Digital River Hosts Global Network Sales Summit

MINNEAPOLIS -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it is hosting a Global Network Sales Summit for its clients, including software publishers, online retailers and high-tech manufacturers. At Digital River’s summit, clients can build joint sales and marketing partnerships with companies from around the world as well as attend educational sessions on the latest e-commerce trends and revenue-generating methods. The summit is being held Oct. 10 – 12, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine in La Jolla, Calif.

Throughout the summit, Digital River clients will have opportunities to create sales and marketing partnerships with other clients during pre-scheduled meetings. Based on these partnerships, Digital River clients agree to market and sell each other’s products to their respective customer bases in exchange for a shared-revenue arrangement.

“The summit offers our clients the opportunity to learn about the wide breadth of online marketing and sales programs available through Digital River,” said Don Peterson, Digital River’s senior vice president of global client development. “With more registrants than any of our previous summits, our conference in San Diego presents increased opportunities for our clients to create joint online sales promotions. Promotions originated at our summits have generated millions of dollars of revenue for our clients.”

The educational program at Digital River’s Global Network Sales Summit includes keynote presentations by leading industry and financial analysts. Charlene Li, principal analyst and research director with Forrester Research, a technology and market research company, will give a keynote presentation about social computing and how it affects a company’s bottom line. Lee Vann, principal with Captura Group, will present a keynote address titled, “Strategies and Tactics to Succeed in the Hispanic Online Market.” Captura Group is a leading Hispanic online solutions firm that enables companies and organizations to connect with Hispanics online. Phillip Winslow, an equity research analyst in the technology research group at financial services company Credit Suisse First Boston, will present a keynote address on software trends and the state of the IT industry.

In addition to the keynote addresses, the conference program at Digital River’s fall Summit includes more than two dozen educational break-out sessions. Summit participants are invited to attend sessions to learn how they can grow their online businesses by leveraging Digital River’s oneNetwork™ marketplace and affiliate program, subscription billing, e-mail marketing solutions, and various e-marketing best practices and technologies.

About Digital River, Inc.

Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.