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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Glam Media Strikes Partnership with Premiere.com

Glam Media Strikes Partnership with Premiere.com

Leading Movie Site Premiere.com Joins Glam Publisher Network

BRISBANE, Calif. and NEW YORK, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Glam Media, Inc., (www.GlamMedia.com), number one in reach for women online, today announced a partnership with Premiere.com, the online destination for movie enthusiasts owned by publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S., hfmus.com). Premiere.com joins the Glam Publisher Network of 450 sites where Glam will exclusively represent Premiere's premium ad inventory. Premiere is also a featured content provider, along with Sony BMG and TV Guide on Glam's recently-launched entertainment channel focused on movies, music and television.

Premiere.com brings its fresh and relevant coverage to Glam.com, including interviews with Hollywood's A-list and up-and-coming talent as well as behind- the-scenes movie information, reviews and previews. The Glam Entertainment channel is part of Glam Media's distributed media network-meshing premium traditional media content and quality indie publishers to provide advertisers with unique and diverse brand engagement with their target audiences.

"This partnership affords greater visibility and access to both Premiere and Glam Media's audiences by providing both companies with new outlets for growth and opportunity," said Todd Anderman, Senior Vice President Digital Media, HFM U.S.

"We are thrilled to partner with an innovative and respected entertainment brand like Premiere," said John Trimble, EVP of Sales for New Markets, Glam Media. "Our distributed media network and Entertainment channel enable brands to reach one of the largest entertainment audiences on the Web."

Prior to Glam Media, Trimble was SVP of Advertising Sales for Fox Interactive Media. At Fox, Trimble oversaw all brand advertising sales including entertainment for MySpace, IGN, Fox Sports, American Idol and Scout. Trimble was also instrumental in helping News Corporation develop its digital marketing roadmap.

Glam Media continues to experience significant growth in traffic to Glam.com owned and operated sites and via the reach of its network of 450+ lifestyle websites and blogs across Style, Living, Entertainment, Shopping and other channels. Glam was recognized in January 2008 by TechCrunch, GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat as a finalist in their Crunchies award for best business model; Glam was also honored as an AlwaysOn Top 100 Media companies in January 2008 and On Hollywood Top 100 in 2007.

About Glam Media

Glam Media's distributed media network model is revolutionizing the very definition of what a media company is in the 21st Century. With 44 million global unique monthly visitors (comScore MediaMetrix), Glam Media provides a compelling mix of fresh, original content created in-house with a carefully curated Glam Publishing Network of more than 450 popular and influential lifestyle websites, blogs and magazines. For premium national brand advertisers, Glam Media offers an unprecedented array of targeted options that are singularly attractive to both upscale and aspirational consumers. Glam Media is backed by such premier venture capital firms as Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Walden Venture Capital and Information Capital. Glam Media is based in New York City and Brisbane, California.

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Source: Glam Media, Inc.

CONTACT: Caroline Hacker of Glam Media, +1-650-270-2183,
caroline@glammmedia.com; Lane Buschel of The Morris + King Company,
+1-212-561-7454, lane.buschel@morris-king.com; Jill Simmons of Hachette
Filipacchi Media U.S., +1-212-767-6062, jsimmons@hfmus.com, both for Glam
Media, Inc.

Web site:

http://www.glam.com/
http://hfmus.com/


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