[June 24, 2008]

Picnik.com Announces Record-Breaking Growth and More Than Eight Million Monthly Visits

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SEATTLE, WA, June 24 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Picnik.com (www.picnik.com), the leading online
photo-editing service, today announced that it is attracting more than
eight million visits a month, and is continuing to see double-digit
month-to-month growth. Picnik is also celebrating recent industry honors
from TIME magazine, I.D. Magazine and the American Business Awards, also
known as "the Stevies."

"Surpassing the eight-million mark is a big step for Picnik and we
attribute much of our growth to the fact that Picnikers have been fantastic
about telling their friends about Picnik," said Jonathan Sposato, chief
executive officer of Picnik.com. "We are seeing these wonderful patterns
where people discover Picnik and then feel compelled to tell everyone in
their social network to try us out."

Over the last year, Picnik has established a series of partnerships that
will continue to expand its reach. Picnik is the editing solution for
Flickr and was launched with PhotoBox, Europe's leading photo-sharing
network, in April. Picnik is also tightly integrated into Facebook,
MySpace, Photoworks, Webshots, Freewebs and Picasa Web Albums. Other major
partnerships are in the works and will be announced in the months to come.

Among the many honors and awards Picnik has won are:

-- TIME magazine 50 Best Websites of 2008 - Picnik was the only photo
site to make the list and its review touted that, "only Picnik offers
(photo-editing features) with such elegant simplicity."
-- American Business Awards "the Stevie" - Picnik was honored for "Best
overall Web site Design" by the Dow Jones-sponsored award, where winners
were selected from over 2,600 entries submitted.
-- Named a "Top Ten Facebook Application" - in the guidebook written by
Facebook insiders, "Facebook for Dummies."
-- I.D. Magazine - Picnik won the magazine's "Best of Class Award" in the
Interactive category. Other winners in this juried competition for world-
class design excellence included the Apple iPhone and Seattle's Olympic
Sculpture Park. The I.D. Magazine winners are featured in the August issue
of the magazine and will be showcased in a special exhibit at the Parsons
School of Design.
-- Macworld "Eddy" Award - Picnik was selected alongside Google and
Amazon.com for an "Eddy" in the Web category as part of the 23rd Annual
Editors' Choice awards.
-- Interactive Media Award - Picnik received a "Best in Class Award" in
the Photography category. These awards were judged by leaders in the Web
design, advertising, public relations, publishing and news industries.

In addition to its free service, Picnik also offers Picnik Premium, a
subscription-based, ad-free service giving users access to higher-end
photo-editing tools, plus an ongoing stream of new features and
improvements, for $24.95 annually.

Picnik is available in nine languages including English, German, French,
Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Italian.

The Picnik-in-a-Box API, available through Picnik.com, makes it possible
for any Web site to incorporate Picnik's free editing tools. The Picnik
API is being used by hundreds of Web sites around the world like
Hallmark.com, Box.net, Lexmark.com, Synthasite.com, Flogao (Brazil), and
Partyface.de (Germany). The Picnik API also powers plug-ins for popular
platforms such as; Firefox, Wordpress and Movable Type. Picnik is also
starting to license special versions of Picnik so that Web sites can offer
an ad-free version and/or Picnik Premium services to their own customer
bases.

About Picnik

Picnik.com gives real people photo-editing superpowers. Because Picnik
lives online, users get fast, easy access to a powerful set of photo
editing tools for editing, sharing, and printing images using any Internet
browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.) on any computer
platform (PC, Mac, Linux).

Picnik is fast, fun, and easy-to-use and is fully integrated with a wide
variety of websites including Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, MySpace,
Webshots, Box.net, Picasa Web Albums and Lexmark. With Picnik, you can edit
your photos wherever they are from wherever you are.

The Picnik team, headquartered in Seattle, is dedicated to making great,
affordable software for real people. Picnik is also committed to leaving a
light carbon footprint by encouraging environmentally conscious business
practices and keeping it green in all we do. For more information please
visit: http://press.picnik.com.

Picnik Press Contact:
Erica Chandler
MWW Group
201.658.4037Email Contact

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