Linkstorm Nominated as 'Innovative Affiliate of the Year' -- LinkShare Golden Link Award

Linkstorm Nominated as 'Innovative Affiliate of the Year' -- LinkShare Golden Link Award

June 12, 2007

    NEW YORK, June 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Linkstorm (
http://www.linkstorms.com ) is pleased to announce that it
has been selected as one of three finalists for the
prestigious LinkShare Golden Link "Innovative
Affiliate of the Year" Award.  Other nominees in the
category are StarStyle and Zafu. 

    LinkShare's award for "Innovative Affiliate of the
Year" is given to companies who offer unique services
or technology to facilitate new partnerships, drive sales
and build ROI.  Previous winners include FabulousSavings,
AmeriDollars and Wow Coupons. 

    "It's an honor to be recognized as a company at
the forefront of performance-based marketing, especially by
LinkShare, an innovative marketing leader in its own
right," said David Sidman, CEO and Founder of
Linkstorm.     

    Linkstorm offers shoppers a new way to navigate through
a merchant's inventory and content -- by mousing over any ad
or product reference and seeing a menu linking to all of the
merchant's products, marketing info and shopping cart. This
approach has several benefits:

     -- Increases click-throughs and conversions because
shoppers can see 
        what's available in advance, before clicking; then
they can click to 
        what they really want in a single step.

     -- Delivers higher quality traffic by incorporating a
self-qualifying 
        process directly into banner ads.

     -- Facilitates exploration and discovery of relevant
products and 
        content, resulting in deeper product consideration
and higher 
        conversions. 

     -- Provides more comprehensive measurement of user
actions, yielding 
        greater insight into shoppers' interests and
decision processes all 
        the way from brand engagement to product selection
to purchasing. 

    "After more than six years of continuous product
development and numerous large scale deployments in the
content industry, we're excited to see our 'intender
driven' navigation philosophy now recognized by leaders in
advertising, affiliate marketing and eCommerce as well. 
With academic and evidence-based research to support the
superiority of our 'intender-driven' philosophy, we're
deeply committed to further innovation in partnership with
our customers.  We are currently working with a host of
leading global advertisers, agencies and technology
partners to ensure that we remain a step ahead," added
Sidman. 

    About Linkstorm

    Linkstorm is a company that will change the Web as we
know it today. Instead of clicking on an ad and then having
to click through page after page on the Web searching for
what the user is really looking for, Linkstorm provides all
desired navigation paths in a cascading menu of links that
is invoked via a simple rollover of the ad.  Beyond
advertising and related applications we offer today
(content, video, social networking, SEO, Personal ID, etc.)
this next-generation hyperlink will eventually be adopted
universally for other applications, as it contains many
intrinsic advantages over today's URLs and is based on a
linking infrastructure developed by the primary inventor of
the Internet (Dr. Robert Kahn, co-inventor of TCP/IP and
recipient of the Turing Award, Nat'l Medal of Freedom,
etc.); Linkstorm has developed the patent-pending
applications and services that unlock its full business
value. Linkstorm increases product visibility and sales for
retailers, advertisers, ad agencies, affiliate marketers,
direct marketers, behavioral targeting specialists,
publishers and media companies of all kinds. Linkstorm is
headquartered in New York City and is funded by visionary
investors such as Esther Dyson, Jim Rutt, and many of the
NY Angels.  

    About LinkShare Golden Link Awards

    The LinkShare Golden Link Awards is part of the
LinkShare Symposium 2007 to be held June 19 and 20. It is
an annual event hosted by LinkShare Corporation that brings
together hundreds of leading companies in e-commerce and
online marketing to forge business relationships and
discuss issues facing the industry at large.

    For more information, click here
http://www.linkshare.com/symposium2007/glawards_overview.shtml
.

    For more information, click here:
http://dx.linkstorms.com/10000.1/pr45 .


    For more information, please contact:

     Tina Aridas, Manager, Marketing & Press Relations

     Tel:   [phone] or [phone] 
     Email: [e-mail]  
     Web:   http://www.linkstorms.com