Colonize.com Partners With NetCreations to Launch $10 Million Sweepstakes.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000 Colonize col·o·nize v. col·o·nized, col·o·niz·ing, col·o·niz·es v.tr. 1. To form or establish a colony or colonies in. 2. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony. 3. .com, Inc., an innovative email marketing and publishing company specializing in customer acquisition for businesses, today announced an agreement with NetCreations, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCR), the leader in 100% Opt-In(R) email marketing. Under the terms of this agreement, Colonize.com -- named the 34th most visited Web property in the U.S. by Media Metrix in November -- will promote a co-branded $10 million online lottery to its more than 8 million registered members and will use NetCreations' Double Lotto gaming platform. The Colonize.com Double Lotto site will give visitors the chance to win a $10 million jackpot by picking seven lucky numbers. Visitors who register on the site will have the opportunity to opt in to NetCreations' mailings. This joint initiative will contribute to Colonize.com's rapid growth and continued leadership in the online direct marketing space. NetCreations will receive increased exposure throughout the Colonize.com network and will have access to a larger and richer data file, including full postal address, which will be marketed to their numerous clients. Colonize.com and NetCreations have worked together to build double opt-in lists since January 2000. Colonize.com has regularly been one of the largest and fastest growing contributors of double opt-in profiles to NetCreations' cooperative database A cooperative database holds information on customers and their transactions. Many companies will contribute information to a database in return for aggregate information on the customers other companies have provided. of more than 22 million business and consumer members. "We are very excited to be launching this initiative with Colonize.com, which has a large and very responsive user base," said Rosalind Resnick, Chief Executive Officer of NetCreations. "This program will help us enhance our database of email addresses with postal information and other demographic data while continuing to adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. our strict Internet privacy Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information. guidelines." "We're thrilled with the opportunity to develop this $10 million promotion with NetCreations who shares our commitment to strong consumer privacy," said Noah Goodhart, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Colonize.com. "This offering enables us to provide another exciting service to our members and is a great complement to our popular daily content publications and our exclusive targeted mailings. We will continue to develop premium direct marketing vehicles that bolster our efforts to drive large numbers of qualified customers to our clients." About Colonize.com Colonize.com, Inc. is a leading email marketing and publishing company that specializes in acquiring large numbers of customers for businesses. The company has over 8 million registered members, was named the 34th most visited property in the U.S. by Media Metrix in November, and had over 11 million unique web site visitors, comprising a reach of more than 12.4% of the U.S. Internet population, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a PCData Online report in October. The company publishes over a dozen email newsletters with a combined daily circulation of more than 7.5 million. Colonize.com uses proprietary in-house technology to create and deliver the more than 250 million targeted one-to-one emails it publishes monthly. The company's tremendous growth and innovation has recently been cited in numerous television reports and print publications including the Wall Street Journal, 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 Times, Time Magazine, USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. , CNNfn and CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. . Colonize.com serves numerous top tier clients in both offline and online industries including financial services, publishing, and health care. The company is the single largest source of customers for many of its clients and has been called an "online customer acquisition machine." About NetCreations NetCreations, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCR), the leader in 100% Opt-In(R) email marketing services, specializes in email address list management, brokerage and delivery. Through its PostMasterDirect.com service, NetCreations has conducted marketing campaigns on behalf of over 2,000 direct marketing clients to targeted consumers in its database of over 22 million 100% Opt-In email addresses. These addresses belong to Internet users who have requested promotional information related to specific topics of interest (opt-in) and confirmed their request (double opt-in). NetCreations manages opt-in email lists for more than 380 third-party Web sites including CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Uproar, About.com, Network Solutions, internet.com, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine, CDROM See CD-ROM. Guide and LuckySurf.com. NetCreations protects the privacy of consumers on the Internet by not disclosing email addresses or any other personally identifiable information In information security and privacy, personally identifiable information or personally identifying information (PII) is any piece of information which can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person. to direct marketers. This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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