Vantage Media Introduces SchoolSelect™ A Pay-Per-Click Marketplace for Post-Secondary Schools

Powerful Platform Empowers Schools with More Control to Reach a New Audience of Prospective Students

EL SEGUNDO, CA., (March 20, 2012) – Vantage Media, the fastest growing vertical performance marketing company, today announced the launch of Vantage Media SchoolSelect™ marketplace for post secondary schools. This powerful advertising platform allows school clients to target a new segment of prospective students who meet client-defined parameters, thereby enabling them to derive higher value, conversions and ROI.

With Vantage Media SchoolSelect, schools now have the option to define and reach prospective student pools using a variety of criteria including geography and area of study interest. The SchoolSelect technology platform is expected to create an influx of new student prospects and enrollments through highly targeted online sources including Vantage Media's Yahoo Education partnership, premier owned and operated domains, and top tier organic ranking and paid search publishers in a more transparent manner. Moreover, SchoolSelect participants are able to leverage SchoolSelect's auction based pricing model to control pricing for better return on their advertising spend. This pricing control allows SchoolSelect school participants to increase student prospect volume when and where it best serves their performance goals.

"With SchoolSelect, we are taking a phenomenal, established technology and making it available to leading school brands for the first time," said Patrick Quigley, Vantage Media CEO. "Our education experts have taken the award-winning clicks platform behind BrokersWeb's rapid ascent to market leadership and adapted it to meet the growing need in the EDU sector to reach and engage student prospects with strong purchase intent earlier in their school search process."

Vantage Media SchoolSelect significantly enhances Vantage Media's differentiated services, building on its portfolio of premier customer acquisition solutions, proprietary media, extensive reach and ability to identify customers where and when they are ready to buy. Media partners can also expect increased revenue opportunities from SchoolSelect's proprietary monetization solutions.

About Vantage Media

Vantage Media delivers qualified customers to leading brands in the Insurance, Education, and Home verticals on a pay-for performance basis. Driven by, and accountable to client ROI, Vantage Media focuses on quality online media to find customers where and when they are buying. In 2011 Vantage Media merged with BrokersWeb (www.brokersweb.com), the No. 1 fastest growing company in the Insurance Industry on the Inc. 500. For more information, please visit www.vantagemedia.com.

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Vantage Media Introduces New Mortgage Rate Pay-Per-Click Listing Product for Mortgage Lenders and Publishers

EL SEGUNDO, CA., (February 9, 2012) – Vantage Media, a technology-driven vertical performance marketing company, today announced the launch of Mortgage Rate Listings, a significant addition to its BrokersWeb premium pay-per-click (PPC) marketing network for insurance and financial services. The Mortgage Rate Listing is a premium cost-per-click (CPC) advertising unit for mortgage lenders and brokers marketing to new customers. Mortgage Rate Listings build upon the company's existing BrokersWeb text-based CPC advertising platform to create a vertical-specific ad unit that integrates lenders' respective rate details alongside text-based advertising.

This new offering is the first of the enhanced customer acquisition solutions planned to further accelerate the vertical expansion and products that BrokersWeb and Vantage Media developed separately prior to their 2011 merger.

For advertisers, the BrokersWeb platform features an auction-based marketplace where lenders can bid based on loan type (Purchase or Refinance), loan principle categories, and geographies. The BrokersWeb platform offers back-end tools and reporting to track conversions from click-to-loan request, and ultimately to funded loan. Advertisers are charged when a prospective borrower clicks on its respective Mortgage Rate Listing, signifying a specific interest in the advertiser's published rate(s) and messaging.

For web publishers, Mortgage Rate Listings will also be a premium revenue vehicle for targeted mortgage website publishers capable of delivering high-quality clicks to Vantage Media advertisers. Vantage Media is launching Mortgage Rate Listings with placements on ultra-targeted publisher websites such as Top10MortgageRates.com, Loans.org and MortgageCalculator.com.

"This new product allows us to demonstrate to a new category of marketers our commitment to delivering our advertisers the right product, exceptional service and top-notch results," said Michael Foster, Vice President of Vantage Media. "We look forward to offering to our mortgage advertisers this expanded platform and the same expertise in traffic acquisition and dedication to advertisers' online conversion goals that is behind our success in the insurance, education and home verticals."

For lenders interested in more information about Mortgage Rate Listing advertising, please email contact@brokersweb.com. For mortgage website publishers and online marketers interested in revenue opportunities please email affiliates@brokersweb.com.

About Vantage Media

Vantage Media delivers qualified customers to leading brands in the Insurance, Education, and Home verticals on a pay-for performance basis. Driven by, and accountable to client ROI, Vantage Media focuses on quality online media to find customers where and when they are buying. In 2011 Vantage Media merged with BrokersWeb (www.brokersweb.com), the No. 1 fastest growing company in the Insurance Industry on the Inc. 500. For more information, please visit www.vantagemedia.com.

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Vantage Media and BrokersWeb Combine to Create Multi-Vertical Leader in Online Customer Acquisition

EL SEGUNDO, CA and MIAMI, FL (September 26, 2011) – Vantage Media, LLC, a technology-driven vertical performance marketing company, and BrokersWeb, Inc., the fastest growing leader in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising in the Insurance vertical, announced today that the companies have completed a merger to create one of the world's largest online performance marketing companies. The combined entity will focus on delivering new customers, via clicks and leads, to clients in the Education, Insurance and Moving verticals.

Vantage Media's and BrokersWeb's core competencies are highly complementary and will allow the combined company to further accelerate the vertical expansion and products that each company has developed separately. Clients can expect immediate and long-term benefits from enhanced customer acquisition solutions driven by the joint effort's expanded reach and ability to identify customers where and when they are ready to buy. Media partners can expect increased revenue opportunities from the combined company's proprietary monetization solutions. Additionally, the company will control significant proprietary media that will further leverage and differentiate the company's services.

"The combined company will deliver unmatched value for clients and media partners," said Patrick Quigley, CEO of Vantage Media who will lead the combined company. "The transaction allows both companies to build upon and leverage the strengths of each other. Our technology platforms and media capabilities are highly complementary and the combination will create immediate revenue opportunities and additional value for our clients and media partners."

"We are more confident than ever with the prospects of the BrokersWeb business, and welcome the resources Vantage Media will bring," said Matias de Tezanos, CEO and founder of BrokersWeb who will continue in that role and lead the combined company's international expansion. "This transaction enhances BrokersWeb's leadership position in technology, advertising clients, audience and publishers, while enabling us to create additional meaningful revenue opportunities for our partners."

The BrokersWeb business will retain the "BrokersWeb" name and all of its management, while gaining additional technical, financial and human resources to grow the business.

About Vantage Media
Vantage Media specializes in delivering qualified customers to leading brands in the Education, Insurance and Moving verticals on a pay-for performance basis. Driven by, and accountable to, client ROI, Vantage Media focuses on quality online media to find customers where and when they are buying. Vantage Media, based in El Segundo, California, has received numerous industry accolades and has been named to the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 500. For more information, please visit www.vantagemedia.com.

About BrokersWeb Inc.
Founded in 2004, BrokersWeb is a leading premium pay-per-click (PPC) marketing network for over 150 top-rated insurance and mortgage clients. The company has grown into one of the leading ROI-driven, online marketing channels for PPC advertisers, delivering tens of thousands of ultra-targeted consumers to its clients on a daily basis. The company's websites and publisher partners reach millions of qualified, in-market consumers every month. BrokersWeb was recognized in 2011 as the #1 fastest growing insurance company in the Inc. 500. For more information, please visit www.brokersweb.com.

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Vantage Media Continues Growth with New CEO Appointment

Patrick Quigley Joins Top Performance Marketer as Chief Executive Officer

EL SEGUNDO, CA (October 8, 2010) – Vantage Media, a leading online performance marketing agency, today announced that Patrick Quigley is joining the company as chief executive officer, taking over from Steve Jillings who will be continuing with Vantage Media as its chairman. Quigley’s appointment reflects the company’s commitment to meet growing demand for online performance marketing and completes an executive transition that will take Vantage Media to the next stage in its growth strategy.

“I am truly excited about the next evolution of Vantage Media as I hand off the reins to Patrick,” said Jillings. “With his industry knowledge and deep online experience, Patrick is ideally suited to scale the business and lead Vantage Media in the coming years. Having Patrick move into the CEO role is the right step for Vantage Media, its employees, stakeholders and clients and I look forward to supporting him in all his initiatives.”

Prior to joining Vantage Media, Quigley was senior vice president at QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST), where he led one of the company’s business units and was part of the management team that completed the company’s initial public offering. Quigley also held marketing and sales executive leadership positions at BEA Systems, culminating in his role as vice president of strategic sales and operations. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he helped launch the consulting firm’s branding practice. Quigley holds a B.S. in Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Vantage Media has an exceptional track record of delivering high ROI performance marketing programs for clients across a growing number of verticals including education, insurance, home services and direct response,” said Quigley. “Vantage Media’s sophisticated technology platform, media capabilities and experienced senior leadership truly set it apart. We plan to continue to invest and innovate for our clients and partners as we build on Vantage Media’s leadership position in performance-based marketing.”

About Vantage Media
Vantage Media’s performance-based marketing programs have driven millions of incremental customers to its clients on a pure cost-per-action (CPA) basis. Recognized as one of the most technologically advanced performance marketing agencies, Vantage Media specializes in converting online consumer searches into new customers for leading brands in the education, insurance, home services and direct response industries. Based in El Segundo, California, Vantage Media has received numerous industry accolades and has been named to the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc. 500. For more information, please visit www.vantagemedia.com.

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