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About Compete

Compete provides marketers with actionable digital intelligence to improve their online and offline marketing effectiveness. Hundreds of clients, including the world’s leading brands, rely on Compete to help them create more effective web sites and more targeted advertising campaigns. Compete’s products include online measurement tools available at Compete.com, as well as deep consumer and competitor insights in the automotive, consumer goods, financial services, media, retail, telecom and travel industries.

Compete is a TNS Media company. To learn more about Compete, please visit www.competeinc.com. And to increase your digital intelligence, visit www.compete.com or our award-winning blog at www.blog.compete.com.

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About Operative

Established in 2000, Operative is a global organization that provides its clients with technology and services to improve all aspects of their advertising operations lifecycle, from pre-sale to collections, trafficking to reconciliation. Operative Dashboard™, an ASP software solution, is an end-to-end advertising revenue management (ARM) platform that enables media publishers to automate contract management, product packaging and pricing, inventory management, campaign reporting and revenue recognition. Operative’s client base includes The Wall Street Journal, MSN, Smart Money, iVillage, NBC Universal and National Public Media. More information about Operative can be found at http://www.operative.com.

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About AudienceScience

AudienceScience is a technology leader providing marketers with the control that enables universal access to audiences. Their integrated audience platform, The Audience Gateway™, drives digital marketing success. Accessing 250 billion data insights into 386 million people worldwide, AudienceScience empowers marketers with the intelligence and control to execute effective global campaigns. Since 2003, AudienceScience has delivered over 100,000 targeted campaigns for clients including American Airlines, Financial Times, Gannett, New York Times Digital, NikkeiNet, SKECHERS and Wall Street Journal Digital. For more information, please visit www.AudienceScience.com.

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About Rubicon Project

Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Rubicon Project launched in 2007 with a mission to automate the $65 billion global online advertising industry. The company’s digital advertising technology and data platform, REVV for Publishers™, is engineered to accelerate revenue for premium publishers. Backed by $42 million in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund, the Rubicon Project serves premium publishers like NBC Universal, Gannett and CareerBuilder; optimizing more than 50 billion ads each month and reaching more than 500 million unique Internet users. the Rubicon Project also helps ad sales channels around the world gain access to precise audience-segmented inventory, at broad scale.

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About Yahoo!

Yahoo!’s vision is to be the center of people’s online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! offers marketers the opportunity to leverage those experiences and reach the right audience. Yahoo! combines the science to target an audience with the art to create engagement and the scale to reach the right audience in meaningful numbers. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit advertising.yahoo.com/network.

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About Adify

Adify provides technology, services, and expertise so advertisers, entrepreneurs and media companies can strategically expand their reach through thriving vertical ad networks. With Adify, publishers sell ad space to top brands; advertisers efficiently reach highly engaged audiences; and brands engage with consumer communities that influence opinions and offer valuable market insights.

Since 2005 Adify’s Network Builder technology platform and our experienced team have powered more than 200 vertical ad networks; connected more than 15,000 hand-selected, highly influential publishers; and supported the passions of millions of visitors who demand the quality content only available on specialty publishers’ sites.

www.adify.com

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About Collective

Collective is a leading media and technology solutions provider for display advertising. Founded in 2005, the company delivers targeted audiences to advertising agencies, brand advertisers and publishers. Collective's industry expertise provides a strategic advantage to its clients by leveraging insights to reach audiences. Its flagship solutions are the Collective Network®, the original transparent network for brands; Collective Video®, the world’s first audience-driven video network; Collective Direct™, the high quality network for direct marketers; and AMP®, the leading ad network administration, audience targeting and reach extension platform. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.collective.com.

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About Microsoft Advertising

As gaming continues to grow in popularity, advertisers have an unprecedented opportunity to connect with highly engaged users around the globe. With Gaming Solutions from Microsoft Advertising, you can more effectively reach your target audience—whether it’s women or men, teens or adults, casual gamers or hard-core gaming enthusiasts.

With Xbox, Zune, MSN Games, Games on Windows Live Messenger, and in-game advertising with the Massive Network, you can generate brand awareness and interact with an audience that is influential, social, and spends a significant amount of time online.

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About BBC.com

The BBC is one of the most respected brands on the Internet and offers up to the minute international news, business, sports, weather, lifestyle and technology content and in depth analysis. With staff in 43 global offices, the BBC provides a truly international perspective on world events and entertainment. BBC.com is the online expression of the BBC outside of the UK and is run by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. In November 2007, the site introduced advertising outside of the UK to an audience of 26* million unique users generating revenues to reinvest in BBC content and services. *Source: comScore – 6 months average (Jan to June 08).

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About Buzzwire

Buzzwire is the first and only user-driven mobile site featuring the best of the mobile Web. Users can discover, review, and engage with the most popular stories, sites, videos, music, photos, and people pulsing through the mobile community. Free to consumers, Buzzwire works on any mobile phone with Web access. The company's history of innovation in pioneering mobile Web and video services is marked by deals to power Verizon's m.vcast and viral video services for AT&T and Alltel. For more information, go to www.buzzwire.com.

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About Casale Media

Casale Media is not your typical "ad network." We're a long-established communications technology firm with a core focus on premium media, accountable innovation, and smart technology. We exclusively serve the needs of large, top-rated web publishers, Fortune 500 brands and leading international media agencies. Our business is selling intelligently optimized brand name display media within our highly controlled, "closed-loop" environment, MediaNet. The campaigns that we execute deliver visible results, unequalled flexibility, and total peace of mind to our publishers and clients alike.

MediaNet provides roughly 70 percent coverage of the U.S. online audience through its select collection of 3,000 actively monitored premium properties.

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About Google

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

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About The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI)

The Jordan, Edmiston Group, the leading investment bank for media, information, marketing services and related technologies, has completed over 500 M&A transactions since 1987.

Recent digital media and technology transactions include:

Edgar Online secured $12 million from Bain Capital Ventures;
WebMediaBrands sold Internet.com to QuinStreet;
Vente (online permission-based marketing) was sold to Q Interactive;
mSnap (SMS mobile ad network) was sold to SmartReply;
Acerno (online behavioral targeting network) was sold to Akamai;
M:Metrics (mobile measurement) was sold to comScore; and many others.

For more information visit www.jegi.com or contact our Managing Directors at 212-754-0710.

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About Keibi Technologies, Inc.

Keibi Technologies provides solutions and services for the classification and analysis of user generated content, allowing our customers to safely leverage and better monetize this fast growing medium. The Keibi Moderation Suite allows publishers, ad networks, and social media platforms to protect their members, advertisers, and their own brands by quickly identifying and removing content that violates a community's terms of service. These capabilities are offered both as a hosted solution for use by moderation and customer service teams and as a turn-key service for those companies who would like to completely outsource the moderation effort. For more information, visit www.keibitech.com.

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About Peer39

Peer39 is recognized as the global leader in semantic advertising technology. We help networks and exchanges, agencies, premium publishers and emerging advertising platforms boost ROI by leveraging semantic targeting capabilities while protecting advertiser brands in real time. Using natural language processing and machine learning, Peer39's patented algorithms increase the value of online content by understanding meaning and sentiment, and matching the most relevant ad to the page. The company was founded in 2006 by engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs from leading Internet companies and academic research centers. Headquartered in New York City, Peer39 maintains an R&D center in Israel.

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About Theorem

A global leader in online media operations and reporting, Theorem’s expertise and experience maximizes the power of clients’ campaigns. From creative design, to optimized ad placement, and exacting and innovative data analysis, Theorem helps measure and achieve marketing goals.

Using combinations of scale, expertise and operational maturity Theorem delivers creative services, media operations and reporting to some of the most sophisticated digital marketers in the world.

Since 2002, leading publishers, brands, ad network and digital agencies have leveraged Theorem’s expertise and experience to scale and supplement their digital media operations in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East.

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About Advertising Age

Advertising Age (adage.com) is a multi-platform media brand delivering news and intelligence to the advertising, marketing and media industries, as well as targeted strategies for brand building and messaging in today's complex business world.

From the digital community to the entertainment industries, from the Hispanic market to the global stage itself, agencies, media and marketers all turn to Ad Age print, digital and special event brands for the insights and analysis they need to succeed.

To find out more about sponsorship opportunities please contact Phil Ardizzone, Director of Event Sales, at phil@iab.net.