MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 08/11/08 -- DigitalTown, Inc. (OTCBB: DGTW) today announced that six innovative leaders in the technology, entertainment, sports and content fields have joined its newly formed board of advisors. Members of the group, all of whom are based on the West Coast and affiliated with companies deeply rooted in interactive media, will lead the next stages of development for DigitalTown as it constructs and integrates its 27,000 online communities into a social "civic and school spirit" network serving students, alumni, schools, local towns and their citizens.

Officially named the Interactive New Media Group, members unofficially have dubbed themselves "the DigitalTown Tigers" in the spirit of the brand and because the name "Tigers" is the number-one mascot of U.S. high schools. The company's online communities represent more than 99 percent of U.S. public and private high schools and the towns or cities where they are located (for example, detroitcountrydayyellowjackets.com, charteroakchargers.com).

Board members, their company affiliation, their areas of leadership on the DigitalTown advisory board and name of their high schools and graduating years are:

--  Mark Turner, Director of Business Development for Media and
    Entertainment for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), who will advise on
    strategic relations. DigitalTown Community: Mark is a British national who
    graduated from Felpham Community College on the South Coast of England in
    1991;
--  Brian Seth Hurst, CEO of The Opportunity Management Co. (clients have
    included Lifetime, Showtime, AOL, Virgin America and Movielink), 2nd Vice
    Chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (www.emmys.tv) and
    recently retired three-term board member of the Producers Guild of America,
    where he also was a two-term chair of its New Media Council.  Hurst will
    develop brand strategy. DigitalTown Community: Haverford Fords, PA, class
    of 1974, www.haverfordfords.com;
--  Dan Cooper, Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs for Fox
    Interactive Media, a division of News Corp.