What a Year – ClipBlast! Names 'Top 10 Video Searches' of 2006,
Showcases Diverse Clips from Across the Web
Steve Irwin, Borat and World Cup are Most Sought-After Clips, Based on
Most Popular Search Terms Entered into Premier Video Search Platform

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Magazine may have made you and me
the "Person of the Year," but true Web mavens had some specific
personalities in mind.

ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), the premier video search and Web video
guide, today announced its "Top 10 Video Searches of 2006." A wide
assortment of celebrities behaving badly made the list, but the top
spots went to a beloved crocodile hunter, a "Nice!" reporter from
Kazakhstan and the world's biggest sporting event.

"ClipBlast! is proud to present the moments that the public wanted to
watch in 2006," said Gary Baker, ClipBlast! founder and CEO. "But what
we're most proud of is that we're able to locate and show, in real
time, a relevant variety of video – of all kinds, from all types of
sources, from all across the Web. That's something that Google,
YouTube and other video-content providers aren't doing yet."

ClipBlast! compiled the list based on the year's most popular video
searches at clipblast.com:

1. Steve Irwin – the crocodile hunter was celebrated, memorialized and
mourned after his untimely death. View wide array of Steve Irwin clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Steve+Irwin&search
=Web+Video+Search).
2. Borat – Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man became a bona fide
cultural phenomenon. View wide array of Borat clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Borat&search=Web+V
ideo+Search).
3. World Cup – four weeks of nonstop soccer action, 32 national teams
and one infamous head-butt scored big with sports fans. View wide
array of World Cup clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=World+Cup&limit=20
&offset=1&sortOrder=newest).
4. Al Zarqawi – the June death of Iraq's Al-Qaeda leader in a U.S.
military strike was big news on the Web. View wide array of Al Zarqawi
clips (http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Al%20Zarqawi&limit
=20&offset=1&sortOrder=newest).
5. Britney Spears – between the new baby, the messy divorce and the
no-panties partying, Britney was an online-video favorite. View wide
array of Britney Spears clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Britney%20Spears&l
imit=20).
6. Michael Richards – a bad stand-up comedy set laced with the liberal
use of a very bad word made Kramer from Seinfeld a hit once again with
Web surfers. View wide array of Michael Richards clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Michael%20Richards
&limit=40&offset=1&sortOrder=default).
7. JonBenet Ramsey – nearly 10 years after her unsolved murder, the
nation's fascination with the tiny-tot beauty queen was rekindled by a
"confession" that proved to be yet another dead end. View wide array
of JonBenet clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=JonBenet&limit=40&
offset=1&sortOrder=newest).
8. George W. Bush – the President's popularity may have taken a
beating in the opinion polls, but he came out a winner in the
video-search bar. View wide array of President Bush clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=President%20Bush&l
imit=20&offset=1&sortOrder=newest).
9. Cory Lidle – the death of the New York Yankees pitcher became
headline news – not just sports news – when his plane slammed into a
Manhattan apartment building. View wide array of Cory Lidle clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=cory%20lidle&limit
=40&offset=1&sortOrder=default).
10. Mel Gibson – the actor and director got a prolonged and
not-too-flattering close-up after his July arrest and anti-Semitic
tirade. View wide array of Mel Gibson clips
(http://www.clipblast.com/search.php?phrase=Mel%20Gibson&limit
=40&offset=1&sortOrder=default).
Borat and Michael Richards, along with YouTube and the late James Kim,
are also featured in ClipBlast!'s "A Life in Video." A Life in Video,
which highlights the Web's best video clips on a particular subject,
will officially debut in 2007.

ClipBlast!, a pioneer in Web video search, has indexed millions of
video clips from across the Web. The company's patent-pending
technology crawls the Web in search of video, then categorizes video
files, Web pages and feeds so that the most relevant clips can be
served up in real-time, on demand.

About ClipBlast!

Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering video search that uses
patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of
video content across the Internet. ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface
gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant,
targeted clips from the world's major media brands, independent
producers and individuals – clips that inform, enlighten, inspire and
entertain. The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif. To learn more,
visit http://www.clipblast.com.