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GameSpot and Amazon.com Announce Advertising and Content Relationship
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998--GameSpot, Inc. and Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) today announced an advertising and content relationship where Amazon.com will be the preferred seller of games on the GameSpot and Videogames.com sites, and GameSpot will provide games-related editorial content on Amazon.com.
Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon.com will receive extensive placements on the GameSpot sites, including "buy now" buttons which will allow GameSpot's 2 million-plus monthly audience to purchase games and game-related books from the online retailer. In addition, GameSpot will provide PC and videogame-related editorial content to Amazon.com.
"GameSpot's agreement with Amazon.com will offer the largest audience of gamers online direct and convenient access to the largest and most respected retailer online. It's a big win for our users, who can now conveniently and securely purchase many of the products they see reviewed or advertised on our sites, and a big win for our advertisers, whose promotions will be even more directly connected to a purchase," said Jonathan Epstein, president and publisher of GameSpot, Inc.
"We have long featured games and game-related books in our store," said David Risher, senior vice president of product development at Amazon.com. "This relationship with a content leader like GameSpot will help us to improve our customers' discovery experience in this area and make it easier for game enthusiasts to shop online."
About GameSpot, Inc.
San Francisco-based GameSpot, Inc. is the publisher of the GameSpot and Videogames.com Web sites, the most highly trafficked game-related sites online. With over 39 million pageviews per month and a monthly audience of over 2 million, GameSpot, Inc. is the most influential provider of information to game buyers in the world. In addition to its US sites, GameSpot Inc. has ten international partner sites, and provides content to a number of major sites, including Yahoo and ESPN Sportzone. GameSpot, Inc. is majority owned by Ziff-Davis (NYSE:ZD). Ziff-Davis is a leading integrated media and marketing company focused on computing and Internet-related technology, with principal platforms in print publishing, trade shows and conferences, online content, market research and education.
About Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc., Earth's biggest book and music store (Nasdaq:AMZN), opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 with a mission to offer products that educate, inform, and inspire. Today, the Amazon.com store offers more than 3 million books, CDs, videos, DVDs, audiobooks, computer games, and other titles, plus easy-to-use search-and-locate features, secure credit card payment, personalized recommendations, streamlined ordering through 1-Click(SM) technology, and direct shipping.
Amazon.com operates two international bookstore Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service, and the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present.
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