Atlas Introduces Atlas Rich Media -- New Integrated Offering Built on Four Years of Market-Tested Technology; Atlas Rich Media Solution Already Accepted By More Than 250 Publisher Sites.SEATTLE -- Atlas (www.AtlasSolutions.com), a provider of digital marketing technologies and expertise, and an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of aQuantive, Inc. (Nasdaq:AQNT), today announced the release of its integrated rich media offering, Atlas Rich Media. Atlas Rich Media is based on the mature TopLayer technology from Ad4ever, which has been utilized in hundreds of rich media campaigns in the U.S. and Europe, and enhanced through client feedback over the past four years. Atlas acquired Ad4ever technology assets in April 2004 and since then has integrated the rich media technology into its digital campaign platform, the Atlas Suite. This integrated tool now provides ad agencies and enterprise marketers a streamlined solution for campaign planning The process whereby combatant commanders and subordinate joint force commanders translate national or theater strategic and operational concepts through the development of campaign plans. , delivery, and reporting of rich media formats, alongside the rest of their digital advertising efforts. Atlas Rich Media is currently being used by a number of Atlas clients including Crispin Porter + Bogusky Crispin Porter + Bogusky is an advertising agency with more than 600 employees. The company was founded in 1965 by Sam Crispin (who departed in 1991) and is headquartered in Miami and Boulder, with an additional office in Venice Beach. , Doner, Kadium and Real Branding. "By using the Atlas Rich Media technology we had, for the first-time, a holistic view of our client's rich media and non-rich media campaign performance, allowing us to make the best optimization decisions to ensure the types of results we wanted from the campaign," said John Keck, SVP/director direct media of Doner. With Atlas Rich Media, ad agencies and enterprise marketers can create any type of rich media execution by choosing from a full-range of flexible Flash-based formats: --Expanding: Ads that expand over part of the page to reveal a larger, interactive layer of the creative. --Floating: Ads that float over publishers' content. --Custom: A floating ad with an additional reminder, take-over, corner, or any other non-standard ad type. --Streaming video: Available in any of the above formats. Atlas Rich Media automates many of the technical challenges that creative developers face on a regular basis, while providing the media team with a simple but powerful user interface. Atlas Rich Media provides unparalleled creative freedom while leveraging all the benefits of an integrated third party ad serving system. Atlas Rich Media is already accepted and approved on more than 250 publisher sites, including CBSMarketWatch.com, E! Online, NYTimes.com, USAToday.com, WashingtonPost.com, among others. Furthermore, Atlas Rich Media is currently running campaigns on the major portals. "Our first Atlas Rich Media campaign went very smoothly," said Benjamin Reid, vice president of sales, About.com. "Implementation was simple, the service was professional, and the Atlas technology worked perfectly. We are looking forward to running more Atlas Rich Media campaigns in the future." "We have conducted extensive tests on Atlas Rich Media with great success, and look forward to implementing this new technology for our advertiser campaigns," said James Fellows, web network product manager, Advertising.com. "We are encouraged by the strong headway we have made with the publisher community, and specifically the major portals. MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). has run trial campaigns with Atlas Rich Media and plans to certify the technology soon. In addition, we have garnered partial acceptance and approval on AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , and look forward to near term acceptance on Yahoo!," said Ona Karasa, president of Atlas. "The publishers have embraced the Atlas Rich Media technology and have been true partners in its success." About Atlas Atlas (www.AtlasSolutions.com) is a provider of digital marketing technologies and expertise. Atlas offers agencies and marketers integrated solutions for online campaign management, rich media, search marketing, landing page optimization Landing page optimization (LPO, also known as webpages optimization) is the process of improving a visitor's perception of a website by optimizing its content and appearance in order to make them more appealing to the target audiences, as measured by target goals such as conversion , reporting, and analysis to maximize their online ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , and provides a highly scalable ad-serving platform to help online publishers increase revenue. Atlas delivers the industry's most complete service and support, serving its clients from offices in Seattle, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Denver, and London. Atlas is an operating unit of aQuantive, Inc (Nasdaq:AQNT) and is a member of the NAI See Network Associates. , adhering to the NAI privacy principles that have been applauded by the FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). . 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