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Atlas Study Pinpoints Lunchtime and Primetime as Best Dayparts for Conversions Online

Atlas research demonstrates the potential of dayparting on direct response campaigns

SEATTLE September 14, 2005 - Atlas (www.atlassolutions.com), a provider of digital marketing technologies and expertise, and an operating unit of aQuantive, Inc.Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT), today released research demonstrating the potential of dayparting on direct response interactive marketing campaigns.

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Time of day can have a dramatic impact on a campaign as hourly conversion rates can vary as much as 50 percent from the overall average, said Young-Bean Song, director of analytics, Atlas. The results of this study indicate that web users save their purchases and other activities (typically tracked as conversions by marketers) for the lunch hour, after dinner or before going to bed. This is a clear indicator for direct response marketers that daypart advertising can play a key role in realizing savings in costs-per-acquisition deals.

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Cheap Hotel * Daypart media costs should be no more than 35 percent higher than regular rates, as this may offset any potential gain in cost-per-acquisition.

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Travel Agent * Although increasing impressions during the most effective dayparts will increase conversion rates and volumes, a point of diminishing returns may be reached due to higher frequency.

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Hotel Chicago Atlass research is based on three months of data from six advertisers across a range of different industries from online social services, to brick-and-mortar retailers, information services and consumer electronics. To view the complete Atlas Institute Digital Marketing Insight on Online Media Conversion Rates by Daypart, go to: http://atlassolutions.com/institute/insights.aspx.

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Travel Health Insurance The Atlas Institute is the research and education arm of Atlas. The Institute publishes Digital Marketing Insights, a series of publications by Atlas's senior marketing analysts and digital marketing experts that help our customers improve their digital marketing effectiveness. Many of these findings are also made available to the digital marketing industry at large. Each Digital Marketing Insight report is designed to help marketers more successfully build value with their customers, throughout the customer lifecycle: from awareness to acquisition and from retention to growth. Atlas Institute also provides education in digital marketing to Atlas customers and partners. To view a full listing of the Atlas Institute's Digital Marketing Insights, please visit http://atlassolutions.com/institute/.

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London Hotel Booking Atlas (www.AtlasSolutions.com) is a provider of digital marketing technologies and expertise. Atlas offers agencies and marketers integrated solutions for online campaign management, rich media, search marketing, landing page optimization, reporting, and analysis to maximize their online ROI, and provides a highly scalable ad-serving platform to help online publishers increase revenue.

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