STAMFORD Conn. July 17 2012 – WWE (NYSE:WWE) today announced that immediately after WWE featured fan Touts – 15-second self-recorded videos – during Monday Night Raw the social media platform’s app skyrocketed from No. 37 to No. 6 in the Free Photo & Video category on the iTunes App Store. The Tout app was downloaded more than 30 000 times within hours of the broadcast.

During last night’s episode of Monday Night RAW fans submitted Touts that were later aired during the live broadcast on the USA Network; Touts are also distributed across WWE’s vast array of assets including television live events WWE.com and to more than 100 million of its social media followers. Now Tout is No. 116 on the overall Free Apps list (out of 900 000+ apps) speaking volumes to the power of the WWE Universe and the WWE brand.

This news comes a week after WWE’s announcement that the global entertainment company became an investor and strategic marketing partner of Tout Industries Inc.

Tout is a social media platform whose smartphone and Web applications enable real-time video status updates that can be shared instantly to Tout.com Twitter Facebook Pinterest SMS and email contacts. Through Tout’s reply feature WWE fans now have the chance to be seen and heard via Tout real-time video updates encouraging a new dynamic social experience for WWE fans to interact with the brand.

“The partnership with WWE has proven that when you give enthusiastic fans the ability to easily share and interact with real-time video status updates they will jump at the chance ” said Michael Downing CEO Tout.com. “WWE’s passionate fan base and tremendous reach across a variety of media assets create an extraordinary opportunity to engage fans and followers. We are uniquely positioned to provide this technology and look forward to rolling it out across a diverse range of media and brand properties.”

About WWE
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About Tout
Headquartered in San Francisco Tout is a social media technology company whose smartphone and Web applications enable real-time video status updates that can be shared instantly with friends family or the whole world through Facebook Twitter or even published to your own site via the Tout Widget and API. Tout enables users to capture and share 15-second videos with 2-clicks from the Web iPhone iPad or Android smartphones. Tout is a technology spin-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) responsible for such innovations as intelligent personal assistant technology SIRI acquired by Apple. Since launch Tout has had over 23 million visitors to its application making it one of the fastest growing social media services. Visit www.tout.com or follow us on Facebook and on Twitter @Tout.

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Media Contacts:
Tara Settembre
WWE
203-328-2511
tara.settembre@wwecorp.com

Scott Epstein Chief Marketing Officer
Tout.com
415-237-1303
scott@tout.com

Lewis Kay
PMK*BNC
310-854-4800
Lewis.Kay@pmkbnc.com

Investor Contacts:
Michael Weitz
WWE
203-352-8642
Michael.Weitz@wwecorp.com

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