Pioneer Investments' eMedia Player was designed to deliver high-quality video presentations that are user-friendly, reasonably priced, and accessible to users behind corporate firewalls, on dial-up connections, on Macs etc.

Pioneer Advisor Web Series Presentations offered on pioneerfunds.com every two weeks. Presenters include fund managers, subject matter experts, and Pioneer sales executives. Play Pioneer 1:1 Presentations made by Pioneer's wholesaling team to use in their territories. When an inside wholesaler can't get a broker on the phone, they can email the broker a 1:1 presentation and request a follow-up. They also use these presentations for remote customers that are off the beaten path. Play Pioneer Business Partners Several strategic partners jumped at the opportunity to use the Pioneer eMedia player to deliver presentations to their clients. The player is easily co-branded and allows for quick duplication and simple maintenance. Play United Way Campaign Brief personal testimonial presentations made by key Pioneer associates to encourage staff to join in our recent United Way contribution campaign. Play "Flash video has suddenly become not only accessible, but, in many cases, the optimal solution for those firms looking to publish video on their sites. Pioneer Investments is among the only asset management firms that is using video (and synchronizing slides) through Flash." Kasina Industry Analysis, April '03

Highlights

Penetration: Pioneer's eMedia Player leverages the ubiquity and accessibility of Flash. Flash 6.0 penetration is approaching 90% among a representative Internet population. (Macromedia, July '03)

Accessibility: Flash is not "filtered" by most firewalls, dramatically improving successful views vs. traditional streaming solutions, which typically have a 25-35% failure rate. Presentations are optimized to play on low-bandwidth connections. Low-bandwidth users can actually see moving video, not just audio matched with the occasional image as seen on traditional presentation platforms.

Maintenance: All data can be automated monthly via XML or a simple .txt file without having to update and recompile the whole presentation.

Success! Presentation views using the eMedia Player have increased by more than 400% (vs. an outsourced solution that actually showed decreased views as users became more and more frustrated with the experience).