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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ammar Afif, ammar@yackinc.com Yack.com, Inc., 212.584-9013
'FAST YACK' SPEEDS AROUND THE WORLD WITH chello BROADBAND
Broadband Version of Yack's Internet Program Guide to be Available to chello Customers
http://www.yack.com
NEW YORK (June 27, 2000) YackSM (www.yack.com), the Internet Program GuideSM, has signed a distribution deal with chello broadband nv, one of the world's leading broadband Internet companies. The announcement was made today by Jeff Morris, president and CEO of YACK.com. Through the agreement, an entertainment-based, broadband version of the Yack guide, Fast.Yack.com, will be provided to chello users throughout Europe, Latin America and Australasia.
"Yack is deeply committed to establishing a strong international presence through strategic alliances with industry leaders like chello," stated Jeff Morris, president and CEO of YACK.com. "We are proud to be in league with a company's whose far-reaching audience is so in tune with the broad range of Internet programming choices provided by Yack."
Yack currently has a number of European distribution deals that include co-branded sites with leading UK Internet service providers World Online, FreeServe and Madasafish; high-speed entertainment portal Switch2it.com from Edison Interactive and Handbag.com, the nation's largest women's portal.
About Yack
Yack is the authority on what's happening in the ever-expanding world of online events, including streaming media and chats. Yack offers an unparalleled, up-to-the-minute and easily searchable database of listings, original editorial reviews and content, as well as a unique, personalized daily e-mail reminder service. Twice named the "Best Guide to Live Events" and also one of the "100 Best Sites for 2000" by Yahoo! Internet Life, Yack guides users to over 150,000 Web events and programs available each week. Yack's Internet Program Guide is co-branded and syndicated online through top ISPs, Web sites and cable modem partners; and in print through
newspapers and magazines. Partners include Road Runner, EarthLink, WorldGate, chello Broadband, Madasafish, Handbag, FreeServe, Line One, Singapore One, Microsoft, World Online, United Features Syndicate and Sportsticker. Yack also has 300 partnerships with online content and
Web event producers. The company is based in New York.

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