Everything Channel's ChannelWeb Named One of the '10 Great Media Web Sites' by Media Business for the Second Consecutive Year

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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
Jun 5, 2008

Everything Channel (formerly CMP Channel), the global leader in technology sales, today announced that it has been named one of the '10 Great Media Web Sites' in the Portal category by BtoB Magazine's Media Business, produced by Crain Communications, Inc., for the second consecutive year. ChannelWeb is the largest channel portal for Solution Providers.

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ChannelWeb offers the most comprehensive Channel content in one place by bringing together the news, product reviews and technical primers from CRN with the strategic research and in-depth features from VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR. ChannelWeb.com's enhanced community-centric platform enables users to communicate with each other, provides new tools, video, services, NetSeminars, education and training, software and research. ChannelWeb helps the sellers of technology accelerate sales and grow their businesses and will be better able to respond to the varying needs of the Channel marketplace. The site generates 2 million page impressions per month.

The websites were judged according to the following standard requirements: Appearance; Organization; Navigation; Search functionality; Video and other multimedia content; and Community/social media features.

"We are extremely honored with Media Business' recognition of ChannelWeb as of the most powerful websites in the B2B industry," said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Managing Director, Everything Channel. "ChannelWeb has enabled us to build a sturdy platform for our community of Solution Providers. We continue to experiment with new tools and have plans to expand our community platform -- all of which help our users do their jobs more efficiently. ChannelWeb continues to lead the way for the VAR community."

This is the fourth award Everything Channel has won this year. Last month, CRN was named one of the most powerful business-to-business advertising venues by BtoB magazine. In April, min's presented Everything Channel with two Best of the Web awards -- one for the marketing campaign behind the launch of ChannelWeb.com and the second for its first virtual trade show.

Everything Channel continues to strengthen its portfolio with new marketing solutions and business tools to help the technology Channel accelerate sales and grow their businesses. New solutions include analytics, sales management programs and marketing services that drive incremental revenue (Next Level); domestic and international face-to-face IT events (Vision EventsĀ®); a workflow tool that helps create efficiencies in Request for Proposals (RFPs) and proposal building through configuration technology solutions (eXalt's multi-vendor workflow tool); a promotions tool to manage incentives (MTC Performance's spiff solutions); a business growth and management tool (M&A Forum); and a service that provides real-time product catalog, availability and pricing on demand (VARStreet).

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel, formerly CMP Channel, is the global leader in technology sales and serves as the one stop shop for the sales channel that drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world. IT suppliers and Solution Providers turn to Everything Channel to manage and accelerate their business. Everything Channel provides the answer to strategy and branding, online marketing, research/market intelligence, lead generation, branded and custom events, education and workflow tools targeted to those who buy and sell through the Channel. Everything Channel is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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  Kate Spellman
  Everything Channel
  516 562 7383
  kspellman@everythingchannel.com

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CONTACT: Kate Spellman of Everything Channel, +1-516-562-7383,
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