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Perform Group PLC

27 April 2012

PERFORM announces LIVESPORT.TV integration with Facebook(R)

Friday 27 April, London: Digital sports media group Perform Group plc is delighted to announce that today it launches more than 50 digital sports channels on Facebook.

LIVESPORT.TV is Perform's global destination for official live and on demand sports video. The channels include a range of live and VOD content from a number of leading sports competitions including European and South American football, Tennis, Rugby Union, Rugby League, World Snooker and Australian Rules Football, as well as a number of one-off box office sporting events from sports such as Boxing.

The integration will see LIVESPORT.TV opened up to Facebook's 845m monthly active users through the Facebook Platform, allowing people to connect with the LIVESPORT.TV application and watch premium sports content without leaving Facebook. LIVESPORT.TV's network of websites will also be integrated with Facebook, allowing people to log in via their Facebook account, share content, chat and much more via Facebook social plug-ins.

LIVESPORT.TV will use Facebook's targeted advertising to reach potential subscribers for each sport. The LIVESPORT.TV platform will also be made available for other sports content owners to distribute their live and highlights content to targeted groups of connected fans globally.

Oliver Slipper, Joint-CEO at Perform commented: "This is an exciting integration. We believe that making LIVESPORT.TV available through Facebook presents a great opportunity to build our subscriber business and increase our VOD audience. Our focus with Facebook will be to use the targeted advertising to communicate with niche fans around the world looking for special interest live sports content and use the in-built virality of the platform to target the hundreds of millions of sports fans on Facebook to share our VOD sports content and drive video views globally."

Enquiries

Perform Group plc +44 (0) 203 372 0600

David Surtees, CFO

Tulchan Communications +44 (0) 207 353 4200

Stephen Malthouse

James Macey White

About Perform

Perform is a global market leader in the commercialisation of multimedia sports content across multiple platforms. Perform owns one of the largest portfolios of digital sports rights in the world, through contracts relating to more than 200 sports leagues, tournaments and events. The management is focused on driving profitable, organic, earnings growth through leveraging its content across new digital platforms, new products and across new geographies, taking advantage of favorable technology trends such as growth in digital media consumption and online video viewership. The Company will look to supplement this organic growth with strategic acquisitions.

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