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`MapQuest Launches Revolutionary GeoCentric Advertising
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`Advertisements as Users Click on Destinations and Content
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`Online Advertisers Can Extend Narrowcasting With a True Geographic Dimension
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` As Users Interact With Mapquest Maps
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`ORLANDO, Fla., (eMMiTT '96 Conference) Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ MapQuest Publishing Group, a business unit of
`GeoSystems Global Corp. and the leading provider of mapping technology and services for Internet users and publishers,
`today introduced the Internet's first geographicallyintelligent advertising platform. Now, businesses can reach highlytargeted
`audiences onetoone, based on each user's specific destination or selected content. This offers a unique opportunity to
`literally bring consumers to an advertiser's doorstep. As MapQuest(TM) site visitors interact with online maps,
`GeoCentric(TM) Advertising enables businesses to serve up ads that are relevant to the location the user is exploring. The
`MapQuest Web site can be found at www.mapquest.com.
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`MapQuest has developed a unique new technology to integrate with the industryleading NetGravity AdServer product,
`creating a new dimension in interactive advertising placement. GeoCentric Advertising will enable virtually any business,
`from restaurant to car dealer to realtor to copy shop, to provide banner ads and discount promotions to prequalified
`consumers as these users define and interact with their geographic area of interest while planning trips, researching
`business locations or requesting driving directions on the MapQuest site.
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`Expanding the concept of narrowcasting to one of the most important dimensions of marketing location MapQuest's
`GeoCentric Advertising allows businesses to reach customers based on their unique geographic criteria, in addition to
`traditional narrowcasting techniques such as domain and browser criteria. MapQuest's proprietary geographic searching and
`database technology qualifies the consumer's destination and content interests, then interfaces with the NetGravity
`AdServer for display of the appropriate advertising image within the targeting and management tools of AdServer. Until now,
`local targeting on a broad regional, national or even worldwide scale has not been available with such geographic precision.
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`MapQuest is the only online mapping service that has demonstrated such geographicallyintelligent advertising capabilities.
`"We are the first to offer an advertising tool that provides onetoone marketing on a destination basis," said Perry Evans,
`president of MapQuest Publishing Group. "This is a powerful new medium for maximizing advertising dollars and creating
`promotional techniques that lead to tangible purchase actions. Businesses will now be able to precisely target the vast
`audience of cyberspace on a personal level."
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`"NetGravity is very excited to partner with MapQuest," said Bradley Husick, vice president of strategic business
`development for NetGravity, Inc. "They have created an exciting new way to leverage the best of our technology with a very
`practical new dimension in advertising targeting and value, and demonstrated the extensibility of the AdServer technology."
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`GeoCentric Advertising How It Works:
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`An advertiser supplies MapQuest with addresses for each business location, along with specific criteria for ad placement
`(e.g., within ten miles of that address). This data is integrated into MapQuest's database. As an online user interacts with
`MapQuest maps, the GeoCentric ads are served up to consumers as follows:
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`* If the user clicks on a specific map location, MapQuest serves up the banner of the advertiser that has been defined for
`that location.
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`* If the user requests a specific category within MapQuest's "Places of Interest" feature (i.e., lodging, dining, attractions,
`recreation, education) and then clicks on a specific map location, MapQuest serves up the banner that is relevant to that
`category and location.
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`* If the user enters information for a business, street, city, state, or zip code that matches a particular advertiser's criteria,
`MapQuest serves up a banner for that business. Such keywords are entered when users are searching for a specific map
`view in the Interactive Atlas or requesting written driving directions.
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`"With seven hotel brands and more than 1,200 properties to promote, Marriott is very excited by the prospects of this new
`technology," said Bill Schallenberg, manager of Internet services for Marriott International, Inc. "By integrating geographic
`information into online advertising, this model allows you to target the right message to the right audience." Marriott
`participated as the archetypal advertiser in today's demo at the Electronic Media & Marketing in Travel & Tourism
`Conference (eMMiTT '96).
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`About MapQuest
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`MapQuest is the most highlyrated and popular interactive mapping service on the Internet. Launched in early 1996,
`MapQuest now receives over 2 million hits and generates up to 500,000 page views per day, placing it among the top sites
`worldwide for daily traffic. Both Java and ActiveXenabled, MapQuest is a dynamic Web site that offers consumers the
`ability to interactively zoom and browse their way to over three million locations worldwide. Users can locate businesses,
`places of interest, entertainment or event locations and travel resources, all with the most detailed, highquality cartographic
`information available online. MapQuest Publishing Group offers a range of business services MapFree, LinkFree, Connect,
`and InterConnect for consumers and Internet publishers interested in the value of integrating interactive maps into their
`Web sites.
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`MapQuest Publishing Group is a business unit of GeoSystems Global Corp., the information publishing industry's leading
`supplier of geographic information products and services. GeoSystems cartographic, software development and database
`expertise is applied in both print and electronic mapping to add geographic context to information. For more information, visit
`www.geosys.com.
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`NOTE: MapQuest and GeoCentric are trademarks of GeoSystems Global Corp. All other company, brand and product
`names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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`SOURCE MapQuest Publishing Group
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`/CONTACT: Joan Blake, Communications Manager of MapQuest Publishing Group, 3033120218, or jblake@geosys.com;
`or Nicki Dugan, Account Associate of Niehaus Ryan Group, 4158277062, or nicki@nrgpr.com, for MapQuest Publishing
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