EANS-News: AdLINK Group combines display unit AdLINK Media with Hi-media in exchange for major shareholding - Transaction creates market leading ad network in Europe

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Montabaur (euro adhoc) - Montabaur, July 6, 2009. The AdLINK Group
(AdLINK Internet Media AG) sells its division for display marketing,
AdLINK Media, to Hi-media and becomes major shareholder in the French
online media and micropayment company. AdLINK Group will focus
operational activities and further investments on performance based
digital marketing and its specialists affilinet (affiliate and
performance marketing) and Sedo (domain marketing).

AdLINK Group combines its display unit AdLINK Media with Hi-media´s
advertising business. In return, the AdLINK Group will receive 10.7 %
of shares in Hi-media S.A. (4,735,000 shares) plus around EUR 12.2
million in cash. For this cash component AdLINK Group will grant
Hi-media a vendor loan at a standard market interest rate. The vendor
loan is to be repaid not later than June 30, 2011 in cash. AdLINK
Group will also have the opportunity to increase its position in
Hi-media and to subscribe, in proportion of its stake, to any
increase in capital Hi-media might decide to engage in. In the case
that such capital increase is made when share price is below EUR
3.63, AdLINK Group commits to subscribe to an amount of EUR 12.2
million at a share price of EUR 3.63 per share.

Combined, AdLINK Media and Hi-media reach more than 126 million
unique users in Europe in 9 markets. The unique combination of two
premium ad networks together with Hi-media´s own publishers and
micropayment services (Allopass) offer true value add to advertisers,
agencies and website owners.

"By combining AdLINK Media, our display marketing business, into
Hi-media, and becoming a major shareholder of the combined Hi-media
Group, we are contributing to the consolidation of the market. We
will, in addition, benefit from the significant synergies being
created from economies of scale as well as from cross-selling," says
Stephane Cordier, CEO of AdLINK Group.

"This transaction allows us to benefit from the upside in the newly
created European leader for display marketing, Hi-media Group, as
well as focusing our investments and management focus on digital
performance marketing. Performance marketing has become a driver in
online spendings and been able to generate solid returns by using
network effects and scaling technology," says Andreas Janssen, CFO of
AdLINK Group.

AdLINK Group therefore now holds two performance marketing
businesses:

• Sedo (www.sedo.com) is Europe´s market leader for domain marketing
and the global market leader in secondary domain trading with over 15
million Internet domain names for sale. Sedo helps businesses to
acquire domain names and to conduct performance marketing campaigns
through targeted domain names. It also helps domain owners to
maximize earnings on domain names.

• affilinet (www.affili.net) is a leading affiliate marketing network
in Europe. affilinet helps advertisers to conduct affiliate programs
and performance marketing campaigns through targeted web sites in
order to generate leads and sales.

Cyril Zimmermann, founder and CEO of Hi-media group says: "With the
acquisition of AdLINK Media, Hi-media becomes one of the major
players in the European online advertising network market. For
several years, we have been developing a unique model, building
strong synergies between our advertising network and our micropayment
platform Allopass, whose deployment in Europe will be accelerated
thanks to the acquisition."

About AdLINK Internet Media AG (ISIN DE 0005490155)

AdLINK Internet Media AG is Europe´s leading performance marketing
company. Its two subsidiaries affilinet (www.affili.net) and Sedo
(www.sedo.com) in combination reach over 100 million unique users. By
serving sophisticated ad technology, we convert visitors into leads
and sales on over 5 million Internet domain names and web sites.

Further information at www.adlinkgroup.net

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Further inquiry note:

Marcus Schaps

Head of PR

AdLINK Internet Media AG

Elgendorfer Str. 57

56410 Montabaur

Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 2602 - 96 1319

Fax: +49 (0) 2602 - 96 1013

E-mail: presse@adlinkgroup.net

Branche: Online
ISIN: DE0005490155
WKN: 549015
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