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Adify and Chef Benjamin Christie Cook Up First Australian Food Vertical Ad Network

Gourmet Ads Targets the Growing Food, Wine and Beer Audience

SAN BRUNO, CA--(Marketwire), 25 August 2008 -- Australian Chef Benjamin Christie today launched Gourmet Ads (http://www.gourmetads.com), the first Australian vertical advertising network focused on delivering major brand advertising to food, wine and beer enthusiasts. Gourmet Ads is powered by Adify (http://www.adify.com), the premier vertical ad network management company, to harness culinary enthusiasts and enable marketers to reach this engaged audience. The network encompasses food, wine, and beer blogs and Web sites in Australia, with plans for expansion to the United States early next year.

With a lack of options in Australia to monetize Web sites, Christie saw a need for a gourmet vertical ad network to help advertisers fight growing fragmentation and reach the long-tail food, beer and wine sites, while helping those sites generate revenue from brand advertising. A highly sought after audience for marketers, food enthusiasts are typically high-income females 27 to 45 years of age. With most Australian marketers still focusing on this audience through traditional print and television media, opportunities in the online space remain untapped. Adify's ad serving technology coupled with Christie's expertise and relationships with publishers helps marketers reach an audience that generates over three million page views per month for Gourmet Ads.

"The market in Australia is much different than that in the U.S. and brand marketers continuously gravitate to traditional media outlets, forgetting how successful the Internet can be in targeting highly engaged audiences such as food enthusiasts," said Benjamin Christie of Gourmet Ads. "Advertisers that work with Gourmet Ads can target consumers that value high quality food, beer and wine. This audience relies on long-tail culinary sites for recipes, ideas and other resources that satisfy their interests. Marketers need to reach them on the sites that they visit, while they are in the right frame of mind and are thinking about food."

Adify is providing the Gourmet Ads network with the key network management services required to execute successful advertising campaigns, including ad management, tracking, reporting, billing, payment and technical support functions. This infrastructure is capable of delivering content sponsorships, video, image and rich media advertising for its various network partners. Gourmet Ads editorial board hand-selects publishing partners for the ad network and is currently representing a cross section of popular Australian food blogs and recipe websites.

"Benjamin's expertise as a television presenter, cookbook author and culinary educator has led to the creation of one of the most unique ad networks to date," said Russ Fradin, president of Adify. "Today, long-tail culinary sites are being sought due to the growing interest in cooking and food in general, which has not only hit the United States but other countries as well. With more individuals gravitating towards the kitchen table, an effective way of reaching them is through vertical ad networks that cater to the need of the culinarily engaged."

About Adify

Adify Corporation is the premier vertical ad network management company and an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, one of the nation's leading media companies and providers of automotive services.

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Media Contacts:
Benjamin Christie
Phone: +61 418 610 498


North America & Europe Media Contact:
Anthony Loredo
Phone: +1 646.202.9770


Submitted by Marketwire, Marketwire on Monday, 25 August 2008 at 11:56 AM
Category: Business
 
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