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Aura Sports Announces Exclusive Agreement With 4thegame.com

10:00 23/10/2002

London - UK, October 23, 2002: Specialist Digital Sports Agency Aura Sports, and Fast Web Media today announced that the two companies have reached an exclusive agreement for Aura Sports to provide sales and sponsorship services for 4thegame.com. 4the game.com is the official football website of the Barclaycard Premiership sponsor.

The site was first launched in 1995 and was renamed 4thegame.com in December 2001 it receives more than 50 million page views per month and attracts over 1.10m unique users monthly.

Paul Wright, Managing Director of Aura Sports said; "This agreement with Fast Web Media follows Aura Sports policy of working with official sites that deliver large numbers of page views and unique users. 4thegame.com was one of the first dedicated football sites to launch and it has developed huge loyalty and respect amongst its very large user base. We will now seek to fully commercialise this very significant traffic."

Mike Flynn, CEO of Fast Web Media adds; "4thegame.com is the biggest Barclaycard Premiership football website in the world and our agreement with Aura Sports will help to further establish our position of providing football fans with the ultimate in football content."

For more information on Aura Sports visit www.aurasports.com

For more information please contact Mark Thursfield at MTA Media Tel: 07780 991975

For further information of Fast Web Media please contact Michele Singh on 07984 415990/Michele.singh@fastsearch.com

NOTES:
- Paul Wright founded Aura Sports with Zoe Templeton and Sandie Murphy former Client Services Director and Commercial Manager respectively at Sports.com as well as Senior Sales Executive Nicola Jordan.
- Aura's aim is to provide their specialist services to Official Sites, general Sports portals and as well as utilising their pan- European expertise.
- Aura Sports is a privately funded company based in Holland Park, London
- Aura Sports is a new digital sports agency focussed on helping sports companies and rights owners maximise revenues from their digital properties.

About 4thegame.com
The site was first launched in 1995 and was renamed 4thegame.com in December 2001 and it receives more than 50 million page views per month and up to 1.10million unique users a month. It is the official website of the Barclaycard Premiership sponsor and contains all the latest news, views, live scores, live match text commentary feed, from all competitions involving Barclaycard Premiership teams. Together with an unequalled archive section and exclusive interviews it offers fans the ultimate online Barclaycard Premiership resource.

About Fast Web Media
FAST Web Media Ltd are one of the World's leading 'Football on the Net' providers. A wholly owned subsidiary of Fast Search & Transfer ASA, driving dynamic content to fans globally, using state of the art FAST Technology.