Glam Media Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner

Recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and
promotion

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Glam Media (www.GlamMedia.com), number
one in reach for women online, today announced that it has been chosen by
AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Glam Media was specially selected
by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe,
based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential,
commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Glam Media is a
distributed media network and ad platform with more than 400 Glam owned and
operated sites, publishers, media partner websites and blogs.
Glam Media and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at
the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The
Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive
event will feature technology CEO's from Silicon Valley leading presentations
and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment,
about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the
marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.
Fifty of the top CEO's from the OnMedia 100 will present their market
strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase."
"As a company with deep roots both in Silicon Valley and on Madison
Avenue, Glam Media is honored and pleased to be recognized as one of
AlwaysOn's Top 100," said Samir Arora, chairman and CEO, Glam Media. "We
believe this commendation reflects our unprecedented success in providing a
new model for media that leverages the best content on the Web with a brand
advertising technology platform."
Glam Media was the fastest-growing Web property of 2007, breaking into the
comScore Media Metrix Top 25. The company continues to experience significant
growth both in traffic to Glam.com and via the reach of its network of 400+
lifestyle websites and blogs. Glam Media's distributed media network currently
includes Style, Living, Entertainment, and Wellness channels. Each channel
boasts a blend of original editorial, syndicated and media partner content and
curated content from the entire Glam Publisher Network.
"The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the
advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said Tony
Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success
in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their
fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in
innovation."
The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by
a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community
platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around
the world.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn
Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/
About Glam Media
Glam Media's distributed media network model is in part changing the very
definition of what a media company is in the 21st Century. With more than 43
million 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 400 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.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the
first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn
continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a
social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by
applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC,
Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, The Broadband Digital, Stanford
Summit, and Going Green) and quarterly print "blogozine". No other media brand
has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event
participants.
SOURCE Glam Media

Lane Buschel of Morris + King Company for Glam Media, +1-212-561-7454,
lane.buschel@morris-king.com; or Leah McLean of Voce Communications for
AlwaysOn, +1-415-308-7928, lmclean@vocecomm.com