IGA Worldwide Selected by AlwaysOn as a Northeast 100 Top Private Company Award Winner

New York, N.Y. – April 8, 2008 – IGA Worldwide (IGA), the leading independent in-game advertising network today announced it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Northeast 100 Top Private Companies. The first-annual Northeast 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the list, companies in the Northeastern United States had to be creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets, demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology in a key sector. AlwaysOn received hundreds of nominations for this year’s list. 

IGA and the Northeast 100 Top Companies for 2008 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit East to be held April 7 – April 9, 2008, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA.  Venture Summit East a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. The idea behind the Northeast 100 companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the Northeast region’s technology industry. 

“For the first annual elite Northeast 100 list we surveyed more than 500 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, who nominated hundreds of companies to determine the Northeast 100 winners,” said Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn Network.   “Each of the Northeast 100 winners had to demonstrate leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation.  We congratulate them all on this great honor!”

IGA is the leading independent in-game advertising network, serving hundreds of millions of dynamic ad impressions per week to over 10 million highly-engaged PC and online gamers across a wide range of platforms and genres.  A recent eMarketer report projected advertisers would spend over $400 million this year on in-game advertising in the U.S. alone and as much as $650 million by 2012. 

“We are honored to receive recognition from AlwaysOn for our technology,” said Justin Townsend, CEO of IGA Worldwide.  “Our technology is what provides marketers not only proof of in-game ad delivery, but proof the ad has been acknowledged – down to exactly how each consumer interacted with each piece of creative. Our technology further enables us to measure how big each ad was on screen, for how long and at what angle. This is all unprecedented in any other advertising medium.” 

IGA recently announced it will exclusively-manage all advertising, sponsorship and creative branding opportunities within the forthcoming Quake Live Web portal and free-to-play version of the popular id Software action series. 

About The AlwaysOn Venture Summit East

Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities.

About IGA Worldwide
IGA Worldwide, Inc. (www.igaworldwide.com) is the largest in-game advertising company with a proprietary ad serving network.  The IGA Worldwide Radial Network^SM enables advertisers to target millions of engaged gamers across a wide range of platforms and genres.  IGA Worldwide has already delivered campaigns for diverse brands such as; 20th Century Fox, Ben Sherman, Discovery, FHM, Hawaiian Airlines, Intel, Jeep, MTV, and T-Mobile.  IGA Worldwide also provides strategic consulting services including integrated product placement and promotion through its dedicated creative solutions department.  Headquartered in New York with offices in London and Berlin, the group is backed by Peacock Equity (a joint venture between GE-Commercial Finance and NBC Universal), Easton Capital Group, Intel Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, KTB Ventures, Translink Capital, Presidio STX, LLC. And ITOCHU Corporation.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network.  In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming.  No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

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