Local Insight Media is ahead of the curve, providing innovative, lead-generating print and online search solutions that help businesses thrive and consumers find the service providers and products they need. The fifth largest directory publisher and local search provider in the U.S., Local Insight serves more than 340,000 businesses across 42 states, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and boasts more than $700 million in annual pro forma revenue. We are also the largest provider of outsourced directory services to incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) in the United States. Our media solutions include more than 900 directory titles, eight major Internet Yellow Pages sites and multiple complementary local search options.

HIT Entertainment is a leading producer of children's TV programming, including such shows as Barney & Friends, Bob the Builder, and Thomas & Friends. The company's vault features more than 1,500 hours of programming that its distributes to more than 240 countries; it also distributes content for the home entertainment market and licenses its characters for use in books and other consumer products. The company was formed in 1989 by TV entrepreneur Peter Orton. Sunshine Acquisition, formed by private equity firm Apax Partners, owns HIT Entertainment.

Burson-Marsteller was established in 1953 by Harold Burson and Bill Marsteller and joined the Young & Rubicam group of companies in 1979. Young & Rubicam is a subsidiary of media services conglomerate WPP Group. Burson-Marsteller is a one-stop shop for public relations services. It offers a range of related services, including advertising, brand building, investor and media relations, crisis management, and Internet strategy and Web development. Serving such clients as SmithKline Beecham, American Airlines, and Champion Enterprises, the company operates through nearly 130 offices (including affiliates) in more than 90 countries.

Kekst and Company Incorporated provides strategic, corporate, and financial communications counsel and service to publicly-traded companies and private institutions. The company provides communications advisory services to senior management and board of directors. It focuses on corporate communications and investor relations, as well as provides strategic advisory services related to merger and acquisition, bankruptcies and restructurings, crisis communications, litigation support, media relations, and corporate governance. The company enables its clients to communicate their stakeholders, including the investment community, employees, customers, suppliers, and government officials, as well as the media. It serves industries and service sectors, including aviation, banking, biotechnology, chemicals, clothing and apparel, construction, financial services, insurance, paper and forest products, professional services, real estate, technology, telecommunications, and transportation services.

Massive wants to help the videogame industry make in-game advertising big. Working in conjunction with about 40 game publishing partners, Massive company offers an advertising network that targets males 13-34 years old by placing ads within videogames. The ads are served into the games rather than being hard-coded in, providing a dynamic rather than static advertising experience and allowing Massive company to gather data on user interaction. Massive also conducts research with gamers in order to determine the most optimal locations for ad placement. Games in the Massive network have included Transformers: The Game, Anarchy Online, and The Matrix Online.

North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) was established in 1958. NAPCO successfully operates magazines, trade shows and online services for the various markets it serves. Currently, North American Publishing Company operates 15 magazines, 20 e-mail newsletters, 2 subscription services and 2 trade shows and employs over 120 people. Corporate Headquarters are located in Philadelphia. Sales personnel are located in New York, Chicago and throughout the country. NAPCO's first publication, Printing Impressions, is today the most influential journal for printing and graphic arts worldwide. When Printing Impressions was initially begun over 50 years ago, North American Publishing company had just four employees. NAPCO's growth and vitality reflects a philosophy that recognizes and values talented people who are seeking to grow with North American Publishing Company. Promotion from within is favored, with the result that many of our staff have moved upward into key positions. North American Publishing Company continues to expand "organically" each year capitalizing on its strong financial footing (NAPCO is debt free), its lack of shareholder pressure (NAPCO is a family business) and its willingness to invest by launching. Over a dozen new publications and services have been launched within the past few years with several more in the planning stage. Many of the company's original publications were purchased from other publishing firms. None were profitable at the time of acquisition, and all required extensive restructuring and investment to move them into the prominent and sound positions they now enjoy. The balance of NAPCO's magazines, as well as its trade shows and on-line services were started by North American Publishing Company.

It was in 1973 when we developed the industry's first dealer locator database that allowed customers to locate their nearest dealer or service center using a toll-free telephone number. A pioneer in the customer service support industry, the Company was the first to provide inbound toll-free customer service. Then Ruppman Marketing Services, the Company continued to shape an ever-growing customer service outsourcing industry with innovative service offerings and technologies, leading the evolution of the call center to the contact center. In 1998, the Company acquired AFFINA, a database management and marketing research company, to help position AFFINA as a one-stop-shop solution for customer relationship management.Today, with the benefit of a 37-year history, we focus on delivering measurable results to our clients through a comprehensive suite of customer interaction solutions, which include: inbound customer care, inbound sales and order taking, analytics and market research, product and literature fulfillment, and business process outsourcing. Our clients are among the largest and most well known brand names in the world, that are served by AFFINA CSRs from our locations in five countries worldwide.

Dick Grove, whose background includes top posts for such companies as Burson-Marsteller, ITT and Itel, formed his own agency in 1997. His experience and frustrations with traditional firms drove him to start INK inc., with the idea that firms should share the financial risk of the client by providing a more accountable method of compensation based on actual media results. Companies from all variety of industries have signed on for this unique agency model, which says that clients should pay first and foremost for actual results — not for the hours spent "trying" for those elusive hits.

Points International Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides ecommerce and technology services to the loyalty program industry. It owns and operates Points.com, an online loyalty program management portal that enables consumers to earn, buy, share, swap, redeem, and exchange miles and points with various loyalty programs and retail partners. Points International's ecommerce solutions include Buy and Gift that enable the members to buy additional miles or points; Transfer, which facilitates transfer of loyalty program currencies among multiple accounts; Corporate that facilitates the sale of loyalty program currencies to corporate customers; and Elite, which enables the online sale of elite-tier status to members of loyalty programs. Its ecommerce services also comprise AirIncentives for the online sale of various airline loyalty program currencies to third parties that offer airline miles as incentives to their customers and suppliers; Systems Design, which are custom applications developed for loyalty program partners; Integrate that functions as a common platform to process transactions among third-party loyalty programs; Auction, which enables programs to offer mileage or point based auctions to their members; and Earn Malls, an online shopping mall platform. It primarily serves loyalty program operators and loyalty program consumers in the United States.

The firm offers digital and interactive marketing services. Working from offices a dozen countries, it is a unit of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group. This firm helps market its clients through all the senses. Not to be confused with the credit rating agency, Fitch, is a leading brand development and communications agency that specializes in creating unique consumer experiences for its mostly retail clients. It offers creative services for corporate identity and communications collateral, as well as product and packaging design. Fitch also provides architectural services for interior and exterior store designs, and it develops events and displays that allow customers to experience brands first hand.

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