The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) Honors AdMob and the AdMob Marketplace With 2007 Meffy Award for Most Innovative Business Model

SAN MATEO, Calif. (PRWEB) June 12, 2007

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B Draper Fisher Jurvetson Leads Round and Joins Board of Directors

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 13, 2007

PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $ 7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the companies Series A and one of the world's leading high-technology venture capital firms.

The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $ 10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry's leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include insiders Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost's Board of Directors.

"PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader," said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. "Although we've only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost's model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before."

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost's innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

"PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future," noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture's sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost's business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena."

To mark the $ 7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company's service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.

About PayPerPost:

PayPerPost is the leading marketplace for Consumer Generated Advertising. The PayPerPost platform connects advertisers with bloggers and other consumer content creators in order to develop and distribute compelling content throughout the blogoshpere and social networks. Advertisers compensate bloggers to promote their products, services and websites, providing bloggers with a way to monetize their blog and traffic unlike ever before. The company is backed by prominent investors including, Inflexion Partners, Village Ventures, DFJ Gotham and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Join the PayPerPost Revolution at, http://www.PayPerPost.com.

About Draper Fisher Jurvetson:

Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the only venture capital firm with global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and more than $ 3.5 billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back approximately 300 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), 411 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID). For more, please visit http://www.dfj.com.

About Inflexion Partners:

Inflexion Fund, L.P., "Florida's Venture Fund", is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund organized with an emphasis on company building and harnessing the regional, national, and international resources of the fund's managers and strategic partners. The managing partners of Inflexion leverage a mix of operating and venture experience in over sixty early-stage companies to back passionate entrepreneurs, build companies as a trusted partner and help founders turn their vision into reality. For more, please visit http://www.inflexionvc.com.

About Village Ventures:

Village Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building information technology and life sciences companies in emerging domestic geographies. Village Ventures identifies promising investment opportunities in partnership with its nationwide network of 13 early stage venture capital funds that are focused on these emerging domestic geographic markets. The model combines local Partner Fund capital and hands-on investment practices with Village Ventures' centralized services and national network to help create compelling and innovative companies. For more, please visit http://www.villageventures.com.

About DFJ Gotham:

DFJ Gotham Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies primarily in the Northeast U.S. Since its first investment in 2000, DFJ Gotham has backed over 20 companies spanning a wide array of technology sectors. DFJ Gotham partners with extraordinary teams of entrepreneurs to build strong and successful businesses that make a huge impact in their industries. DFJ Gotham takes pride in being an active partner, leveraging its experience, knowledge and relationships to provide substantial value to its portfolio companies. DFJ Gotham is proud to have backed such category leaders as Massive (acquired by MSFT), XOsoft (acquired by CA), Q-Link (acquired by Adobe), Mimeo.com and ContextWeb, among others. For more, please visit http://www.dfjgotham.com.

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Text Advertising Marketplace Launches at AdQuick.co.uk Awarding More Than $5,000 in Prizes

London, England (PRWEB) October 9, 2006 -

A new text advertising marketplace was launched today at http://www.AdQuick.co.uk by London resident Philip Tyler. The new service provides webmasters and bloggers with a broader reach to ad buyers across the globe, allowing them to sell text ads with minimal effort on their part. AdQuick even handles the sale and dispenses the payments to the ad sellers.

AdQuick.co.uk has been building buzz with a pre-launch contest, with prizes being awarded today. Site visitors were invited to submit their email addresses for a chance to win any number of prizes, including:

1. Apple Macbook Pro

2. 3 Sony PSPs

3. 2 Apple iPod 60GB White MP3 Players

4. 5

Internet Startup Launches Marketplace Studentbid.com for Boston Area College Students

Boston, MA (PRWEB) September 5, 2006 -

Craig Karger and Michael Buchbinder, current college students and founders of Studentbid, Inc., recently introduced Studentbid.com, a free, innovative marketplace for Boston area college students. Studentbid connects buyers and sellers on their own college campus, and presently serves seven major Boston universities with a total of over 80,000 students.

The world of internet auction sites is a crowded one which presents distinct obstacles to newcomers. However, large auction sites have yet to conquer the twin problems of: 1) ease of payment and 2) ease of obtaining items. By providing students with the ability to find items sold by their peers on neighboring campuses, their own campus, or even their own dorm, Studentbid.com surmounts both difficulties.

Studentbids function is that of an enabler. On the one hand, college students are always looking for ways to save money. On the other, often not possessing transportation or a means to find deals on such items as textbooks, students are forced to overpay at their college bookstore. By allowing students to discover previously unknown merchandise within their geographic reach, Studentbid taps into the buying and selling power of a concentrated community of peers. Rather than paying shipping fees, grappling with unfamiliar methods of online payment, or traveling with difficulty for far-away goods, a student may simply walk down the hall and complete a transaction with ease.

Studentbid is more than just an anonymous online marketplace; it provides a more personal atmosphere to connect students through buying and selling. Co-founder Craig Karger explains, It is the goal of Studentbid to create a trusting online community. We combine the successful aspects of social networking with our easy-to-use auction format. In an effort to offer a more personal atmosphere, Studentbid allows members to create a profile and post a picture as well as information about themselves.

Studentbid also provides student organizations, Greek societies, or even bands the ability to sell any items to a large group of individuals with greater efficiency through its group capabilities. This can be done to raise money for the organization or charity by providing an easier way to promote items for sale in an environment accessible to all college students.

With ever increasing concerns about website privacy and security, Studentbid only allows individuals with a valid college email address from a network supported school to register with the site.

About Us:

Studentbid was founded in July 2006 by Craig Karger and Michael Buchbinder, students at Tulane University and Emory University respectively. The site currently serves Boston College, Boston University, Emerson, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts.

Studentbid can be contacted for articles, interviews, or other reasons.

http://www.studentbid.com

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