Yesmail Empowers Clients to Make Their E-mail Campaigns Viral with ShareThis

Yesmail™ (an infoGROUP company) (NASDAQ: IUSA), a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online e-mail marketing solutions, announced today a new partnership with ShareThis that will enable clients using Yesmail Enterprise to take their e-mail marketing campaigns to the next level with social media hooks. Now in one click, e-mail campaigns are extended to social networks such as FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg and numerous other social media platforms.

As marketers begin to make a concerted effort to get the most out of their e-mail campaigns, the social media component becomes a natural add-on. Yesmail retention marketers can immediately extend the reach of their programs and double the effectiveness of the e-mail channel by making campaigns sharable to popular social media sites, with friends via instant messaging and SMS and pushing it out to the appropriate blogging community.

Enterprise marketers that need to demonstrate the value social media lends to e-mail marketing will have comprehensive reporting to show:

1) How many times the ShareThis button was clicked

2) What social network sites were most often used to post

3) What e-mails were most tagged by ShareThis

"Yesmail is bringing to market, a comprehensive social media powered initiative that will provide clients with numerous options to integrate e-mail, web and social media objectives, in a cost-effective manner,” said John Harrison, SVP of product strategy and client services at Yesmail. "Our partnership with ShareThis is at the forefront of this initiative, and we are truly excited to give our clients innovative ways to make their programs successful. Ultimately, we want them to realize the true value of an integrated solution that maximizes their overall program and the use of their data. It’s an effective use of budget dollars which are extremely tight today,” said Harrison. "We know that cost and metrics are important in the adoption of any new program component.”

According to a Forrester study titled "The Ins and Outs of Online Sharing," adults still depend on personal e-mail as a main source of receiving shared content. In fact 69 percent still rely on e-mail to share content and information, whereas, youth tap multiple channels of shared content for new information. Personal e-mails made up 56 percent of shared content received. However, more than 50 percent of youth use instant messaging, videos from YouTube and wikis to share content, while notes on social networks and text messages on cell phones equates respectively to 30 percent and 41 percent for how this demographic receives information. ¹

"User-driven content is an important area of focus for marketers today,” said Tim Schigel, CEO and co-founder of ShareThis, "and we believe that giving e-mail the capability to be easily shared is a key component in determining content users find interesting. We are looking forward to working with the Yesmail Enterprise application on this integration. The combination of Yesmail's innovation in development with ShareThis' sharing network is a great offering for e-mail marketers.”

ShareThis delivers a social media driven technology that can be deployed on any site to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity and track the sharing of content. ShareThis is used by more than 90,000 publishers and simplifies social media services through reduced page clutter and instant distribution of content through sharing services including social networking sites, SMS, IM and blogs.

Yesmail will make this feature available within the Yesmail Enterprise application in the first half of 2009, at no charge to clients.

About ShareThis

ShareThis is the sharing network that makes it simple and easy to share any online content. With the click of a button on a webpage or browser plug-in, ShareThis allows users to seamlessly access their contacts and networks from anywhere online and share the content through e-mail, IM, Facebook, Digg, mobile SMS, etc. without ever leaving the current page. Publishers can deploy the ShareThis button to tap service’s universal sharing capabilities to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity and track the sharing of online content. ShareThis also simplifies social media services by reducing clutter on web pages and providing instant distribution of content across social networks, affiliate groups, and communities.

About Yesmail

Yesmail is a recognized industry-leading provider of online emarketing solutions. Built on a solid core of innovative technology, Yesmail offers a complete portfolio of e-mail marketing solutions and services for businesses of all sizes including, Yesmail Enterprise, Yesmail Express, Yesmail Direct and Yesmail Media Services.. Yesmail exceeds the expectations of Fortune 500, mid-size companies and small businesses worldwide powering their strategies with highly trained account teams and best practices consulting. Clients specializing in consumer products, retail, publishing, travel and finance are well served globally with award-winning solutions localized in single-byte and double-byte languages. Yesmail was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of infoGROUP. Yesmail corporate headquarters are located in Portland, Oregon, USA and has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Toronto, London and Singapore. For more information visit www.yesmail.com or call 1.877.Yesmail.

About infoGROUP

infoGROUP (www.infoGROUP.com) (NASDAQ: IUSA), founded in 1972, uniquely combines business and consumer information, marketing services and research solutions for sales, marketing and business professionals around the world. Our data and marketing solutions help companies of all sizes find new prospects, deepen relationships with existing customers and reach businesses and consumers at home, at work and on-line. infoGROUP business data is also used by the top internet search engines and vehicle navigation systems to power their Point-of-Interest and business search capabilities. Our research solutions are used globally by organizations to solve complex problems, measure effectiveness and understand the attitudes and needs of their customers, citizens, employees and other key stakeholders.

infoGROUP headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500 or by visiting www.infoGROUP.com.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, recent changes in senior management, the successful integration of recent and future acquisitions, fluctuations in operating results, failure to successfully carry out our Internet strategy or to grow our Internet revenue, effects of leverage, changes in technology and increased competition. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

¹ About the Research Spring 2008, Forrester online survey of 2014 US online adults and youth.