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Acxiom

Acxiom Corporation (Nasdaq:ACXM) integrates data, services and technology to create and deliver Customer and Information management solutions for many of the largest, most respected companies in the world. The core components of Acxiom's innovative solutions are Customer Data Integration (CDI) technology, data, database services, IT outsourcing, consulting and analytics, and privacy leadership. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with locations throughout the United States, and in the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Japan. For more information, visit www.acxiom.com.

Agendize

AgendiZe provides a suite of innovative social networking tools for online publishers that improve conversion and user experience, creating more value for advertisers. With AgendiZe Click to Call, Save for Later, and Share with Others, consumers can call advertisers directly, or they can store or share web content to over a dozen different devices and technologies, including: instant messaging, email, mobile phones, address books, word/PDF and online social bookmarkings.

Founded in 2002, AgendiZe currently has deployed more than 26 million communication buttons worldwide. Key customers include YellowPages Group (Canada), KellySearch (USA, UK), Infoserve (UK), 118218 LeNuméro (France), Svaret (Sweden) and QDQ Media (Spain). The company has offices in the U.S. and Europe and is a member of the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), Association of Directory Publishers (ADP), Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and EADP.

amdocs

Amdocs combines innovative software products and services with deep business knowledge to deliver true integrated customer management to the world’s leading directory publishers and communications service providers. Our best-in-class products seamlessly link all business processes – content management, marketing, sales, production, billing, customer service, and analytics – resulting in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Our expertise in managed services results in cost savings and process efficiencies. Amdocs enables its customers to implement their business strategy with rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. Amdocs deep knowledge of the industry provides publishers with a unique business perspective resulting in best-in-class solutions.

CallSource

Los Angeles-based CallSource delivers a call measurement system that currently tracks over 60,000 incoming phone numbers by advertising source. Clients include many top traditional media and online advertisers. The company delivers detailed reporting and analysis to our clients on advertising and telephone sales efficiency. CallSource was founded in 1996 and has 45 employees.

Click4Talk.com, based in Pleasanton, CA, is the new generation of 'Click for Talk' technology. Enabling live voice communication via the Internet over both PSTN and VoIP, Click4Talk is employed on websites, directories, and in email and online advertising campaigns to improve sales acquisition, customer conversion and retention. With Click4Talk's very low cost hosted-service model and remarkable ease of setup, it is finding rapid adoption by SMEs and in local search. Click4Talk's service and powerful real-time reporting system is fully automated, perfectly scalable, flexible, customizable and can be quickly and easily integrated into reseller/partners ' systems. The Click4Talk service provides a complementary, value-added offering to end-user clients and an excellent additional revenue stream for partners.

Deep Data

DeepData is a strategic information solutions provider to the Yellow Pages industry. Our data products range from white and yellow pages listings and sales leads for print publishers to national, regional and local Yellow Pages files for Internet directory publishers. Our services run the gamut from data entry and hygiene to advertiser profiling and intelligence.

eStara

eStara Push to Talksm, the most powerful online customer contact solution on the market is driving new revenue opportunities for online directories. Push to Talk voice-enables directory searches and store locator results giving online visitors the power to push a button and speak with a company representative right from an online listing. eStara Push to Talk delivers real-world results for customers including Continental Airlines, J. Crew, Club Med, FirstUSA and Sprint. to an eStara representative right now. Experience the quality of eStara web voice at www.estara.com.

FindWhat.com

FindWhat.com (NASDAQ: FWHT) is a leading developer and provider of performance-based marketing services for the Internet. Our mission is to provide to our clients, both advertisers and partners, the highest returns on their marketing investment and the highest quality of customer service—delivered in a warm, friendly, and professional manner at all times. Our primary service is operating online marketplaces that connect the businesses and consumers that are most likely to purchase specific goods and services to the entities that provide those goods and services. We are dedicated to enhancing and augmenting online marketing for the benefit of all stakeholders: from Internet users, to advertisers, to content sites, to investors through continual improvements in service offering, technical innovations, and results that augment everyone's bottom line.

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.

Overture

Overture, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo!, Inc., is a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, providing new and more powerful ways for businesses and customers to connect online. Overture pioneered commercial search by aligning the interests of consumers, its more than 100,000 active, paying advertisers and its distribution partners, including Yahoo!, MSN and CNN. Overture offers a full suite of Internet search products and search-related services.

PremierGuide

PremierGuide is the leading provider of search-based Internet Yellow Page (IYP) solutions. We help directory publishers move their print directories online – and enable consumers to search these online directories as easily as they surf the web using Google. In addition, our integrated local search (PPC) technology enables directory publishers to bring paid search to local advertisers.

Telcontar

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, Telcontar is a worldwide provider of total location-based solutions for in-vehicle, Internet and wireless platforms. Using the Telcontar premier spatial software platform, our patented automated user notification technology and carefully chosen industry partners, Telcontar can help its customers provide complete, real-time, highly scalable solutions for navigation, mobile safety, security and convenience. Our revolutionary, best-of-breed, map management software and multi-dimensional spatial data access products give location-based service providers the ability to easily integrate digital maps and traditional database content drawn from multiple sources for fast, acurate access to the user. Telcontar solutions are source, platform, and device-independent, with the flexibility to be integrated with a variety of in-dash and handheld devices, as well as with traditional PC computing arrangements. Our solutions are highly scalable and can be changed in real-time and deliver information in real-time. Delivery of information to the user is seamless.

Yahoo!

When Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students, David Filo and Jerry Yang, it began as their hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information, and make purchases. Today, Yahoo! Inc. is the Internet's leading global consumer and business services company, offering a comprehensive network of essential services for Web users around the globe as well as businesses of all sizes. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) is the leader in traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is also the most recognized and valuable Internet brand globally, reaching over 237 million unique users in 25 countries and 13 languages.

YellowPages.com

For 125 years people have trusted the Yellow Pages to deliver information on businesses in their area. Who else would they turn to on the Internet, but YellowPages.com? YellowPages.com is the interactive Yellow Pages. The most recognized and most frequently accessed business directory service on the Internet. 15 million searches from 7 million unique users occur every month on YellowPages.com. Connecting people to the best local source for goods and services, detailing comprehensive business information including maps, links to featured business websites, as well as other valuable tools and resources. With more than 14 million business listings available, YellowPages.com provides almost instant access to anyone with an Internet connection who is looking for a product, a service or a specific business. Be it local, state-wide or nationally across the USA. All at a click of a mouse.

YP.net

YP.Com is America's Online Yellow Pages.™ We offer businesses a simple and affordable way of creating a web presence and marketing their products and services to local audiences online. The company offers an Internet Advertising Package which provides advertisers preferred placement in our yellow page search results and their own Mini Webpage™ where they can provide potential customers with details about their products and services.


Media Sponsors

iMedia Communications

iMedia Communications, Inc. is a trade publisher and event producer serving interactive media and marketing industries. Its mission is to advance the business of interactive media and marketing by serving as the primary conduit between buyers and sellers, and to inspire marketers of all types to explore and embrace interactive marketing strategies. iMedia Communications produces iMediaConnection.com, the iMediaConnection Newsletter, the iMedia Summit and the iMedia Brand Summit. The company also owns iMediaLearning, a distance learning company serving the interactive media industry. For more information, please visit us at www.imediaconnection.com.

SEMPO

SEMPO is a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide. SEMPO was formed by companies and consultants that believe in SEM as a viable, effective method for generating demand and sales on the web. SEMPO exists to fill the gaps in awareness and understanding of SEM, including educating marketing managers worldwide about what SEM is and how properly implemented SEM programs can provide some of the highest returns on investment possible in the marketing world today.


This event will have a limited number of sponsorships. If you would like to discuss available
opportunities, contact Nanci A. Karas, Executive Director, Conferences, at (609) 921-7200 Ext. 21.