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Industry Leaders Focus on Core Businesses to Expand Use of Video Communications 
April 29, 2006 Glowpoint, Inc. (OTC: GLOW), the world's leading broadcast-quality IP-based video communications service provider, and ON24, the premier webcast and multimedia communication solutions provider, today announced that they have partnered to expand the use of video communication services throughout their customers' locations. As part of the agreement, GlowPoint will bundle ON24 services into its current "All You Can See" Unlimited Video Calling plans and ON24 will provide GlowPoint's quality of service, IP-based video communication offering to its customers for ongoing and event-based broadcast quality content creation and delivery. ON24's webcast platform will be integrated into GlowPoint's global IP-video network to better enable service delivery and customer support. "By partnering with ON24, we can offer our customers the full portfolio of webcasting and streaming services seamlessly over their existing GlowPoint locations," said David Trachtenberg, president and CEO of GlowPoint. "We can continue to focus on our core business and become the video communications partner of choice for ON24's customer base -- companies that are already familiar with making video an integral part of how they conduct their day to day business." Currently, more than 500 customers worldwide use ON24's ASP webcast platform, named Webcast Center, for lead generation programs, executive presentations, continuing education, product demonstrations, analyst briefings, tradeshows and more. ON24 Webcast Center provides an integrated suite of publishing tools for producing high-quality, cost-effective and highly customized web events. Under the terms of the agreement, ON24 is now GlowPoint's preferred partner for developing and delivering webcast and streaming solutions to its customers around the world, and ON24 will become a sales and marketing partner for GlowPoint's IP-based two-way video communication services. By combining GlowPoint's high-quality video acquisition methods with ON24's encoding and streaming services, customers of both companies are able to access an easy and spontaneous way to create content through IP-based video. "GlowPoint has a proven track record of providing a broadcast quality video experience for its customers, even in the most demanding of situations such as live TV interviews," said Sharat Sharan, president and CEO of ON24. "We are delighted to work with them and to be offering our webcasting customers the option of GlowPoint's broadcast quality, IP-based video communications." About ON24, Inc. ON24 is a leading global provider of webcast and multimedia communication solutions. ON24 offers one-stop solutions for internal and external multimedia communications for customers in the enterprise, technology, life sciences, government and financial services industries. More than 500 leading companies including Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Hewlett-Packard, Merrill Lynch, NCAA, Philips, and Sun Microsystems use ON24 for activities such as conferences and events, product launches, sales training, continuing medical education, executive announcements, equity research and financial road shows. Based in San Francisco, the privately held company was founded in 1998. For more information regarding ON24, visit www.on24.com. About GlowPoint Glowpoint, Inc. (OTC: GLOW), is the world's leading broadcast quality, IP-based video communications service provider. GlowPoint offers video conferencing, bridging and IP broadcasting services to enterprises, SOHOs, broadcasters and consumers worldwide. The GlowPoint network spans three continents and has carried over 23 million IP video minutes, with an average of more than 20,000 video calls per month worldwide. GlowPoint is headquartered in Hillside, New Jersey. To learn more about GlowPoint, visit us at www.glowpoint.com. "GlowPoint"and "All You Can See" are registered trademarks and/or servicemarks of Glowpoint, Inc. in the United States and certain foreign countries. All other marks are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. The statements contained herein, other than historical information, are or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements and involve factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results in future periods to differ materially from such statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include market acceptance and availability of new video communication services; rapid technological change affecting demand for our services; competition from other video communications service providers; and the availability of sufficient financial resources to enable us to expand our operations, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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