Leading Savings Destination Gets a Makeover After Delivering a Decade of Deals

This little piggy turns 10 ... This month, the original consumer savings destination http://www.coolsavings.com/ with its iconic pink piggybank with the black sunglasses celebrates ten years of deals with expanded savings and a new look. CoolSavings.com was launched in 1997 by leading interactive marketing service provider Q Interactive, known at the time as CoolSavings, Inc. Over the last decade, more than 45 million consumers have joined CoolSavings for printable coupons, online deals and helpful information from the nation's top brands. Consistently ranked the #1 Coupon Site on the Internet by comScore Media Metrix since January 2000, CoolSavings.com is still leading the way today with more than 1 million consumers visiting the site every month.

"The past decade has been a bumpy ride for dot-coms," said Craig Tanner, vice president of product & member marketing at Q Interactive. "We are proud that CoolSavings.com has thrived, providing millions of consumers savings on their weekly grocery purchases and all other shopping needs, when many of our contemporaries have gone by the wayside. We have a loyal member base and a valuable stable of top advertisers to thank for our success, and we look forward to providing innovative service and offerings to both groups in the next decade."

In celebration of its anniversary, CoolSavings.com just unveiled a major facelift to provide even more value to consumers. One of the biggest changes consumers will notice is that all visitors now have full access to the site without having to register first. Its redesign also includes expanded savings, including more than 50 printable coupons from premier CPG brands and more than 300 online coupons from the nation's top retailers. In addition, the site features a more prominent, easier navigation layout and new content with editorial features and savings tips.

While CoolSavings.com remains Q Interactive's flagship consumer brand, the company's name change in January 2006 reflected the evolution of its business to meet the growing needs of advertisers and Web publishers in its extensive advertising network, The Q Network.

"For the last ten years, CoolSavings.com has been a leading online destination for busy moms and other active shoppers and a valuable source of highly desirable but hard-to-reach consumers for advertisers," said Matt Wise, president and CEO of Q Interactive. "While our business has grown to become a leader in online lead generation and e-mail services for advertisers across a network of more than 1,000 sites, we continue to believe in the value CoolSavings provides to consumers and brands alike and look forward to many more years of great service on the site."

About Q Interactive

Q Interactive is an online marketing services provider for advertisers and publishers. Using a unique combination of demographic, behavioral and transactional data in a proprietary targeting engine, Q Interactive is fundamentally improving the relevancy of advertising on the Internet. Every year, more than 1,500 leading brands rely on Q Interactive to generate quality results, including nearly half of the nation's top 100 advertisers as ranked by Advertising Age, such as Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. Q Interactive operates an extensive advertising network with hundreds of high traffic partner sites, including Weather.com and About.com, as well as its own branded Web properties, including http://www.coolsavings.com/.

Q Interactive's services include Online Lead Generation and E-mail.

Formerly CoolSavings, Inc., Q Interactive was founded in 1995 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Landmark Communications, Inc.

Source: Q Interactive

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