Additional Placing

Newsplayer Group PLC 11 February 2004 11th February 2004 Newsplayer Group plc Additional Placing of New Shares. On 2nd February 2004 Newsplayer Group plc ('NPG' or the 'Company') announced that it had agreed to acquire Betelgeuse Productions Inc. (the 'Acquisition') and that it had placed 10,714,286 new NPG shares at 21p per share conditional only upon completion of the Acquisition. The Company announces today that it has conditionally placed an additional 2,380,952 shares at 21p per share with an institutional investor. This means that conditional only upon completion of the Acquisition the Company will have placed a total of 13,095,238 new NPG shares with new and existing shareholders realising £2,750,000, before expenses, in additional working capital for the Company. The Company expects the Acquisition to complete in the week commencing 1st March 2004 following the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 27th February 2004. Ends For further information, please contact: Paul Duffen, CEO, NPG +44 20 7927 6699 Philip Ranger, Merlin PR +44 20 7653 6620 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange SGUUGCPUPCGPG