Verizon Information Services Teams With iWon for SuperPages.com "Hello Summer Sweepstakes"

DALLAS, Tx. (June 25, 2001)-- - Verizon Information Services, the world's leading directory publisher, today announced that it has selected destination portal iWon to implement a "Hello Summer Sweepstakes" as a traffic generator for its online directory SuperPages.com.

Accessed from both iWon, the fifth most trafficked site on the Internet, and SuperPages.com, the #1 online directory and shopping resource, the contest asks iWon.com users to answer trivia questions using SuperPages.com to find the answers.

The six-week sweepstakes will award a grand prize of $10,000 and five $1,000 second-place prizes. The "Hello Summer Sweepstakes" was strategically designed and created by iDeutsch, a division of advertising agency Deutsch Inc., to showcase the breadth and depth of SuperPages.com services and capabilities.

"SuperPages.com recently added a number of traffic-generating partnerships by becoming the Yellow Pages provider for MSN, InfoSpace, Excite and Ask Jeeves," said Patrick Marshall, group vice president - marketing for Verizon Information Services. "This is another step in our 2001 plan to increase exposure and value to our 100,000-advertiser base."

This is the first time SuperPages.com, which sponsors a number of holiday and seasonal contests at its site, has partnered with a portal for a sweepstakes/contest promotion.

"iWon is excited to partner with Verizon SuperPages.com on this sweepstakes," said Bill Daugherty, founder and co-CEO, iWon. "This is a win-win situation as the sweepstakes provides our users with one more way to win and helps Verizon promote SuperPages.com with our users."


About Verizon Information Services and SuperPages.com

Verizon Information Services is a world leading print and online directory publisher and a content provider for communications products and services. The largest directory publisher in the world, Verizon has annual revenues of more than $4.1 billion and employs more than 11,000 people.

Verizon Information Services provides sales, publishing and other related services for nearly 2,300 directory titles in 48 states and the District of Columbia and 16 countries outside the U.S. This includes nearly 1,600 Verizon directory titles with a total circulation of approximately 107 million copies in the U.S. and 37 million copies internationally.

Verizon Information Services also produces and markets SuperPages.com, the Internet's preeminent online directory and shopping resource. SuperPages.com receives as many as 9 million visits and completes as many as 20 million searches per month. SuperPages.com also powers directory services on Excite, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, BigFoot, AOL Service, AOL.com, and Digital City. Verizon Information Services recently announced agreements to provide online directory services to MSN and InfoSpace.

Based in the Dallas area, Verizon Information Services is a unit of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), which was formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of communications services. For more information on Verizon Information Services, visit www.verizonyellowpages.com.

About iWon
iWon (www.iwon.com) is the Internet's leading loyalty-based portal (Media Metrix) combining world-class search, content and functionality with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway. iWon gives away prizes and cash, ranging from $1,000 up to $25 million, and has awarded more than $48 million to over 260,000 users to date. iWon is the fifth most trafficked site on the Internet and has been voted #1 in User Satisfaction among search engines and portals for three consecutive quarters (NPD Group).

iWon is a database driven advertising and direct marketing company and one of the most innovative publishers in online advertising. iWon offers proprietary and revolutionary advertising products such as iWon Click, iPersonalize, iCustomize, iVideo, and iAttract, all of which employ an unprecedented combination of reach, branding, and targeting capabilities.

Founded in 1999, privately held iWon is headquartered in Irvington, N.Y, and operates offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City.

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