TheFind.com JOINS GLAM MEDIA’S NETWORK
Relationship Brings Together Targeted Advertising and Lifestyle Content
Mountain View, Calif. and New York - March 22, 2007 - TheFind, Inc. (www.thefind.com) and Glam Media (www.glam.com) today announced a partnership that brings together the fast-growing shopping search engine and the fastest-growing fashion and lifestyle Web property, respectively. Glam will deliver both advertising and content from its Glam Publishers Network to TheFind.com, whileTheFind.com gains access to Glam Media’s valuable marketing channels including Glam.com and reach to over 250 publishers in the network such as Marie Claire, Dwell, Nylon, Refinery29, SheFinds and, WeddingSolutions. Today, Glam Media reaches over eight million US unique visitors per month.
“TheFind.com is the first shopping search engine that is specifically tailored for lifestyle products such as apparel and accessories, health and beauty, home and garden and more,” said Siva Kumar, co-founder and CEO of TheFind.com. “We are thrilled to join the Glam Publishers Network, which will deliver high-quality, targeted advertising and content to our audience that is relevant to the categories of products they are interested in.”
“All of the members who join Glam are hand-picked based on the quality and value they bring to our lifestyle and fashion network,” said Samir Arora, chairman and founder of Glam. “TheFind.com, with their focus on discovery shopping in fashion, beauty and other lifestyle categories, supports our mission to bring together compelling women’s content and opportunities for our advertisers.”
In addition to receiving content and advertising from Glam, TheFind.com will provide content and information back to the Glam Media network, including top selling products and fashion trends. Through its patent-pending product ranking engine and its ability to index every product for sale online, TheFind.com has comprehensive information on the latest trends in fashion and soft goods, including top products, stores and brands for the hottest clothing, accessories and beauty products on the market today.
About TheFind.com
TheFind.com debuted in October 2006 as a discovery shopping search engine that delivers a comprehensive, relevant and visually compelling shopping experience optimized for lifestyle products. Unlike traditional comparison shopping sites, TheFind.com provides the largest product selection emphasizing leading styles, brands and stores and the ability to browse and search for similar items. TheFind.com crawls the entire Web, using its “Product Ranking Engine” technology to rank more than 150 million products from more 500,000 stores based on market supply and demand indicators. The result is that any search will return custom-catalog results where consumers can search-to-browse and intelligently navigate the web’s massive product offerings. TheFind.com, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by the leading venture capital firms Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.thefind.com.
About Glam Media
With 8.4 million U.S. and 15 million global unique visitors a month, Glam Media is the fastest-growing fashion and lifestyle Web property and ranks second in Top 10 Women’s Web properties, as measured by comScore Media Metrix in February 2007. Glam Media allows people to easily browse content by channel-fashion, beauty, and lifestyle- and through the Glam Publishers Network of more than 250 magazines, websites and blogs. Glam Media is backed by blue-chip venture-capital firms leading the new media wave: Accel Partners (Facebook, BrightCove), DAG Ventures (Friendster, Plaxo), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Skype: eBay, Technorati), Walden Venture Capital, and Information Capital (Tickle/eMode: Monster, NetObjects).