NetCurrents (fka NTCS)

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NetCurrents, Inc. Launches National Investor Awareness Campaign
Madison & Wall Worldwide and IR Consulting To Coordinate Aggressive Outreach Program To Shareholders, Brokers, Institutions, Analysts and the Media
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001-- NetCurrents, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, today announced that it has engaged Madison & Wall Worldwide, Inc., a nationally recognized, full service financial public relations company, and veteran independent investor relations consultant Ms. Terri MacInnis of I.R. Consulting, Northridge, California, to increase mass market awareness of the Company among individual investors, institutions, analysts, retail stockbrokers, media sources and other investment professionals. Working closely with key NetCurrents executives, MacInnis will focus primarily on coordinating all shareholder relations activity for the Company, while Madison & Wall will concentrate on developing and implementing communications strategies and programs specifically targeting the retail brokerage and investment banking communities.

Dodi Handy, President and CEO of Madison & Wall, stated, ``NetCurrents has come a long way since first introducing its single-dimensional, proprietary solution for monitoring Internet communications on a real-time basis. Having completed its one year ramp-up period, it has emerged as a company that has clearly defined the Internet Intelligence space by offering an extensive suite of diversified products and services designed to meet a multitude of clients' monitoring demands on the Internet. Moreover, we believe that the challenges NetCurrents has overcome during the past year have served to strengthen its core operating competencies and intelligently refine its sales and marketing focus. We are hopeful that Wall Street will appreciate the Company's re-engineered business model and future outlook, and thus reward the Company with notable market support.''

Ms. MacInnis added, ``Through its established relationships with the world's leading investigation, media and investor relations organizations and with its planned 2001 product expansion initiatives, NetCurrents is ideally positioned to leverage its technological strengths, industry leadership and marketing alliances both domestically and abroad. Consequently, I look forward to working with Madison & Wall to aid NetCurrents in communicating the Company's new direction and global growth strategies to its valued shareholders.''

About NetCurrents, Inc.

NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from more than 65,000 targeted locations in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel protection of their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions and counter misinformation on the Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of technology and analysis, confidentiality of NetCurrents clients is assured.

About Madison & Wall Worldwide, Inc.

Madison & Wall (M&W) is a leading, nationally recognized, financial public relations firm that specializes in increasing mass market awareness of its clients among individual investors, retail stockbrokers, institutional investors, analysts, the financial media and other investment professionals. Through its publication, Inside Wall Street, and its web site, www.insidewallstreet.com, M&W concentrates on pro-actively spotlighting undervalued, undiscovered or turnaround situations operating in emerging, high-growth industries. Since its founding in 1992, M&W has represented hundreds of public companies headquartered on six continents.

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the Company's ability to continue to successfully market and provide their products and services and maintain their effectiveness, the continuation of the arrangements with the Company's channel partners, the ability of the Company to meet its financial projections, and general economic conditions. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information or otherwise.


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Contact:

Madison & Wall Worldwide, Inc., Longwood, Fla.
Dodi Handy, 407/682-2001 (Broker/Institutional Relations)
[e-mail]
or
Terri MacInnis, 818/226-6061 (Shareholder Relations)
tmacinnis@pacbellnet


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