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EmailLabs Reports Record Revenue and Profits for Q2 2004

Largest Revenue Quarter in History of Email Marketing Technology Company Follows Ten Consecutive Quarters of Record Double-Digit Revenue Growth

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Aug. 23, 2004) - EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leading Web services provider in the email marketing space, continued its pace of strong revenue and client growth, with its tenth consecutive quarter of record revenue and profitability in the second quarter of 2004.

EmailLabs' revenues increased 19 percent in Q2 2004 over Q1 2004 and 98 percent over Q2 2003. This represents the tenth consecutive quarter of record revenues for the company. Profits for Q2 2004 grew 16 percent over Q1 2004 and 128 percent over Q2 2003.

In Q2 2004, EmailLabs added 36 new clients, including such notable companies as Abebooks.com, AcquireWeb, Datagence, Delaware North Companies, FirstClassFlyer, Fox Racing, Fujitsu, Government Auctions, and Washington Mutual.

EmailLabs also enhanced its email marketing platform with new and enhanced features including advanced bounce handling, an upgraded online HTML editor, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) authentication, enhanced segmentation capabilities and improved trigger message functionality.

To help better serve East Coast clients, the company opened a New York sales office and a server farm in New Jersey. On the thought leadership front, EmailLabs conducted a successful webinar on trust-based email marketing, while company executives Kirill Popov and Loren McDonald were added to ClickZ's roster of columnists, contributing a monthly column on e-mail delivery issues and best practices.

"We've taken a leadership position in the email marketing automation space by executing on plan, offering new initiatives in the Web services area with our API and with a continuing series of technology and service enhancements," said Dave Sousa, CEO. "Our API is a powerful vehicle for integration, an increasingly important capability for our users and partners, and a real differentiator for us."

About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high-performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies through EmailLabs' application programming interface (API). For the fourth consecutive year, EmailLabs has been recognized by ASPnews.com as one of the Top 50 ASPs worldwide and as a Top 25 Service Provider for the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) and Business Service Provider category. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 550 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, visit www.EmailLabs.com.