June 29, 2009 — Today mobileStorm Inc. published a comprehensive guide for the mobile marketer entitled, “The Ultimate Guide to Common Short Codes.” Written by mobile evangelist and mobileStorm CEO Jared Reitzin, the guide focuses on acquiring and using short codes to market products and services.

Short codes used with keyword combinations are front-and-center marketing technology. Texting the word “VOTE” to a short code helped your favorite American Idol stay on the show, for instance. And, widely considered to be the biggest mobile marketing event in history, President Obama used short code 62262 to announce his VP candidate Joe Biden.

Short codes are now tied to every kind of online and offline advertising and promotion. Today, in television, radio, billboards and print media, short codes are an important touch point for attracting and enticing new and repeat customers.

This engaging paper gives a complete description of the structure of the short code industry and answers key questions about what to expect when obtaining a short code for commercial purposes.
Other topics addressed in “The Ultimate Guide to Common Short Codes” include: 

- The right strategy to use when choosing your short code
- How to acquire a short code and what to expect in the application and provisioning process
- Provisioning process terms and definitions — what it all means to you

“The mobile industry comes with a lot of challenges and nothing is truly easy. We want to take some of the guesswork out of using a short code for mobile marketing,” said mobileStorm CEO and founder Jared Reitzin. “I started out to create a guide that my sales team could use to help clients understand the pros and cons of using a dedicated code. I realized that this is invaluable information, and the final document is a guide for the public that is simple, easy to read, and full of what you need to know in order to effectively acquire and use a short code.”

For the last few years, Mr. Reitzin has been publicly speaking out about improving the short code provisioning process. In a recent article on MobileMarketingWatch.com, he suggested specific improvements in four key areas: standardization of terms, decreased costs, reduction in launch times, and creation of testing tools to ensure marketers are MMA and carrier compliant.
If you’re a professional mobile marketer or considering a strategy in the near future, this is a must-have read. Save time and money by downloading your free copy of “The Ultimate Guide to Common Short Codes.” Go to: https://www.mobilestorm.com/digital-marketing-white-papers/short-code/.

About mobileStorm (http://www.mobilestorm.com) -
For a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than two billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, K2 Sports, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., and Squaw Valley Ski Resort, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email marketing, SMS/text messaging, voice messaging, video broadcast, RSS marketing, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

For more information, contact:
866-492-7886
323-785-6333
323-785-6310

Los Angeles, CA— mobileStorm has unveiled the latest in its line of valuable white papers for digital marketers, this time focused on SMS marketing for casino clients.

Titled “How The Casino Next Door Is Getting Ready To Kick Your A**: Why It’s Time to Get Real About Mobile in Casino Marketing,” the white paper outlines how SMS, or text messaging, can be used to boost business in light of the challenges facing the casino industry today. It explains the unique benefits of text messaging, how casinos can use the medium in their marketing campaigns, and how SMS can help casinos both retain current customers and acquire new ones.

“With the economy today, it’s understandable that consumers are wary of spending money for entertainment and gaming,” said mobileStorm CEO and founder Jared Reitzin. “But casinos are offering specials that let their customers have a good time at a lower cost—everything from room deals to food, drink and spa coupons. SMS lets casinos notify their customers of these price breaks in real-time. Text messaging is also ideal for communicating with ‘players club’ members, different offers can be triggered to different members depending upon their level of play.  inherent sense of immediacy, it also encourages casino customers to act quickly on special offers.”There are virtually no delivery issues with SMS and 95% of all messages are read within the first 15 minutes. It’s the perfect marketing and alerting channel for the gaming industry.

The outlook seems bleak for the casino industry. Fitch Ratings says that commercial casino revenue fell 2.5 percent in 2008 and won’t recover until at least 2010. Meanwhile the industry must do more with less, marketing-wise: Consider that the Nevada Tourism Board slashed traditional advertising and told casinos and resort to use cheaper, digital methods of marketing such as mobile marketing and social media.

Luckily, the white paper points out, successful properties have already reaped positive results with SMS. Their campaigns prove that text messaging offers a high rate of return, while being an affordable method of marketing. Such forward-thinkers include MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Barona Valley Ranch, and Palms Casino Resort.

The white paper outlines what kind of promotional programs are in place. It explains to casino marketers how they, too, can benefit if they implement text-messaging campaigns.

To download a free copy of “How The Casino Next Door Is Getting Ready To Kick Your A**: Why It’s Time to Get Real About Mobile in Casino Marketing,” go to: https://www.mobilestorm.com/digital-marketing-white-papers/casino/.

About mobileStorm
For a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 3 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach their customers via email marketing, SMS messaging, voice messaging, RSS marketing, video broadcast, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

March 16,2009—Planet Funk, the fashion-forward clothing chain, on Monday revealed that it achieved a 377 percent return-on-investment with mobile coupon campaigns launched during the holiday shopping season.

The Burbank, California-based retailer, which targets trendy young men and young women, also saw a staggering 91 percent redemption rate on the coupons. The campaign was launched on November 21, 2008 and ended on December 21, 2008. Twenty percent of revenue for the month of December was generated by the almost 2,000 coupons that were generated, and which were sent as text messages, or SMS, via the mobileStorm digital marketing platform.

“Mobile is a natural fit for our customers and being able to give them such coupons—both in the store and online—that can be instantly received on their phones is a no-brainer,” said Kitiri Lomaka of Planet Funk. “The results we experienced proved this and we look forward to continuing our partnership with mobileStorm to drive future mobile campaigns. We now realize that mobile marketing can not only be affordable for companies like ours, but also wildly profitable if handled the right way.”

Planet Funk only sent the coupons to people who subscribed to receive text messages from the company. It advertised the promotion with signs inside its stores, on its website and blog, and on the websites of numerous malls where Planet Funk shops are located. Besides immediate revenue, the company also set the stage for future campaigns: 15 percent of coupon-redeemers opted in to receive future SMS marketing messages from the retailer.

“It’s no better time than to incentivize your customer base to spend money with you. And there is no better offer than a coupon. Even better, a mobile coupon that can be acquired and redeemed all on site, plus it’s digital so Planet Funk is doing their part to help the environment and save a tree. Mobile coupons provide end-to-end tracking, so it’s easy to gauge your return on investment. Clearly this investment was a huge success for them, and I am happy to be helping out a retailer I am a fan of during this recession.” said Jared Reitzin, CEO and founder of mobileStorm.

The entire Planet Funk case study can be found at http://www.mobilestorm.com/email-marketing-case-studies/case-study-planet-funk.php. For more information about mobileStorm SMS, call 866-492-7886 or 323-785-6333; or send an email to sales@mobilestorm.com.

About mobileStorm Inc.
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email marketing, sms messaging, voice messaging, RSS marketing, video broadcast or fax broadcast from a single provider.

mobileStorm is a do-it-yourself database messaging system that enables companies to fully leverage their list of customers, prospects and partners by contacting them in the ways they wish to be reached. With mobileStorm companies can utilize their entire database regardless of contact type - email, cell phone, telephone, fax or mailing address - through a single system, whether sending a broadcast message to all subscribers or a highly targeted message to a select few important contacts.

Major online discount retailer will extend promotions reach with SMS/text campaigns using the mobileStorm 4.0 Digital Marketing platform.

Los Angeles, CA February 9, 2009 — mobileStorm, Inc. today announced that Overstock.com has chosen its digital marketing platform for a mobile promotions beta test. Overstock.com will employ the system-mobileStorm 4.0-for targeting, delivery and tracking of mobile marketing messages, including mobile coupons, via mobileStorm’s new Coupon Management System. The system will generate precision-targeted coupons as well as viral coupon campaigns to alert and incentivize customers toward new products, special discounts and VIP customer events.

“Using the mobileStorm 4.0 platform will open an entirely new channel of communicating with Overstock.com customers,” said James Munnerlyn, of Overstock’s conversion marketing team. “After a thorough analysis of vendors in the mobile marketing space, we selected mobileStorm based on their ability to quickly execute our mobile marketing vision at a reasonable cost, and with all the complimentary resources and services we need to run the programs.”

In addition to providing the digital marketing platform via software as a service (SaaS), mobileStorm will provide professional services to augment Overstock.com staff, and will provide consulting on technical and marketing best practices.

“We’re very pleased to count Overstock.com as a client,” said mobileStorm CEO Jared Reitzin. “We love seeing large ecommerce companies start to seriously leverage this message channel. 95% of cell phones in the U.S. are text message enabled, and 87% of the U.S. population has a cell phone. Overstock.com will be able to take advantage of this mass adoption and, with mobile coupons, track the results of their success.”

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Carl’s Jr., Ashley’s Home Furniture and K2 Sports, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. Visit us at www.mobilestorm.com.

About Overstock.com
Overstock.com, Inc. is an online retailer offering brand-name merchandise at discount prices. The company offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory distribution channel. Overstock.com, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ Global Market System and can be found online at http://www.overstock.com. Overstock.com regularly posts information about the company and other related matters on its website under the heading “Investor Relations.”

Overstock.com® is a registered trademark of Overstock.com, Inc.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the effectiveness of the communications platform and it containment of all resources needed. Overstock.com’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, its subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, or any amendments thereto, and other subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission identify important factors that could cause Overstock’s actual results to differ materially from those contained in its projections, estimates or forward-looking statements.

Los Angeles, CA—February 5, 2009 mobilestorm, the premier provider of email and mobile marketing solutions, and iHollywood Forum, the leading producer of conferences and forums on digital and wireless entertainment, will present a mobile coupon webinar aimed at the digital entertainment industry.

The web seminar happens at 10 a.m. Pacific time on February 10, 2009, and will be hosted on the iHollywood Forum website: http://www.ihollywoodforum.com/

mobileStorm CEO Jared Reitzin, who is presenting the webinar, will explain why mobile coupons are a marketing solution that will drive four to five times the revenue of direct mail, print, and other online channels. He will tell marketers how they can increase their marketing returns with mobile coupons, teach them how mobile technology works, and offer real-life success stories.

With consumers spending less due to the recession, coupons are a way to get them into shops or onto online retail sites. Target marketing company ICOM says 67 percent of U.S. shoppers surveyed will be more likely to use coupons in the face of an economic downturn. Juniper Research reports that by 2013, some 200 million subscribers worldwide will use coupons that are delivered and redeemed via mobile phones; North America and Western Europe will account for almost 20 percent of those voucher redeemers.

Entertainment is increasingly moving to the consumer’s mobile phone. At CES 2009, the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced a new mobile digital TV service that debuted with 65 channels in 22 markets—or 35 percent of U.S. TV households—and was set to expand rapidly, bringing regular TV content to cell phones. This builds on the mobile video audiences already primed for more content. Nielsen Mobile says that YouTube has 3 million mobile viewers and that the NBC network is the top video brand, with 4.7 million subscribers watching its mobile programming.

It makes sense, then, to launch marketing campaigns on a platform that has become ever-more important to consumers. Mobile coupons leverage the ideal partnership for digital entertainment providers, content owners, and advertisers.

To register for the mobile coupon webinar, fill out this online form: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/390421029

About mobileStorm, Inc.
For a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than two billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, K2 Sports, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., and Squaw Valley Ski Resort, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email marketing, SMS/text messaging, voice messaging, video broadcast, RSS marketing, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

About iHollywood Forum, Inc.
iHollywood Forum is the leading producer of conferences and forums on digital and wireless entertainment. Our cutting-edge conferences consider topics such as online music and film, mobile entertainment, IPTV, digital cinema, games, interactivity in television, marketing and advertising, and much more. We offer diverse opinions on the most compelling issues facing the industry, with a particular emphasis on discussing the viability of new business models. Our monthly summits and dinners typically attract 300-800 distinguished entertainment and technology professionals.

Los Angeles, CA—January 26,2009 mobileStorm, the premiere email and mobile marketing and solutions company, announced that company revenues grew by 63% during 2008. Fourth quarter showed strong performance with the addition of over 200 new clients.

mobileStorm has been focused on the digital marketing space since its inception in 1999, and is a known veteran in text-messaging, or SMS, and email marketing solutions for businesses both small and large.  Growth in both retail and event marketing clients were a highlight of fourth-quarter wins.

” I’m excited to be running a company that provides digital marketing services. It is a really good market to be in during these challenging economic times. We have a great outlook on 2009, as we can help clients who are stressed right now to generate sales, stay healthy, and even grow,” said Jared Reitzin, CEO and founder of mobileStorm.  “It’s always important to spend marketing dollars wisely and never more than today. We’ve built on our experience developing programs using email and SMS to generate and track real sales.”

The company introduced several important upgrades in 2008, designed to focus on ROI, including digital and mobile coupons, RSS, RSS to email and text-to-screen.  Text-to-screen is an engaging technology that supports the administration of polls and quizzes at events.

mobileStorm views 2009 as a year in which high ROI from email and SMS programs will be a centerpiece for clients in industries such as retail, entertainment, and hospitality.  Accordingly, the company plans to release numerous special packages tailored to these industry’s digital marketing needs.
mobileStorm also has a continuing series of online webinars, launched during the fourth quarter, which feature “how-tos”  and preset marketing solutions for industry professionals.  The company also hosts an weekly open orientation, “Exploring mobileStorm 4.0.”  Please contact sales@mobilestorm.com or call 866-492-7886 x1 to register for this event.

If you’re interested in learning more about us, give us a call 866-492-7886.

About mobileStorm

For a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than two billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, K2 Sports, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., and Squaw Valley Ski Resort, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email marketing, SMS/text messaging, voice messaging, video broadcast, RSS marketing, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

For more information, contact:
eydie@mobilestorm.com
press@mobilestorm.com
866-492-7886
323-785-6333
323-785-6310

Los Angeles, CA— January 12, 2009 mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of email and mobile marketing, today announced the appointment of Doug Schiller as its new Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Schiller, who was most recently the founder of AlternativeEnergy.com, has a long-standing history with mobileStorm, providing financial strategy and guidance since its inception.  In his new role at mobileStorm, he will oversee all financial leadership and planning, reporting directly to CEO Jared Reitzin.

Mr. Schiller has over 20 years of experience as a CFO and senior-level positions in venture-backed companies.  He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.  Previously, he held leadership positions at NewYears.com, ClubPlanet.com, Xingtone and PrimeID.

“The hiring of Doug Schiller as our new CFO is a reflection of the explosive growth we’ve been experiencing at mobileStorm,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm.  “I am extremely excited to have such a well-respected financial leader in our organization and look forward to continuing our already solid partnership in this new official capacity.”

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, K2, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email, and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach their customers via email marketing, SMS messaging, voice messaging, RSS marketing, video broadcast, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

Los Angeles, CA—mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of email and mobile marketing, has appointed David Pedowitz as its new Director of Engineering and Principal Architect.

Mr. Pedowitz will be in charge of developing the next generation of mobileStorm’s multi-channel messaging platform, called mobileStorm 5.0, and will oversee the company’s day-to-day application development efforts.

“We are pleased to have talent like David join our team and are confident that under his leadership mobileStorm 5.0 will be unlike anything the market has ever seen,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm.   “Our goal is to change the understanding of what a SaaS marketing platform can be.  David has the enterprise background we need to create a truly incredible service.”

Mr. Pedowitz has more than 10 years of experience in web application development and enterprise software architecture. Most recently, he was at Fox Interactive Media, where he was the driving force behind the re-architecture and re-engineering of the MySpace MyAds platform, one of FIM’s largest initiatives.  Prior to his position as Senior Software Engineer at FIM, he held notable engineering positions at both Citysearch and Warner Bros. Online.

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, K2, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email, and mobile messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach their customers via email marketing, SMS messaging, voice messaging, RSS marketing, video broadcast, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

Los Angeles, CA— mobileStorm, the digital marketing platform company, ended a strong third quarter driven by new product introductions and the addition of more than 115 new clients.

The company has been exclusively focused on the marketing message space since its inception in 1999, with particular expertise in text-messaging, or SMS, and email.

Two upgrades were introduced to better serve clients who want to take their digital marketing strategy to greater levels:

• Digital and Mobile Coupons: mobileStorm 4.0 Coupon Management is a premium product that helps clients create coupons for digital distribution via SMS, email, and RSS.
• Text-To-Screen: mobileStorm Text-To-Screen engages customers at events by compelling an audience to participate in a text-message poll or quiz, then posting results in real time.

mobileStorm welcomes the opportunity to work with marketing professionals who are on a long list of clients from a variety of industries. New clients include Hawaiian Tropic, the advertising agency VML, Czech Airlines, Skybar, BrightRoll, CTS Audio, K2 Sports, L’Auberge du Lac, Tri-Valley Internet, and Inner Harbor Realty.

Ashley Furniture HomeStore of Charlotte, North Carolina and upstate South Carolina enjoyed a particularly quick turnaround, launching a Secret Sale promotion within a month of opening its mobileStorm account. The Secret Sale produced an astounding ROI of approximately $122 (with SMS) and $76 (with email) for each dollar spent on the promotion.

“Now more than ever, it’s critical to have high-ROI promotions that are trackable,” said mobileStorm CEO and founder Jared Reitzin. “SMS, and especially mobile coupons, have taken off. SMS, commonly called text messaging, is not just advertising: It is selling. SMS as a vehicle to acquire and convert customers has come into its own. Moreover, our clients are getting even more amazing results by using a combination of different kinds of messages. Businesses are trying to find out who understands how to deliver targeted, multiple message types. There is only one company with this experience: mobileStorm.”

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than two billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email marketing, SMS/text messaging, voice messaging, video broadcast, RSS marketing, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

For more information, contact:

sales@mobilestorm.com
866-492-7886
323-785-6333

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing solutions and services, will present a free webinar on how mobile coupons can boost B2C sales during a difficult retail season.

“If you could design a perfect marketing promotion it would have these characteristics: Immediate reach; 100% (or close) attention from the recipient; being trackable directly to a specific action by that specific target; customized to the target’s wants and needs; and an extremely high ROI with low startup and ongoing costs,” said Jared Reitzin, founder of mobileStorm. “Guess what? Mobile coupons do this and more.”

The webinar, “Making Money with Mobile Coupons,” is scheduled for 11 a.m. November 11, 2008 (Pacific time) and will be led by Mr. Reitzin. To register, please go to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/846137529. The discussion will focus on how the integration of mobile coupons into marketing campaigns can maximize revenue for small- to medium-sized businesses. Attendees will also receive specifics on how to launch a mobile coupon campaign, expected start-up costs, and success stories of companies using mobile coupons today.

Topics to be addressed include:

• Consumer response to coupon offers sent to mobile phones.
• Using mobile couponing to increase sales and support consumer loyalty programs.
• Best practices for SMS mobile coupon campaigns.
• Choosing the right SMS coupon technology.

Mobile coupons are an ideal way to encourage spending during an economic crunch. mobileStorm Coupon Management is a complete, do-it-yourself digital coupon creation and distribution system for digital marketing campaigns.

Marketing professionals interested in attending the Webinar can sign up by the following methods:

• Email: sales@mobilestorm.com
• Online registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/846137529
• Phone: 866-492-7886, ext. 1

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email, and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach their customers via email marketing, sms messaging, voice messaging, RSS marketing, video broadcast, or fax broadcast from a single provider.

Furniture Chain Taps into the Power of Digital Marketing with the mobileStorm 4.0 Platform

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Ashley Furniture HomeStores of Charlotte, N.C. and upstate South Carolina today announced that it had generated $138,460 from a recent four-day “Secret Sale” advertised solely through SMS and email campaigns. The promotion was the latest in a string of campaigns by the independently-owned eight-store chain, which exclusively sells the Ashley Furniture brand.

“Using email and SMS as digital marketing channels has really impressed us out of the gate and shown us a clear path to offset declining response rates and poor ROI in some of our other forms of advertising,” said Charlie Malouf, co-owner and COO of Ashley Furniture HomeStores of Charlotte, N.C. and upstate South Carolina. “The success of the Secret Sales proves just how effective digital marketing can be and we plan to continue to expand such programs in the future.”

To quickly build its database, Ashley Furniture HomeStores ran contests such as a free gas giveaway and a $500 weekly shopping spree. Both encouraged users to opt into their email and SMS database for future offers. The furniture retailer then promoted a four-day Secret Sale, which ran July 10-14, 2008. Officials at the chain used contact information collected via prior marketing campaigns, sending digital coupons via SMS and email to customers who wanted to receive special offer messages.

Ashley Furniture HomeStores sent 34,743 messages in all—6,000 texts and 28,743 emails—on the morning of the first day of the sale. The chain generated revenue of $138,460 in four days.

Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm, Inc., stressed that digital marketing campaigns that include a solid tie across different message types—SMS, email and RSS—perform even more strongly than single-medium campaigns. “We see great marketers achieve returns like this simply by understanding what their audience wants to receive—and using the correct message type. While traditional advertising is declining, promotions which include contests and coupons are rapidly increasing. The key is offering incentives in exchange for subscriber data and preferences, then
applying messaging to demographics and individual preferences. Digital marketing offers full end-to-end tracking so ROI can be easily gauged.”

Indeed, for every dollar spent, the furniture chain generated approximately $122 with mobileStorm SMS and about $76 with mobileStorm Email.

“With two simple SMS campaigns, we’ve generated over $100,000 in new business. Our efforts with mobileStorm’s permission-based digital messaging platform will increase and continue over time,” Mr. Malouf said. “We’ll not only use email and text messaging as a means to drive business, but in the future, we’ll also use these forms of new media as a way to effectively communicate directly with our customers.”

7/29/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Jessica Gildar
July 29, 2008 MGM MIRAGE Public Relations
(702) 650-7535
jgildar@mgmmirage.com

MGM GRAND ENHANCES GUEST EXPERIENCE
WITH DIRECT MESSAGING

Mobile Concierge Service Now Available

LAS VEGAS – MGM Grand continues to raise the bar for exceptional guest service with its new Mobile Concierge program. Guests of the AAA Four Diamond hotel now can receive exclusive discounts directly to their personal mobile devices, including offers for MGM Grand’s award-winning restaurants, pampering spa and salon and spectacular shows, KÀ and Crazy Horse Paris.
This new communication service takes a proactive, state-of-the-art approach to accommodating guests’ needs. Once a hotel reservation is booked, the guest receives a pre-arrival email with the option to sign up for offers sent directly to their cell phones, iPhones or PDAs via Short Message Service communication, commonly known as text messaging. The pre-arrival email allows guests to specify whether they would like information only on specific amenities or on all offers available during their stay. Alternatively, guests may conveniently register for the customized service at the front desk upon arrival.
Redeeming the offer is as simple as presenting the text message to an MGM Grand concierge or participating venue – from Cristophe Salon to the electric nightlife at Tabú Ultra Lounge and Studio 54.
“With one touch of a button, our Mobile Concierge program conveniently connects our guests to special discounts, offering personalized attention and the chance to indulge in MGM Grand’s ‘Maximum Vegas’ experience,” said Tim Kelly, vice president of Hotel Operations for MGM Grand.

Offered in conjunction with digital marketing service provider, mobileStorm, the MGM Grand Mobile Concierge program currently is available to mobile service providers within the United States only. Standard text messaging rates apply. To book a reservation at MGM Grand and participate in this new service, call (800) 929-1111 or visit www.mgmgrand.com.

mobileStorm 4.0 provides companies with an unprecedented 6 different communication channels

LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2008 - mobileStorm Inc., (www.mobilestorm.com) a leading provider of digital marketing solutions and services, today announced the launch of the latest version of its core platform, mobileStorm 4.0. The new release makes mobileStorm 4.0 the only on-demand application that offers businesses six different ways to communicate with their subscribers. The company also released a coupon management system, which can be integrated with various message types supported by the platform.

mobileStorm products and services give small to medium sized businesses two distinct options to help drive their digital marketing objectives. Those looking for a self-service platform can use mobileStorm 4.0 right away and begin sending digital marketing campaigns in a matter of minutes. mobileStorm can also address companies who need a more comprehensive digital marketing solution, including services such as delivery consulting, graphic design and custom integration.

“It’s no longer enough to just have one or even two types of communication channels with your customers. If you evaluate what makes up your database, chances are it’s a blend of many different kinds of people,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “With mobileStorm 4.0, our clients can reach their customers in more ways than have ever been possible, and track the results of their success. We want those in the SMB space to play with the big boys and with mobileStorm, they can.”

The mobileStorm 4.0 includes the following key new features:

• mobileStorm 4.0 adds two new message types the platform:

  Video Broadcasting

  mobileStorm Video Broadcasting enables companies to simultaneously distribute online video content to major sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Daily Motion amongst others. Clients can then view a centralized report to see how many viewers their online videos have attracted per site.

  RSS Marketing

  mobileStorm RSS allow businesses to syndicate online content to subscribers in a true 100% opt-in process. Customers can create RSS forms to capture new subscribers as well as design RSS feeds via a WYSIWYG editor to ensure that their readers receive the content correctly.

  mobileStorm RSS also integrates with mobileStorm Email to send both message types simultaneously from the same campaign. Subscribers can then opt to receive the messages either via an RSS reader or as an email.

• mobileStorm Coupon Management

  mobileStorm Coupon Management provides companies with a complete, do-it-yourself digital coupon creation and distribution system to leverage their digital marketing campaigns. Companies can use the application as their own Point of Sale (POS) system or integrate in an existing POS framework.

  mobileStorm Coupon Management can create various types of discount, such as flat dollar-amount, percentage or total items purchased. Clients can also develop tiered discounts, giving customers more offers for higher purchase amounts or total products, such as 25% off for $100.00 and 30% off for $200.00, etc. Existing customer IDs/SKUs can also be integrated into the discount structure to offer VIP customers higher discounts or special offers.

  Once coupons are created and integrated, clients can then send them to subscribers using mobileStorm any digital messaging channel. Total usage restrictions are also possible, both in terms of total coupons distributed as well as redemption limitations per customer.

All of the above products and services can be found at www.mobilestorm.com, which is the new central hub for all information about mobileStorm and its solutions/services.

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing evolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, RSS, video broadcast and fax broadcast from a single provider.

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Clients Will be Able to Monetize Mobile Campaigns With New Service

CTIA Wireless 2008 - LAS VEGAS - mobileStorm, a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced a new premium Short Message Service (SMS) for its Stun! platform. This new capability enables companies, particularly SMBs (small-to-medium-sized businesses) to create additional revenue streams.

Stun! Premium SMS gives clients the option to earn money on certain text messages and content, by having cell phone users pay for the service through their cell phone bill. The possibilities are endless. Now mobileStorm clients can promote voting contests, like those on reality TV shows, in which participants pay a small fee to vote for their favorites via SMS. Stun! clients can also create subscription campaigns and charge a monthly fee for premium content. Stun! allows businesses of almost any size to deliver informational services like daily horoscopes, VIP programs, time-sensitive updates or even contests and games to engage customers.

While premium SMS has been increasingly used by enterprises such as TV production companies or large global brands, mobileStorm is the first to make this service available to the SMB market. Additionally, unlike other premium SMS providers, mobileStorm does not take a percentage of sales generated from premium SMS campaigns for campaigns earning less than $5,000 per month.

“It is no secret that multiple entities demand their slice of the pie when it comes to premium SMS, leaving the content provider with less than expected,” said Jared Reitzin, CEO and founder of mobileStorm. “We wanted to give small-to-medium-sized businesses a chance to quickly launch premium SMS messages across carriers, receive payments in a timely fashion and keep as much revenue as possible from their work and creativity. With our new upgrade, we offer all of the features most companies will need to create a steady revenue stream.”

Highlights of the new service include:

• Clients can choose one of two ways to charge subscribers for premium content.

• Monthly subscription. Cell phone users are charged a one-time monthly fee to access a company’s premium service and receive messages. Charges are processed either through a web form or can be billed by the user’s mobile phone carrier.

• Per message. This is a “pay as you go” strategy that gives a company’s Mobile Club users the option to only pay when they request a particular message.

• The price for premium content is set by mobileStorm’s client, who selects from a range of default prices that are automatically attached when creating a new premium SMS campaign. Custom pricing is also available.

• Clients can use a mobileStorm shortcode, or use their own dedicated shortcodes.

• The service is supported on the following cellular providers’ networks: AT&T Wireless, Sprint, T-mobile, Verizon, Boost, Midwest, Alltel and Virgin Mobile.

Stun! Premium SMS is available now for existing Stun! SMS clients, and to new clients after first opening a Stun! account.

For more information please visit http://www.mobilestorm.com/. For more information about mobileStorm’s multi-channel marketing tools, visit http://www.mobilestorm.com/stun/ .

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers, such as American Idol, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing evolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling clients to reach customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, RSS/Blogs, video broadcast and fax broadcast from a single provider.

New Service Creates Yet Another Option for Customers to Enhance Their Digital Marketing Tools

Search Engines Strategies — New York City — March 18th, 2008 – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced a partnership with online video analytics and distributor TubeMogul to enable clients to post their online videos to multiple sites simultaneously. The new service will give companies more options with their digital marketing strategies.

Clients of the Stun! digital marketing platform will be able to sign up for the service, at no charge, to upload and deploy their videos in one shot to up to 14 video sharing or social networking sites, including YouTube, MySpace and Daily Motion. Additional sites will be added throughout the year to increase the depth and breadth of their online video distribution.

“TubeMogul is committed to leveraging our unique technology across as many distributions channels as possible,” said Brett Wilson, co-founder and chief executive officer of TubeMogul.

The service not only includes distribution but also detailed analytics and trending on a per site basis, as well as aggregate statistics to give clients insight into the popularity and impact of their online videos. Viewership levels per site are also calculated; allowing companies to view spikes in traffic for better planning of future online video placement and marketing. Clients can also integrate their online video marketing into their Stun! email campaigns to notify and attract more viewers.

“Internet video is hot and we are excited to offer this service to our clients,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “In fact, Accustream iMeda Research reported that views of user-generated video will grow to 34 billion total views by the end 2008. Our partnership with TubeMogul gives our customers a completely new form of communication in a very fast growing medium.”

The TubeMogul partnership is just the latest example of how mobileStorm is embracing online video as a form of digital marketing. The company had previously announced the formation of mobileStorm Productions, which will produce many types of online videos, both short and long-form. Specific areas will include: product guides and walkthroughs, a weekly news program on the latest trends in digital marketing, case studies and client testimonials, and a series of entertaining commercials to promote various features and services that mobileStorm has to offer.

Current clients of the Stun! digital marketing platform can add online video distribution immediately at no cost. A Stun! account is required for new users to access the service. For more information go to www.mobilestorm.com or visit booth #2301 at the Search Engine Strategies conference for an in-person demo.

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol producers FremantleMedia, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

About TubeMogul
TubeMogul is an online video analytics company serving producers large and small who need independent information about video performance on the Web’s top video sharing sites. TubeMogul’s analytic technology aggregates video-viewing data from a growing list of the top sharing sites to give content creators and owners improved understanding of when, where and how often videos are watched, track and compare what’s hot and what’s not, measure the impact of marketing campaigns, gather competitive intelligence, and share the data with colleagues. www.tubemogul.com

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mobileStorm is Recognized For its Leadership in Digital Innovation

Los Angeles - February 25, 2008 – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com) a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, is one of the finalists chosen for the 14th annual Technology Industry Awards, hosted by the Technology Council of Southern California. The Technology Industry Awards event has become one of the best-attended and noteworthy events for the technology industry. mobileStorm has been selected as a finalist in the Mobile and Communications Company of the Year award category.

The awards recognize individuals and companies that have made significant, superior contributions to Southern California’s technology industry. The event is an extravagant presentation, in an Oscar’s style format, including multimedia presentations, program guides and trophies presented to the winners. The Awards ceremony will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 28, 2008.

“To receive this recognition by our peers is an honor, mobileStorm prides itself as an industry innovator and we look forward to the award results,” said Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm. “It’s an exciting time for digital marketing and the Technology Industry Awards provides industry leaders a unique networking venue; allowing diverse companies the opportunity to connect on different levels.”

mobileStorm provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform. Its platform enables clients to reach its customer via email, text (mobile) messaging and voice messaging. mobileStorm is the expert when it comes to digital marketing services.

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol producers FremantleMedia, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com. mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

Press Inquiries:
Elizabeth Villanueva
Valerie Christopherson
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valeriec@globalresultspr.com

mobileStorm is Changing the Marketing and Advertising Playground; Now Everyone Can Play

LOS ANGELES – Feb. 12, 2008 – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, has won the AlwaysOn/Vator OnMedia “Game-Changers” competition. The competition sought out top companies leading change in the marketing and advertising space. mobileStorm’s win suggests that the Vator community and AlwaysOn judges realize marketing and advertising is moving quickly to reach mobile platforms, and mobileStorm is one of the companies leading the way.

The Vator.tv and AlwaysOn (AO) Game-Changers competition aimed to identify innovators that are setting trends and redefining the way marketers reach target audiences; ultimately extending the relationship between brands and consumers. As part of the entry process, mobileStorm submitted its video pitch on how it is helping clients use mobile messaging technology to add to their success. The Vator community voted on the best pitches and narrowed the field to a few select companies. Finally, a team of judges consisting of AO’s editorial team designated the winners.

“It’s always exciting to receive recognition for doing something you’re passionate about — winning this competition further validates mobileStorm’s key position within the ever-evolving marketing and advertising landscape,” stated Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm. “Companies anywhere - at any stage - can take advantage of mobileStorm’s turn-key marketing platform to get their messages across reliably and precisely. This award is further endorsement of the value we bring to our clients.”

mobileStorm provides turnkey hosted email, SMS/text and other forms of digital messaging to small- to medium -sized businesses wanting to deliver marketing programs that get results. mobileStorm’s platform is reaching the texting generation with an unprecedented level of accuracy and speed.

“Vator.tv and AlwaysOn were impressed with mobileStorm and its approach to digital marketing, it was just what the competition was all about – finding the pioneers within the advertising and marketing space,” said Bambi Francisco, founder and CEO of Vator.tv. “It takes creativity and vision to set trends and make changes in any industry and mobileStorm is thriving in the new age of digital marketing.”

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol producers FremantleMedia, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com. mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

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Company creates new division to tap into online video marketing and distribution

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Feb. 11, 2008 - mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced the creation of a video production unit called mobileStorm Productions. Taking advantage of its location in the heart of Hollywood, the new group will produce both internal and external video shorts on a variety of subjects, from product How-Tos to a weekly digital marketing show.

mobileStorm Productions will be headed by new hire Alex Gans, who will serve as the senior editor for the division and supervise all of the shoots. Gans is a veteran of the corporate video industry and has extensive experience creating dynamic, high-impact shorts that are geared specifically to the burgeoning online video market.

The division will produce many types of online videos, both short- and long-form. Specific areas will include: product guides and walkthroughs, a weekly news program on the latest trends in digital marketing, case studies and client testimonials, and a series of entertaining commercials to promote various features and services that mobileStorm has to offer.

“As a leader in digital marketing, we’re always looking for the means to help companies promote their products and services in exciting new ways, and we believe that online video is the next logical progression for this,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “For example, a video interview I did a couple of months ago was viewed over 50,000 times. This is more than 10 times the number of page views our most popular blog article has received. We’ve also discovered that online video is increasingly becoming an important factor in maintaining high-search rankings. Such facts made us decide to create mobileStorm Productions and take advantage of this explosive new marketing channel.”

mobileStorm is also launching a community site at www.mobilestorm.com/videos where all of the mobileStorm Productions videos will be stored. There users can watch, rate, and add comments about any of the videos posted. Interested parties will also be able to embed the videos into their own sites in just a couple of simple steps. Future enhancements will include mobileStorm clients’ ability to house their own videos on the site for distribution purposes.

The first series of videos that will be available by mobileStorm Productions will center on the company’s upcoming white paper, “Digital Marketing Best Practices for Geniuses.” These will be amusing vignettes on extreme examples of what happens when companies don’t follow best practices. At the end of each episode, there will be a URL to reserve a copy of the document before it becomes available to the general public.

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade, mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol producers FremantleMedia, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

Press Inquiries:
Elizabeth Villanueva
Valerie Christopherson
Global Results Communications, Inc.
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valeriec@globalresultspr.com

Digital Marketing Company Extends Its Presence To Accommodate Growth

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Jan. 23, 2008 – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced the opening of its new regional offices in San Francisco. The San Francisco office will focus on new accounts, staffing the new location with sales and customer service professionals. In addition to its Los Angeles headquarters, and the Irvine and San Francisco branches, mobileStorm plans to open offices in other major U.S. cities during 2008.

“Our growth and office expansion is reflective of the increasing opportunities and uses of digital marketing,” stated Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm. “Our new office is centrally located in San Francisco, one of America’s technology hotbeds. mobileStorm is clearly the leader in bringing innovative digital marketing solutions to market today. While we’ve always sold nationally and around the world from our Southern California locations, the Bay Area is filled with businesses that understand and value our services. We want to continue to stay close to our customers and we look forward to continued growth and expansion in this New Year.”

Today’s news comes on the heels of the company’s recent reporting of its account win with FremantleMedia Enterprises, the commercial arm of FremantleMedia, producer of America’s top-rated show “American Idol;” one of many successful shows in its repertoire. FremantleMedia chose mobileStorm as its email service provider for all of its U.S. media properties.
mobileStorm provides turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platforms and is a major contributor in bringing the email marketing phenomena to the mobile channel. This is a robust environment and mobileStorm has experienced it all.

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 2 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as American Idol producers FremantleMedia, Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

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Agreement Brings Stun! Email Marketing Management System To Top Program Brands Including “American Idol”, “The Price Is Right” And “Family Feud”

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7th, 2007 – mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced that FremantleMedia Enterprises, the commercial arm of FremantleMedia, producer of such hits shows as “American Idol” and “The Price Is Right” has chosen mobileStorm to be its email service provider for all of the company’s U.S. media properties.

The agreement with mobileStorm will allow fans to receive email updates about their favorite FremantleMedia programming by signing up with the show’s official website. Using Stun!’s targeting system, FremantleMedia will be able to send brand-specific email messages to various segments of its overall database, increasing the value and reception of their email campaigns.

mobileStorm’s Stun! digital marketing platform will also help the company achieve maximum delivery and offer strategic counsel with their overall email marketing goals. With Stun!, FremantleMedia will have an end-to-end data and email marketing management system, giving them complete delivery reports, conversion ratios and other key analytical data.

“We are extremely excited to have such a cutting edge media company as a client,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “FremantleMedia is on the forefront of digital marketing, and we look forward to helping them increase and expand their email strategy here in the U.S.”

FremantleMedia is responsible for some of the biggest television hits in the U.S. today, including “American Idol”, “The Price Is Right” and “Family Feud.” The company in the past has incorporated many digital marketing strategies into its programming, including the highly successful text 2 vote campaigns used on “American Idol.”

About mobileStorm
For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging or fax broadcast from a single provider.

About FremantleMedia Enterprises & FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia Enterprises is the content exploitation arm of FremantleMedia, offering a one-stop-shop for all Licensing, Distribution and Home Entertainment. It is a division of FremantleMedia, one of the largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world with leading prime time drama, serial drama, entertainment and factual entertainment programming in over 40 countries worldwide. FremantleMedia is a subsidiary of RTL Group, Europe’s largest television and radio broadcast company, which is 90% owned by Bertelsmann AG, an integrated media and entertainment company that commands leading positions in the world’s media markets. For further information, visit http://www.fremantlemedia.com.

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January 4, 2008 — Clients will be able to use mobileStorm’s Stun! targeted messaging platform with greater ease than ever, thanks to the new Developer Zone that puts all of mobileStorm’s application program interfaces, or APIs, in one convenient place.

The APIs let clients use their own applications and infrastructure to pass information to and from Stun!, making it easy to integrate usage of the platform with usage of their other programs.

The newest API, called the Messaging API, enables companies to integrate their own Stun! messaging component into their existing applications. This means that, for example, a CRM application could use the API to trigger broadcast messages to a database, without using the Stun! interface itself.

Housing all APIs in one place, the Developer Zone, will make it easier than ever for clients to find what they want and implement it quickly. In addition, mobileStorm plans future APIs that will allow further integration possibilities.

For more details, please visit https://www.mobilestorm.com/developer/.

MobileStorm receives funding from eonBusiness
By Lauren Bell, October 31st, 2007

MobileStorm has received its first round of funding from venture capital firm eonBusiness.

EonBusiness, the sole investor in mobileStorm’s Series A, is known for backing early-stage, Web-based businesses. The firm’s deal with mobileStorm reserves its right to invest more money later on. The capital currently invested by eonBusiness is earmarked for growth, research and design, as well as marketing and sales initiatives.

“We’re amping up our direct sales force,” said Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm. “We’re opening up an office in San Francisco under our new EVP of sales and marketing, Ric Hattabuagh. We traditionally spent more on PR than marketing, but that’s slowly changing. We’ll have more on pay-per-click and Web advertising and also more traditional channels like trade shows and eventually newspapers and radio.”

The mobileStorm system allows clients to reach an entire database or a selected segment through multiple platforms, including e-mail, SMS, voice, fax and RSS. It has delivered more than 1 billion messages since its launch in 1999. The digital marketing company provides turnkey, hosted e-mail and digital messaging services.

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Denver, CO/Los Angeles, CA — eonBusiness (www.eonBusiness.com), a venture capital firm that specializes in funding early-stage innovative web-based businesses, and mobileStorm (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced the successful conclusion of mobileStorm’s Series A funding in which eonBusiness is the sole investor.

A rapidly growing enterprise, mobileStorm has quickly become known for its understanding of database messaging, digital marketing and consumer marketing trends, helping forward-thinking brands take hold in today’s elusive digital marketing space. mobileStorm’s services help businesses communicate and market to an entire database or to a select group of contacts through a single system that can send that message via multiple platforms – email, SMS, voice, fax and rss. The company has delivered more than 1 billion messages since its inception, having executed more than 500,000 marketing campaigns on behalf of thousands of customers.

“We’re pleased to be associated with eonBusiness and we believe, in addition to the investment, that the eonBusiness team will bring significant value and guidance to mobileStorm’s strategic initiatives,” said Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm. “We were very selective in choosing an investment partner. Having successfully grown this company on our own to this point over the past 8 years, our decision process was centered on being certain our partner would share our core vision and be a strong asset in making the longer term plans a reality.”

“The power and convenience of mobileStorm’s marketing applications provide a great solution to a growing marketing problem – how to break through the noise and consistently reach a company’s critical client base as they go about their daily lives-in-the-fast lane,” said Dave Carlson, CEO of eonBusiness. “From email to messaging via mobile devices, companies need to interact with customers across any and all platforms. mobileStorm makes that happen so clients can keep up with an ever-mobile population that doesn’t have time for marketing messages that don’t reach them on-the-fly.”

The capital resulting from eonBusiness’ investment will be used to further accelerate mobileStorm’s strategic growth, research and development, and to increase marketing and sales spending behind the mobileStorm brand.

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Buzznet.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

About eonBusiness

eonBusiness (www.eonBusiness.com) is a Denver, Colorado based venture fund that infuses its own online marketing and startup experience into promising early-stage e-commerce and progressive technology efforts. eonBusiness assists entrepreneurs in launching, developing and growing innovative web-based services.

The eonBusiness portfolio includes AllAboardToys.com, HomePoint.com, BuyerGuardian.com, Mocapay.com, LgDb.com, madKast.com and several others. Past portfolio companies include search-engine marketing firm GO TOAST (now Atlas Search) and eonMedia (now Avenue A│Razorfish). GO TOAST and eonMedia were acquired by the aQuantive Group (NASDAQ:AQNT), recently acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). More information on the company and its portfolio is available at www.eonbusiness.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CTIA – WIRELESS I.T. Oct. 23, 2007 – mobileStorm Inc., (www.mobilestorm.com) a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced the official release of the company’s Stun! RSVP Manager 2.0, providing the industry’s first multimodal, cross-industry event management system. The Stun! RSVP Manager can be purchased as a standalone application, as well as in conjunction with the Stun! digital marketing platform, making the product a single platform tool for reaching customers, clients and prospects through both email and text messaging.

“We use the Stun! RSVP Manager 2.0 to manage our guest list events including our presence at the CTIA meeting this year,” said Doug Busk, VP of Industry Relations at SinglePoint. “It’s a great application that is helping us not only manage our guest list for each event, but is important for growing our database of future prospects. mobileStorm’s RSVP Manager is a great addition to their core products. We can use it to manage events, and to power text messaging campaigns from the same system”

With the upgrade, Stun! RSVP Manager version 2.0 becomes the industry’s first digital and mobile marketing platform for on-demand event management that combines multiple message types within a unified platform. Enhancements in version 2.0 include:

• Maximum flexibility in both collection and management of RSVPs, regardless of the event size
• Viral component to bolster RSVPs both via web form and short code options
• Attendees can add themselves to the guest list by simply texting their first name, last name and number of guests
• Using the new Data Builder feature, Stun! RSVP Manager can also ask mobile subscribers for additional information such as email address, gender, age, etc.

The newly enhanced Stun! RSVP Manager version 2.0 also provides consumers with the option to continue dialogue with attendees via personal mobile numbers. This serves as an excellent resource tool for hand-holding VIPs, or key guests. In addition, each event has its own short code enabling for single management of an event while adding the value associated with exclusive branding.

“We continue to push the envelope of what digital marketing is capable of with applications like the Stun! RSVP Manager 2.0,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “Our goal is to ensure that we continue to provide innovative marketing solutions that enhance the brand value and profiles of each customer that chooses mobileStorm. We’re just now beginning to see the true power of the mobile channel with marketers leveraging the endless reach of wireless communications to enhance the daily lives of consumers.”

For more information about Stun! RSVP Manager version 2.0, visit http://www.mobilestorm.com/event-management-software/

About mobileStorm

For nearly a decade mobileStorm, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion+ messages on behalf of thousands of premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider. For more information please visit http://www.mobilestorm.com.

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Impressive fiscal year and significant company growth, mobileStorm continues to thrive in the digital marketing landscape

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21, 2007 Reporting a 100% growth from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2007, mobileStorm Inc. (www. mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today highlighted the company’s yearly financial and corporate growth. Supporting this growth, mobileStorm also noted the strategic hire of Ric Hattabaugh as executive vice president of sales and marketing.

mobileStorm achieved not only year-to-year growth, but also a fourth quarter increase of 116% over the previous quarter. The company also gained 217 new clients in the quarter. mobileStorm’s vast understanding of database messaging, SMS, digital marketing and grasp of consumer marketing trends, is indicative of mobileStorm’s continued success. The company has enhanced its Stun! digital marketing application to become the first to incorporate three types of mobile campaigns, which include Data Builder (mobile CRM), Inbound Campaigns and Emergency Alerts in a do-it-yourself platform. This gives marketers an unprecedented range of mobile messaging options, which is critical in addressing company-specific needs. These features give the marketers flexibility, which is important, as every company has unique needs.

The new client roster for mobileStorm includes:

• The Dog Whisperer
• Motocross.com
• GameFactory
• Hot Dog on a Stick
• Planet Funk

“It is great to see how the digital marketing industry has changed over the years, particularly when it comes to incorporating multiple message types into the marketing mix;” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “Email is moving away from batch and blast and becoming more targeted, allowing business to see better conversions and less spam complaints. Widgets are being developed and launched on platforms like Facebook, and SMS is finally being embraced by both consumers and marketers looking for new ways to reach them.”

mobileStorm also announced the hire of Ric Hattabaugh to be mobileStorm’s executive vice president of sales & marketing. Hattabaugh brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to mobileStorm, most recently serving as vice president, sales & marketing of Topica, Inc. He has been responsible for more than $1 billion in total direct sales, with additional marketing responsibility for over $4 billion in total orders over his career. Hattabaugh has created and managed solutions models selling multi-million deals, as well as heavy-prospecting SMB transactional models. His robust experience in the marketing arena and ability to apply creative marketing strategies will be another attribute for mobileStorm.

Commenting on the hiring of Hattabaugh to the mobileStorm senior management team, Reitzin stated “Our success has allowed us to bring on key people like Ric Hattabaugh who will help us dramatically increase sales and provide our customers with the best digital marketing technology in the industry.”

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm, over the past 8 years, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion messages for more than 1,000 premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

Press Inquiries:
Elizabeth Villanueva or
Kirsten Woodard
Global Results Communications, Inc.
+1 949-608-0276
lizv@globalresultspr.com
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com

LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2007 - mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobileStorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced the launch of Jared Reitzin’s blog. The CEO and founder of mobileStorm, has launched www.jaredreitzin.com, a resource for the optimistic entrepreneur who is trying to build something from nothing on a shoe string budget. Blogging has evolved into more than an online diary and has become a viable resource of information - where both journalist and bloggers can co-exist and provide industry knowledge on a plethora of topics to an equally massive audience.

“My blog provides entrepreneurs with basic tools to find the right people, make and market a great product, budget finances, and successfully communicate with employees, clients and partners,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “Real-life experience, along with constant persistence to attain a successful outcome has equipped me with key elements to succeed in life and in my business endeavors.”

mobileStorm is a digital marketing company that provides complete on-demand messaging solutions. It offers small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises superior marketing and customer communications via email, wireless text messaging, voice, fax and direct mail. mobileStorm offers various solutions, such as Stun!, which enables companies to contact its customers, prospects and partners in various different ways through a single system. Bolt is an on-demand system that enables companies to focus on marketing not the infrastructure of its email campaigns.

About mobileStorm
mobileStorm, over the past 8 years, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion messages for more than 900 premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

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Press Inquiries:
Kirsten Woodard or
Elizabeth Villanueva
Global Results Communications, Inc.
+1 949-608-0276
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com
lizv@globalresultspr.com

New Text Messaging System Will Allow Guests to Make Advance Reservations at Exclusive Clubs, Starting New Trend with Vegas Elite

LOS ANGELES and LAS VEGAS, June 26, 2007 - Driving attendance to events just got easier to manage. mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced that MGM Grand Las Vegas has chosen the company to help promote events at the hotel’s Studio 54 and Tabu nightclubs through a new, state-of-the-art text messaging system and mobile billboards.

The mobileStorm campaigns for MGM Grand will combine offline marketing efforts via mobile billboards, along with SMS marketing - inviting patrons to various events held at the MGM Grand nightclubs.

With the new system, users age 21 and older will be able to send a text message directly to MGM Grand requesting a reservation. Users text the event keyword, such as ROK to 646629 (MGMMAX) and are asked to reply with their first name, last name and number of guests. Upon completion, they will receive a confirmation of their reservation as well as the ability to text INFO to receive further event details.

“This partnership will allow unprecedented flexibility in event marketing and management - creating awareness and driving attendance to events,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “We consolidated event management into a cohesive central database for easier control, which will meet the industry demand for creative new ways to advertise and exceed marketing expectations.”

MGM Grand will use both Stun! SMS and the Stun! RSVP Manager, which now includes the ability to manage mobile-based event registration, to implement the mobile marketing campaigns.

Features of this program include:

• The first turnkey mobile event management platform on the market to integrate with other Stun! message types such as e-mail or voicemail? to provide a comprehensive digital marketing strategy for any events.
• On-site signage at MGM Grand, as well as a mobile billboard provided by Big Traffic, which will be transported along the Las Vegas Strip on key event days
• Subscriber information is captured within the Stun! RSVP Manager, which manages the various scheduled events.
  MGM Grand personnel can also limit the number of guests or the total RSVPs via the RSVP Manager as well as close the list at a selected time.
• An SMS reminder notice can be sent to attendees 24 hours before the event. An SMS reminder notice can be sent to attendees a few minutes or hours before the event.

About mobileStorm
mobileStorm, over the past 8 years, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered more than 1 billion messages for more than 900 premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casino, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

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Press Inquiries:
Kirsten Woodard or
Elizabeth Villanueva
Global Results Communications, Inc.
+1 949-608-0276
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com
lizv@globalresultspr.com

Industry’s First Turnkey Mobile Marketing Platform to Incorporate Three Campaign Types

LOS ANGELES, CA, June 19th, 2007 mobileStorm Inc., (www.mobileStorm.com) a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced a major new upgrade to Stun! SMS that enables three different types of mobile marketing campaigns: inbound, outbound and emergency alerts. The upgrade also includes integration with the Stun! RSVP Manager, which allows marketers to issue canned RSVP messages for each event with just a single mouse click.

With the upgrade, Stun! SMS becomes the industry’s first do-it-yourself mobile marketing platform to incorporate three types of mobile campaigns, giving marketers unprecedented flexibility:

• Data Builder (Mobile CRM) - Build other channels of communication, as well as demographic and psychographic data, via mobile phones. Ask subscribers questions such as first/last name, gender, age, phone number or email address, with their subscriber record automatically updated via the new Data Builder mobile CRM feature.
• Inbound Campaigns - Create an inbound campaign that can be used in offline marketing materials. Or create a poll, contest or trivia game and place a keyword and short code in media such as print, TV, radio, billboards, email and Web. All responses are captured and added to subscriber records via the Data Builder feature.
• Emergency Alerts - Stun! Text Alert Technology (STAT) is ideal for quickly issuing time-sensitive messages. Just pick a list, add the message and have it sent out immediately to thousands of people per minute.

The integration of Stun! RSVP Manager allows marketers to select current events from a menu and then issue a customizable message asking invitees to RSVP. All of the upgrades enhance the previously announced relaunch of Stun! SMS, which added features such as support for trivia contests, quizzes and polling.

“With this latest revision to Stun! SMS, we have finally achieved our goal of providing clients with a true end-to-end turnkey mobile marketing platform” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “By meeting the rapidly evolving needs of marketers, Stun! continues to be the solution marketers turn to when they want to leverage the power of the mobile channel.”

For more information about Stun!, visit www.mobileStorm.com/Stun

About mobileStorm
mobileStorm, over the past 8 years, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered over 1 billion+ messages for over 900 premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casinos, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

Press Inquiries:
Kirsten Woodard or
Elizabeth Villanueva
Global Results Communications, Inc.
+1 949-608-0276
kwoodard@globalresultspr.com
lizv@globalresultspr.com

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Virtual World Faketown Selects mobileStorm for its Email Marketing Solution

Company to use mobileStorm Bolt (powered by Strongmail) Platform for a Variety of Email Initiatives

LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2007 - mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com, a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, today announced that Faketown has chosen the company to handle its email marketing needs. The company will use mobileStorm’s enterprise Bolt email marketing solution for multiple communication vehicles.

Faketown will use Bolt for all of its email messaging needs. This includes both transaction-based confirmation messages as well as a bulk enewsletter to current members. The company realized they needed a solution that was both robust to handle a large volume of messages as well as flexible enough to send individual confirmation emails to new subscribers. Faketown will also use Bolt for its viral email marketing campaigns, allowing new subscribers to send invitations to their friends to join the virtual world.

Faketown is an online virtual world featuring easy-to-use tools that allow for expanded levels of self-expression, sharing, and creativity. Completely web-based, Faketown is the only site of its kind that allows users to create content and truly shape their virtual environment. In Faketown, users can develop virtual property, create virtual goods and animations, upload various forms of media, plus take part in an online community complete with its own political system and virtual economy.

mobileStorm Bolt (powered by Strongmail) is a complete, fully-integrated, on-demand email marketing system for enterprises who want better control, delivery, and bottom line results. Bolt provides enterprises with the power to deliver email to thousands and even millions of subscribers within a very short period of time.

“We are very excited to be working with mobileStorm to implement their new Bolt solution within Faketown,” said Michelle Ogata, chief executive officer of Faketown. “The service provides us with robust features that would normally be out of our price range, while also providing us with the flexibility to scale as needed, which is extremely critical given the current stage of our business.”

“Faketown’s cutting edge service is a perfect example of the type of client we are seeking for our new Bolt platform,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “With Bolt, they can send both bulk marketing campaigns as well using our Transactional API for alerts and notifications to make sure such communications get through to the maximum number of people possible. We are very pleased to have them as a new client.”
For more information about Bolt and mobileStorm’s other products and services, go to http://www.mobilestorm.com.

About mobileStorm
mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Southern California , provides a range of hosted messaging solutions designed for organizations ranging from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises to quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful digital marketing campaigns. The company’s on-demand products and services enable organizations to think outside of the inbox to maximize email, sms, voice, fax and/or direct mail marketing efforts. mobileStorm has delivered 1 billion+ messages for highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casinos, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Crobar Nightclubs.

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Company paves the way for Digital Marketing with New Features, Clients and Communication Tools

LOS ANGELES, CA, April 30, 2007 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing products and services, today announced that the company continued to increase its revenues and client base, both from last quarter and last year to date. mobileStorm reported a 108% increase in revenues from the same period last year and a 16% increase from the last quarter. The company also added key new features to both its product lines and launched new client communication tools.
mobileStorm added over 200 new customers in the quarter including Alitalia Airlines, Miami Marketing Group and Faketown.
“These quarterly results demonstrate that companies are starting to understand how digital marketing can be a tremendous asset,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “We continue to push the envelope with new and exciting technologies with our products and services. We’re extremely excited that our client base continues to grow and look forward to even larger increases in the months ahead as our solutions evolve.”

New Features for Stun! and Bolt

mobileStorm added several key new features and upgrades for its two flagship applications, Stun! and Bolt:
- Expanded Stun! SMS service to include trivia contests, quizzes, and polling, which can include multiple replies based upon the answer selected as well as being able to track the number of correct responses.

- Added Web Services option to Form APIs for more robust integrations.

- Ability to grab an HTML page located at specified URL and generate a dynamic email that pushes the page to send out to your database at a scheduled time.

- Transactional messaging for Bolt which enables companies to send 1:1 communications triggered by different actions, such as a confirmation, billing receipt, alert or other business rules.
The company also launched a new delivery service called Brand Assurance & Authentication, which offers clients a complete email branding solution including a dedicated IP address, new mailing domain, hosting support, universal authentication and a custom footer to ensure that the company’s branding is maintained through their email campaigns.

New mobileStorm Blogs

mobileStorm also launched a series of blogs to help promote the concept of digital marketing and educate marketers on how to take advantage of the medium. Written by key company personnel, the blogs include general discussion on digital marketing, newsletter promotions, new laws & regulations, SMS marketing and several others. mobileStorm also started a separate Product Updates blog, which keeps clients informed of new features and modifications, including detailed descriptions, time spent developing and employees involved with the update.
For more information on all of the above information, go to www.mobilestorm.com.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm, over the past 8 years, has pioneered the concept of digital marketing. Having successfully delivered over 1 billion+ messages for over 900 premier customers such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casinos, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Horoscope.com, mobileStorm is at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution. The company provides a turnkey, hosted email and digital messaging platform backed by world-class support and expert digital marketing services. mobileStorm has created the most complete digital marketing solution available, enabling you to reach your customers via email, text (mobile) messaging, voice messaging, fax broadcast or direct mail from a single provider.

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
steve@mobilestorm.com
323-785-6324

Company Leverages Proven Email Delivery Infrastructure to Provide an Enterprise Messaging Platform in a Hosted Environment

LOS ANGELES, CA February 1 st , 2007 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, today announced a new email messaging solution called Bolt that is designed specifically for the needs of larger enterprises. Bolt joins the company’s existing application, Stun!, to give clients a broad range of options to meet any of their digital marketing requirements. A new strategic agreement with StrongMail Systems enables mobileStorm to offer StrongMail’s proven email delivery infrastructure and management software as the foundation for the new Bolt enterprise messaging solution.

mobileStorm’s Bolt is a complete, fully-integrated, on-demand email marketing system for enterprises who want better control, delivery, and bottom line results. Bolt provides enterprises with the power to deliver email to thousands and even millions of subscribers within a very short period of time.

Bolt provides a complete set of application and data integration tools, dynamic message assembly, high performance delivery, tracking and reporting capabilities. It can be fully managed by mobileStorm or accessed in a hosted environment for organizations that don’t have the IT resources or expertise to manage an in-house solution.

Key features include:

- A Dynamic Message Assembly engine for high performance personalized message creation to compile highly targeted messages and serve up specific content determined by their preferences, such as real estate listings in their zip code or products that fit their interests.

- Web Services to enable seamless messaging integration for business applications, from Web analytics to CRM solutions.

- Robust email delivery infrastructure that is capable of delivering over 1 million messages per hour per server, ensuring that high-volume email campaigns are delivered quickly and efficiently.

- Mailbox Monitoring for in-depth analysis of campaign open and viewing rates.

Bolt gives companies total access and insight into the email campaign creation, management and deployment processes.

Campaign Management

* Control the email marketing process across different organizations and groups with flexible role management.

* Tailor each message with dynamically selected content and personalization options, leveraging 1:1 communications with customers.

* Send targeted messages based on demographic, purchase and even behavioral data.

Content Creation

* Personalize “From” names, subject lines and content based on list, demographic or other data.

* Easy-to-use functions, including paste from Word and auto-click tags. No knowledge of HTML needed.

* Quickly and easily import templates into the system from any third-party HTML editing application.

Advanced Data Segmentation and Targeting

* Define segments on specific criteria, including demographic or behavioral attributes, for relevant email campaigns.

* Point-and-click segment builder to easily and quickly create queries with a series of nested rules for powerful targeting.

* Run counts and preview segments for quick verification of target recipients.

Workflow Collaboration and Security

* Role-based permissions ensure that the application can be used collaboratively across multiple organizations, divisions and business units.

* Require approvals from appropriate specialists at key points during message creation and execution for quality control purposes.

* Create user-defined roles with access permissions appropriate to their responsibilities.

Real-Time Visibility and Reporting

* Complete set of standard reports highlight campaign results and identify key drivers of ongoing market success.

* Track performance in real-time throughout the campaign lifecycle.

* Personalized tracking links provide the ability to perform in-depth reporting at the individual recipient level.

On-Demand Data Integration and Control

* Simple-to-use import capability provides immediate access to customer data for segmentation, personalization and sending messages.

* Utilize existing data assets by quickly connecting to common databases, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.

* Smart bounce management to eliminate bad addresses, process unsubscribes and report on undelivered messages.

“As mobileStorm has grown as an organization so too have the needs and requirements of our clients,” said Jared Reitzin , chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “With Bolt, we now have solutions for any size organization that can meet just about any of their email marketing requirements. We have a long standing relationship with StrongMail Systems and are extremely excited to be partnering with them to enable this critical evolution of mobileStorm.”

“StrongMail is pleased to provide mobileStorm’s customers with our proven platform for optimized email delivery and management,” said Jerrel Fielder, vice president of business development at StrongMail Systems. “With Bolt, organizations that need to outsource their email delivery can take advantage of StrongMail’s technology in a full-service, hosted environment.”

For more information about Bolt and mobileStorm’s other products and services, go to http://www.mobilestorm.com.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Southern California , provides a range of hosted messaging solutions designed for organizations ranging from small businesses to Global 2000 enterprises to quickly, easily and reliably create, deliver and analyze successful digital marketing campaigns. The company’s on-demand products and services enable organizations to think outside of the inbox to maximize email, sms, voice, fax and/or direct mail marketing efforts. mobileStorm delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casinos, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Crobar Nightclubs.

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
steve@mobilestorm.com
323-785-6324

Company Announces Launch of Stun! 3.5 with New SMS Application as well as New Service Offerings

LOS ANGELES, CA January 24, 2007 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, today announced a new upgrade to its Stun! platform as well as several new services for its client base. The new upgrade, Stun! 3.5, includes a significant overhaul of the system’s text messaging application as well as other modifications to further enhance the system’s unique ability to send multiple type of messages within a single interface.

Stun! 3.5 Overview

Stun! 3.5 includes the following key new features:

New SMS Application

Stun! 3.5 contains a brand new text messaging (SMS) application that gives clients a much greater level of control and breadth of capabilities with their mobile marketing by:

* Using a dedicated or shared short code to generate subscriptions without having to pay a high monthly fee to own/maintain it.
* Enabling people to sign up to mobile clubs directly from their cell phone as well as via Web forms.
* No longer requiring subscribers to give their carriers as this is automatically determined by the new Stun! SMS service.
* Experiencing improved delivery and much more detailed reports about campaigns.
* Engaging in a 2-way interaction with subscribers, such as asking them questions or prompting a call to action within the message.

Enhanced User Interface

Stun! 3.5 includes a new look-and-feel to the basic sections of the application as well as the ability to make Stun! the default home page on a Web browser for more direct access to the system. It also features an expanded search functionality to find users based upon specific message types as well as retrieving all users for a particular list or lists.

New Display and Delivery Options

Stun! 3.5 also contains a new feature within the email application which creates a landing page for all HTML-based campaigns via a URL at the top of each message. This is particularly helpful given the influx of email clients that automatically block images or strip HTML tags, ensuring that there’s an alternative method for display in such cases. In addition, Stun! 3.5 offers a more streamlined dedicated IP procuring process, enabling clients to quickly switch to their own, whitelisted IP for optimal email delivery.

New Digital Marketing and Deliverability Consulting Services

In addition to the upgrade noted above for Stun!, mobileStorm has also increased its professional services group to now include digital marketing and delivery consulting. Capitalizing on its over 8 years experience as a digital marketing company, mobileStorm is now sharing its insights into this constantly changing industry to its clients through a variety of offerings, from database collection/growth strategies to utilizing the concept of cross-message campaigning.

mobileStorm has also enhanced its delivery services to include new personal client consultation to better analyze specific issues and provide a comprehensive game plan to resolve them. This can range from an in-depth analysis of current mailing practices to specific ISP resolution or blacklist removal requests.

“Our new upgrades to Stun! and our expanded professional services will help further separate mobileStorm from our competitors ,” said Jared Reitzin, chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “We now have a highly robust solution for 5 different message types as well as a full range of services that give our clients an unprecedented amount of flexibility with their digital marketing efforts.”

All of the above products and services can be found at www.mobilestorm.com, which is the new central hub for all information about mobileStorm and its solutions/services.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Southern California , provides enterprise-class digital messaging and marketing solutions for clients in a variety of sectors. The company allows clients to think outside of the inbox by offering a wide range of product and services to address almost every digital messaging need. mobileStorm delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Palms Casinos, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Crobar Nightclubs.

Media Contact:

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
steve@mobilestorm.com
323-785-6324

Company Continues Commitment to Optimal Delivery by Becoming Member of Key Email Delivery and Technology Group

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 11, 2006 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of database messaging solutions, today announced that it has become a member of the Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) in its continuing pursuit of ensuring optimal email delivery for its clients.

The ESPC was formed in 2002 in response to leading marketers’ and email service providers’ desire to preserve email as a legitimate marketing channel and to protect it from the threat of unscrupulous marketing practitioners. The ESPC promotes standards and policies that reward responsible email marketing and helps the long-term growth and viability of the industry.

“As a permission-based messaging company, we have always strived to maintain best practices for both ourselves and our clients,” said Steve Chipman , chief operating officer of mobileStorm. “Joining the EPSC is critical to our success and, more importantly, our clients’ email marketing success. We look forward to being active members in this highly influential organization.”

mobileStorm via its flagship product Stun!, a do-it-yourself database messaging system, will adopt ESPC standards and work with the organization to ensure that future versions of the application will be tuned to get more messages delivered to the inbox. The ESPC is currently working on solutions to spam and deliverability concerns through a combination of legislative advocacy, technological developments, industry standards and strategic public relations. mobileStorm will join the EPSC in supporting these efforts to keep email a key communication vehicle.

For more information, go to www.mobilestorm.com. Pricing is based on total messages sent per month with a variety of options available.

About the Email Sender and Provider Coalition:

Formed in November 2002 to fight spam while protecting the delivery of legitimate email, the ESPC boasts a membership comprising many of the brightest and most innovative minds in the email industry, including Email Service Providers, Mail Transfer Agents, Internet Service Providers, application and solution developers, and deliverability solutions providers. The ESPC is composed of 75+ members including CheetahMail, an Experian Company; Constant Contact; Datran Media, Digital Impact; Goodmail Systems; ProspectivDirect; Return Path Inc. and StrongMail Systems, Inc. For more information, please visit www.espcoalition.org

About mobileStorm:

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Southern California , provides enterprise-class digital messaging and marketing solutions for clients in a variety of sectors. The company’s flagship product, Stun!, is a do-it-yourself database messaging system that enables companies to fully leverage their list of customers, prospects and partners by contacting them in the ways they wish to be reached. With Stun! companies can utilize their entire database, regardless of contact type (email, cell phone, telephone, fax or mailing address) through a single system, whether sending a broadcast message to all subscribers or highly targeted message to a select few important contacts. mobileStorm delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Universal/Interscope Records, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort and Crobar Nightclubs.

Media Contacts:

Carla Vicens
blast! PR for ESPC
carla@blastpr.com
919-833-9975

Steve Chimpan
mobileStorm Inc.
steve@mobilestorm.com
(818) 908-2234

Company Continues to Increase Revenue While Expanding Operations and Adding New Key Clients

LOS ANGELES, CA, August 28, 2006 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of database messaging solutions, today announced that it closed out its fiscal 2006 year with continued record growth. mobileStorm reported a 177% increase in revenues from the same period last year and a 26% increase from the last quarter. The company also broadened its scope of customers and expanded operations in several new areas.

mobileStorm added a total of 105 new customers in the quarter including Gold’s Gym, Webster Hall, Chicago Vine, and World Fighting Alliance.

By increasing its customer base as well its own internal operations, mobileStorm is helping carve out a new niche of database messaging to help companies think outside of the inbox with new ways to reach its customers, prospects and partners.

“We’ve always prided ourselves by offering something different for our clients, an alternative to the large number of email service providers out there,” said Jared Reitzin , chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “Our continued growth of clients combined with our new office and staff prove that we’re on the right track with our concept of database messaging, and we look forward to even greater success in the future.”

Other notable news for the quarter included the following:

- New VP of Sales North America, Michael Vu, hired to lead mobileStorm sales efforts. Mr. Vu was previously the VP of Sale and managing partner for PDA, Inc. a financial services company and has an extensive sales background.
- New sales office in Orange County ( Irvine ), which will be headed by the aforementioned Mr. Vu.
- Increased staff by 7 people, including an online marketing manager, system administrator as well as new sales staff and technical resources.
- Expanded relationship with email technology provided StrongMail Systems to make mobileStorm a certified StrongMail partner.
- Created partnership with RACER Mobile to offer premium SMS services to Stun! clients and enhance current bulk SMS efforts. For more information on RACER please visit www.racermobile.com.

For more information go to www.mobilestorm.com. Pricing is based on total messages sent per month with a variety of options available.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Southern California, provides enterprise-class digital messaging solutions for clients in a variety of sectors. The company’s flagship product, Stun!, is a do-it-yourself database messaging system that enables companies to fully leverage their list of customers, prospects and partners by contacting them in the ways they wish to be reached. With Stun! companies can utilize their entire database, regardless of contact type (email, cell phone, telephone, fax or mailing address) through a single system, whether sending a broadcast message to all subscribers or highly targeted message to a select few important contacts. mobileStorm delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Universal/Interscope Records, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Crobar Nightclubs.

Media Contact:

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
steve@mobilestorm.com
323-785-6324

New version adds 5 th communication vehicle, direct mail, along with other significant enhancements

SAN JOSE, CA , June 1st , 2006 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, today at INBOX unveiled the next evolution its core platform, Stun!. Stun! 3.0 further refines mobileStorm’s messaging services and provides clients with an even greater range of communication vehicles to reach key customers, prospects and subscribers.

Major new features include the following:

Enhanced Client Control Panel

- Revamped user interface to expedite core functions of Stun!, from creating lists to sending out campaigns.
- Restrict access based on role or by list to protect multiple brands under the same account.
- Full browser support for all Mac web browsers.
- Additional messaging types and premium services can be upgraded directly from the Control Panel.

New Message Type - Direct Mail

Stun! Direct Mail offers clients a large variety of marketing materials to create, print and send, including:

- Postcards
- Letters (regular and trifold)
- Self Mailers
- Booklets (Inserted, Tabbed and Compact forms)
- Invitations (including response cards)
- Announcements (including reply card/envelopes)
- Color Prints (including full bleed)
- Business Cards

Expanded Reporting and Analysis

- View addresses that received messages and resend only to those that didn’t open the first time.
- Send different campaign to those that clicked on a particular link to provide value adds to subscribers.
- Domain reporting breakdowns, including top 20 domain reports and other ISP-related analysis.
- Abuse feedback reporting for a number of major ISPs including Netzero, Juno, Mail.com and Usa.com
- Refine sending patterns by viewing 2 campaign results side by side with Campaign Comparisons.

New Premium Services

The following new premium services are also available within Stun! 3.0 for additional fees:

- Improved RSVP Manager to better organize and control invites for events.
- Clickstream and conversion tracking to determine how successful campaigns are in generating revenue and where subscribers quit the ecommerce process
- Extended Delivery Service Bureau offering to improve deliverability and monitor possible blocks before they occur

“Stun! 3.0 is our way of changing the digital marketing game,” said Jared Reitzin , chief executive officer of mobileStorm. “There is no other turnkey platform on the market that enables 5 distinct forms of communications, letting companies think outside the inbox. Stun! 3.0 gives them an unprecedented control over every major form of messaging and at a substantially lower cost than going to individual providers.”

Stun! 3.0 is available now to both existing and new customers. Pricing is based on total messages sent per month with a variety of options, and custom plans are available as well.

For more information or to sign up for the service go to www.mobilestorm.com.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Los Angeles , provides enterprise-class messaging solutions and marketing automation tools for businesses. The company’s multi-message communication services help its clients drive profits by reaching, retaining, and responding to customers in the ways they wish to be contacted. Its flagship product, Stun! delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Universal/Interscope Records, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Crobar Nightclubs.

Media Contact:

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
steve@mobilestorm.com
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Company to demonstrate Stun! 3.0 and founder/CEO Jared Reitzin to participate on two panels at conference

LOS ANGELES, CA, May 25 th , 2006 - mobileStorm Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing solutions, today announced its participation at INBOX Spring 2006, which will take place in San Jose , CA on May 31 st and June 1 st . The company will be giving attendees a sneak-peek of the upcoming Stun! 3.0. in the exhibit hall. Jared Reitzin, founder/chief executive officer of mobileStorm, will also be speaking about going beyond the inbox as part of 2 panel discussions at the conference.

In anticipation of its upcoming launch, mobileStorm will be demonstrating its Stun! 3.0 in the vendor hall to show attendees how to extend their current digital marketing efforts by incorporating not only email but also SMS, voice, fax and even direct mail messages. mobileStorm will be located at table 116 in the vendor hall on both days of the conference to receive guests.

On May 31st at 2:00 PM, Mr. Reitzin will participate in the Email Service Provider shootout, an interactive forum which will showcase the features and benefits of several companies’ products and services. Moderated by JupiterResearch Director David Daniels, participants include senior executives from EmailLabs, iPost, SKYLIST, Inc. and OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.

On June 1 st from 12:30 - 1:30 PM, Mr. Reitzin will be on the panel discussion “Going Beyond the Inbox: Integrating Emerging Messaging Platforms”, which cover companies that are taking advantage of new message and marketing vehicles to help reach their customers. Moderated by Digital Voodoo’s VP of Social Media Dave Evans, other participants include executives from Loyalty Lab, Simple Feed and Film Loop.

INBOX is the most comprehensive, in-depth conference and vendor showcase ever, focused entirely on the Internet’s central application, email. For more information, please visit www.inboxevent.com.

About mobileStorm

mobileStorm Inc.™, based in Los Angeles , provides enterprise-class messaging solutions and marketing automation tools for businesses. The company’s multi-message communication services help its clients drive profits by reaching, retaining, and responding to customers in the ways they wish to be reached. mobileStorm delivers millions of messages a month and has amassed a roster of highly visible clients such as Qantas Airways, MGM Grand, Universal/Interscope Records, Carl’s Jr., Squaw Valley Ski Resort, and Crobar Nightclubs.

Media Contact:

Steve Chipman
COO, mobileStorm
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