Recent announcements from Goodmail Systems®

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November 2008

• Goodmail Systems Secures $20 Million in Funding Round Led by Bessemer Venture Partners
  Over 300 Million U.S. and European Web Inboxes Supported by Goodmail; Trusted Brands Sending More Than Three Billion CertifiedEmails a Month
  Goodmail Systems, the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of trusted email, today announced that it has raised $20 million in a financing round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Softbank Capital also participated in the round. The funding comes on the heels of a major milestone for the CertifiedEmail standard, which in September exceeded 3 billion messages per month, a 30-fold increase compared to one year ago.

October 2008

• Goodmail Systems Names Pam Haas Vice President of Channel Sales
  Marketing Services Veteran to Oversee Sales of Company’s CertifiedEmail and Platform Products
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, delivering email consumers want from companies they trust, today announced that Pamela Haas has joined the company as vice president of channel sales. Working with Goodmail’s network of authorized CertifiedEmail providers, Haas will be responsible for sales of the company’s flagship product as well as its new suite of inbox-based advertising and e-commerce products.
• Goodmail Announces First Month With Over Three Billion CertifiedEmail Messages Delivered
  Strong Email Service Provider Support Drives Record September Volume of “Blue Ribbon”-marked CertifiedEmail
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, email consumers want from the companies they trust, today announced that it delivered a record 3.1 billion CertifiedEmail messages in September from more than 500 leading brands including KeyBank, PETCO, Hewlett-Packard and About.com. This monthly volume represents 30 times growth compared to the same period last year and demonstrates the increasing acceptance of CertifiedEmail as a critical tool for maximizing email marketing performance.

September 2008

• Goodmail Systems to Address Email Reputation Management at ExactTarget's Connections '08 User Conference
  David Atlas to Provide Tips and Tricks for Optimizing Sender Reputation and Deliverability
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced that Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, David Atlas, will be presenting at leading email marketing provider ExactTarget’s annual user conference, Connections ’08. Held from Sept. 23-25 in Indianapolis, Ind., Connections ’08 draws more than 1,000 ExactTarget customers.
• Consumer Alert: Beware of Email Scams Tied to Financial Crisis
  Possible Email Scams Spoofing Troubled Financial Companies, Offers Consumers Tips
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail(TM), the industry's standard for trusted email, today advised consumers to be on the lookout for fraudulent email scams and "phishing" attacks related to the current turmoil in the U.S. financial and insurance markets. "Email scammers like to use global crises and high profile news headlines when baiting consumers," said Peter Horan, chief executive officer of Goodmail. "In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, millions of Americans received fake emails claiming to be from charitable organizations soliciting donations. When the government distributed stimulus checks earlier this year, the IRS became the target. Phishers know how to make use of people's vulnerabilities during times of stress."

August 2008

• GOODMAIL ANNOUNCES MORE THAN TWO BILLION CERTIFIEDEMAIL MESSAGES DELIVERED IN JULY
  Record Volume Highlights Increased Adoption by Leading Brands to Improve Consumer Trust and Boost Email Marketing Performance
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced a record 2.3 billion CertifiedEmail messages were sent in July from leadings brands such as StubHub, PETCO, Classmates.com, the American Red Cross and Time magazine. This volume, which represents a 500 percent increase in the monthly volume of CertifiedEmail since January, demonstrates the rapidly rising popularity of CertifiedEmail among legitimate permission-based senders who are committed to boosting consumer confidence and want to see lifts in open and click-though rates and improved business results.
• Goodmail CertifiedEmail Supports New Yahoo! Email Domains: Ymail and Rocketmail
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced that CertifiedEmail supports Yahoo!’s new Webmail domains, Ymail and Rocketmail. This means that consumers who sign up to receive email using a ymail or rocketmail address can benefit from the additional layer of protection and assurance that users of Yahoo! Mail today have with CertifiedEmail.

July 2008

• Email Marketing Innovator Ragy Thomas Joins Goodmail’s Technical Advisory Board
  Lead Architect of Top-Ranked Email Technology Platform to Consult with Company on Strategic Product and Market Development Initiatives
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced interactive marketing entrepreneur Ragy Thomas has joined the company’s Technical Advisory Board. Thomas will leverage his proven track record launching highly scalable and profitable B2C and B2B email platforms to provide Goodmail with strategic guidance on product and technology development
  

June 2008

• Related News Banish Those Pesky Spam and Phishing E-mails That Clog Up Your Inbox StubHub had a problem. Because of spam blockers at Internet service providers, a lot of e-mails sent to customers weren't getting through... See also: Stubhub Case Study

  StubHub Improves Email Marketing Results with Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail
  World’s Largest Ticket Marketplace Sees Significant Click-Through-Rate and Ticket Sale Increases with Trusted Email Service
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced that its client StubHub experienced substantial improvements in email marketing results in test campaigns conducted over a four month period this year. Compared to email newsletters sent without CertifiedEmail, StubHub saw a 16 percent lift in unique click-through-rates and 21.6 percent increase in directly attributable email-driven sales.
• TailoredMail Increases Email Deliverability with Smart Delivery and Goodmail's CertifiedEmail [TailoredMail announcement]
  One important way TailoredMail maintains its well-respected reputation is through a unique Goodmail™ CertifiedEmail™ system. CertifiedEmail is a premium class of trusted email that allows consumers to identify authentic messages from legitimate senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. TailoredMail is one of the first email service providers to utilize Goodmail's CertifiedEmail service
• Emailvision announces a partnership with Goodmail Systems [Emailvision announcement]
  Emailvision, the European leader of « on demand » software for email marketing, officially announces today its partnership with Goodmail Systems, the CertifiedEmail Accreditation Programme, a premium class of trusted email. This agreement allows Emailvision to offer a 100% assured delivery of their emails to AOL, BT and Yahoo inboxes. Emailvision customers can use this service free of charge until the end of 2008, once they successfully pass the Goodmail’s strict accreditation process.
• Goodmail Systems Executives Peter Horan and Jordan Cohen to Present at Industry-Leading Marketing and Advertising Conferences
  Goodmail Systems®, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard trusted class of email, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Peter Horan and Senior Director of Industry Relations Jordan Cohen will be featured speakers at IAB Connect 2008 in Mexico City and DM Days New York, respectively.

May 2008

• Goodmail Systems to Address Online Threats and Email Best Practices at the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance Summit
  Goodmail Systems®, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard trusted class of email, today announced the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Peter Horan; Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, David Atlas; Vice President of Worldwide Business Development, Charles Stiles; and Senior Director of Industry Relations, Jordan Cohen, will moderate and participate on five different sessions at the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) Summit
• Communications and Marketing Expert Jordan Cohen Joins Goodmail as Senior Director of Industry Relations
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced Jordan Cohen has joined the company as senior director of industry relations. A well-known industry figure, Cohen comes to Goodmail from Epsilon where he led the company’s strategic relationships and communications with media, analysts, government agencies, Internet service providers (ISPs), industry partners and trade associations.
• Goodmail Systems to Moderate Panel on Email Deliverability at MediaPost’s Email Insider Summit
  Goodmail Systems®, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard trusted class of email, announced today that Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing David Atlas will moderate a panel discussion entitled, “Deliverability Secrets Unwrapped” on the opening day of MediaPost’s Email Insider Summit, May 21 – 24, at the South Seas Island Resort in Captiva Island, Florida. .
• Media and Advertising Veteran Peter Horan Joins Goodmail as Chief Executive Officer
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced Peter Horan as its new chief executive officer. With over two decades of media and advertising industry leadership, Horan comes to Goodmail from IAC Media and Advertising, where as CEO he oversaw more than $250 million in advertising and commerce revenue from Evite, Pronto, IAC Mobile and Ask Sponsored Listings. He will bring to the company a level of unmatched experience and vision as Goodmail extends the CertifiedEmail platform for trusted consumer email to offer true “Email 2.0” advertising solutions for top brands and direct marketers.
• Goodmail Announces Record Level of CertifiedEmail Sent by Top Consumer Brands
  Email Campaigns Find Success Using CertifiedEmail to Capture Consumers’ Attention and Assure Delivery of Email As Designed
  Goodmail Systems®, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of trusted email, today announced a record level of CertifiedEmail reaching consumer’s inboxes from today’s leading brand names. April marked a milestone for Goodmail, with more than 1.6 billion CertifiedEmail sent by names like Time Magazine, PETCO and Classmates.com. These brands and hundreds of others have seen direct lifts in (sales, logins, etc.) as a result of adding the trusted blue ribbon envelope to their emailmessages,business results providing an immediate flag to the consumer at the inbox level that the message is authentic and from a company with whom they have a pre-existing relationship.

April 2008

• Survey Shows Consumers More Likely to Open and Buy from CertifiedEmail
  Goodmail Study Shows Consumers Overwhelmed with Email Often Delete Messages without Reading Them
  Goodmail Systems®, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of trusted email, today announced findings from a survey indicating many consumers are increasingly frustrated with the inability to differentiate real email messages and as a result often delete email messages without reading them. Contrary to the case with regular email, CertifiedEmail messages, which are marked with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon indicating email message authenticity and legitimacy, show greater promise of being considered, read, and even purchased from than regular email
  

 

March 2008

• GOODMAIL LAUNCHES NEW SERVICE VERIFYING RECEIPT OF EMAILS
  CertifiedEmail Paper Suppression Gives Businesses Legal Standing to Prove Delivery and Receipt of Notifications Electronically
  Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of trusted email, today announced the availability of CertifiedEmail Paper Suppression (CertifiedEmail PS), a solution for consumers and businesses such as financial institutions, utilities, healthcare and insurance companies to have electronic proof that email notifications such as changes to credit terms, billing policies or delinquent notifications are served and received in the email inbox. This is the first solution that assures messages are delivered to the inbox and provides the legal standing to affect nonrepudiation where neither a business nor the consumer can deny its arrival.

February 2008

• Goodmail Systems to Join Panel Discussion About Deliverability at the Email Evolution Conference
  Executives from Goodmail, Pivotal Veracity and StrongMail to Outline Best Practices for Avoiding Spam Filters and Ensuring Deliverability
  Executives from Goodmail, Microsoft and Return Path to Outline Best Practices for Increasing Deliverability and Maintaining Marketing Reputation in Panel discussion titled "Managing Your Sender Reputation: Tools, Tactics & Tricks to Avoid" at MediaPost’s Email Insider Summit, December 9-12, 2007 at the Stein Erickson Lodge in Park City, Utah (Goodmail Press Release