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IAC is a leading internet company with more than 35 fast-growing, highly-related brands serving loyal consumer audiences... our mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world.

  • IAC was named the #1 Most Admired Company for the last two years in a row in the Internet Services & Retailing sector by Fortune magazine
  • With 178 million unique monthly users, IAC’s network of sites would rank as the 8th largest in the world†
  • IAC is the 4th largest buyer of online advertising in the U.S.††

MEDIA & ADVERTISING

ASK.COM

  • Founded in 1996, acquired by IAC in July 2005 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, Ask.com is a pioneer in internet search; it was introduced as Ask Jeeves in 1997 and then relaunched as Ask.com in 2006
  • Ask.com has 71 million unique monthly users globally*
  • In September 2001, Ask.com acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc., a search technology that has become the core of the Ask search engine
  • In May 2008, Ask.com acquired Lexico, owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com
  • In August 2008, Ask.com launched the all-new Ask Kids search engine designed for children making a fun, safe search environment with a select core search index
  • International: Ask.com France, Ask.com Germany, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Netherlands, Ask.com Spain, Ask.com UK

CITYSEARCH

  • Founded in 1996, acquired by IAC in 1998 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Citysearch is a leading local search and directory company that provides the up-to-date information on U.S. businesses, from restaurants and retail, to travel and professional services
  • Approximately 18 million business listings nationwide; over 14 million monthly unique users*
  • Over 75,000 cities and neighborhoods in Citysearch’s database

EVITE

  • Launched in 1998, acquired in 2001 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Evite is the world’s #1 online event planning service offering free invitations, e-cards and party-planning tools and tips
  • With over 20.3 million registered users, Evite.com receives 8.4 million unique visitors per month*
  • In the last quarter, about 1.6 million events were planned using Evite, with 49 million Evite invitations sent
  • With over 170 million Evite invitations sent in 2007, party planners saved an estimated $180 million in paper invitations and postage, sparing 200,000 trees or 25 million pounds of paper
  • Evite launched Mobile Alerts in September 2007 and the feature has garnered significant adoption with over 2.8 million mobile users and 3.3 million mobile alerts sent to-date
  • Launched Evite UK in 2007

IAC ADVERTISING SOLUTIONS

  • Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, NY, IAC Advertising Solutions sells advertising across IAC’s multiple consumer brands including : Citysearch, Evite, Match.com, Excite, IWON, Fun Web Products, 23/6.com and Very Short List
  • Offerings include standard display and interactive media, content and feature sponsorships, custom solutions, direct marketing, new targeting capabilities and more

IAC CONSUMER APPLICATIONS & PORTALS

  • Headquartered in White Plains, NY, CAP helps millions of people creatively express themselves online, enhance their communications, make new friends and smile a bit more - all by using virtual worlds, social network applications, contests, games, ecards and emoticons­. IAC Consumer Applications and Portals businesses include:
  • Acquired in May 2008 and headquartered in Israel, GirlSense is an active virtual fashion community that offers users a genuine web 2.0 experience that is truly safe where girls can design trendy fashions, display them in original boutiques and "sell" them to their peers
  • IWON is one of the fastest growing gaming destinations and a Top 20 game site (@plan January 2008) with 4.1 million unique visitors per month*
  • IWON has awarded over 500,000 prizes totaling more than $72 million in value over the past 8 years
  • MyFunCards offers unlimited access to over 2,000 free ecards, attracting over 6.3 million monthly unique users*
  • Smiley Central is a smileys website that revolutionized the industry when it introduced flash-based “super” smileys
  • Smiley Central has over 10.6 million unique monthly users*
  • Webfetti, one of the fastest growing destinations for web personalization and self expression, offers over 30,000 free assets and has now reached over 10 million impressions per day across various social networking sites, including MySpace and Facebook
  • Webfetti has approximately 5.3 million unique monthly users*
  • Zwinky, one of the largest virtual worlds on the web, has over 17 million registered users who average 64 minutes on the site each session
  • Zwinktopia, the Zwinky virtual community, has signed artists including 50 Cent, Kelly Rowland, Scott Ian of Anthrax and Hinder, who perform in its virtual world
  • Launched in September 2008 and sister site of Zwinky, Zwinky Cuties is a fun and fanciful online virtual world where pre-teens can safely create customized avatars, play games, design their own room, adopt pets and share imaginative interactive relationships with their peers

MATCH.COM & CHEMISTRY.COM

  • Launched in 1995, acquired in 1999 and headquartered in Dallas, TX, Match.com is a pioneer in online dating and personals and is credited with taking the category mainstream
  • With more than a decade of helping people find successful, rewarding relationships, Match.com has redefined the way people meet and fall in love
  • Match.com users have exchanged over one billion “winks,” a digital way for members to flirt and express initial interest in one another without a formal email introduction
  • Match.com has over 15 million members**, approximately 1.3 million paying subscribers and 6 million unique monthly users*
  • Match.com receives 71,000 new registered users daily
  • Websites in 15 different languages, serving 40 different countries
  • Chemistry.com, a Match.com product launched in 2006, leverages biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher’s years of research into human attraction and successful relationships
  • In February 2008, Chemistry.com celebrated its 2 year anniversary, setting up over 800,000 first dates since launch
  • Chemistry.com has over 5 million members**
  • Chemistry has been recognized with numerous awards, including a prestigious Effie Award, a first for IAC (presented by American Marketing Association)

SERVICEMAGIC

  • Founded in 1998, acquired by IAC in 2004 and headquartered in Golden, CO, ServiceMagic is a leading online marketplace connecting homeowners with prescreened and customer-rated home service professionals for simple home repairs and maintenance to complete home remodeling projects
  • Since 1999, ServiceMagic has made more than 10.5 million connections between homeowners and prescreened home service professionals
  • ServiceMagic has over 2.1 million unique monthly users*
  • More than 54,000 service professionals utilize ServiceMagic to find targeted leads for home building, remodeling, architectural services, roofing, fences, decks, painting, flooring, plumbing, landscaping and much more
  • Has collected more than 500,000 “closed loop” ratings & reviews about service professionals
  • Generated an estimated $1.25 billion in project revenue for member service professionals in 2007

EMERGING BUSINESSES

  • Launched in November 2007 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, 23/6 is a comedy news site edited by Jason Reich, a former TV writer who won four Emmy Awards for his work on The Daily Show, and produced by a team of writers and contributors from the worlds of television (“The Daily Show,” “The Simpsons,” “30 Rock”), film (“The Aristocrats,” “Clerks,” “Talladega Nights”) and journalism (“The New Yorker,” “McSweeney’s”)
  • Over 4 million video streams since launch
  • In April 2008, 23/6 was nominated for a 2008 Webby in the Online Film and Video category
  • Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2006 and headquartered in New York, NY, Connected Ventures is a new media network and development company consisting of CollegeHumor and BustedTees
  • CollegeHumor, founded by high school friends in 1999, is now a leading humor and streaming media site
  • CollegeHumor has approximately 5.9 million unique monthly users and 88 million monthly pageviews***; with 24.5 million monthly video streams and 1.4 million registered users
  • Over 270­­ CollegeHumor original videos have been viewed over 50 million times; and receive 1.3 million monthly mobile pageviews
  • Writers authored two books published by Penguin Press: CollegeHumor’s Guide to College and Faking It: How to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
  • Currently developing a CollegeHumor.com-branded movie with Paramount Pictures to be written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, writers on NBC’s “The Office”
  • BustedTees, launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York City, NY, sells over 25,000 t-shirts per month
  • Over 3.4 million monthly pageviews***
  • Writers of CollegeHumor create the original designs and have produced over 300 designs thus far
  • Launched in October 2008 in beta by IAC and Tina Brown, The Daily Beast curates the web’s best content and offers fresh works from its own talented roster of contributors

FILIFE

  • Launched in June 2008 by IAC and Dow Jones & Co. and headquartered in New York, NY, FiLife is a personal finance site offering applications and tools to help people find personal investment information in a more intuitive way

GARAGEGAMES

  • Founded 1999 and headquartered in Eugene, OR, GarageGames is the maker of the Torque Game Engine series of tools, the original technology behind the Tribes series of games, and used to develop games on Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360 & Wii
  • GarageGames technology has been used to develop the following games: Fallen Empire Legions, Marble Blast, Rokkitball, Galcon, Think Tanks, Cyclomite, Zero All Productivity, Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy, Penny Arcade Adventures, Dreamlords, Hinterland with many more in the pipeline
  • Together, GarageGames and IAC launched InstantAction in beta in March 2008 - the first web-based videogame network, offering graphically rich networked games that run in popular web browsers with no download installations required
  • To date, InstantAction has over 950,000 registered users averaging 26 minutes a day on the site, and has over 4.2 million unique monthly users,*

GIFTS.COM

  • Launched in 2005 by IAC and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Gifts.com is a premier gift shopping site, offering consumers a suite of interactive, personalized services that enable them to be better, more organized gift-givers
  • Gifts.com receives 2 million monthly users*
  • For the holiday season of 2007, Gifts.com received 15 million visits with customers conducting 31 million gift searches
  • US News & World Report’s Top 30 “Best of the Web;” People’s Voice Award winner for best Services website at Webby Awards; 2007 named “100 Best Web Sites (for your wedding)” in Modern Bride magazine; 2007 highlighted as top gift site in the Dec. issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

GREEN.COM

  • Launched in September 2008 in beta by IAC, Green.com is a social world for kids with a goal to leverage the power of the internet to engage the imaginations of young people to inspire global citizens who can improve the future of the planet

LIFE123

  • Launched in July 2008 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY, Life123 is a site where users can quickly find information on a wide range of topics delivering practical insights into things that really make a difference in everyday lives

PRIMAL VENTURES

  • Launched in April 2007 and based in San Francisco, CA, Primal Ventures is headed by Ask.com CEO Jim Safka and identifies, seeds and incubates new business opportunities for IAC

PRONTO

  • Launched in 2006 by IAC and headquartered in New York, NY Pronto has quickly become the web’s most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine and was voted “Best Online Price Comparison Site” by Kiplinger’s
  • Pronto is one of the fastest growing sites on the web, experiencing 116% growth from October 2007 to October 2008*; 13 million unique monthly users*
  • 80 million products from over 65,000 stores (5 times the number of merchants on leading comparison-shopping engines)

RESERVEAMERICA

  • Founded in 1984, acquired by IAC in 2001 and headquartered in Ballston Spa, NY, ReserveAmerica is the leading provider of systems and services used to manage camping reservations in North America, and of marketing services for companies seeking to interact with outdoor enthusiasts
  • ReserveAmerica is contacted by 17 million consumers regarding camping reservations each year
  • Approximately 4 million reservations at more than 300,000 campsites are processed each year
  • Over 2.3 million outdoor enthusiasts subscribe to ReserveAmerica’s email communications
  • Launched in April 2008 and headquartered in Charlotte, NC, RushmoreDrive.com is the premiere online destination for the Black community featuring the internet’s best content, resources and entertainment
  • 25% of the traffic are repeat visitors and this number continues to increase

SHOEBUY

  • Founded in 1999, acquired by IAC in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Shoebuy.com is one of the largest online retailers of footwear and related apparel offering more than 700 brands and 700,000 products with $3.5 billion in inventory available for purchase
  • Recognized by BizRate six years in a row as one of the top U.S. online retailers for outstanding service
  • Rated by Hitwise as one of the internet’s top 10 most visited apparel and accessory shopping sites
  • Rated by Nielsen Net Ratings as one of the top 10 "stickiest" shopping sites with over a 15-minute average visit
    • Shoebuy also operates Bagsbuy.com, which represents all categories of bags including handbags, backpacks, luggage, baby gear, briefcases and laptop bags
    • Very Short List (VSL), the first original content venture launched by IAC in November 2006, is an entertainment filter that recommends one new or classic, excellent but overlooked movie, web video, CD, book, DVD or website a day to a growing roster of subscribers worldwide
    • Headquartered in New York, NY, VSL has over 154,000 subscribers and continues to grow daily
    • Lauched in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo is a video sharing site for those who love to create and exchange videos with the people who matter to them.
    • First video sharing site to support HD upload and playback
    • Has over 795,000 registered users, 1.3 million videos
    • Vimeo also has 3.2 million monthly visitors*

    †comScore October 2008. Based on unduplicated uniques, IAC would be the 8th largest network, as ComScore does not break out "New IAC" as a network yet

    ††Nielsen Online AdRelevance, Feb 08 (most recent measure)

    * comScore October 08

    ** Members defined as registered users and paying subscribers

    *** Nielsen/Net Ratings, September 2008