Montabaur, November 8, 2006. can look back on an outstanding first nine months of its fiscal year 2006. The company greatly improved both sales and earnings and posted its best-ever result.

Sales of more than doubled to EUR 125.8 in the first nine months of 2006, while pre-tax earnings displayed more than sixfold growth to reach € 13.0 million. Earnings per share improved from EUR -0.03 last year to EUR 0.22.

“We are very satisfied with the development of the business,” says Stéphane Cordier, CEO of . “We achieved the best result in our company’s history and have significantly improved all key performance indicators. In addition to the dynamic growth of the online advertising market, there are two further reasons for this success: firstly, we have realigned our traditional Display Marketing business segment, and secondly we have greatly strengthened our position with the acquisition of Sedo, affilinet and CibleClick in 2005. As a result, we can now offer online advertisers a wider and more differentiated range of products, while at the same time enjoying synergies from the interaction of our brands.”

In total, all business segments made positive contributions to this strong result. Not only did we make strong progress in the key financial figures but we also did so in all relevant market data in our three business segments:

In Display Marketing we raised the number of unique visitors per month from 62 million as of September 30, 2005 to 68 million. The number of page impressions generated per month on the websites we market also grew from 5.2 billion to 6.4 billion.

In Affiliate Marketing, we achieved significant growth in both advertising partners and reach: the number of suppliers of affiliate programs rose from 750 last year to 1,270. The number of affiliated websites grew from 280,000 to over 390,000 – due in no small part to our strong international expansion in France and the UK. As a result, monthly ad impressions increased from 3 billion to over 4.3 billion.

In the Domain Marketing segment, the number of domains tradable via Sedo grew from 2.2 million last year to over 5.65 million. Over 2.15 million of these domains (prior year: 0.65 million) are available for marketing.

“Following the traditionally weaker 3rd quarter for the online advertising market, we are now confident for the remaining 3 months of our fiscal year that the forthcoming Christmas and year-end business period will generate further dynamic growth for online advertising. Thanks to the excellent positioning of our products in their respective business fields, we expect to benefit strongly from this growth,” says Guy Challen, CFO of .


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AdLINK is a leading, independent marketer of online advertising space and digital marketing solutions in Europe. The AdLINK Group is represented by three brands in three different business segments: AdLINK (Display Marketing), Sedo (Domain Marketing) and affilinet (Affiliate Marketing). With 16 offices in 10 European nations and the USA, as well as cooperation partners in Asia and South America, the AdLINK Group offers its customers a global network for brand advertising and performance-based direct marketing.


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