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		<title>Greg O&#8217;Brien Joins QuinStreet as Senior Vice President, Business Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) &#8212; QuinStreet, Inc. QNST +0.63% , the leader in vertical marketing and media online, announced that Greg O&#8217;Brien has joined the company as senior vice president of business development. Greg brings extensive industry experience and contacts to QuinStreet. He most recently [...]]]></description>
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<p id="">&#8220;We are excited to have Greg join our senior management team,&#8221; said Doug Valenti, QuinStreet CEO. &#8220;We have known and respected Greg&#8217;s work in the industry for a long time. He is well regarded for his contributions to industry standards and client service. Greg is an excellent fit with our values and strategies, and with his new role here. I expect him to hit the ground running, and to add great value short- and long-term.&#8221;</p>
<p id="">At QuinStreet, O&#8217;Brien will act as a senior leader in client development and on building performance marketing partnerships with large media organizations. &#8220;QuinStreet is the clear market leader in terms of quality and scale,&#8221; explains O&#8217;Brien. &#8220;The company is best positioned to deliver the most compliant, high-quality solutions and products to clients. QuinStreet&#8217;s values and ethics dovetail with mine, and I am extremely happy to join this team.&#8221;</p>
<p id="">About QuinStreet</p>
<p id="">QuinStreet, Inc. <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/QNST?link=MW_story_quote"> QNST +0.63% </a> is one of the largest Internet marketing and media companies in the world. QuinStreet is committed to providing consumers and businesses with the information they need to research, find and select the products, services and brands that meet their needs. The company is a leader in visitor-friendly marketing practices. For more information, please visit QuinStreet.com.</p>
<p id="">This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com</p>
<p id="">SOURCE: QuinStreet, Inc.</p>
<pre>        CONTACT: Katrina Boydon
        (775) 321-3601
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		<title>Experian Agrees to Sell LowerMyBills, ClassesUSA, and Pricegrabber for $175m</title>
		<link>http://blog.leadcritic.com/company-news/lowermybills-company-news/experian-agrees-to-sell-lowermybills-classesusa-and-pricegrabber-for-175m</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was announced today that Experian has come to terms with India based Ybrant Digital to sell LowerMyBills, ClassesUSA, and PriceGrabber for $175m. The company combined 2012 revenue ending in march was reported to be $238m, with a EBIT of $20m. The details of the agreement include: To divest of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Fcompany-news%2Flowermybills-company-news%2Fexperian-agrees-to-sell-lowermybills-classesusa-and-pricegrabber-for-175m'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Fcompany-news%2Flowermybills-company-news%2Fexperian-agrees-to-sell-lowermybills-classesusa-and-pricegrabber-for-175m' data-shr_title='Experian+Agrees+to+Sell+LowerMyBills%2C+ClassesUSA%2C+and+Pricegrabber+for+%24175m'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>It was announced today that Experian has come to terms with India based Ybrant Digital to sell LowerMyBills, ClassesUSA, and PriceGrabber for $175m. The company combined 2012 revenue ending in march was reported to be $238m, with a EBIT of $20m.</p>
<p>The details of the agreement include:</p>
<ul>
<li>To divest of pricegrabber and North America online lead generation activities</li>
<li>Agreed consideration is US$175M, consisting of US$100M <a id="itxthook0" href="http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=s40q7nmg6uzjajw&amp;ArticleHeadline=BRIEFExperian_to_sell_PriceGrabber_some_online_ops_to_Ybrant#" rel="nofollow">cash</a> at closing and a US$75M <a id="itxthook1" href="http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode=s40q7nmg6uzjajw&amp;ArticleHeadline=BRIEFExperian_to_sell_PriceGrabber_some_online_ops_to_Ybrant#" rel="nofollow">loan</a> note</li>
<li>Expects to realize cash tax relief of US$120M in respect of the transaction over the next two years</li>
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<p>The sell of these companies come at quite a discount from when they were initially purchased by Experian. LowerMyBills was purchased for $330m, ClassesUSA for approximately $60m, and PriceGrabber for $485m. Now being bundled at $175m.</p>
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		<title>All Web Leads Announces Significant Changes to Lead Distribution Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lead Critic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Web Leads, a leading online sales lead generation company serving the US Insurance industry, announced today that it is implementing new rules regarding the sale of its leads to its customers in order to increase the quality of leads in the market. The new rules include restrictions on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fall-web-leads-announces-significant-changes-to-lead-distribution-rules'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fall-web-leads-announces-significant-changes-to-lead-distribution-rules' data-shr_title='All+Web+Leads+Announces+Significant+Changes+to+Lead+Distribution+Rules+'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>All Web Leads, a leading online sales lead generation company serving the US Insurance industry, announced today that it is implementing new rules regarding the sale of its leads to its customers in order to increase the quality of leads in the market. The new rules include restrictions on the sale of its leads, additional identifying information that is provided along with the leads and requirements for affiliates who sell leads to the company.</p>
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<p>All Web Leads has notified its indirect customers (those that do not directly sell insurance themselves) that they will no longer be eligible to purchase leads from the company unless they can identify the direct customer on whose behalf they are purchasing the lead. All Web Leads is taking this action in order to eliminate the “ping-chaining” in the indirect marketplace that makes it difficult to enforce the rules regarding the use of Internet leads. All Web Leads believes that this action will allow the company’s leads to perform better for the Insurance professionals that purchase them.</p>
<p>“The indiscriminant and rampant overselling of leads in the Insurance marketplace is hurting everyone,” said Bill Daniel, CEO of All Web Leads. “The lack of accountability has made it difficult for our customers to distinguish high-quality leads and has hurt performance. By restricting the sale of our leads we want to eliminate the opportunities for operators who are taking value from us and our customers.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The LeadsCouncil’s mission, amongst many, is to encourage processes and best practices that improve lead quality for the end lead buyer, and subsequently the industry as a whole,” said Michael Ferree, Director of the LeadsCouncil, an independent association of buyers and sellers in the online lead generation market. “We are very happy to see LeadsCouncil members working together to improve transparency and lead quality in the Insurance vertical. We are encouraged to see All Web Leads take initiative and address lead quality head-on. For many in the industry the timing is perfect and we hope many others follow suit.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition, All Web Leads will now include campaign source information along with the leads it sells to insurance agents, brokers and carriers. Including this information will enable customers to provide more actionable information about lead performance and enable All Web Leads to use that feedback to tune its online marketing activities towards improved performance. All Web Leads will also provide a unique certificate identifying the source of the lead, using technology from LeadiD.com, to any customer that requests that information.</p>
<p>All Web Leads has also notified its marketing partners that any leads purchased must include source campaign identifying information, and/or a LeadiD.com identifier (which can be generated by activating a free LeadiD.com account), in order to be eligible for sale to the company. Accepting only leads with this granular information about sourcing will also provide the company with information it can use to further improve quality for its customers.</p>
<p>These changes follow on significant investments the company has made in commercial and proprietary verification and fraud detection technologies over the past year. The investments continue to provide the company the ability to identify leads that will perform best for its customers. All Web Leads recently won awards in the Leads360 2012 Lead Industry Report examining quality and performance in online lead generation. All Web Leads was ranked first place in Insurance Lead Volume Growth, a measure of same-customer increase in lead purchases, and first place in Lead Qualification Rate, a measure of the contact-ability and qualification of the information contained in the leads. All Web Leads also received the award for second place in Lead Conversion Rate, a measure of agent success in selling policies against the leads.</p>
<p>For more information about All Web Leads’ commitment to lead quality please visit <a href="http://www.allwebleads.com/quality">http://www.allwebleads.com/quality</a></p>
<p>About All Web Leads<br />
Founded in 2005, All Web Leads (<a href="http://www.allwebleads.com">http://www.allwebleads.com</a>) is a leading online sales lead provider for the U.S. insurance industry. The company delivers real-time, targeted, high-quality sales leads to top insurance producers. All Web Lead’s technology-driven approach to online marketing helps bring together agents with qualified customers who are actively searching online for insurance products. The company&#8217;s award-winning insurance lead programs, All Web Leads and InsuranceLeads.com, lead the industry in conversion, qualification and volume according to recent surveys. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.
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		<title>LSF INTERACTIVE AND GEARY GROUP ANNOUNCE MERGER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA (April 18, 2012) – LSF Network, Inc., a global online marketing and media buying group, parent of LSF Interactive, and Geary Group, Inc., a San Diego-based leading digital marketing agency announced today they have completed an agreement to merge and create one of the world’s foremost independent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Flsf-interactive-and-geary-group-announce-merger'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Flsf-interactive-and-geary-group-announce-merger' data-shr_title='LSF+INTERACTIVE+AND+GEARY+GROUP+ANNOUNCE+MERGER'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">San Francisco, CA (April 18, 2012) – LSF Network, Inc., a global online marketing and media buying group, parent of LSF Interactive, and Geary Group, Inc., a San Diego-based leading digital marketing agency announced today they have completed an agreement to merge and create one of the world’s foremost independent digital marketing agencies. The merger is uniting performance-driven digital marketing and advertising services with creative web development capabilities and local, mobile and social marketing solutions</span>.With over 200 people worldwide, spread across five offices in the United States, two in Europe and one in Asia, the new group named Geary LSF Group (<a href="http://www.gearylsf.com/">www.gearylsf.com</a>) provides full service digital marketing agency capabilities to a rich roster of clients across the US and Europe.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> “Geary Group is a nationally recognized performance-driven agency. This merger brings together world-class services along the digital continuum, DAOR status and enriches our ability to provide integrated online marketing to global consumer brands and retailers,” said Daniel Laury, founder, President and CEO of LSF Network and LSF Interactive, and now President and CEO of the Geary LSF Group.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">“We share a results-driven approach with LSF Interactive, a global leader in online performance marketing, and look forward to delivering innovative campaigns together and strengthening the breadth of services we are providing to some of the world’s best known brands,” said Andreas Roell, Geary Group, Inc. Chairman and CEO, who will serve as Chairman of the Geary LSF Group.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The new agency’s full service capabilities include strategic planning, analytics, digital advertising, online media buying, search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), reputation management, pay per click advertising, local, mobile, and social media marketing, creative design and web site development. It also offers international marketing and advertising services with its large presence in Europe. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">LSF Network, Inc. was represented in this transaction by Newforth Partners, recently merged into Woodside Capital Partners LLC, an M&amp;A advisory and investment banking firm headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Terms of the deal were not released.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">About LSF Network, Inc.</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> LSF Network, parent of LSF Interactive, is an online marketing and media buying agency that uses results-driven digital marketing solutions, tools and services to lead brands to dominate their industries and generate more revenue per campaign. Headquartered in San Francisco, the 110-people strong LSF Network Group has offices on two continents and manages campaigns for a roster of direct accounts worldwide that include ClubMed, Waterford Wedgewood, Royal Doulton, Career Education Corporation, LSI, Aramark Refreshment Services, Unigroup, Kelly Services, Target, LastMinuteTravel.com, Le Figaro, France24 and several more. For more information, please visit http://www.lsfinteractive.com and http://www.lsfnetwork.com.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>About Geary Group, Inc.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Geary Group is a digital holding company providing next generation digital marketing services and operating under three divisions: Geary Interactive, Geary PMG and Geary SEO. As one of the nation’s foremost independent digital agencies, Geary Group acts as digital Agency of Record and manages campaigns for a roster of ROI-focused companies including WD-40, BumbleBee Tuna, MobiTV, Covad Communications (now Megapath) and  Kyocera amongst several others. The agency is regularly recognized as one of the San Diego area’s fastest-growing private companies and best places to work. Geary is headquartered in San Diego with an office in San Francisco. For additional information, please visit http://www.gearygroup.com.</span>
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		<title>ADP Digital Marketing Building Cambridge Analytics Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE, WA – February 28, 2012 – ADP Dealer Services (NASDAQ: ADP), and its Digital Marketing group, announced that it has acquired Autotegrity from Link Ventures and Cogo Labs to form the nucleus of an expanding facility focused on the application of science to optimize the online shopping experience of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fadp-digital-marketing-building-cambridge-analytics-center'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fadp-digital-marketing-building-cambridge-analytics-center' data-shr_title='ADP+Digital+Marketing+Building+Cambridge+Analytics+Center'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>SEATTLE, WA – February 28, 2012 – ADP Dealer Services (NASDAQ: ADP), and its Digital Marketing group, announced that it has acquired Autotegrity from Link Ventures and Cogo Labs to form the nucleus of an expanding facility focused on the application of science to optimize the online shopping experience of consumers as they progress from inspiration to purchase.  ADP Digital Marketing, based in Seattle, has built the largest data analytics team in the automotive industry, now with over 80 professionals.  The Autotegrity acquisition strengthens ADPs capabilities with world-class online traffic campaign management and site conversion analytics competencies.   The company anticipates doubling the research, production and science staff in its new Cambridge offices over the next two years, leveraging the great analytics talent being produced by local universities.</p>
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<p>Working with leading automotive manufacturers, automotive dealers, online advertisers and advertising networks, ADP Digital Marketing’s Cobalt unit has developed deep insights into the online journey of automotive shoppers.  These insights enable consumers to more quickly progress to purchase at a lower total cost of advertising and sales.  Cobalt’s success in delivering highly effective advertising solutions has fueled rapid growth and has made it the clear market leader in digital marketing solutions for automotive dealers and their manufacturer partners.  As part of ADP, Cobalt benefits from the financial strength and stability of one of the world’s most respected companies.</p>
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<p>“The Autotegrity team has built a very successful business based on the application of math and science in understanding, and acting on, consumer intent in the automotive digital marketing space,” said John Vicidomino, Vice President and General Manager of Autotegrity.  “ADP Digital Marketing shares that commitment with a strong analytics heritage of its own.  Together, our expanding team will blaze new frontiers in creating dynamic, seamless, shopping experiences for automotive consumers.”</p>
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<p>“I can’t think of a better opportunity to get immediate, real world feedback on your analytic insights than digital marketing,” said John Holt, Senior Vice President of ADP Digital Marketing.  “We are excited to grow a facility in Cambridge that will offer unmatched opportunities for innovation and career development to analysts and scientists seeking to participate in the revolution in digital marketing to improve both consumer experiences and business results.”</p>
<p><strong>About ADP<br />
</strong>Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADP), with about $10 billion in revenues and about 570,000 clients, is one of the world&#8217;s largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP&#8217;s easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational, heavy equipment, and agricultural vehicle dealers throughout the world.   For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1.800.225.5237 or visit the company&#8217;s Web site at www.ADP.com.</p>
<p><strong>About ADP Digital Marketing </strong></p>
<p>ADP Digital Marketing is a unit of ADP Dealer Services encompassing the Cobalt, Dealix and Autotegrity businesses. The three businesses collaborate in providing a comprehensive set of highly effective and efficient digital marketing solutions and services with the goal of delivering seamless shopping experiences to consumers and high quality sales opportunities to dealers.  For 17 years ADP Digital Marketing has been helping automobile dealers and manufacturers increase their retailing effectiveness and profitability.  Today, ADP Digital Marketing provides digital marketing solutions to a large majority of US automotive dealers and manufacturers and is North America&#8217;s leading provider of automotive marketing services.</p>
<p><strong>About Autotegrity</strong></p>
<p>Autotegrity is a data analytics and quantitative marketing company based in Cambridge, MA.  Founded in 2007 by Link Ventures, the company utilizes its core strengths in predictive modeling and online traffic acquisition to find high-intent consumers on the Internet and match them with an appropriate dealer or automotive research partner, making the vehicle-shopping process more efficient for all parties.  Autotegrity has doubled its revenue and profit each of the last three years, and has quickly become a major force in the automotive digital marketing space.
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		<title>PerformLine Announces Hire of Industry Veteran David Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PerformLine, the leading independent provider of compliance monitoring and discovery technologies, announced today that David Morgan has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Business Development. As a recognized leader in the digital advertising industry, David brings over 18 years’ experience in sales and digital media along with a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fperformline-announces-hire-of-industry-veteran-david-morgan'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fperformline-announces-hire-of-industry-veteran-david-morgan' data-shr_title='PerformLine+Announces+Hire+of+Industry+Veteran+David+Morgan+'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><img class="alignnone" title="news" src="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/news.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" />PerformLine, the leading independent provider of compliance monitoring and discovery technologies, announced today that David Morgan has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Business Development.</p>
<p>As a recognized leader in the digital advertising industry, David brings over 18 years’ experience in sales and digital media along with a wealth of knowledge in the EDU vertical to the company. David comes to PerformLine from Monster Worldwide where, as senior director, he led business development, strategic accounts and media teams for the performance advertising business group. His group was responsible for executing and monetizing strategic publisher and client programs for the company’s sites: Monster.com, Military.com, Fastweb.com, Affinity Labs, Education.org.</p>
<p>Recognizing a need for compliance oversight and monitoring within the organization, David created Monster’s “Performance Advertising Compliance Group” which is now run by the company’s legal team.</p>
<p>“David is a natural fit to oversee PerformLine’s growing roster of marketers seeking compliance monitoring and discovery solutions,” stated Alex Baydin, CEO and founder of PerformLine. “We are fortunate to be able to enhance our management team with someone of David’s caliber. We look forward to utilizing his expertise to implement PerformLine’s strategy as we continue to grow.”</p>
<p>PerformLine helps lead buyers and lead sellers in the EDU space manage their marketing efforts with the PerformMatch™ compliance platform – the first to provide real-time, automated monitoring and discovery that assesses compliance with both industry-wide regulatory guidelines and the specific marketing policies for each individual marketer.</p>
<p>“I am thrilled to join PerformLine at a time when the opportunity for growth in the industry continues to be phenomenal,” Morgan stated. “It’s exciting to be part of such a dynamic company and I look forward to using my recent experiences from Monster, Adteractive and Reprise Media to ramp up strategic partnerships and new business opportunities for PerformLine.”</p>
<p>David will represent PerformLine at the upcoming Targus Interactive Insights Summit (<a href="http://www.targusinfo.com/Summit">http://www.TARGUSinfo.com/Summit</a>) at the Encore Las Vegas, May 1-2. He will be a featured panelist at the session “Reinventing the Definition of Lead Quality” on Tuesday, May 1 at 2:30.</p>
<p>About PerformLine, Inc.<br />
PerformLine, Inc. is the only independent online technology and services company dedicated to providing compliance monitoring and discovery services to clients on both the buy and sell side. PerformLine was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ. For more information about PerformLine and the PerformMatch™ compliance platform, visit <a href="http://www.performline.com/">http://www.performline.com</a>.
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		<title>BankRate Acquires InsuranceAgents.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Business Journal BankRate has acquired 8 year old insurance lead generation company, InsuranceAgents.com. The Ohio based company is the latest in a string of competitor acquisitions by BankRate. According to the Business Journal article InsuranceAgents.com processed more than 120,000 insurance quotes a month in 2010. This volume [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fbankrate-acquires-insuranceagents-com'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fbankrate-acquires-insuranceagents-com' data-shr_title='BankRate+Acquires+InsuranceAgents.com'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>According to the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/03/29/bankrate-buys-columbus-leads-generator.html" target="_blank">Business Journal</a> BankRate has acquired 8 year old insurance lead generation company, InsuranceAgents.com.</p>
<p>The Ohio based company is the latest in a string of competitor acquisitions by BankRate. According to the Business Journal article InsuranceAgents.com processed more than 120,000 insurance quotes a month in 2010. This volume allowed the company to post an annual revenue of $12m+.</p>
<p>Now the question for BankRate is who is next? Is there anyone else out there? And a better question to ask is whether or not the overlap in clients from all these acquisitions will eventually hurt BankRate and open the door for new companies or companies not associated with BankRate. At some point these acquisitions will cannibalize  their client base, right? The company now owns the op insurance lead gen companies in the industry: InsuranceQuotes.com, InsureMe, NetQuote.com, and now InsuranceAgents.com. The argument against these acquisitions having long term affects on revenue growth of all the combined companies would be that there is a large surplus of demand in the marketplace from lead buyers. These acquisitions bring added volume to their client base that they are currently not getting. I just don&#8217;t think that is the case though. Prior to BankRate making these acquisitions you could have a client buying leads from each one of these companies individually, and now they may still be doing this, at some point it is not going to make sense to work with each company separately and just work with one. The insurance space is notorious for their ping tree abilities and sharing leads across companies. This means that if you are an InsureMe client there is a really good chance you are getting leads that were generated by NetQuote.com.</p>
<p>I pose the question to you. Could these acquisitions possibly negatively affect BankRate down the road? Maybe they are still under that scalable threshold where it will not affect revenues in the long term. Also, I would love to hear your thoughts on how these acquisitions are affecting other players in the insurance lead gen space.</p>
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		<title>Access Intelligence Buys LeadsCon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrated media company Access Intelligence announced today the acquisition of LeadsCon, which serves the online lead generation industry through two preeminent conferences and other best-in-class content offerings for lead-generation marketers. With Access Intelligence’s existing stronghold in media, public relations and event marketing, this transaction extends the company’s position with service [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fleadscon-lead-generation%2Faccess-intelligence-buys-leadscon'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fleadscon-lead-generation%2Faccess-intelligence-buys-leadscon' data-shr_title='Access+Intelligence+Buys+LeadsCon'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Integrated media company Access Intelligence announced today the acquisition of LeadsCon, which serves the online lead generation industry through two preeminent conferences and other best-in-class content offerings for lead-generation marketers. With Access Intelligence’s existing stronghold in media, public relations and event marketing, this transaction extends the company’s position with service offerings focusing on customer acquisition through advanced marketing technologies and strategies.</p>
<p>LeadsCon is the industry’s preeminent educational and networking conference dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of those operating in the online lead generation industry. LeadsCon (www.leadscon.com) is held twice a year, having just completed a record event this past February in Las Vegas, and will hold its East coast event in New York this July. Other products in the LeadsCon portfolio include the membership-based LeadsCouncil, the Daily Deal Summit conference series taking place this April 17-18 in New York (www.dailydealsummit.com), an e-newsletter, and other soon-to-be announced marketing conferences and product offerings.</p>
<p>Jay Weintraub, president and founder of New York-based LeadsCon, will continue in his role as President of LeadsCon, Daily Deal and the other products serving the customer-acquisition sector. Michelle Troop, LeadsCon co-founder and executive vice president of operations, and Weintraub will be part of the newly created Access Intelligence Customer Acquisition Board which will also include Don Pazour, AI’s President &amp; CEO; Diane Schwartz, senior vice president of the Media/Communications Group; and Jenn Heinold, vice president of healthcare and aerospace events. The Board will oversee the execution of a multi-platform strategic plan to provide the marketing community with top-drawer content, intelligence and business opportunities in the multibillion-dollar customer acquisition market.</p>
<p>“I am particularly pleased to be working with a visionary like Jay Weintraub, who will lead our efforts in serving the customer acquisition professional community,” said Don Pazour, president and CEO of Access Intelligence. “The ability to round out our position in the marketing and technology sectors with highly engaged brands like LeadsCon and Daily Deal Summit is an exciting prospect for Access Intelligence, our employees and customers.”</p>
<p>Jay Weintraub said, “Access Intelligence shares our passion and commitment to those we serve. With their backing, and support, we will continue to improve our operations and create new products and services faster than we could do on our own. I look forward to many more years of creating definitive summits for the online lead generation industry and broader customer acquisition ecosystem.”</p>
<p>The acquisition marks Access Intelligence’s continued investment in high-performing properties with engaged audiences and best-in-class products and services. In 2011, Access Intelligence completed acquisitions in the media/marketing and healthcare sectors, including that of Red7 Media (which includes Event Marketer and Folio); OR Manager, which presents one of the largest trade shows serving operating room executives; and Cynopsis Media, with advertising-driven e-letters serving the TV and digital communities.</p>
<p>About Access Intelligence</p>
<p>Access Intelligence (www.accessintel.com), a portfolio company of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, is a b-to-b media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving four core verticals in Communications, Healthcare, Aerospace and Energy &amp; Engineering. Market-leading shows include Satellite 2012, LDC Forums, Electric Power, Energy Ocean, OilComm and OR Manager tradeshows. Access Intelligence also produces executive conferences for the healthcare, PR, media, cable, energy and defense markets. Leading brands include CableFAX, Folio, Event Marketer, PR News, Defense Daily, Via Satellite, Rotor &amp; Wing, AviationToday, Contexo Media, Dorland Health, Power and Chemical Engineering.</p>
<p>About Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS)</p>
<p>VSS (www.vss.com) is a private equity and mezzanine capital fund management company dedicated to investing in the information, education, media, communications and business services industries in North America and Europe. VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and strategic acquisitions to companies and management teams with a goal to build companies both organically and through a focused add-on acquisition program. To date, VSS equity and mezzanine funds have invested in 67 platform companies, which have in turn completed over 300 add-on acquisitions resulting in a portfolio with realized and unrealized enterprise values totaling over $14 billion.
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		<title>Guy Kawasaki to Keynote TARGUSinfo Interactive Insights Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STERLING, Va. &#8211; March 13, 2012 &#8211; TARGUSinfo, a Neustar company and the trusted real-time information services and analytics provider, announced today the agenda and speakers for its 7th Annual Interactive Insights Summit (IIS) at the Encore Las Vegas, May 1-2, 2012. This year, customer engagement thought leaders, top lead [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Fcompany-news%2Ftargusinfo-company-news%2Fguy-kawasaki-to-keynote-targusinfo-interactive-insights-summit'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Fcompany-news%2Ftargusinfo-company-news%2Fguy-kawasaki-to-keynote-targusinfo-interactive-insights-summit' data-shr_title='Guy+Kawasaki+to+Keynote+TARGUSinfo+Interactive+Insights+Summit'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>STERLING, Va. &#8211; March 13, 2012 &#8211; TARGUSinfo, a Neustar company and the trusted real-time information services and analytics provider, announced today the agenda and speakers for its 7th Annual Interactive Insights Summit (IIS) at the Encore Las Vegas, May 1-2, 2012.</p>
<p>This year, customer engagement thought leaders, top lead generators, senior marketers, lead generation innovators and analytics experts from Fortune 500 brands will share their views on using real-time consumer insights across the marketing lifecycle and at consumer touch points.</p>
<p>The 2012 IIS agenda is packed with panel discussions and case study presentations by top experts from America’s leading brands including: Disney Destinations, LLC.; Sony Playstation; Royal Caribbean; Wells Fargo; MetLife; Arnold Worldwide; Matrix Direct; Neutron Interactive; Moving.com; CampaignGrid; Redbox; TrueCar; and more.</p>
<p>“More than ever, companies recognize the powerful impact the right data and analytics–deployed at the right time–can have on their customer relationships, operations and bottom line results,” said Dennis Ainge, senior vice president, TARGUSinfo. “Any marketer that wants to better utilize real-time analytics should join us in May.”</p>
<p>Ainge added, “We’re excited that the best practitioners will once again join us at IIS to discuss, debate and exchange ideas, as well as generously share their experiences in putting real-time analytics to work for their business.”</p>
<p>Guy Kawasaki, the former chief evangelist of Apple, Inc., a co-founder of Alltop.com, and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, is this year’s IIS keynote speaker. Kawasaki is also a celebrated author of several books including “Enchantment”, “Reality Check”, “The Art of the Start”, “Rules for Revolutionaries”, “How to Drive Your Competition Crazy”, “Selling the Dream”, and “The Macintosh Way”.</p>
<p>In addition to presentations from industry experts, strategically planned and executed IIS networking events at exclusive venues offer valuable face time with potential partners to help drive business.</p>
<p>Attendees can register now to take advantage of the early-bird price, which ends Friday, April 6, 2012. For regular updates on IIS follow TARGUSinfo on Twitter, and to view the full IIS 2012 agenda log on to http://www.targusinfo.com/summit/agenda/.</p>
<p><strong>About TARGUSinfo, a Neustar company</strong><br />
TARGUSinfo is the trusted real-time information services and analytics company, and the only provider with IAN (Identifiers, Attributes and Network), the authoritative on-demand insight engine. IAN powers a broad suite of complementary, multichannel consumer information solutions–including Identification, Verification, Scoring, Location, Caller ID, Online Display Advertising and Real-Time Analytics–to help clients make informed, actionable decisions in real-time when interacting with large volumes of consumers, one interaction at a time. As a result, America’s top brands rely on TARGUSinfo’s authoritative, current and secure solutions to display relevant advertisements to specific audiences, increase conversion rates, optimize customer experiences, as well as reduce transactional risks and costs. Headquartered in Sterling, Va., TARGUSinfo is a division of Neustar, a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information and analysis to the Internet, telecommunications, en<br />
tertainment, advertising and marketing industries throughout the world. Neustar applies its advanced, secure technologies in routing, addressing and authentication to its customers’ data to help them identify new revenue opportunities, network efficiencies, institute cybersecurity and fraud protection measures.  For more information, visit TARGUSinfo.com and Neustar.biz.</p>
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		<title>LeadsCon 2012 Poker Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LeadsCon 2012 went off with a bang and so did the 4th Annual Poker Tournament! We had 125 players reserve seats for the tournament, however about 18 people decided they had more important things to do and didn&#8217;t show. In the case of the 18 no shows their chips were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:right;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fbsend' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fleadscon-lead-generation%2Fleadscon-2012-poker-results'></a><a class='shareaholic-googleplusone' data-shr_size='medium' data-shr_count='false' data-shr_href='http%3A%2F%2Fblog.leadcritic.com%2Flead-generation%2Fleadscon-lead-generation%2Fleadscon-2012-poker-results' data-shr_title='LeadsCon+2012+Poker+Results'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>LeadsCon 2012 went off with a bang and so did the 4th Annual Poker Tournament!</p>
<p>We had 125 players reserve seats for the tournament, however about 18 people decided they had more important things to do and didn&#8217;t show. In the case of the 18 no shows their chips were simply burned off as the blinds went up.</p>
<p>Here is a quick play by play of the event and a few pics of the final table:</p>
<p>The tournament was down to 12 players when two player went all in on both tables and ended up being eliminated, so in one hand the tournament was down to eight players remaining:</p>
<p>Dan Farnsworth &#8211; 8th</p>
<p>Mark St. Amour &#8211; 7th</p>
<p>Eric Kilbride &#8211; 6th</p>
<p>Jason Stomel &#8211; 5th</p>
<p>Beau Bratton &#8211; 4th</p>
<p>Mike Macomber &#8211; 3rd</p>
<p>Todd Geller &#8211; 2nd</p>
<p>Ryan Stomel &#8211; 1st</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-2012-Final-8.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2101 aligncenter" title="LeadsCon 2012 - Final 8" src="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-2012-Final-8-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="642" height="480" /></a></p>
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<p>The Stomel brothers drew seats next to each other and Ryan was one of the short stacks at the table when it started.</p>
<p>When they got down to five players they agreed to a chop giving the current chip leader (Mike Macomber) more money than everyone else and it left $1,000 up for grabs for the person that won the tournament.</p>
<p>Ryan was elated when Eric and Mike got involved in a heads up battle that knocked Eric out of the tournament.</p>
<p>The brothers Stomel held back no punches as they battled and tried to knock each other out of the tournament.</p>
<p>Ryan then went on a heater knocking out Beau, Mike, and Todd to win it all.</p>
<p>The last hand (two pictures included) had Todd moving all in with an offsuit Ace and Five that was called by Ryan&#8217;s offsuit Queen and Six.</p>
<p>The flop brought a 9, 4 and 8, with a 5 on the turn. This meant Ryan needed a Queen, a Six, or a Seven on the river to knock Todd out and sure enough the Lucky # 7 came riding down the river and the 2012 LeadsCon Tournament Champion was crowned!</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-Final-Hand-River-Suckout.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-2102" title="LeadsCon - Final Hand River Suckout" src="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-Final-Hand-River-Suckout-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="383" /></a></p>
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<p>The payouts should have been $5,184 &#8211; $2,880 &#8211; $1,728 &#8211; $1,152 &#8211; and $576 but the deal they made was for $2,800 &#8211; $1,930 &#8211; $1,930 &#8211; $1,930 &#8211; $1,930 and keep playing for the other $1,000.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Congratulations to Ryan Stomel &#8211; LeadsCon Poker Champion!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-2012-Champion.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2100 aligncenter" title="LeadsCon 2012 - Champion" src="http://blog.leadcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LeadsCon-2012-Champion-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="530" height="397" /></a></p>
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