Montabaur, May 8, 2007. got off to a successful start in its fiscal year 2007. Figures published today for the first quarter of 2007 show strong growth in sales and earnings.

In the first quarter of 2007, achieved year-on-year growth in sales revenues of 21.1 percent, from EUR 41.3 million to EUR 50.0 million. There was also an improvement in the company’s key earnings figures. At EUR 6.7 million, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were up 24.1 percent over the previous year (EUR 5.4 million). Earnings before taxes (EBT) were raised by 20.0 percent to EUR 5.4 million (prior year: EUR 4.5 million). Earnings per share (EPS) improved by 83.3 percent from EUR 0.06 to EUR 0.11.

“We are satisfied with the development of business in the first quarter of 2007,” says Andreas Janssen, CFO of . “We strengthened our profitability and almost reached the level of the seasonally strong fourth quarter of 2006. All three segments – Display Marketing, Domain Marketing and Affiliate Marketing – reported growth and contributed to this encouraging result.”

Apart from these key financial figures, progress was also made in all relevant market figures:

In Display Marketing, the number of unique visitors per month rose from 69.9 million to over 75.5 million. The average number of page impressions generated per month on marketed websites also grew from 6.4 billion to 7.6 billion.

In Affiliate Marketing, the company achieved growth in both advertising partners and reach: the number of suppliers of affiliate programs rose from 1,180 last year to 1,230. The number of affiliated websites increased from 360,000 to 390,000 while monthly page impressions improved from 4.1 billion to over 7 billion.

In the Domain Marketing segment, the number of domains offered for trading by Sedo grew from 4.3 million last year to 6.9 million. Over 2.9 million of these domains (prior year: 1.25 million) are available for marketing purposes.

“We are also optimistic for the year as a whole,” states Marc Stilke, Speaker of the Management Board of . “The online advertising market will continue to grow strongly in the future and claim an ever larger share of the advertising mix. We have charted further steps along our growth curve this year. For example, we plan to accelerate our international expansion in all core business segments and enhance our technical platforms. Despite high costs for the development of existing and new business fields in Germany and abroad, we aim to achieve a clear increase in sales and earnings over 2006.”

About the AdLINK Group
The AdLINK Group is Europe’s leading independent network for digital marketing solutions. With AdLINK Media, affilinet, net:dialogs, Sedo and the composite brand, the AdLINK Group comprises specialists in the business fields of Display Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Direct and Dialogue Online Marketing, as well as Domain Marketing and E-Mail Marketing. With its numerous local offices throughout Europe and the USA, as well as cooperation partners in Latin America, South America and Asia, the AdLINK Group offers its clients a global network for online marketing.

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