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Channel Feeds

Channel Management supports feeds to ANY and ALL marketing channels. If we have not identified a channel that you would like to feed to in the lists below, please let us know.

MerchantAdvantage assists online merchants in understanding how to market products effectively into each marketing channel which they select. Finding out which marketing channel brings in the most sales and leads to your storefront requires testing.

Some channels are large general purpose shopping destinations, others take a more focused and niche approach to consumer interests. Whether your company fairs best on the larger shopping destinations, the niche locations, or both, MerchantAdvantage will get you to the shopping destination that translates into the most sales and leads for you.

To assist in this process:

Channel Management Professional and Lite applications are pre-configured currently for 25 selected successful channels from the list below, and
Both applications can be configured for over 150 additional channels that may be selected by the merchant – at no additional cost! (a one time setup fee per additional channel beyond the 25 pre-configured may apply for the Lite users)
Channel Management makes it easy to implement new channels for testing

We are more than happy to configure any new marketing channel that you identify, which actually might prove to be a better performing channel for your product catalog and marketing strategies than you are using today.

Below is a list of our current pre-configured channels, followed by a list of other channels to which we also feed our clients' product catalog data every day.

ARTS Standard:
MerchantAdvantage is one of the first adopters, supporters and promoters of the Association for Retail and Technology Standards ("ARTS") CSE, standard, feed format for the world of e-commerce.
The ARTS formatted feed is available to every CSE and online merchant today. However, as many CSEs or marketplaces do not accept the ARTS formatted feed, MerchantAdvantage makes it easy for all merchants to continue to feed their data regardless of proprietary formats required.
To date, CSE's as Pronto.com and PriceWiz.com support the ARTS standard side-by-side with their existing standard.
Online merchants now have options. Send, market and analyze catalog feeds to any marketing channel or CSE and use the ARTS standard as one option using MerchantAdvantage, which supports over 85 channels and now ARTS.
For information on the ARTS Click Here.

Become.com:
Become.com is the only vertical shopping search engine that offers an integrated product research and comparison shopping experience in one destination. This unique site helps people make ideal buying decisions by providing consumers comprehensive, unbiased, and relevant product reviews and information on millions of products, and the ability to shop for those products from brand name retailers from across the web. Its proprietary AIR (Affinity Index Ranking) technology is built using contextual analysis that incorporates human intelligence to deliver targeted results. Provides comprehensive, relevant, and unbiased research information to help you choose the right product. Become.com provides a comparison shopping service to help the shopper get the best deal on hundreds of merchant storefront sites. Finding the right product at the best price to save you time and money - is their goal. A relatively new shopping comparison site, they are well funded and are growing.

BizRate.com:
BizRate is one of the leading shopping search engines and part of the Shopzilla network. Every day, BizRate refers millions of ready-to-buy consumers to these online stores. BizRate is the most cost effective way for online merchants to find buyers for their products. Shopzilla is a stand-alone operating unit owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP).

Buyer's Edge:
Buyer's Edge (http://www.BuyersEdge.com) a leading Comparison Shopping Search Engine was designed and developed by a team of Consumer Product experts that specialize in consumer buying behavior. Millions of online shoppers visit Buyers Edge monthly for unbiased product reviews, price comparisons, merchant ratings, and buying advice. BuyersEdge.com drives targeted and qualified sales leads to merchants, while simultaneously promoting their products and building brand awareness.

buySAFE:
The buySAFE Bonded Shopping Network ("BSN") a cost-per-sale advertising network that brings together consumers in search of 100% risk-free shopping with reliable, trustworthy merchants. Every purchase made through the Bonded Shopping Network can be backed by a bond - the only 100% risk-free shopping experience on the Internet. buySAFE channels buyers to buySAFE Bonded Merchant websites directly from the buySAFE Shopping Advisor" (a browser-based shopping application) , via 3rd party comparison shopping sites and from www.buySAFEshopping.com

C|Net.com:
CNET Shopper.com will help you find the right product at the right price when you're shopping online. With pricing and merchant information for computers and electronics, a trusted merchant-certification program, and tools to compare prices, product reviews, and technical specs, CNET Shopper.com has everything you need to make your technology purchases.

Ciao!:
Ciao.com Shopping Community: Ciao is an established shopping comparison engine with over 8 years of experience and launched in the USA February 2008. Ciao presently is the leading consumer review and comparison shopping engine across Europe, with over 40 million unique shoppers per month, and brings this experience and marketing prowess to the USA. CIAO's unique and valuable user-generated content, via product and merchant reviews, helps consumers and visitors compare prices and make purchasing decisions. From the merchant's point of view Ciao's users are highly valuable because they have all the necessary information they need to make a purchase decision before they click through to the merchant's site. With all of this information users are much closer to a purchase rather then just browsing a homepage. Ciao.com gathers unique and valuable user-generated content via product and merchant reviews that help consumers and visitors to compare prices and make purchasing decisions. The recommendation of consumers is the best advertising to sell products. Joining Ciao means an increase in revenue and brand awareness. Ciao is a subsidiary of NASDAQ listed company Greenfield Online, Inc. headquartered in Wilton, CT

Commission Junction:
Commission Junction, a ValueClick company, is a leader in performance-based online marketing, delivering advanced solutions that facilitate strategic online relationships between advertisers and publishers, driving measurable results for each client. By publishing performance metrics on advertisers, publishers, and ads within its marketplace and leveraging its own expertise in online marketing through service, education and promotion, Commission Junction creates an open marketplace of low risk and high reward for its clients. The company serves billions of impressions monthly, ranking it among the largest ad networks in the world. Publishers place ads and links directly in and around their content and earn commissions. Online advertisers extend their reach, build their brand, drive sales and lower customer acquisition costs - all on a pay-for-performance basis. The company earns revenue on a per-transaction and subscription-fee basis.

FindGift:
FindGift.com is a gift giving search engine with the goal of assisting gift givers by finding unique gift ideas. Traffic from FindGift.com is pre-qualified before any click charges occur because shoppers can view your product picture, price, description and any specials you are offering. There is no need to worry about keyword management, our gift experts will add your products to the appropriate age, gender, categories, occasions, holidays and expressions. Our pricing is a flat rate and product rankings are based on popularity in the many thousand categories supported by our architecture. For further information please visit www.FindGift.com or our Merchant Account Center at www.FindGift.net.

Gifts.com:
Gifts.com is the premier destination for online gift shopping and gift buying advice. Gifts.com's gifting gurus recommend holiday and occasion specific gifts from the best online merchants for different recipients based on their age, gender and interests. Gifts.com is a demand generation engine. Unlike CSEs or search sites that channel existing demand, Gifts.com creates demand by suggesting gift ideas that shoppers didn't have in mind when they came to the site. Gifts.com does not sell products - rather, we deliver buyers to our retail partners for purchase of the gifts we recommend on a pay per click basis.

Google Product Search:
FREE service, for now, this is a destination site that every merchant should be on as it allows the existing online retailer and first time retailer to access a gigantic marketplace of shoppers. Froogle supplies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item shoppers want to find and pointing them directly to the place where shoppers can make a purchase.

GroupGain.com:
GroupGain.com is a revolutionary e-commerce marketplace that facilitates group buying online. Here sellers can sell products in bulk to groups of individual buyers - sellers can lower costs and individual buyers can take advantage of "bulk" discounts. Buyers on GroupGain are highly motivated to bring friends and family to each deal - which helps sellers push more product. Also, GroupGain does not charge sellers any listing fees - sellers only pay commission on closed deals! GroupGain is a broad marketplace and almost every product category sells well. Sellers simply must have inventory on hand and the ability to ship to individual buyers. GroupGain buyers are very passionate - looking to shop online in a fun, non-traditional way. They are also savvy online shoppers that know how to find the best deal possible.

Jellyfish.com:
At Jellyfish.com, we only get paid when your cash register rings. Jellyfish is an innovative new comparison shopping search engine that operates on the risk-free Cost Per Sale advertising model. The Jellyfish.com channel delivers the highly qualified buying traffic of a comparison engine with the 100% accountability of Cost Per Sale advertising. And because we reward our users for making purchase decisions through our shopping engine, Jellyfish is a magnet for serious online shoppers at the end of the purchase decision cycle. We are able to create this new retail marketplace because we have eliminated the misalignment of incentives and hidden costs of the Pay Per Click search advertising model. As a Jellyfish merchant, you can eliminate click fraud, drive profitable new sales, and use your advertising dollars to create added customer value.

Like.com:
Like.com is the first true visual shopping engine that combines the fun and enjoyment of discovering products offline with the efficiency of comparison shopping online. With Like.com, users can search for products by color, shape, or pattern with the simple click of a mouse on an image. For Merchants, our Like Listings program allow you to easily bring your inventory to Like.com and our partners and to start driving qualified traffic that will convert to your site immediately.

Market America:
Market America is a product brokerage and Internet marketing company that specializes in One-One-Marketing. With more than three million customers and 160,000 Distributors worldwide, the company has generated over $2.4 billion in accumulated retail sales. Headquartered in Greensboro, NC - the company employs over 500 people globally with international operations in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia. Through its revolutionary One-to-One Marketing concept, Market America combines the Internet with the power of people - creating the ultimate online shopping destination. More information is available at www.marketamerica.com.

mPoria:
mPoria's flagship product - GoMobile!(TM)- allows merchants to launch their own branded mobile shopping site accessible by over 60 million consumers on all major carrier networks (AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint). GoMobile! is an easy-to-use, cost-effective platform available through a monthly subscription service after a one time set-up fee of $70. With mPoria, retailers are able to extend their e-commerce web site to the mobile channel, giving consumers the convenience of researching, price comparing, and purchasing their favorite brand name products directly from the palm of their hand. mPoria offers a suite of advanced features for retailers such as mobile coupons with bar codes, catalog promotions through SMS, location services (for brick and mortar stores), real-time inventory and product information, as well as online order form integration.

mShopper:
Your customers are ready for mobile shopping. Are you? mShopper (www.mShopper.com) is a leading mobile commerce site which allows any online merchant to set up a mobile storefront and begin selling to wireless devices seamlessly. mShopper offers the first comprehensive, universal mobile shopping tool. Partnering with major U.S. carriers, and available on most handsets to more than 110 million U.S. subscribers, mShopper lets your customers find you wherever, whenever. Find out how mShop, mStore, and mPower can empower thousands of online merchants in mobile commerce to reach millions of new potential customers. mShopper offers:

Your Own Branded Mobile Destination: http://yourstore.mshopper.com. Market your new mobile storefront to loyal customers, so they can find you whether they're shopping in the store, or just having fun.

Distribution: Available to more than 110 million U.S. subscribers, and promoted jointly with major U.S. carriers.

Ease of Use: mShopper works! Try it to search by keyword or browse to products. mShopper also provides universal call center support to make mobile shopping a snap.

MSN Live Search:
Manage all your offers in organized catalog form. Create new, delete or update catalogs easily. Stay up to date about your catalog by subscribing to the email and RSS notification features. All absolutely FREE!

MyCoupons:
MyCoupons (www.MyCoupons.com ) is a pioneer of on-line coupon distribution. Since its inception in 1994, MyCoupons has led the way with innovations to help merchants reach their target markets in a cost-effective fashion. The latest innovations are the cost per redeem(tm) coupon code distribution system and the Couparison shopping(tm) engine.
Cost per redeem provides merchants a lower cost method of distributing coupon codes. No set up costs and listing to MyCoupons is always FREE.
Couparison shopping provides consumers with an easy way to locate a coupon code for a specific product they are seeking and allows merchants to more finally tune their offers by linking them to specific products or product categories.
The fees are low, flat and they only apply when the coupon is actually used. There are never any per-click charges and merchants have complete freedom over the structure of their coupon code offer.

mySimon.com:
A CNet owned company, mySimon is a robust and sophisticated shopping destination site that features shopping comparison and research of products and services. When the shopper clicks on a recommended product, the shopper is redirected to the site selling the product. mySimon researches thousands of product categories and millions of products and then identifies those merchants selling the product allowing the shopper to compare product offerings before making a purchase from an online merchant.

NexTag.com:
NexTag.com is the leading comparison shopping site for products, financial services, travel, automobiles, real estate, education and more. At the core of NexTag.com is its proprietary Search And Match (SAM") technology that enables shoppers to quickly compare prices and find the best deals on millions of products and services. For thousands of merchants, service providers and individuals, NexTag is an extremely efficient sales channel with its highly qualified traffic and performance-based pricing. More than 10 million shoppers per month use NexTag.com to research, compare, and buy products and services online.

PriceComparison.com:
Price comparison search engine based on both CPC and CPA. Our CPA product listings are based of products from affiliate networks. PriceComparison.com ensure merchant will get better return from their investment by having an option to spend money based on sales results.

PriceFish.com:
Pricefish, Inc is the creator of Pricefish.com, an innovative online comparison-shopping search engine and information delivery tool, which assists online shoppers to easily find, compare and purchase items from a variety of online merchants. Pricefish.com streamlines the process of comparing product features and finding the best overall price, for millions of products in a number of different categories, from a list of customer-rated merchants. Shoppers can find products in many different categories, including: Electronics, Photography, Home and Garden, Apparel, Jewelry, Health and Beauty, and many more. Pricefish.com incorporates unique multi-media features, useful content and a wide range of product categories, all designed to achieve the ultimate shopping experience for both consumers and merchants. Pricefish, Pricefish.com, and FishClips are all trademarks of Pricefish, Inc. For more information please visit www.pricefish.com

PriceForSure:
www.PriceForSure.com provides an entertaining, interactive atmosphere. Our goal is to keep costs to merchants minimal and customer service exceptional.
We distinguish ourselves from our competitors by targeting customers with merchant controlled multimedia features: live web-TV, video uploads, auction video capabilities, chat rooms, and video and text blogs.
Web-TV features alert consumers about our merchants' infomercials, special promotions, and services. Merchant-to-consumer chat rooms allow consumers to chat live with merchants. Consumers post questions, suggestions, and comments regarding purchases using the PriceForSure.com video and blogs. Merchants auction their returned, overstocked, and outdated products with auction video capabilities.

PriceGrabber:
Millions of consumers use PriceGrabber to quickly obtain free and unbiased information about products, services, merchants and sellers before making a purchase decision. PriceGrabber has established itself as the most trusted and effective online destination for savvy shopping. Shoppers can instantly find and compare millions of unique products and services contained in 22 channels, such as Apparel, Autos, Babies & Kids, Books & Magazines, Cell Phones, Plans, & Accessories, Computers, Home & Garden, Photography and Travel. The website also offers shoppers the ability to view and compare over thousands of merchants and sellers and their respective pricing information for products and services, thereby enabling users to ultimately find the right product from the right merchant at the best price.

PriceRunner.com:
PriceRunner is an internationally acclaimed comparison shopping engine that provides consumers with easy access to comprehensive buying information on a wide variety of products. Ranked #1 in the US by PC World Magazine in 2005 as "best overall comparison shopping engine" and recommended by Good Housekeeping Magazine. PriceRunner aggregates product details, user and expert product reviews, retailer ratings, as well as the best available prices in one convenient location. PriceRunner distinguishes itself from other comparison shopping engines by including prices from both online and offline retailers providing consumers with the broadest price comparisons and always lists the lowest price first. PriceRunner's goal is to provide consumers with the ability to make an informed and confident buying decision. PriceRunner is a ValueClick, Inc. company. For more information: www.pricerunner.com.

PriceShaker.com:
One of the newest and most cost-effective advertising tools available today. PriceShaker.com's lowest CPC rates in the industry combined with a vast amount of top rated merchants make it one of a kind. Focusing on consumer electronics and appliances, PriceShaker.com is not only a shopping comparison site, but it is equally a product comparison site as well as a retailer comparison site. In addition to shaking the internet for the best prices, PriceShaker.com provides users with unique ways to compare products side by side right down to their specific details as well as having a combination of customer reviews and an objective rating system- helping users choose the right retailer to purchase from.

Pronto.com:
Pronto.com is the Web's most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine. Consumers using Pronto.com can now find and compare prices for over 50 million products from over 50,000 merchants in an unbiased and easy to use display. Recently named as "Best Online Price Comparison Site" by Kiplinger's and selected by FireFox as one of their recommended add-ons, Pronto.com has a team of experts in technology, Web search and consumer products working to create a world-class shopping search experience. Pronto.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI), which operates Ask.com, Citysearch, HSN, LendingTree, Match.com, Ticketmaster and more and has a worldwide online audience of 229 million (September 2006, comScore).

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Shop.com Marketplace:
SHOP.COM is unique from other shopping comparison sites, in that we focus on serving the coveted female demographic through targeted merchandising, editorial and advertorial initiatives, all of which are designed to compliment her online experience no matter where she is in the shopping process.

Compare. Our audience can search for the products they love from the best stores on the web and see them side by side. Decide which price, shipping method, and delivery schedule options work best for you.
Learn. Unlike other shopping comparison sites, we offer our audience a variety of tools and expert advice to help the consumer make informed buying decisions and to find the best product to suit their needs.
Share. Visitors can share opinions through tools like product reviews and My Shop, a place to keep track of retail favorites.
Shop And when ready to buy, we give our audience options. They can use their secure SHOP.COM account to make purchases across over 800 OneCart" Trusted Merchant Stores, all backed by SHOP.COM's 100% satisfaction guarantee, or make purchases directly from the web sites of one of hundreds of our Partner Stores.

ShopAndPrice.com:
ShopAndPrice.com increases website traffic and revenue to targeted buyers while limiting advertising costs. CSEs usually increase your expenses and not buyers! They are interested in increasing click charges, not website traffic. This results in poor cost per click to conversion rate ratios.
ShopAndPrice.com focuses on web surfers looking for specific brands and model numbers. Customers who search for general terms like "Flat screen TV" are many steps away from a purchase. However, customers who search for specific brands and model numbers know what they want and are prepared to make a purchase. This adds up to a higher conversion rate.
So stop paying for clicks from consumers only researching what to buy? Want proof? Enter in a TV or video product in a Google or AOL search and you will be convinced that ShopAndPrice.com means what we say! Contact us today to see how we can increase your webs sales now.

Shopping.com:
Shopping.com, an ebay company, pioneered online comparison shopping and today is one of the fastest growing shopping destinations on the Internet. With millions of products, thousands of merchants, and millions of reviews from the Epinions community, Shopping.com empowers consumers to make informed choices and, as a result, drives much higher conversion to sale and value for merchants.

Shopzilla.com:
Shopzilla is one of the leading shopping search engines, with more than 36 million products from more than 80,000 stores. Every day, Shopzilla refers millions of ready-to-buy consumers to these online stores from Shopzilla.com, BizRate.com, Vicaom sites and many others. Shopzilla is the most cost effective way for online merchants to find buyers for their products. Shopzilla is a stand-alone operating unit owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP).

Smarter.com:
Smarter.com is a leading online comparison shopping service. Our goal is to help consumers make smarter buying decisions by enabling them to research and compare products, as well as to compare prices on millions of products available at thousands of reputable online stores. We gather product and merchant data from across the Internet, organize and structure it into a comprehensive catalog which we publish on Smarter.com.

SortPrice.com:
SortPrice provides online merchants with high-performance product listings. SortPrice delivers millions of quality shoppers directly to merchant product pages creating a fast and simple checkout process. There is no cost per click and no cost per transaction to list products on SortPrice. Merchants can list products at a low monthly flat rate and receive an unlimited amount of click-throughs. At Sortprice with the unlimited click-through business model, click fraud cannot harm your advertising budget. For more information visit: http://www.sortprice.com

TheFind.com:
TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine that delivers a comprehensive, relevant and visually compelling shopping experience optimized for lifestyle products.
Unlike comparison shopping sites, TheFind.com returns results from more than 150 million products from over 500,000 stores, and allows users to filter results by leading styles, brands, and stores and the ability to browse and search for similar items.
TheFind.com strives to be a comprehensive and unbiased shopping experience, and does not charge merchants to be included in their product index, or for clicks on their organic product listings. For more information, visit http://www.thefind.com.

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Underbid.com:
UnderBid has broken new ground by establishing a truly cost-effective Pay-Per-Sale marketing channel. Underbid is building a business based on professional and reputable merchants and genuinely partners with each merchant. There are NO listing fees, NO pay-per-click fees, NO cost per-impressions fees, NO pay-per-lead fees, NO monthly subscriptions fees, NO upfront setup costs, and NO hidden marketing costs. Underbid is at the other end of the spectrum from other marketing driven business models and delivers a NO RISK solution, eliminating click fraud to the merchant because only when a visitor completes their purchases is Underbid paid a small commission.

Yahoo Shopping:
Yahoo! Product Submit gives you access to millions of potential customers across the Yahoo! Network and on Yahoo! Shopping - one of the premier, branded and most visited shopping destination sites. Yahoo! Shopping features professional buyer's guides, seasonal editorials, consumer ratings and reviews, and much more to help you sell your products.