Migration from DoubleClick Ad Serving System Delivers Significant Cost Savings

ADTECH Head Dirk Freytag Promoted to Platform-A Senior Vice President

NEW YORK – AOL’s Platform-A, the leading advertising platform in the U.S. with a 91% reach across the Internet*, announced that it will now offer advertisers the full-service benefits of ADTECH’s ad serving system for delivering brand messages to their customers. The company previously utilized DoubleClick and has now replaced those systems with ADTECH’s technology, which lets Platform-A deliver ad campaigns across AOL’s MediaGlow properties.

“The ad serving switch from DoubleClick to ADTECH is a major milestone for Platform-A and our advertising partners. Acquiring ADTECH was a smart, strategic move that saves the company millions of dollars each year and allows us to more effectively serve display, video, and mobile campaigns across the MediaGlow properties and our third-party networks,” said Greg Coleman, President of Platform-A. “In January, Platform-A reached more than 174 million unique visitors*, and now that we’ve switched our ad serving to ADTECH, we’re in a stronger position to help advertisers reach those consumers more efficiently and build brands that perform online.”
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SAN FRANCISCO – Mission AdWorks (www.missionadworks.com) launches as the nation’s first socially responsible advertising network. Mission AdWorks connects publishers, bloggers and other site owners who are making a positive impact on the world to marketers who are looking for an engaged audience of consumers with which to develop a deeper affinity relationship that reflects their values.

By allowing publishers to aggregate their ad space together into thematic verticals – Environmental/Green Community, Social Enterprise Community, Youth Media & Community – Mission AdWorks gives advertisers a way to reach audiences that are difficult to identify and reach in a highly targeted manner on the open marketplace.

The national marketplace model benefits all parties involved, while doing meaningful good in the world and reaching the highly motivated, action oriented, influential, yet difficult to reach, socially-responsible audience, using behavioral social values to get as close to this target consumer as possible.
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SAN FRANCISCO – LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), the search advertising network and management company, announced that Gill Brown has joined the company as Vice President of Advertising Sales. Brown most recently served on the sales leadership team of Tribal Fusion. Brown will be based out of LookSmart’s San Francisco headquarters and will report to Sr. Vice President and General Manager Jonathan Ewert. He will be responsible for developing new business relationships, forming strategic partnerships and managing LookSmart’s existing sales team.

“We are very pleased to have Gill join our sales and management teams,” said Ewert. “As a veteran of Internet media, Gill brings with him a wealth of experience, having held leadership positions with Yahoo!, Deja.com and CMP Media. I look forward to working with Gill as we build on LookSmart’s success in the market and seek to enhance our leadership position in search advertising networks.”

From 2000 to 2007, Brown worked at GoTo.com, Overture Services, and Yahoo! Search Marketing where he evangelized the paid-search advertising model for Yahoo! and built the company’s entire Northwest Regional Sales operation.
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RESTON, Va. – LucidMedia (www.lucidmedia.com), an online contextual display advertising network and technology platform,  announced the launch of Verified Inventory (www.verifiedinventory.com), a new contextualization offering that combines the company’s patented natural language processing technology with an industry leading base of more than 14,000 content categories to ensure that online advertisers and agencies deploy their advertising safely and accurately, in only the Web pages and categories most relevant to them. With hundreds of real-time content filters, Verified Inventory also protects advertisers from having their online ads appear with or next to content that they may deem to be objectionable.

With growing industry-wide demand from advertisers and agencies for increased levels of transparency, brand safety, and user engagement, LucidMedia developed the Verified Inventory program to address all three of these issues and more. Verified Inventory gives advertisers and their agencies access to higher levels of:
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Company Cited as Leading Technology Enabler at AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC 2009

RESTON, Va. – LucidMedia (www.lucidmedia.com), an online contextual display advertising network and technology platform, announced that it has been selected to the 2009 OnMedia 100 List. The OnMedia 100 Award is given to the top 100 private, emerging technology companies in the advertising, publishing, marketing, branding and public relations spaces. LucidMedia was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

”We are very pleased to be recognized with this honor, as LucidMedia has made many significant strides during the past year, ranging from our introducing the industry’s first Spanish-language contextual advertising platform to distributing our technology across the Yahoo! Right Media Exchange and a growing base of other partners,” said Ajay Sravanapudi, LucidMedia President and CEO. “We are extremely well-positioned for continued progress throughout 2009 and are grateful to the AlwaysOn team for recognizing our efforts to-date.”
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Click Fraud Traffic from Botnets Breaks New Barrier Growing to 31.4 Percent

AUSTIN, Texas – Click Forensics™, Inc. released industry pay-per-click (PPC) fraud figures for the fourth quarter 2008 from the search advertising industry’s leading independent click fraud reporting service – the Click Fraud Index® (www.ClickFraudIndex.com).

Now in its fourth year, the Click Fraud Index monitors and reports on data gathered from the Click Fraud Network™, which provides statistically significant industry PPC data collected from online advertising campaigns for both large and small companies across all the leading search engines. Key findings from data reported for Q4 2008 include:
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New Ways to Improve and Measure Ad Performance, Heightened Privacy Concerns and Online Video Are Trends to Watch

SAN FRANCISCO – 1020 Placecast, the first online advertising solution to target highly sought-after audiences using location-based information across the Web, mobile, Wi-Fi networks and email, announced interactive advertising trends to watch in 2009. Trends to watch include better metrics to understand effectiveness, increased concerns about user privacy and mainstream video adoption by online advertisers.

Looking back, 2008 marked a turning point in online advertising. Despite the slowing of growth in overall advertising spending, online has finally achieved its place at the table in mainstream media plans and continues to prove its value relative to traditional media. It was also a year for increased public scrutiny of industry practices as the medium achieves scale and prominence with advertisers.
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Top Provider of Search Advertising Quality Management Honored in Internet Award Category

AUSTIN, Texas – Click Forensics™, Inc., the industry leader in scoring, auditing, and improving traffic quality for the online advertising community, today announced that it was named a winner of the Austin Business Journal Tech Innovation Awards. This year’s Awards recognize the most promising technologies developed in the central Texas region in 2008. Click Forensics was recognized in the Internet Award category for its market leadership in helping to quantify the size of the industry click fraud problem and for developing breakthrough technologies that help to mitigate the impact click fraud and low traffic quality have on search advertisers and publishers.

“Austin’s rich technology community is known for developing solutions that impact technology on a global scale,” said Colin Pope, editor of the Austin Business Journal. “The competition for the 2008 Tech Innovation Awards has been strong and we are honored to recognize Click Forensics as a winner.”
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