Epic Advertising Named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies

Company joins prestigious list for first time ever, with 2007 revenues among the highest in the Advertising and Marketing sector

Epic Advertising (www.EpicAdvertising.com), the New York-based industry leader in online performance marketing, has been named to the annual Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Epic Advertising joins a select group of companies identified by Inc. for this award. Epic has realized a four-year growth rate of 118% on a high revenue base (in the nine figure range in 2007). With revenues significantly higher than all but eight other companies in the “Advertising and Marketing” sector of the Inc. 5000, that growth rate is all the more significant.

“We are thrilled to be named to this prestigious list for the first time in our company’s eight year history”, said Don Mathis, President of Epic Advertising. “For Epic, this milestone acknowledges that while growing rapidly as a small company is admirable, the real challenge is maintaining a high growth rate after passing $100 million in revenue, which we did last year. We have achieved this by focusing on building a world-class enterprise, honing and expanding our core business model, and maintaining consistent, year-over-year growth. Our selection to the Inc. 5000 list affirms the success we have achieved on behalf of our top-tier advertisers and our 35,000-plus publishers.”

Epic Advertising’s ongoing success has positioned it as a dominant, global performance marketing company, connecting advertisers from all over the world to highly targeted online consumers through display advertising, via the Azoogle Ad Network, its award-winning performance-based ad network; and through its performance search agency business. Epic’s distribution comes from its vast display “reach” and through high-performance search marketing.

“This recognition resulted from years of focused commitment to providing online marketing solutions to our advertisers and publishers that are second to none,” said Michael Sprouse, Chief Marketing Officer of Epic Advertising. “We have the 9th highest 2007 revenue base out of the 362 companies ranked in the ‘Advertising and Marketing’ sector of the Inc. 5000 competition. We have received numerous accolades this year including this most recent one, and they all emphasize the strong, sustainable growth driving our robust business.”

The 5,000 companies that made the list reported aggregate revenue of $185 billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Most important, the 2008 Inc. 5000 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 826,033 jobs since those companies were founded. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and a list of the fastest-growing companies that can be sorted by industry and region can be found at www.inc5000.com.

“Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in business journalism,” said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth.”

About Epic Advertising:

Epic Advertising (www.EpicAdvertising.com) is a global online performance marketing company that provides advertisers with measurable Internet advertising impact. Leveraging proprietary and patent-pending contextual and behavioral targeting technologies, and the over 35,000 publishers in its highly-acclaimed Azoogle Ad Network, Epic provides its advertising partners with performance and direct response marketing services, media planning, branded marketing campaigns and a targeted, worldwide online reach.

A pioneer in both the online performance marketing industry and in Internet advertising integrity assurance and compliance, Epic Advertising brings an intense focus on achieving the highest ROI yield for its advertising partners via transparent display and search consumer traffic. Epic scales its solutions by leveraging vast quantities of data, enormous internet reach and unparalleled industry expertise.

The company has achieved several industry accolades, including being named an AlwaysOn Global Top 250 Company as one of the top private companies in the world, a comScore top-50 ranking in internet reach (Ad Focus, July 2008) and being named a 2008 Inc. 5000 company.

Epic Advertising is headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Toronto. The company is privately held and backed by private equity firms TA Associates and Stripes Group.

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Contacts

Epic Advertising
Cherilyn Earl, 212-308-8509
Cherilyn.Earl {at} epicadvertising(.)com