YouMail Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner

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Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:30pm EST

Recognized for Game-Changing Strategies in Advertising, Marketing
and Promotion
IRVINE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--YouMail, Inc. (www.youmail.com), the mobile industry's premier
consumer voicemail service today announced that it has been chosen by
AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia
100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools,
services, venues, and advertising, branding and public relation
campaigns. YouMail 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.

   YouMail 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 CEOs 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 CEOs from the OnMedia 100 will present their
market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase."

   "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.

   YouMail provides consumers with a free cell phone voicemail
service that allows them to better express their personality and be
more productive. YouMail users can personalize greetings based on
caller ID -- recording greetings themselves, or easily choosing from a
large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away
messages. YouMail lets users express themselves differently to their
friends, family and co-workers, while maintaining a standard greeting
for unknown callers. YouMail users can also access their cell phone
voicemail over the Web or in their e-mail, to easily share special
voicemails and save them forever.

   "YouMail is honored to be named to the AlwaysOn OnMedia 100, one
of the industry's most well-respected recognition programs," said Alex
Quilici, CEO of YouMail. "We strive to create the most compelling
consumer voicemail experience and over the last year we have rolled
out a steady stream of new features and functionalities to meet this
goal. This recognition underscores the strength of our technology and
business opportunity."

   A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the
AlwaysOn Web site at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/.

   About YouMail

   YouMail, Inc is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. YouMail provides
a free, dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows
users to better express their personality and be more productive
through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the
leveraging of the YouMail community of users. The service has a
growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and
content providers. To learn more and sign up for the free YouMail
service, go to http://www.youmail.com.

   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.

Racepoint Group for YouMail
Derek Brookmeyer, 415-694-6702
dbrookmeyer@racepointgroup.com
or
Voce Communications for AlwaysOn
Leah McLean, 415-308-7928
lmclean@vocecomm.com

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