zanox wins the European Seal of E-Excellence for the 2nd year in a row

Chicago, March 15, 2007 -- zanox, the market leader in global performance-based multichannel commerce, today received the "Platinum European Seal of E-Excellence" at CeBIT in Hanover for its innovative online marketing solutions. The seal is awarded to ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing and is presented by the European Multimedia Associations Convention (EMMAC).

zanox offers performance-based online marketing solutions and services on a global scale, with expertise in affiliate marketing, search engine management, e-mail marketing, online shopping and customer loyalty programs. zanox's business model is founded on commission-based marketing; its clients only pay for success, thus maximizing their online marketing spend.

zanox received the award for its highly innovative zanox XS solution and its dynamic international growth. The company is currently running around 3,000 online marketing programs in more than 30 countries and has an extended network of more than a million sales partners worldwide. It has solid market presence in Europe and offices in the USA and China. As the first global supplier of this type of service, zanox has the only true global infrastructure for performance-based multichannel commerce.

As zanox CEO Thomas Hessler explains, "It is an honor to receive the award from EMMAC for the second year running, again highlighting the success of our global positioning strategy. Our exceptional growth can be attributed to our commitment to technology and our online marketing expertise. We are the only online marketing company that can give our partners a true one-stop global solution. We are leading the revolution in the way companies run their online business."

About the European Seal of Excellence
The European Multimedia Associations Convention awards the "European Seal of Excellence in Multimedia" to companies all over the world for particularly innovative and successful marketing strategies. The platinum award is the highest category of the European Seal of Excellence.

About zanox
zanox is the global market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce and the zanox XS solution provides a global platform for efficiently marketing products and services on the Internet. zanox's online marketing services include award winning affiliate marketing, search engine management, e-mail marketing, online shopping and customer loyalty programs. More than 2,000 prestigious international companies across diverse business sectors from telecoms
to travel and retail to finance, with household names such as Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, Jamster, DADAmobile and Celldorado, use the zanox network. In the travel sector, businesses such as KLM, Air Berlin, Opodo and lastminute.com employ zanox's strategic distribution channel. Retail customers include Amazon, Otto, Neckermann and La Redoute, and, within the financial service sector, Citibank and Royal Bank of Scotland.
zanox currently works with more than one million sales partners in more than 190 countries worldwide. zanox partners earn solid revenues by advertising on websites, search engines, as well as in e-mails and software. zanox was founded in 2000 by CEOs Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald and employs more than 300 people. Since 2007 zanox is part of Axel Springer and PubliGroupe. Axel Springer is Germany´s biggest newspaper publishing house and third-largest magazine publisher. PubliGroupe is an internationally active marketer and service provider for cross-media commercial communication.

Press contact:
Judy Wilks or Vojtech Horna
Atomic PR for zanox
press.us@zanox.com
(415) 402-0230