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Zvents Media Network Achieves Thirty Five Percent Growth Year-Over-Year

San Mateo, CA, Feb. 8, 2010 - Zvents, the leading producer of entertainment guides online, today announced record traffic and user activity in 2009. An average of 8 million unique users visited the Zvents Media Network each month during this period, which is an increase of more than 35 percent year-over-year.

"These results demonstrate the power of our media network model, and particularly the strength of our many newspaper partners," said Ethan Stock, CEO and co-founder of Zvents. "Partners like the San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gate, the New York Daily News, and the Dallas Morning News are all top sites in their local markets as well as being among the top 400 sites on the Internet. The combination of these dominant local properties with the strength of our major national partners such as MSN, Bing, and AT&T's Yellowpages gives us unparalleled reach to consumers seeking things to do in their local area."

Zvents makes it easy for people everywhere to discover, plan, and share things to do in their local areas, with millions of live events and powerful search, browse, and discovery tools. In addition, Zvents offers proven ROI to event advertisers in ticketed entertainment, retail, and other event-driven categories, at both the local and national levels. More than 15,000 event advertisers use the Zvents network monthly to promote a wide range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities.

In addition to its own branded destination site Zvents.com, Zvents produces online entertainment guides for more than 285 media partners, including major national sites and brands such as Microsoft's MSN and Bing properties, NBC's local station properties, and AT&T's Yellowpages, as well as premier local media brands such as SFGate, the Denver Post, Seattle PI, Boston.com, the Dallas Morning News, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Daily News, and the Orange County Register.

Third party validation by Quantcast ranks the Zvents Media Network at 250 among U.S. web properties. This places the Zvents network among the leading ranks of local properties online, comparing favorably to other notable local properties such as CitySearch (267) and Local.com (291).

About Zvents:
Discover Things To Do -- Zvents helps over 8 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and helps thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events. Our network of locally branded entertainment guides reaches the largest audience of people actively looking for things to do. More than 15,000 advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities.