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Swedish Picsearch powers Web TV solution for the largest real estate site in Switzerland - ImmoScout24 launches online video for real estate marketing

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 9, 2008 - It was announced today that the most popular Swiss real estate site ImmoScout24 is using Picsearch to power their new video streaming service.

Olivier Rihs, Managing Director of ImmoScout24, said "Our goal is to offer the most efficient market place for both private individuals and our professional real estate partners. We recognize that online video is an important value adding feature of any real estate service. In that regard, ImmoScout24 wanted to find a highly reliable, scalable and easy to integrate service. We have chosen Picsearch due to their unique track record in video service providing. We demanded the best video solution on the market and Picsearch has delivered everything on time."

ImmoScout24 is the leading real estate site in Switzerland both in terms of visitors and number of properties for sale. Every day more than 90 000 properties are for sale on ImmoScout24. Nowhere else in Switzerland can private individuals and real estate agents market their offering towards so many visitors.

Robert Risberg, Picsearch's CEO said "The agreement with ImmoScout24 is an important mile-stone for Picsearch in Switzerland. ImmoScout24 will be our largest Swiss partner and we are looking forward to working closely with them to further enhance the service over time."

Online video is one of the most popular features on the Internet. Online video is used for a range of purposes including e-commerce, community video sharing, news streaming and in many other specialized video markets.


About Picsearch
Picsearch AB (publ) is a premium provider of multimedia search and web TV services. The web TV and other video sharing services are built to be flexible and used today in video communities, e-commerce portals, real estate market places, auto portals, and for different video applications at news and corporate websites. Picsearch search services are market leading in relevancy and family friendliness. Picsearch powers numerous leading Internet sites as well as its own Internet properties. Picsearch was founded in 2000, is privately held and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information please visit http://about.picsearch.com.


About ImmoScout24
ImmoScout24 is Switzerland's largest Internet real estate marketplace, offering extensive services for every aspect of housing and relocation. At www.immoscout24.ch, the portal brings together vendors and property seekers. For every conceivable aspect of real estate, ImmoScout24 allows property seekers to make quicker and sounder decisions, and provides sellers a more economical and comfortable platform with which to market their property. ImmoScout24 is part of the Scout24 group which is the leading Swiss online company providing online market places for cars and motorcycles, real estate, vacation houses, dating, classified advertisement and much more. For more information please visit www.immoscout24.ch.



For more information please contact:
Carl Sarnstrand, Communications Manager at Picsearch
Tel: +46 73 204 14 79
E-mail: carl.sarnstrand@picsearch.com

Martin Koncilja, Marketing Manager at ImmoScout24
Tel: +41 (0)31 744 21 21
E-mail: mkoncilja@scout24.ch
Switzerland's Internet real estate marketplace: www.immoscout24.ch

 

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