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Looking for effective ways to get your story in front of potential investors?

IPE has a number of ways of increasing exposure and awareness of your company’s products and profile

Background on Video Advertising

Digital video advertising was born almost a decade ago, but it was the sale of Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1998 for the sum of $5.7 billion that put digital video on the map. During the early 2000s, as the internet valuation bubble burst, digital video progressed slowly. By 2005, widespread adoption of high-speed internet connections and improvements in video compression resulted in an accelerated growth of online video.

Today, more and more Internet users are viewing videos online. Nearly 150 million U.S. Internet users viewed a record 14.3 billion online videos (96 videos per viewer) during the month of December, making streaming video one of the fastest growing sectors on the Internet.

Google bought the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock in late 2006, and since then YouTube has grown to be one of the most popular sites on the Internet, with more than 190 million videos viewed every day in December.

Another new site, www.hulu.com, created by News Corp. and NBC Universal to offer network TV content by streaming video, went live in February, 2008 and immediately sold out its advertising inventory. Mr. Zucker, spokesman for Hulu.com stated, “Advertisers want to be on something where you know what you get and not on something where you could be advertising next to a video of a cat on a skateboard”, a clear jab at video-sharing websites such as YouTube.

Consider these facts:

• According to a recent Gallop Poll, Americans’ use of the Internet has almost doubled over the last five years, with 48% of users spending more than one hour each day on the net, with 63% of these frequent users earning more than $75,000 per year
• A study by the U. S. Department of Labor suggests that, “After three days, people retain 10% of what they heard from an oral presentation, 35% from a visual presentation, and 65% from a visual and oral presentation”
• “Well produced video increases information retention by 50% and speeds-up buying decisions by 72% over print” (Wharton School of Business)
• When given a choice, 3 out of 4 prospective customers will request a video product rather than a print brochure
• A video has a perceived value far in excess of even the most expensive brochure
• Every video is an “ad” and the conversion to business is very high because the viewer has actually chosen to see the “ad”
• Content viewing is not limited by geography or time
• According to a 2007 study by DoubleClick, consumers click on video ads about five times as often as they do on image ads (JPG or GIF)

What are the benefits of using InvestmentPitch.com’s flash format video?

• Your video can be viewed without the need of any special media player software
• 98% of all browsers have flash plug-in installed
• Flash files use technology that allows online viewers to start watching your presentation immediately, without waiting for the entire presentation to download
• Flash-based content has no problem being viewed through firewalls
• 1,000’s of viewers can watch your video simultaneously
• Your video can be easily linked to your website, email or news releases
• InvestmentPitch.com pays all bandwidth costs, irrespective of the number of times your video is viewed
• Wherever possible, InvestmentPitch.com will link your video to the popular chatlines

InvestmentPitch.com’s Rates

All videos are charged a monthly hosting fee, which is reduced if you chose to pre-pay three or six month periods.

	Monthly	3 Month Period	6 Month Period	12 Month Period
Public Companies	$89	$260	$525	$1000
Private Companies	$29	$85	$160	$300
Financial Advisors	$19.50	$55	$110	$200

Video ads are approximately $249 per month depending on location. Banner ads are $99 per month. These rates can be negotiated for longer periods.

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