Burlington, MA – January 13, 2009 – Burst Media (www.BurstMedia.com), a leading provider of online advertising services, today announced a partnership with redOrbit.com to launch a branded vertical advertising network targeting an audience interested in science, space, technology and health news. Anchored by redOrbit.com and powered by Burst Media, the network includes more than 60 science and technology-focused websites, providing a unique opportunity for web marketers to reach 22 million highly educated, affluent and influential individuals. “The redOrbit Network aggregates original space, science, technology, and health content into a single entity,” said Eric Ralls, Founder and Publisher of redOrbit.com. “The network’s audience is intellectually curious – a trait that often puts them at the cutting edge for consumer products and services. They are the ideal audience for advertisers looking to reach technically savvy consumers who not only purchase products and services, but also influence the purchases of their family and friends.”

By providing web marketers with access to so many high impact sites at once, the redOrbit Network offers minimal buying complexity. As with all Burst Network offerings, the redOrbit Network provides full transparency, detailed reporting, and dedicated service.

“Advertisers recognize the increasing need for efficient media buys across appropriate mid and long tail sites on the internet,” said Don Byrnes, EVP of Media Sales at Burst Media. “The redOrbit Network offers media buyers a way to reach this desirable audience by combining the trust and experience of Burst Network with the editorial leadership of the highly recognized mid-tail publisher redOrbit.com.”
About redOrbit

RedOrbit, Inc., headquartered in Texas, was founded in November 2002. The web site, redOrbit.com, was launched in May 2003, with the goal of creating the largest, most unique internet community with the strongest consumer brand in the most underserved niche on the Web. redOrbit.com has since become the premier internet destination for space, science, health, and technology enthusiasts around the globe. For more information, visit www.redOrbit.com.
About Burst Media

An online media and technology company founded in 1995, Burst Media (www.BurstMedia.com) is a leading provider of advertising representation, services and technology to independent Web Publishers. Burst Media enables advertisers to reach finely segmented, engaged consumers as they visit Burst’s extensive number of interest-based sub-channels. Through its Burst Network and Burst Direct units, the company represents one of the broadest and deepest offerings of interest-based websites online. Burst also markets its ad management platform, adConductor™, which empowers content websites, online ad networks, and web portals to manage the complete process of ad sales and service. Burst Media is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with offices throughout the United States and in London, UK. For more information, visit www.BurstMedia.com or call 781.272.5544.

- Catalina Marketing Responds to Unmet Marketplace Demands with New Advertising Network, Pointer Media
Today, Catalina Marketing Corporation announced the launch of Pointer Media Network, one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated addressable media networks. Pointer Media Network enables advertisers, media buyers, brand managers and marketers to leverage the network’s sophisticated database of 250 million weekly shopping transactions, representing buying behavior of nearly 80 percent of American households, for the development and execution of precise media campaigns.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Chitika Inc., a full-service advertising network, today announced its new behavioral targeting technology, Search Behavior Marketing (SBM), is now available to advertisers in Chitika’s OnDemand ad program. SBM lets advertisers continue to engage prospects after they’ve moved beyond search listings pages and onto content-rich websites. Unlike ad programs that serve ads based on website content, SBM leverages an advertiser’s current keyword-based search engine marketing (SEM) strategy and serves relevant ads based on user’s search activity across Chitika’s network.

“After yielding great results from my AdWords campaigns, I was eager to find additional search traffic sources to capitalize on this trend. To date, Chitika has become one of my top traffic sources. I am confident that Chitika will continue to drive high-quality search traffic to GoFaxer.com as we head into the busiest and most lucrative online shopping months of the year,” said Mike Weber from GoFaxer Corporation (www.gofaxer.com), an online fax service.

Instead of relying on user-level personally identifiable information, Chitika’s SBM platform tracks and tags search activity across the company’s network of more than 34,000 websites, which each month serve more than 2 billion impressions, 550 million search-driven impressions and reach 60 million unique visitors. Chitika’s OnDemand platform provides a self-service interface for direct advertisers and agencies to launch banner and text campaigns through either CPC or CPM pricing models. In addition to its keyword-based SBM platform, Chitika offers a variety of contextual, site-level, geographic- and demographic-based targeting options.

“Chitika’s SBM lets paid search campaigns work even harder by moving beyond the walled garden of the search results page and into a network of content-rich sites,” said Stephanie Rogers, senior director, PARTNERS+simons. “This makes online advertising more effective during a time when advertisers are more focused than ever on advertising ROI.”

“While many ad networks are struggling in this challenging economy, we’re growing at a record pace, nearly doubling our base of publishers since the start of 2008,” said Venkat Kolluri, CEO and co-founder of Chitika. “Our commitment to online advertising innovation, especially our bet that advertisers could benefit by linking their proven search marketing strategies to their online advertising, is one of the reasons we, our publishers and our advertisers are having our best year yet.”

About Chitika

Founded in 2003, Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) is the largest search-targeted advertising network serving more than 550 million human-entered search engine queries across more than 34,000 websites. For advertisers and media buyers, Chitika is a proven search engine marketing (SEM) channel for targeting searches conducted by users on the top search engines (similar to Google Adwords). For publishers, Chitika is a highly effective monetization service with eCPMs among the highest in the industry. For more information, visit: www.chitika.com.

NEW YORK – TRAFFIQ® – The Premium Advertising Marketplace announced the launch of the most advanced version yet of its online ad exchange , boasting two new extensions that will make the platform even more powerful for buying, selling, and optimizing online display media campaigns:

* A new Agency Workflow allows a single user to manage multiple clients and multiple campaigns with ease.
* Full-path conversion tracking and reporting captures not just the last ad clicked, but all brand-relevant touch points and actionable key performance metrics leading up to conversion.

For ad agencies, the new Agency Workflow will drastically simplify the client management process. An intuitive interface allows a single user to navigate freely among a hierarchy of client accounts and campaigns – and to execute all media planning and buying steps: search for ad placements, build a media plan, secure media, launch and optimize the campaign, and review comprehensive reports.

Advertisers and publishers will also benefit from full-path conversion tracking and reporting, which will quickly replace the traditional last-ad-clicked paradigm for measuring campaigns. With complete capture of the path of user engagement, advertisers and agencies will be able to measure results against each campaign’s key performance indicators, and fine-tune placement and creative strategy for maximum impact; publishers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the role of their inventory relative to other touch points, and price accordingly.

“Bringing significant change to the business of media buying and selling required the resculpturing of the underlying architecture of the ad network model,” said Mark Kahn, chief executive officer of TRAFFIQ. “Our new extensions and the ongoing growth of our premium display marketplace are helping streamline the media buying process from campaign planning to reporting and optimization, bringing us one step closer to an end-to-end media planning and buying solution.”

“An efficient agency workflow can significantly streamline the process of managing multiple campaigns,” said Claudette Baigorria, media supervisor at Freestyle Interactive, which handles accounts for NFL, Electronic Arts, Dolby, and Burton. “Flexible media buying tools can help agencies to easily find and secure targeted, brand-safe and effective online media on behalf of clients.”

“It is important to us to be able to quickly and easily launch highly targeted advertising campaigns where Sleepy’s has a retail presence,” said Greg Longmuir, director of sales at Sleepy’s®, The Mattress Professionals. “TRAFFIQ allows us to accurately reach our target audience, while at the same time ensuring our ads are placed on a pre-approved list of sites and publishers.”

“Selecting TRAFFIQ as our premium sales partner was a natural choice,” said Chris Schroeder, Chief Executive Officer of HealthCentral. “The platform’s advanced inventory sales and campaign management capabilities are a great fit for a targeted, highly involved audience like ours, and can further extend the reach of our upfront sales teams.”

Other significant upgrades to be made available in this upcoming release include:

* Media buyers can select their precise targeting balance preference, between demographics and contextual relevancy.
* Percentages for specific demographics can now be assigned to inventory, allowing publishers to more fully and accurately describe the makeup of their audiences. The richer demographics, in turn, support deeper search filtering for media buyers as they match up inventory with campaigns.
* A new question-based wizard speeds up the process of creating campaigns and listing ad placements for sale.

Live demo of the new platform to be held at ad:tech New York

For a demo of the new agency tools, conversion tracking and reporting, and other advances, stop by TRAFFIQ’s booth No. 926 at ad:tech, the New York Hilton, between Nov. 3 and 4.

About TRAFFIQ

TRAFFIQ (www.traffiq.com) is an efficient, open and value-driven marketplace, directly connecting buyers and sellers of online media through an end-to-end self service platform. It facilitates the buying and selling of premium display media with ease and efficiency, always providing maximum return on investment. Marketplace members include the leading advertisers, ad agencies and publishers. TRAFFIQ is a member of the IAB advisory board, helping educate interactive advertisers and publishers on best practices for industry growth. TRAFFIQ is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Vienna, VA. For more information, contact us at info@traffiq.com.

LOS ANGELES – The Rubicon Project, an advertising technology company focused on global ad network optimization, unveils the latest edition of the 2008 Online Advertising Market Report, the Q2: Ad Network Landscape, Trends and Outlook, detailing the state of the market in the second quarter of 2008 and beyond. Drawing on its unique third-party position between ad networks and website publishers, the Rubicon Project provides an insider perspective of the changing Internet advertising landscape based on a wealth of market data to provide a deeper understanding of the current industry climate and future trends. This market intelligence is based on analysis of 15 billion impressions served during Q2 alone across more than 130 ad networks.

“2008 has been a challenging year for the U.S. and worldwide economy. Fortunately, the online advertising market has been somewhat cushioned from the majority of economic blows,” said Frank Addante, CEO and founder. “The Rubicon Project is committed to helping navigate the tumultuous yet continuous growth and development of this market, in part, through education. Through this report, we are sharing billions of pieces of market intelligence we have combined with informed analysis of current and future trends.”

State of a Dysfunctional Industry

With nearly $370 million invested in ad networks in Q2, the market remained a good buy for private firms and holding companies. This indicates investors’ confidence in networks ability to innovate and increase monetization.

However, not all news was rosy. Big-name publishers such as ESPN, Forbes.com and CBS Sports discontinued their use of third-party networks in the second quarter, generating a slew of bad publicity for the ad network industry.

Sample Findings:

* Despite criticism, ad networks grew during the economic storm in Q2 – eCPMs increased by an average of 7 percent across all networks.
* Publishers and networks dysfunctional relationships are hindering growth – they need each other but don’t trust one other on issues such as inventory pricing, fee payment and collection or the quality of the ads and the sites they run on.
* Big publishers are both entering and navigating the broader network space – with several heavy-hitters becoming ad networks themselves.
* International traffic remains an untapped growth opportunity – some major U.S. Web sites draw more than half their traffic from outside the country but only a small fraction of ad revenue is able being monetized from that traffic.

Sample of Emerging Trends

* The Ad network role in the online advertising ecosystem will continue to grow – both publishers and media buyers need and want third-party support.
* Networks face obstacles to expansion – publishers need to diversify across many ad network channel opportunities to continue growth.
* Online advertising will continue to grow – overall ad spend may decrease but a natural reconciliation will occur to even out the discrepancy between Internet usage (33 percent) and percentage of ad budgets dedicated to online spend (8 percent).
* In a recession, efficient models prevail – online advertising is more efficient than other forms of advertising such as broadcast and print.

The complete 2008 Q2 Online Advertising Market Report is available as a free download at: http://www.rubiconproject.com.

About the Rubicon Project

The Rubicon Project is a group of industry-experienced, aggressive and passionate renegades dedicated to bringing a new level of efficiency to the fragmented Internet advertising space. The founders of the Rubicon Project shook up the online advertising industry in 1998 when they created L90/adMonitor, one of the most successful Internet advertising platforms that served over 3,000 of the web’s most recognized sites, reaching 65 percent of the Internet population before DoubleClick acquired it. $27 billion was spent advertising online in 2007, yet it’s still too hard for Web sites to sell their ad space online. The Rubicon Project’s web-based, self-serve solution gives any size Web site the most complete access to the total available advertising market and its smart matching technology does all the work to perfectly match each ad impression with the optimal money-making opportunity. The Rubicon Project is the new online advertising standard that makes it effortless for Web sites to generate the mad cash they’ve always dreamed of. And, it’s free to join. Web sites looking to make more money while doing less work should visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com.

Read Frank’s blog at: http://www.FounderBlog.com/

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK) today announced it has launched AdRx Media, a premium health and wellness online advertising network with a potential reach of more than 20 million unique visitors per month, according to comScore Media Metrix.

AdRx Media is comprised of several well-known publishers, including Britannica Health, HealthGrades, Healthy.net, Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, OrganizedWisdom.com, Wrong Diagnosis and more than 50 other high quality health and wellness information sites.

AdRx Media gives advertisers a way to reach consumers while they are engaged in seeking health information on more targeted sites beyond the largest health properties. For instance, according to comScore Plan Metrix June 2008 data, WebMD Health reaches only one in seven people who have searched for health information related to an ailment online and Everyday Health reaches only one in eleven.

“AdRx Media is filling an important gap by giving advertisers an efficient way to reach a more engaged audience as they seek information on focused health sites other than general health properties,” said James Kiernan, vice president, group director at MediaVest. “Having a reliable partner to aggregate inventory on content related to all major health conditions is a service I expect media buyers in the health category will be very receptive to.”

AdRx Media offers advertisers a convenient way to reach consumers as they go online to learn more about any health related issue, with complete transparency into the sites where their ads will appear. The extensive reach of AdRx Media provides several ways to reach any health-conscious audience via contextual placements alongside condition-specific content and other demographic, psychographic and technographic targeting capabilities.

“The response to AdRx Media among marketers and agencies during our initial charter period has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Denise Zaraya, director, AdRx Media. “They recognize the value of targeting niche content with a partner that can guarantee quality, transparency, expertise and scale.”

The network is managed within the ValueClick Media division in the U.S. and utilizes its advanced network technology and expertise. A dedicated account management and media development team works with a unique set of AdRx Media publishers and advertisers under the direction of Ms. Zaraya.

AdRx Media is exhibiting and Ms. Zaraya will speak on a panel entitled “DTC Advertising and New Media” at the PharmaMed conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey September 15-16. On September 18-19, AdRx Media will exhibit at the OMMA Global conference in New York, where Ms. Zaraya will lead a workshop on “Strategies for Maximizing Performance with Vertical Networks.”

About AdRx Media

AdRx Media is an online advertising network specialized in providing custom solutions to health and wellness advertisers. AdRx Media aggregates condition-specific inventory across the Internet’s top health and wellness publishers, which collectively reach more than 20 million consumers per month, giving advertisers the ability to reach all of their health targets in one single, transparent buy. AdRx Media is a product of ValueClick, Inc., and is operated by its ValueClick Media division in the U.S.

About ValueClick, Inc.

ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK) is one of the world’s largest online marketing services companies, offering comprehensive and scalable solutions to deliver cost-effective customer acquisition for advertisers and robust revenue streams for publishers. ValueClick’s performance-based solutions allow customers to reach their potential through multiple online marketing channels, including affiliate and search marketing, display advertising, lead generation, ad serving and e-mail technology, and comparison shopping. ValueClick brands include Commission Junction, ValueClick Media, Mediaplex, PriceRunner and Smarter.com. For more information, visit www.valueclick.com.

New York, New York (August 19, 2008)–Eyeblaster, home of the world’s most innovative integrated marketing solutions, achieves highest recognition by Nielsen Norman Group for its Campaign Monitor, who named it one of the top 10 user interfaces (UI) of 2008. Campaign Monitor raises the bar for intuitive, efficient campaign management with its functional design that provides a clear graphic overview of campaigns.

Nielsen Norman Group recognizes Eyeblaster’s dedication to agency professionals, designing an application that puts users in control and in a position to maximize advertising campaigns quickly and easily. Campaign Monitor takes the art of campaign management to a new level, giving users complete awareness of a digital campaign’s performance, helping them to make decisions and communicate insights when it counts.

“The company’s focus is empowering media buyers including media agencies, creative agencies and advertisers to plan, create, serve, manage and measure online campaigns,” said Nielsen Norman Group. “Eyeblaster aims to provide advanced management tools, and Campaign Monitor does just that.”

Eyeblaster’s Campaign Monitor includes a visual dashboard with graphical gauges that display real-time data for key performance indicators such as setup and approval status, under-delivery and over-delivery and performance metrics including Interaction Rate, CTR and ROI.

“To be recognized by Nielsen Norman Group as one of the top user interfaces of 2008 exemplifies our commitment to our agency customers and our goal to provide solutions for holistic campaign management that delivers true transparency, relevance and ROI,” said Gal Trifon, CEO and Co-founder of Eyeblaster. “We understand the importance of connecting with our clients and we’re thrilled to receive this honor.”

By providing a consolidated, bird’s-eye view of all campaign activity, users can manage every aspect of their digital campaigns, helping the user and industry as a whole achieve optimal results to keep clients coming back and encourage online industry growth.

For more information on Campaign Monitor, visit http://www.eyeblaster.com/products/campaign_monitor.asp

About Eyeblaster
In 1999, Eyeblaster was among the pioneers in rich media communication. Today, Eyeblaster extends its inventive heritage in digital advertising through Ad Campaign Manager (ACM). ACM enables interactive agencies, advertisers and publishers to manage campaigns across digital media channels, including online, mobile and in-game, and a variety of formats, including rich media, in-stream video, display and search. ACM is a robust, integrated and easy-to-use platform that allows customers to focus on campaign strategy, creativity and media efficiency without having to worry about the technical complexities associated with managing global advertising campaigns online.

In 2007, Eyeblaster delivered campaigns for nearly 7,000 brand advertisers serving approximately 2,500 ad agencies across over 2,700 global web publishers in over 40 countries worldwide throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Learn more at http://www.eyeblaster.com.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intergi (www.intergi.com), a leading video game and entertainment site representation company and advertising network, today announced four new exclusive representation deals with a collection of high profile, web-based portals targeting the gaming and entertainment communities. The new sites – QJ.net. Evil Avatar, Fpsbanana.com and NSider2.com – each offer three key tenets Intergi looks for in growing its network: the ability to deliver targeted content, an established community of gaming and entertainment enthusiasts and the opportunity for media buyers and planners to achieve billions of impressions. The four new sites include:

* QJ.net – (www.qj.net) Known as the QuickJump network, QJ.net offers an online portal to all things video gaming and entertainment, with aggregated content that allows visitors access to reviews and updates on news within the video games, film and entertainment industries.
* Evil Avatar – (www.evilavatar.com) An aggregate site for gaming enthusiasts and developers, offering daily gaming news “with attitude.” The site features headline news, community threads and previews of all that is current in today’s world of video gaming.
* Fpsbanana.com – (www.fpsbanana.com) FPSBanana is the largest website on the Internet tailored specifically to online First Person Shooter (FPS/Action) game customization for gamers and game designers.
* Nsider2.com – (www.nsider2.com) Nintendo Insider Forum, offering an online community dedicated to Nintendo entertainment content. The member-based site features bulletin boards, YouTube clips and game reviews.

“Today, online advertising is all about being able to deliver targeted messaging that truly hits the consumer, where, when and how they want,” said Jayson Dubin, president of Intergi. “By adding QJ.net, Evil Avatar, Fpsbanana.com and nSider2.com, we increase our ability to offer direct access to millions of gamers who are spending more of their time online. Any advertiser today looking to connect with anyone who is passionate about gaming and entertainment need look no further than the Intergi network, which is now over 700 websites strong!”

Currently securing an additional round of funding, Intergi has spent the last year investing seed capital to further build out its web-based technologies to deliver more targeted impressions, bolster its sales force and integrate more publishers into its network. Other representation partners include Wizards of the Coast, gamerDNA, K2 Networks and more.

Intergi is a leading online gaming and entertainment advertising network and representation company offering broad and unparalleled access to the $25 billion gaming industry. Offering reach capabilities of over 9 billion page views and 160 million unique visitors each month, Intergi offers targeted advertising placements – site specific, channel-wide and run-of-network – through more than 700 specialized gaming and entertainment categories including massively multiplayer online (MMO) and first person shooter (FPS) genres. Intergi’s global market allows advertisers and publishers to connect from different parts of the world and access a more robust and viable gaming enthusiast. Based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, the company was launched in May 2007 by a team of seasoned gaming industry veterans. For more information, visit www.intergi.com

Not to badmouth the very industry I’m in, but online media is known to be the black sheep when it comes to buying discrepancies. This whitepaper, developed by an authority, comes as a very welcome first step towards setting regulations and guidelines to limit processing errors.

Online Media Buying Facts: the vast majority of operations in regard to online media buys are still manual, in spite of the existance of several 3rd party data processing systems that can be used to manage these buys electronically (Mediaplex, for example). This is causing endless issues, the high discrepancy rate for agencies and advertisers being the most disturbing one.

I’m glad to see that IAB’s new whitepaper was created following input from several major ad agencies (Avenue A/Razorfish, Digitas, MediaVest, and Horizon Interactive) and is structured quite well:
- steps to creating and scheduling an online advertising campaign, broken down to advertiser and publisher level;
- workflow recommendations;
- managing data for insertion orders (IO’s) and invoicing.

Highlights of recommendations:

- using a clear, simple language that both agency and publishers understand and can input into an ad server;
- establish clear billing methods between the agencies and publishers;
- raise awareness of the rich media fees among media buyers.

You can download the full whitepaper here.

Redwood City, CA—April 28, 2008 —YuMe, the largest dedicated advertising network created and optimized for broadband video, said it will make available today the first free platform that will allow any publisher or advertiser to create large private networks for distributing online video advertising.

With NetworkMe, publishers can pool their entire video inventory into an ad network, selling directly to advertisers.  This approach will allow media companies to represent all of their independent properties collectively to media buyers, and to maximize the CPMs and fill–rates across their properties by taking advantage of YuMe’s powerful publisher platform.

“Media companies thrive on selling premium content to advertisers at premium prices,” said Jayant Kadambi, CEO and co–founder of YuMe. “With NetworkMe, we’ve created a way for video publishers to get the advantages of working with a leading ad network without giving up control of their inventory or their brand.”

Today, even the individual sites of large television networks have trouble offering enough ad impressions for large scale video campaigns.  In addition to gaining access to YuMe’s state of the art ad serving and targeting technology, NetworkMe publishers will enjoy unprecedented inventory liquidity.  These publishers will be able to tap into the broader YuMe advertising network if they need additional impressions to fill a campaign, or to release inventory into the YuMe network to increase fill rates.

YuMe’s network already reaches an audience of 47 million unique visitors, connecting advertisers with more than 400 websites that offer ad placement opportunities in more than 150 million video streams of premium content every month.

YuMe offers the only video advertising technology that can dynamically serve, target and optimize video ads in real-time across all digital media platforms, from destination websites to P2P downloads to mobile phones, letting advertisers achieve unprecedented reach with a single buy.  ACE—YuMe’s recently launched Adaptive Campaign Engine—helps publishers achieve the highest fill rates and effective CPMs possible by matching each video ad impression in their inventory to the best money–making opportunity from their own sales team or a third-party seller.

About YuMe
YuMe is the largest dedicated online video ad network and ad management system. With 400+ websites, more than 150 million video streams, and 46.9 million unique visitors, the YuMe network provides both audience scale and quality reach for advertisers. The YuMe ad management system gives advertisers and publishers the unprecedented ability to identify, classify, and track content to ensure brand safety, contextual relevance, controlled syndication, and consistent delivery across all digital media platforms—Web, downloads, mobile, and IPTV. Key YuMe innovations include the first cross–platform ad solution and the ability to serve multiple ad formats and placements through a single, unified system. YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed by Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV Capital and DAG Ventures.

For more information, visit YuMe’s website at www.yume.com and the take2video blog at www.yume.com/blog.