Brainshark Announces 2010 Sharkie Award Winners, Recognizing Excellence in the Use of Multimedia for Business Communications

Winners Use On-Demand, Multimedia Presentations to Improve Communications and Deliver Value to Their Audience

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, March 18, 2010 - Brainshark, Inc., the leader in on-demand presentations, today announced
the winners of the second annual Sharkie Awards. These awards honor
individuals and organizations that demonstrated excellence in their use of
multimedia for business communications - thereby engaging and delivering
value to their audience.

With Brainshark's Web-based platform, organizations and individuals can
easily create, share and track voice-enriched, multimedia presentations -
helping to improve communications reach and efficiency, while reducing the
costs associated with travel, print and Web conferencing. Brainshark
presentations have been viewed more than 25 million times - with one
Brainshark viewed every five seconds, and one created every four minutes.

Brainshark received more than 100 entries for consideration in this
year's awards. A new category was added to recognize users of myBrainshark -
the free version of Brainshark's software available at
www.mybrainshark.com. Entries were evaluated on clarity, conciseness
and compelling nature, and on how well they leveraged Brainshark's
capabilities - including the ability to incorporate video, surveys and
polls, attachments and more within presentations.

Winning and finalist presentations can be viewed at
www.brainshark.com/gallery. The 2010 winners, listed by category, are
as follows:

    Brainshark of the Year and Category Winner for Corporate Communications -
     Internal
    Aviva
    "Aviva Tone of Voice"

    Corporate Communications - External
    Ohio National Financial Services
    "Life Changes. We'll Be There."

    Marketing
    Corporate Visions
    "The Power of Story: How to Tell a Story That Sells"

    Training - Internal
    American Express
    "Drive Your Success"

    Training - External
    Allstate
    "Your Choice Motorcycle"

    Foreign Language
    Nippon Life Benefits
    "Introducing Nippon Life Benefits"

    Open Category
    Allianz Global Investors
    "Three Key Reasons to Consider"

    myBrainshark - Learning Provider
    Michaels & Associates
    "Accelerated Learning: The Extreme Training Makeover"

    myBrainshark
    user DanielleD
    "The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe"

    Best Podcast
    Ken Okel
    "How to Shush a Loud Cell Phone Talker"

    Best Pre-Loader
    Torchmark
    "Pre-loader: Torchmark Corporation"

    Best First Brainshark Presentation
    SunTrust Banks, Inc.
    "Health Savings Accounts"

"As one of the world's largest insurance companies, it's important that
we're able to quickly and easily educate our global audience and secure
internal alignment around new initiatives," said Francesca Raban, group
communications manager, Aviva. "Brainshark enables us to do this in a
low-cost, high-impact manner - with catchy, multimedia elements and
convenient on-demand viewing. Our 'Tone of Voice' presentation really got
employees engaged and aware of new brand positioning, and we're thrilled by
this recognition from Brainshark."

To participate in the awards program, organizations and individuals
submitted links to Brainshark presentations they created in 2009. Co-sponsors
of the awards program include Premiere Global Services; Customer 1st
Performance, LLC; InterCall; Webinar Resources; Corporate Visions Inc.;
Webinar Success; eSlide and 1080 Group.

"We're excited to recognize this year's Sharkie Awards winners, who
exemplify how to use multimedia to improve the reach and results of their
communications," said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. "Brainshark solutions
make it easy for organizations to maximize viewer engagement, boost
productivity and cut costs. This year's winners were particularly adept at
communicating with impact and drove home the value of on-demand
presentations."

For more information on the Sharkie Awards and to view a Brainshark
presentation honoring the winners, please see
www.brainshark.com/gallery/vu?pi=226916189.

About Brainshark, Inc.

Brainshark is the leader in on-demand presentations, transforming static
business content into high-impact communications. Delivered via
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Brainshark enables audiences to access and
engage with business content when and how they want. More than 1,100
companies - including a third of the Fortune 100 - rely on Brainshark
software and services to help sales, marketing, training and HR experts
cost-effectively deliver measurable results. In addition, organizations and
individuals use the myBrainshark site to create, share and track publicly
available multimedia presentations for free. For more information on these
offerings, visit www.brainshark.com.

    MEDIA CONTACTS: Joan Babinski                Sara Card
                    Brainshark, Inc.             Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
                    +1-781-370-8001              +1-781-418-2431
                    jbabinski@brainshark.com     brainshark@daviesmurphy.com
                    www.brainshark.com    www.daviesmurphy.com

Joan Babinski, Brainshark, Inc., +1-781-370-8001, jbabinski at brainshark.com, or Sara Card, Davies Murphy Group, Inc., +1-781-418-2431, brainshark at daviesmurphy.com