Online Video World Disrupted by New Open Source Entrant

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 10, 2009) - Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source video platform, today announced that it has received wide industry recognition by three independent sources over the past two months.

Specifically, Kaltura was named a Strong Performer in "The Forrester Wave™: US Online Video Platforms, Q4 2009" (November 2009), an independent research report. Kaltura received the research's highest mark in 'customer base' and was ranked among the top three platforms across all major evaluation categories. For more information on the research or to download the full report, please visit http://corp.kaltura.com/Forrester_Research_Online_Video_Platform_Wave_Report.

According to the report, Kaltura is a "newer entrant to the market," yet the company has already amassed more than 35,000 "registered active customers under its monthly or free offering." The report also states that "Kaltura offers a highly differentiated video platform option, which allows organizations to fully own the open source code at no charge. The company also impresses with pioneering user-generated video that allows viewers to remix video clips. Additionally, the open community at Kaltura.org provides a great resource for innovation and sharing in development. As a newer entrant to the market, Kaltura has started with a solid entry."

This comes on the heels of Kaltura's endorsement by IDC, another leading independent research firm, as one of "10 innovative application companies under $100M to watch." IDC places Kaltura "at the forefront of emerging trends that will shape the future direction of software and add significant value to businesses."

Earlier in October, Kaltura was named one of the world's five most promising startups focused on open source at the Open World Forum in Paris. The Open World Forum is the most important international convention dedicated to exploring the technological, economic, and social impacts of open technologies. The winning companies were selected based on their innovation, quality of execution, and potential for value creation. Kaltura's impact to the video management space was compared to that of "Firefox to browsers, MySQL to databases, and WordPress to blogging: a free and flexible alternative to proprietary solutions." It was further stated that "the open-source framework allows webmasters to significantly save time and money when developing and deploying rich-media applications, whether those are intended for video, audio or photo sharing, for education, healthcare, enterprise collaboration, productivity, security, or e-commerce."

"We are honored to be continuously recognized by experts and leading organizations as an innovative and disruptive force in the online video space. This, coupled with the tremendous uptake by customers and the growth of our developer community, reaffirms the need and readiness for an open source alternative in our space," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. "Our open source online video platform allows for easy customization, integration, and enhancement, it eliminates vendor lock-in, and uniquely provides the option to self-host the platform behind one's firewall. Coupled with a wealth of community developed and shared applications, a base price of zero, and ancillary SaaS services at the most affordable rates in the market, Kaltura is the most robust and cost-effective offering around."

About Kaltura

Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over thirty eight thousand web publishers, integrators, and application developers use our free and flexible platform to add advanced video and photo functionalities including uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, publishing, syndicating, searching, monetizing, and monitoring. For more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.

Contact Information: Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com