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Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year!

DEAR FRIENDS

2009 has been an astonishingly progressive year for Innity as a whole thanks to the several accomplishments that we have managed to achieve. In times of recession, Innity have not only strengthened foundations but gone on to surpass targets in developmental growth as an innovative advertising network.

Our unprecedented achievements for 2009 include:

	Kicking off the year with our Regional Performance Network which provides quality content with a strong focus on the “Pay for Engagement” model.
	The first company in the Asia Pacific to become a member of the International Advertising Bureau (IAB), a platform for educating member companies on the values of interactive advertising.
	The successful launch of WiFi advertising in over 300 outlets in Malaysia. Since its’ launch in July 2009, major eateries and cafes like Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Old Town have been collaborating with us on advertising through their free WiFi service for consumers. This is a giant leap forward in successful targeting of certain niche audiences.
	Obtaining BPA Worldwide’s ad server system certification and also being the first firm to do so in Asia. BPA Worldwide is a media auditing company that helps firms with their audience insights and turning it into a competitive advantage.
	Groundbreaking performances at events such as AdAsia and Ad:Tech. Turnouts were encouraging despite the recession while feedbacks received from delegates and visitors were very positive.
	Smooth opening and great response from our new offices in Indonesia and Singapore. Next year will see us opening a third setup overseas.

Overall, it has been an amazing year for us at Innity with traffic hitting more than 2.1 billion impressions per month. These accomplishments have spurred us to scale even greater heights come 2010 so till then, thank you for believing in us and being part of our outstanding achievements. Happy New Year!

Warmest wishes,
Innity Team

Post Event: SGN Digital: marketing

SDM is back, bigger and more exciting with brands, agencies, publishers and service providers that gathered to share, network, learn and do business.

This Conference took place on November, 24 this year and hosted more than 30 speakers. The topics ranged from email, online advertising to social marketing. Event was rounded up with networking parties.

Innity didn’t miss a change to participate in this conference. We took part in the event as exhibitors and also went for Speaker’s Session where Mr. Arshan Saha, Regional Business Development Manager at Innity presented “Online Media Planning Through The Lenses Of A Successful Case Study: Samsung Corby”.

The whole event was a great success for Innity. We had an opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people from the industry, share our visions and opinions as well as look back and evaluate all our achievements for 2009.

About the event: Saigon Digital Marketing (SDM) is a series of Vietnam’s largest digital marketing events produced by Ninety Media Group with two biannual shows and four quarterly gatherings to update audience emerging trends from the digital world. More than a conference or exhibition, SDM is a community attendees would return year after year to connect with their existing vendors and clients beside new networking opportunities.

AdAsia post event

AdAsia 09 took place in KL this year, sharing knowledge, expertise, and last but not the least – contacts. It was an exciting event for us as well, which gave us an opportunity to see our old friends and to get to know new ones.

As a whole, this event brought 630 delegates from 23 countries – South Korea, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Taipei, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Nepal, Vietnam, Australia, Germany, USA, UK, Mauritius, Poland, Kazakhstan and host country Malaysia. This multinational team of media people made it an unforgettable experience of sharing ideas and expertise.

AdAsia’ aim has been, and remains to expand and raise strategic thinking and creative bar, to improve the role that brands play in improving lives and broadening horizons, to redefine markets and to reach more consumers. These three days of blast among media gigs saturated with conference sessions, networking lunches, tea breaks and dinners hosted by sponsors definitely made it.

Innity participated in this event as an exhibitor introducing delegates and visitors into our business and products. Our core motive in this business is to make our clients’ campaigns more efficient and accountable, so this time we featured our Performance Network and unique ad formats developed by Innity.

It was also a great chance for us to thank once more Mr. Glen, the CEO of BPA Worldwide and Mrs Doreen Chan, General Manager of Asia Pacific Region, BPA Worldwide, for their excellent work they did certifying our ad serving platform. We were fortunate enough to have them as our neighbors at the site.

Other exhibitors sharing the site were Celcom, Aljazeera, The Sun, Malaysia SME, etc. Conference was wrapped up with a farewell dinner hosted by the Indian AA, which will host the next congress in New Delhi in 2011. Vietnam has made a bid to host AdAsia in 2013.

Meet us at AdAsia09

Where: Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, KL, Malaysia
When: 23rd & 24th October, 2009

Along with its rapid growth and development Innity doesn’t miss chances of participating in the most important and influential events in online marketing and advertisement industry. After having a blast at Ad:Tech 2009 in Singapore Innity is now looking forward to an exciting upcoming event, AdAsia09, which is taking place this year in KL, Malaysia.
The redefinition of Asia’s global reorientation in view of the socio-economic challenges pervading the continent is the theme of the 26th AdAsia 09.
With much of Asia facing unprecedented economic, environmental and political challenges, the Congress with its topic Asia-Redefining the Future promises to explore the immense role that communications can play in reaching the world’s greater influencer - the ordinary consumer.
This event takes place in various countries in Asia under the auspices of Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA). It is the largest advertising, marketing, communications and media congress held in this region since 1958. The congress attracts more than 1,000 advertising professionals in Asia and throughout the world and Innity is proud to be on the list.
Its aim has been, and remains to expand and raise strategic thinking and creative bar, to improve the role that brands play in improving lives and broadening horizons, to redefine markets and to reach more consumers.
Innity is looking forward to this exciting event where we will have an opportunity to share our rich knowledge and experience of online marketing as well as about our new exciting products.

See you there!

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

The month of Ramadan is a special period for not only our Muslim friends but for all Malaysians as we look forward to celebrating Hari Raya. On top of satisfying our taste buds with “buka puasa” cuisines at a nearby Ramadan Bazaar, we are indeed looking forward to the coming “balik kampung” holidays.

So let’s take this opportunity and wish each other Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

Warmest wishes,
Innity Team

BPA Worldwide Contracts first Ad Serving System Certification in Asia

Beijing, China September 9, 2009 - BPA Worldwide, the global leader in auditing media, recently announced that Innity, Malaysia’s premium advertising network and a market leader in online advertising in South East Asia, signed up for BPA Worldwide’s ad server system certification. This is also the first ad server system certification conducted by BPA Worldwide in Asia.

BPA Worldwide’s ad serving system complies with all Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) guidelines and provides additional systems verification that goes above and beyond the IAB requirements. Some of those added benchmarks include a disaster recovery/business continuity process review, behavioral/activity-based filtering procedures and the reporting of the time at which data is considered final.

Innity Campaign Management System is a robust platform for delivering campaigns that provides transparency from the macro to the micro, with real-time reporting. Its ad system delivers measurable and scalable results based on the effectiveness of its advanced optimization technology.

“Advertisers attach importance to the accuracy and transparency in their digital campaigns,” said Glenn Hansen, President and Chief Executive Officer, BPA Worldwide. “We are glad that Innity signed up for BPA Worldwide’s membership. It is the first ad server system certification conducted by BPA Worldwide in Asia, which opens a new chapter for our growth in this promising market.”

According to recent IDC research, Asia showed an overall increase in online ad spending in Q2, 2009.

“Third-party verification further proves Innity’s commitment to its clients. BPA Worldwide’s audit enables Innity’s advertising and publisher clients to have greater confidence in its reporting data,” added Hansen.

BPA Worldwide’s ad server system certification includes an in-depth examination of the end-to-end ad serving process. It verifies compliance with established IAB guidelines validates accuracy of ad serving and counting mechanisms, provides insight to management that systems are working as they should and promotes credibility of the system within the market. It also certifies other elements of the transaction stream. BPA Worldwide’s ad server system audit findings could facilitate revisions of systems/processes to improve services and enable improvement to existing Guidelines.

About BPA Worldwide A not-for-profit organization since 1931, BPA Worldwide is governed by a tripartite board comprised of media owners, advertising agencies and advertisers. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, USA, BPA has the largest membership of any media-auditing organization in the world, spanning more than 25 countries. Worldwide, BPA serves more than 2,800+ media properties—including over 1,700 B-to-B publications, more than 300 consumer magazines, 150 newspapers, 450+ web sites, 50 events, email newsletters, databases, wireless and other advertiser-supported media—as well as 2,700 advertiser and agency members. Visit www.bpaww.com for the latest audit reports, membership information and publishing and advertising industry news.

Press contact:
Doreen Chan
General Manager, Asia Pacific Region
Tel: 86 10 8591 0691
Email: dchan@bpaww.com

Catherine Wo
Upstream Asia
Tel:86 10 6530 7200
Fax:86 10 6530 7340
Email: Catherine.wo@upstreamasia.com.cn

Partnership with International Publishers signed

We have recently signed up several International publishers, adding new channels and excitement to Innity network. Innity welcomes and looks forward to our partnership with E-buddy, Glam Media, Goal.com, My Space, i-TV, World Wresting Entertainment, Oberon Media. Also, we partner up with two huge renowned networks AdConion and Ad2One. Along with them, they brought several publishers like Wallpaper, Guardian.co.uk, iTV etc. Below is an introduction of some of the publishers.

E-buddy web messenger
E-buddy web messenger is a high traffic site that reaches over 22 Million unique visitors, 70% of them are ranged between 13 - 24 years old. These young audiences love music, keen in latest trends like mobile phone gadgets, sports, clothing, travel and entertainment. They are web savvy and do engage in online advertising. Here, E-buddy is able to target your audience according to Male or Female, depending on your requirement. Messenger ads drive better CTR as it comes right upfront, displaying when you launch your messenger.

Glam Media
Glam Media is the biggest Female Network in the world with 4.5Million Pageviews and 710,000 Unique Visitors in Malaysia. Being a combination of content and blogs for fashion, beauty, celebrity entertainment and living targeted at savvy, intelligent women with high spending power. This channel is suitable for all female related products.

Goal.com
Goal.com is popular among all football lovers, covering everything related to football news, gossips and latest scores and updates. It reaches over 10 million unique visitors worldwide with 70% of their audience are mainly football male fans aged between 25 and 44 years old.

My Space
My Space has a huge phenomenal audience reach with 923Million pageviews in Malaysia only. It is mainly entertainment based content for web savvy users who uses this channel for their music & entertainment updates. Also, it is a way to create a profile for themselves on this channel, especially aspiring musicians or artists. User who surfs on this channel usually spends a lot of time listening to music, keeping update of the latest songs. My Space key advertisers are record labels, film distributors, youth targeted products.

i-TV
i-TV is UK’s biggest commercial television network reaching over to 540,000 Pageviews in Malaysia solely. It’s TV network programming that covers a complete range of TV genres like drama, entertainment, news, sports and children’s program etc. i-TV provides a range of new media and interactive services via internet, mobile phones and broadband. This channel is targeted towards users who are interested in international entertainment such as Xfactor and Britain’s Got talent and also towards expats from UK staying in South East Asia. i-TV’s key advertisers are usually from industries like Travel, Platinum finance, Sports and Entertainment.

World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment is a very popular site among wrestling fans. It has everything you want to know about the wrestling sports, current matches, videos, pictures, news and even wrestling fans merchandises. This site is targeted at wrestling fans, people who enjoys watching wrestling, muscular bodied stars.

Oberon Media
Oberon Media is a young casual game site targeting youths, mainly females. Through this site, user can reach multiple gamers on different networks, allowing them to be social networking and challenging their friends at the same time. As the users gather here to play games, there is a significantly high CTR for ads displayed during their gameplay. In Malaysia alone, pageviews can reach up to 4.2Million. This channel is targeted at web savvy individuals who engage with online advertising, suitable for advertisers whose products are technology and entertainment based.

Innity is back in Ad:tech 2009 Singapore!

Innity has recently participated in the globally renowned Interactive Advertising Event – Adtech 2009 Singapore again. Last year, we had a great response from the event and enjoyed every moment there.

Even with the economic downturn, there was a very encouraging turnout with more than 1,680 attendees, mainly Singaporeans taking up76% of the crowd, 5% Malaysians and the rest from regional countries like Japan, Indonesia, India, Thailand, China etc and Europe & UK.

29 exhibitors showcased their latest products and services to publishers and agencies. It was a great synergy of creativity, digital and mobile technologies.

This year was no exception for Innity; we had overwhelming response from the crowd. Innity’s booth stood out from most of the rest with our nicely designed booth setups. Our team had a great time sharing our latest digital services and products with the keen crowd. These include Premium & Performance networks.

Overall, it was a success for both Innity and Adtech 09. And we will be back next year!

Innity joins the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)

We are proud to say that Innity is a first company in Asia Pacific to become a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an international association of 357 leading media and technology companies who are responsible for 80% of online advertising sales in US!

This gives us the opportunity to interact and learn with some of the most reputable online ad companies in the world effort to further improve our standards and services, as well as ensuring that our company is of international standards!

New Publishers: Thinkproperty

Performance Network brings in Thinkproperty as our new publishers.

Upon finalizing the final details of the partnership, Thinkproperty shall join the ranks of our premium publishers sites.

Thinkproperty is Malaysia’s most state-of-the-art property website that acts as a property marketplace platform for users featuring powerful tools such as its own messaging system, Think Mail, property forums, home loans and other site sections related to the property business.

It has a wide international audience that includes users from Singapore, UK and UAE, with an estimated traffic volume of 3 million page views per month, making the site an advertising platform of immense ad performance potentials.

For more info, visit thinkproperty.com.my