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NAPSTER APPOINTS TABITHA COUPE AS ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
New position created to manage Napster’s growing number of marketing partners including Dixons Group, TM Retail, and the Post Office LONDON - (December 2, 2004) - Napster UK, Ltd. a subsidiary of Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI), has appointed Tabitha Coupe as account director, with immediate effect. Coupe will manage all of Napster’s partner relationships including those with high street chains Dixons Group, the Post Office and TM Retail, where her duties will include day-to-day liaison, project management, and developing and implementing joint marketing promotions. Based at the company’s UK headquarters in London’s Mortimer Street, Coupe reports directly to Napster vice-president and UK general manager Leanne Sharman. Tabitha Coupe joins Napster from marketing agency the Intercepta Group where she was the O2 account director and was responsible for managing an account team overseeing promotional marketing campaigns, trade incentive programmes, and project management. Before that, at advertising agency VCCP, she was the account director for Samsung Mobile UK and ING. Previously, she worked on several award-winning campaigns for Coca-Cola at marketing agency Mosaic. "Tabitha is a first class account director and her proven skills in below-the-line marketing, project management, in-store POS, retail incentive plans, and on-the-ground marketing initiatives will prove invaluable in maximising our partner relationships," said Leanne Sharman. "Her experience in brand guardianship for clients such as Coke will be used to help maintain Napster’s own strong brand values, and the fact that her first job was at PolyGram underlines her most important asset - being a music fan." Napster 2.0 Launched in the UK on May 20, Napster offers access to over one million tracks and a wide range of value-added community features at a cost to subscribers of £9.95 a month. Alongside the subscription service, Napster Light offers music fans an a la carte download store. After downloading the free Napster jukebox at www.napster.co.uk, Napster subscribers can listen to the world’s largest digital music catalogue on demand, and download any track they choose onto the hard drives of up to three PCs and listen offline - to save bandwidth while they surf, or for convenience when on the go. Over 20 interactive advert-free Napster radio stations allow listeners to see which song is coming next, skip forward or jump back - with favourites easily added to their Napster library with one click. Napster can even build subscribers their own custom radio station on the fly simply on the basis of selecting three songs. Napster’s rich community features allow subscribers to browse each others’ play lists and even share songs among other Napster users. Subscribers can also listen to and save full-length songs taken from the past 40 years of Official Charts Company UK charts, and can purchase and burn tracks for as little as £0.88 per song when they buy multiple tracks. If UK music fans elect not to become a subscriber, by downloading Napster for free at www.napster.co.uk, they can still purchase tracks any time they want for £0.99 and albums for £9.95 after listening to free 30-second samples of the Napster UK library. At no cost, Napster LightTM users can organise their entire music collection in Napster by using the ripping software in the Napster jukebox to take tracks from CDs they already own to play on Napster, import MP3s into their Napster Library, or transfer tracks they’ve bought to a wide range of portable devices. Napster Light also offers consumers free access to their own Napster Inbox; and the chance to sample the OCC UK charts. About Napster Napster, the world’s biggest brand in digital music, is a subscription service that enables fans to access the world’s largest and most diverse online collection of music and experience the largest number of features. Napster subscribers have more ways to discover, share and acquire new music and old favorites with community features like the ability to email tracks to friends and browse other members’ collections. Subscribers to Napster can listen to full-length songs from every major record label and hundreds of independents on demand and transfer songs to their favourite Napster To Go™ compatible MP3 player for a low monthly fee. Napster also offers Napster Light, a "lighter" version of the service for those who just want to purchase songs and albums a la carte. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company®, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world. Napster is headquartered in Los Angeles. Napster contact: Adam Howorth Communications Director Tel: +44 (0) 207 1017281 adam.howorth@napster.co.uk
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