PITTSBURGH, MONTREAL, Nov 5, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Wizzard Media (AMEX:WZE), the world’s largest podcasting network, today announced that it will provide a catalog of branded and independent streaming video content to Canoe.ca, a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services. Canoe.ca connects and informs Canadians across the nation, attracting more than 7.7 million visitors per month to its network of sites which includes top verticals like Cnews, Slam!, Jam! and Lifewise, as well as the Sun Media newspaper sites.

The delivery of video content on Canoe.ca is an ideal distribution channel for the Wizzard Media Network catalog. Through this partnership, Wizzard will reach a large audience of fans across Canada and offer more opportunities for monetization to its network of video producers. Advertising campaigns that will monetize Wizzard-provided content will be sold and managed by the experienced Canoe.ca sales team who are adept at winning relationships with major global and Canadian brands.

On making the announcement, Chris Spencer, Wizzard Media CEO said, “We are excited by the opportunity to work closely with Canoe.ca, recognized as a preeminent news and entertainment portal in Canada, with a solid reputation for quality and service. Our partnership with Canoe.ca further extends Wizzard’s international distribution channels and we are pleased that our catalog of video content will be included to provide information and entertainment to the large audience of their Internet users.”

“We are proud to add Wizard Media’s publisher’s videos to our catalogue, adds Dominique-Sébastien Forest, General Manager of Digital Content and E-Commerce at Canoe.ca, “which increase the entertainment offering to our users while at the same time providing our advertisers with a wider array of contextual advertising environments.”

About Wizzard Media
Wizzard Media is the industry’s leading podcast hosting network, with an unprecedented one billion-plus download requests in 2007. Podcasts are a means for independent and professional content creators to publish audio and video shows for the world to enjoy over the Internet or on mp3 players, such as the Apple iPod and the Microsoft Zune. Podcasting is a relatively new phenomenon, but Wizzard Media collectively broadcasts millions of podcast downloads per day through media aggregators like Apple’s iTunes, Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace and other podcast aggregators. For more information, please visit www.wizzard.tv. Wizzard Media is a division of Wizzard Software, a leader in speech technology development.

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