Interactive Local Media 2004 will have a limited number of sponsorships. If you would like to discuss available opportunities, contact Nanci Karas, Executive Director, Conferences, at (609) 921-7200 Ext. 21.

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.

Amacai is the only data provider built on telco-verified data with a singular focus on producing the most complete and accurate marketing data available. Amacai offers enhanced Yellow Page directory information to data-driven organizations that provide business information to subscribers as a service benefit. Amacai goes beyond capturing base data and delivers information including trademarks, services and specialties, and brands carried, that can be used to assist in search and display of Internet Yellow Page businesses. With more business details at hand, you can offer your customers richer options to narrow their search parameters and pinpoint the most suitable business for their needs.

Aptas brings advanced software and database services together to enhance the relevance and value of local search services. Aptas is exclusively focused on leveraging Yellow Pages print ad and web content for advanced local search, navigation and content publishing.

eStara Push to Talk^sm, 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. Experience the quality of eStara web voice at www.estara.com.

 

Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST™) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform spans both Internet and enterprise customers, and elevates search to unprecedented levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium, in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class partners.

More than ever, yellow page publishers have opportunities to grow revenues, manage costs, and execute innovative ways to nurture and deepen relationships with advertisers. At the same time, new competitive threats loom on the horizon, and yellow page publishers must take steps to strengthen their positions and protect market share. There is no doubt that the Kelsey Group was correct when it predicted that, “increasing the quality and functionality of the online yellow page search is the most pressing issue facing the industry”. The i411 Discovery EngineTM is powerful search and retrieval software that enables multi-faceted navigation in combination with full-text search. The patent-pending technology enables a lightning-fast, intuitive search experience that helps consumers to find (or discover) what they are looking for without information overload. Searchable advertising (with categorizations) can help publishers enhance the ROI for advertisers, justify higher advertising rates, and provide a foundation to reinforce traditional yellow page business models online.

Ingenio, Inc. (www.ingenio.com) provides a range of innovative products and services to the Search and Directories industries designed to attract, retain and better monetize advertisers.

The company’s flagship product, the Pay Per Call™ Advertising Platform targets local and non web-oriented businesses with a performance-based, online advertising system that addresses the unique needs and business practices of this huge market segment. Unlike traditional pre-pay and click-based advertising options, Pay Per Call™ allows merchants to drive targeted phone leads - rather than clicks - to their businesses for easy and efficient customer acquisition. Publishers enjoy a turnkey solution with an advanced set of features and functionality designed to attract SME and national advertisers.

Founded in 1999 and backed by blue chip investors, Ingenio is a profitable and privately held San Francisco-based company. Key client relationships include AOL Yellow Pages, SBC SmartPages.com, FindWhat.com, and Microsoft.

Innovectra Corporation is a leading software developer and service provider in the Yellow Pages market. Their products include ActivDirectoryTM, ActivAds, eBillTM and eTearPagesTM . Innovectra's ActivDirectoryTM software publishes Yellow Pages directories on-line, on CD-ROM and on corporate Intranets in the exact look and layout of the print product, featuring search capability by heading, advertiser and keyword. Their ActivAds software can generate incremental on-line revenue for publishers with streaming video, email RFQ, interactive restaurant menus, mapping, electronic product catalogs, web links, computer to phone calling and much more.

Interchange was established and incorporated in March 1999. Originally beginning with just three employees, the company filed its first provisional patents for its ePilot search engine in August 1999. Interchange spent the next several months developing business systems before the official public release of ePilot in November 1999. Today, ePilot is a highly rated pay-per-click search engine and Search Distribution Network. ePilot’s active sales and business development force achieved strong 2003 monthly revenue growth through the aggressive addition of advertisers and search distribution partners to our network. The universal growth of our business has allowed us to further develop our exchange-based distribution infrastructure to serve more syndicated partners and cultivate additional revenue streams.

IPIX AdMission introduces AdMission Directories™ - a hosted media platform for enhanced display ad creation and viewing. AdMission Directories provides newspaper, yellow pages and directories publishers with a turnkey up-sell product that enables local advertisers to better market their businesses, products and services online, without requiring a website or graphics expertise. The results are enhanced display ads rich with key business facts, company logos, product photos, printable coupons and more, integrated directly within search results, allowing consumers to make faster, better informed purchasing decisions. AdMission Directories features IPIX's patented, easy-to-use media management capabilities that have been used by millions of advertisers to enhance advertising listings. AdMission Directories can be easily integrated into any existing directories or local search platform to provide a comprehensive, self-service enhanced online advertising product.

For publishers interested in a world-class turnkey local search & advertising platform already enhanced with AdMission technology, IPIX AdMission has teamed with Interchange Corporation to provide AdMission Directories with Local Direct™. This product combines the best of Interchange Corporation's sophisticated local search technology with IPIX's enhanced display ad technology to deliver a powerful local platform that publishers can use as their own, without incurring significant up-front investment costs. Visit http://www.ipix.com for more information or email us at admission@ipix.com.

MapQuest, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. with offices in Denver, CO and Mountville, PA, is a leading location based services company. It is comprised of three business segments: MapQuest.com, MapQuest Services and MapQuest Mapping Services. Currently ranked within the top 10 most powerful U.S. consumer brands on the Internet by NetRatings and as the number one mapping site and number one directories site by comScore Networks, MapQuest.com served more than 35 million visitors in August 2004. MapQuest Services is the preferred provider of a full range of mapping, routing, and location-enabled software solutions to more than 1,400 leading businesses across key categories including retail, healthcare, financial, real estate, travel, and automotive. MapQuest Mapping Services is a leading global provider of custom-mapping content and map-product development for publishers and corporations, producing more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year.

Mediaspectrum is a world-class team of experts focused on making technology work for businesses. We leverage our technical expertise, our focus on selected industries, and our partnerships with best-of-breed technology companies to help our clients maximize return on relationships. We take pride in our collaborative approach and our proven methodologies. We stake our reputation on a successful track record of building award-winning solutions for industry-leading companies. Mediaspectrum isn't about "software." We're about smart solutions and solid results, built by people who make a commitment to doing it right. But don't take our word for it, talk to our clients. They will tell you about our flexibility, commitment, focus, and unparalleled service. They will talk about trusting Mediaspectrum to optimize their processes, connect with their customers, develop their advertising strategies, and manage their applications.

Planet Discover develops and operates Search Publisher. Search Publisher means you deliver to consumers the best, most information-rich, easy-to-use search results. It means you deliver to businesses qualified leads when customers are ready to buy. It means you create the ability to deliver search-based advertising and take advantage of the fastest growing online advertising and that means revenue and profits. Meaningful search content is a huge opportunity and Planet Discover delivers the technology and services you need to succeed.

SEMPO is a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide. The organization represents the common interests of more than 270 companies and consultants worldwide and provides them with a voice in the marketplace.

With 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 customers include Yahoo!, Rand McNally, ATX technologies, Criticom International, Satronics and Hutchison 3G. 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 can provide services for procuring and integrating these various data sets from start to finish with the customer, achieving the desired application for successful and timely deployment.

TiCORP Interactive was founded in 1995 and specializes in Content Management Portal software, called PowerCentral Portal, which features user-friendly manage-your-own-content tools for corporations that want to standardize and manage web content and web processes, through a scalable web development tool. The PowerCentral Portal targets several vertical markets including the following: City Directories, eMerchant Directory applications, Government web sites, and Health web sites. As well TiCORP develops Internet based Customer Marketing Relationship applications, such as Newsletters, Surveys, Polls, and Calendars. The TiCORP City Directories can be reviewed at the Yellow Pages Group sites.

TiCORP Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anzer IT Solutions, which specializes in IT services to industry, manufacturing, healthcare, government and telecommunications sectors. Anzer also offers project work, contract work and contract workers, internationally located remote contract employees (outsourcing). Anzer is based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

For more information about TiCORP Interactive or Anzer IT Solutions please visit our sites at www.ticorp.com and www.anzer.com or contact sales at (905) 891-6166 x39 and x26.

TrafficLeader helps hundreds of companies doing business online to build and track their mission-critical search marketing campaigns. TrafficLeader specializes in driving quality traffic to your Web site from the Web's most visited search engines, and optimizing your listings in those engines to maximize your return on ad spend (ROAS). The bottom line: Through its trusted relationships with major search engines, TrafficLeader brings clients targeted search engine clicks and sales they would otherwise be missing.

Incorporated in January 2000, TrafficLeader has evolved from a small, Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firm into a leading search engine marketing company, offering paid inclusion, SEO, bid management, and feed management services. Customer service, search engine relationships, proprietary technologies, and years of experience help our clients to reach and exceed all of their search engine marketing goals.

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.

YPsolutions (www.ypsolutions.com) is a leading provider of Internet technology to the yellow pages industry. The firm's "Boss" product line featuring PageBoss™, ListBoss™, CityBoss™, DataBoss™, WebBoss™, CDBoss™ and MobileBoss™, is the most comprehensive suite of Internet and mobile interactive software applications serving the yellow pages industry. YPsolutions is focused on enabling yellow pages publishers to easily and cost effectively transform their local print directories into revenue-generation online and mobile products while maintaining their brand identity. YPsolutions is located at 3445 North Causeway Blvd. #401, Metairie, Louisiana 70002. For more information please contact Don Jones, President at (504) 297-1802 or jones@ypsolutions.com