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Copyright © 2005 – Clickshare Service Corp. All rights reserved.

Payment Aggregation &Affinity Management

Clickshare for the Media Industry

For more informationcontact Richard Lerner:[email protected] (413) 458-7000 x101


Market ChallengesMonetize growing traffic in digital content

Maintain ownership and security of customer information

Speed adoption throughout the industry

Clickshare provides a secure payment processing solution that facilitates the sale of digital content within distributed environments. Our payment processing solution automatically handles the settlement of accounts and movement of payments, no matter how the user gains access to the content – whether they download it from a web site store, receive it in an email from a friend, or download it from a peer-to-peer network.


ConstituenciesClickshare’s Solution addresses needs of three constituencies:

Artists & other content and license owners

Distributors of content

Consumers

Clickshare recognizes that content owners and distributors have different needs. We provide a solution that uniquely addresses the needs of both, while keeping the process of purchasing content simple for consumers. Content owners want a large audience with a simple financial model; Distributors want to develop close relationships with large numbers of consumers; and consumers want privacy, security, simplicity and choice.


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The Clickshare Solution:A Network of Many Independent

Payment ProvidersCustomers register once with a trusted provider of their choice

Easily & Securely purchase from multiple vendors

Only provider sees credit card data

Aggregates purchases on a single bill

Vendors can get trusted demo-graphics from providerswith a central settlement service


The Clickshare Network

Validation Serverssecure link among participants

Settlement Servers

global transaction logging

funds transfer

AffiliationServers

ValidationServers*

VendorsPaymentProviders

SettlementServers*

Customers

ClickshareNetwork

RightsOwners

* - Provided by Clickshare


Digital ContainersSimplicity for Content Owners

Content Owners receive a Clickshare IDSettlement direct to owner’s bankQuick to marketLeverage existing customer relationshipsGather trusted customer information

Digital Containers support super-distribution, secure content and ensure proper payment to content owners and licensees. Clickshare simplifies payment for content and subsequent settlement.


Affinity NetworkProviding distributors more marketing choicesClickshare enables many-to-many business relationships:

Create branded networksShare already registered customersSpecial offers for affiliated customersGather & protect customer profilesMarket wide array of productsVerify Association memberships

Clickshare allows distributors to create branded networks to expand their customers’ purchasing opportunities. Existing customers can now purchase both from the web and via super-distribution networks such as P2P networks and email. Distributors can use super-distribution content to drive new customers to their registration sites. Once registered, customers build close relationships with their registrar, who also learns about their customers’ content preferences. Groups of distributors can network their customers to each other, to provide even more purchasing opportunities.


Micro-paymentsShare customers registered elsewhere

Vendors need not maintain financial dataCan link to Provider accounts for up-to-date information — building stronger relationships

Small, simple interface for validating and logging purchases

Simplifies adoption and time-to-market

Avoids explosion of one-to-one agreementsClickshare performs many-to-many settlement

Clickshare supports micro-payment purchasing by reducing overhead and providing a Wholesale/Retail model where customers pay their registrar for purchases made using their Clickshare-enabled account. Clickshare provides settlement by electronically transferring funds from the registrars to content owners and other vendors, thus aggregating small purchases by many customers from multiple registrars.


Clickshare Technology is ...

for Distributors and Content Owners:flexible Wholesale/Retail pricing and settlementnon-currency & penny transactionssites maintain complete control of customers

for Consumers:privacy & personalizationsingle registration, single bill

Unique in addressing bothUnique in addressing bothBusiness and Consumer needsBusiness and Consumer needs


Clickshare in a ‘Nutshell’

Distributed payment networkCustomer choicePrivacySimple payment distributionand much more…

Trust

Clickshare defines a new space in web-commerce

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