Forums are the New Social Media…

Forums attract millions of online visitors each day gathering to discuss a particular subject matter. According to Zack’s Research, these visitors are 3.5x more likely to recommend a purchase, 4x more likely to post reviews online, and 3.5x more likely to share new products, making them ideal for online advertisers relative to traditional Internet browsers.

CrowdGather Inc. (OTCBB: CRWG) is uniquely positioned to capitalize on these demographics with a forum network that averaged over 200 million monthly page views and 17 million unique visitors, during July 2012. Meanwhile, some 26 million users have registered on its network’s websites, with 74 million discussions and 1.3 billion individual replies.

Ready to Ramp Up Revenues

CrowdGather has developed a forum-specific ad server that could unlock significant value for its own forum network, as well as other online forum operators willing to leverage its solution. Similar to self-service options available to advertisers on Google or Facebook Ads, marketers will be able to login and upload creative to run banners on specific forums.

The company will leverage this technology to boost its own CPM (cost per thousand) rates and achieve higher revenues, as well as boost its profit margins by extending its technology to third party operators. Advertisers will benefit from reaching targeted, niche communities, while publishers can profit from greater CPM rates and higher revenues.

These external forum owners represent a very large potential market for the company’s ad server. Forums typically earn less than many other types of online media with CPM rates below $1.00, because they tend to be too small for major advertisers. By solving this problem, CrowdGather hopes to combine specificity and scale to create a valuable solution.

CrowdGather Catalysts

• Improving CPM Rates driven by Growth
  Forums traditionally earn less than almost any type of online publisher with CPM rates below $1.00, despite being very targeted, because they tend to be too small for major advertisers to pursue. Websites like Huffington Post earn $15 CPM and online newspapers like the NY Times can commend as high as $25 CPM. Through targeted acquisitions and a proprietary ad server, CrowdGather has slowly but surely increasing its presence in niche verticals by aggregating similar interest sites into advertiser-friendly channels that provide subject matter targeting along with scale.
• Social Media Marketing
  Brand advertisers are increasingly interested in pursuing social media marketing opportunities. CrowdGather has one of the world’s largest networks of discussion communities that position the company to bring advertisers viral, word of mouth campaigns that are related to a community’s vertical and interests.
• Continued Acquisitions
  CrowdGather has increased its network traffic from 12 million page views in 2009 to more than 200 million monthly page views today. This growth has been driven by acquisitions and management believes the Company has sufficient working capital to conduct further acquisitions, and improve the monetization of existing inventory with its ad server to reach breakeven without additional financing.
• Erox Fragrance Serves as Proof-of-Concept
  CrowdGather recently launched a social media campaign, featuring reality TV star Adrianne Curry, to market its Erox fragrance. The campaign was introduced through the company’s forum network and represents the first of many potential products to be marketed through these channels.

About CrowdGather Inc.

CrowdGather Inc. is one of the leading networks of forum communities on the Internet. CrowdGather has created a centralized network to benefit forum members, forum owners and forum advertisers. It provides a highly interactive and informational social network for members, a management and revenue-sharing resources for third-party forum owners, and a largely untapped network for marketers worldwide.

The company specializes in monetizing a network of online forums and message boards designed to engage, provide information to, and build community around, users. The company is building what could be one of the largest social, advertising and user generated content networks by consolidating existing groups of online users that post on message boards and forums. The goal is to create the world’s best user experience for forum communities and world-class service offerings for forum owners. Communities built around message boards and forums provide one of the most dynamic sources of information available on the web because forums are active communities built around interest and information exchange on specific topics.

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