TouchTunes Selects Optimal Payments to Enhance Payment Options


Network of more than 23,000 jukeboxes with over 12 million unique consumers every month---

Montreal, Quebec, and Lake Zurich, Illinois, December 11, 2006 - Optimal Payments Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Optimal Group Inc. (NASDAQ:OPMR), and TouchTunes Music Corporation today announce that TouchTunes has selected Optimal Payments to process credit and debit card payments for its music-on-demand, digital-downloading jukeboxes.

TouchTunes delivers music on its network of more than 23,000 digital touch-screen jukeboxes in commercial locations across the United States and Canada and in Latin America. The jukeboxes in the TouchTunes network are connected via broadband or dial-up and provide music to an average of over 12 million unique consumers per month. Prior to the enhancements offered through Optimal Payments, TouchTunes jukeboxes only accepted cash.

"We are very pleased that we were selected by TouchTunes, the world leader in digital jukeboxes. TouchTunes fits perfectly into our strategy of focusing on payment processing for the digital music market." said Doug Lewin, President of Optimal Payments.

"Optimal Payments' expertise in specialized payment solutions was a key factor in our selection process. We require a reliable payment solution with integrated fraud prevention," said John Perrachon, President and Chief Executive Officer of TouchTunes. "The addition of credit and debit cards as payment options significantly enhances our offering," added Mr. Perrachon.

Under the terms of the agreement, Optimal Payments will provide TouchTunes with the ability to accept U.S. dollar payments from consumers' Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards.

About TouchTunes

TouchTunes is the world's leading provider of interactive, music-on-demand, digital-downloading jukeboxes. TouchTunes delivers music and advertising on its network of more than 23,000 digital touch-screen jukeboxes in commercial locations across the United States and Canada and in Latin America. All jukeboxes in the TouchTunes network are connected via broadband or dial-up and provide music to over 12 million unique consumers every month. TouchTunes has downloaded and played in excess of 1.0 billion songs since inception, growing at a rate of 450 million per year. TouchTunes has signed agreements with all major and most independent music labels, which permit the secure transmission, storing and playing of digitized copies of music masters on TouchTunes' central database and throughout its network of digital jukeboxes. TouchTunes is privately owned and has offices in Montreal (Canada) and Lake Zurich (Illinois). The company's latest information can be viewed at www.touchtunes.com.

About Optimal Payments

Optimal Payments, with operations throughout North America and in the United Kingdom, processes credit card payments for Internet businesses, mail-order/telephone-order and retail point-of-sale merchants, and processes electronic checks and direct debits online and by phone.

For more information about Optimal, please visit the Company's website at www.optimalpayments.com.

Doug Lewin
President
Optimal Payments Inc.
(514) 380-2701
doug@optimalpayments.com

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