30 Euro. Ich werde Sie mir wieder für ca. 45 Euro nachkaufen.

Aber nun zu meiner Frage: Soll man jetzt noch bei Asiacontent (927105) einsteigen???
Oder sind 11,00 Euro (+42%) schon das Ende.
Könnte natürlich auch sein, daß Asiacontent Ende nächster Woche auf 20 Euro steht. (Wenn man die Explosion bei Sina.com auch
nur teilweise nachvollziehen würde)
Bin auf deine Antwort gespannt.

thanks

brainy

[Die Aktie]

Hallo Freunde von Asiacontent !

Bin kräftig bei der Aktie eingestiegen.

Grund: Einnahmen aus IPO $ 70 Mio, Marktkapitalisierung $ 133 Mio; somit ein Substanzwert.

Zudem wird Goldman Sachs als Underwriter schon dafür sorgen, daß sich der Kurs in Richtung $ 14 ( Ausgabekurs bewegt).


Viel Spaß mit der Aktie

Die Aktie