Released by Roxio:
Enthusiastic Reception For Roxio Creator 7 in Europe
Honours from Retail and Editorial Community Add Momentum to European Launch
May 18, 2004 - Roxio, Inc.; The Digital Media Company®, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, announced today that Roxio Creator 7, which has already earned an impressive number of industry awards and accolades in North America, is achieving overwhelming acclaim in Europe. In a little over a month since the product was introduced to the European market, Roxio Creator 7 has secured notable awards and exceptional reviews from key industry press in addition to receiving a significant honour from the European retail industry.
Roxio Creator 7 was recognised as ‘Best Software’ at RetailVision Europe 2004, the most important European retail industry event of the year, held this year in Barcelona, Spain, April 20-22. The honor was awarded by a RetailVision panel that comprised of over 170 retail executives representing more than 100 retailers.
“The RetailVision win is particularly gratifying because it is awarded by our retail partners and is in recognition of both product and channel marketing excellence,” said Scott Berlin, vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. “This award is indicative of the overwhelmingly positive response Roxio Creator 7 is receiving in Europe from consumers, partners, and industry press.”
Roxio Creator 7 has received wide acclaim and over a dozen awards from European press outlets including key U.K. technical publications, digital photography journals and leading German computer periodicals. In many instances, Roxio took top honours in review roundups, which compared Roxio Creator 7 to the latest versions of competitive products.
European Award Wins:
PC Retail, Recommended, April ’04
PC Home, Editor’s Choice, April ’04
Personal Computer World, Best Buy, April ’04
PC Plus, Value Award, May ’04
Computeractive, Buy IT! Award, March, 04
Windows XP Made Easy, Editor’s Choice, April ‘04
Digital Photography Made Easy, Editor’s Choice, April ‘04
PC Advisor, Gold Award, July, 04
Digital Camera Buyer, Editor’s Choice, April ’04
Computer Buyer, Best Buy, April ‘04
PC Praxis, Test Winner, June, ‘04
PC Professionell, Editor’s Choice, June ‘04
Pocket Lint, Hot Product, April, ‘04
BIOS, Editor’s Choice, April ’04
About Roxio Creator™ 7
Roxio Easy Roxio Media Creator 7 represents the realization of Roxio’s vision to bring together its complete line of next generation, uncompromised photo, video, music, burning, and authoring applications to deliver the first and only comprehensive, integrated digital media suite for the PC. Seamlessly combining the improved burning suite of Easy CD & DVD Creator™, with best-of-breed PhotoSuite® 7 Platinum, VideoWave® 7 Professional, and online music service Napster®, Roxio Creator 7 enables consumers to take complete control of their digital lives. The product has dominated industry press worldwide and garnered over a dozen awards for product excellence including editor’s choice honors from CNET, PC Magazine, and EMedia.
About Roxio and Napster
Roxio, Inc. provides the best selling digital media software in the world and owns Napster®, the world's most recognized brand in online music. Roxio makes award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing. Roxio's family of products includes category-leading products Roxio Creator, Easy CD & DVD Creator, Digital Media Suite®, Easy CD Creator® (Windows) and Toast® (Macintosh) for CD/DVD burning, PhotoSuite for digital photography, and VideoWave for digital video. Roxio's current installed base is in excess of 100 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, in stores with the leading worldwide retailers, through Internet partnerships and also sells its products direct at www.roxio.com. Napster has content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis.
