Digital River Team with Freeze.com to Expand Solutions

MINNEAPOLIS, September 15, 2004 -- Digital River, Inc. , a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it is working with Freeze.com, one of the Internet's most popular screen enhancement sites, to expand its online product offering. Based on an agreement, Freeze.com added Digital River's third-party catalog of try-before-you-buy (TBYB) titles to its existing collection of screen savers, clip art and images. As a result, Digital River's catalog of trial versions is now available for download via Freeze.com's new online specialty store located on http://my.freeze.com.

"As more software consumers gain confidence in the Internet and opt for its shopping conveniences, online merchants are looking for low-risk, cost-effective alternatives to expand their businesses," said Dave Alampi, Digital River's, vice president of marketing. "Digital River's online sales network offers an easy-to-implement solution to meet their needs. By participating in our e-commerce network, online merchants can quickly gain access to an extensive sales channel of software publishers, online retailers, portals and content sites."

Shoppers on http://my.freeze.com can enter Freeze.com's new TBYB software site by clicking on "Free Trial Software." Once in the online store, shoppers are invited to download titles from Digital River's trialware catalog and try them for a limited time before making a purchase decision. The collection of TBYB titles includes computer utilities, games, and business, graphic and Internet applications from large and small publishers.

Digital River hosts and manages Freeze.com's TBYB site. To create a seamless shopping experience for consumers, Digital River is handling payment processing, fraud, customer service, reporting and digital downloads.

"Digital River's e-commerce sales network and end-to-end infrastructure provided a perfect match for our suite of online products and our customers' appetite for software," said Robert Weber, Freeze.com's president. "As a result of our relationship with Digital River, we can reach more consumers with more products. We are pleased to be partnering with an organization that has become such a major player in helping companies build online businesses."

About Freeze.com
Freeze.com, LLC is an internationally recognized Internet promotions company that experienced 400 percent gross profit growth in 2003. Freeze.com offers its customers reach without risk by utilizing a wide assortment of opt-in direct marketing vehicles on a cost-per-lead basis with its data base of over 30 million proven responders. Much of the company's success is due to the promotion of screensavers through its websites, Freeze.com and ScreenSaver.com, as well as promotions on major Internet properties like Yahoo, AOL, and thousands of other sites throughout the Internet. Founded in 2001, Freeze currently employs over 30 people in the St. Cloud, Minnesota, area. For more information contact support@freeze.com.

About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company's comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, site merchandising, advanced reporting and analytics, product fulfillment, e-marketing and multi-lingual customer service.