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Commonwealth Creative Associates Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
Commonwealth Creative Associates (CCA), a media savvy interactive marketing, advertising and public relations firm, today announced it has been named to Inc. magazine's list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America. The Inc. 5000, an extension of Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy. 2007-08-29

Verve Launches Online Campaign with Brickfish(TM) to Find Fan-Designed Ledisi Tour Poster: Winning Poster Will Illustrate "Lost and Found" Artist's Soulful Sounds
Brickfish(TM), the online content marketing platform, and music label Verve, today announced the launch of the "Design a Tour Poster for Ledisi" campaign inviting R & B fans to create a tour poster for soul songstress Ledisi. The contest, located at http://www.brickfish.com/music/Ledisi is searching for the poster that best captures Ledisi's mesmerizing blend of hip hop and jazz. 2007-08-29

GoFish Partners With adap.tv to Deliver Integrated Online Video Ads: adap.tv to Insert Contextually Relevant Ads Into Online Video on the GoFish Network
GoFish Corporation (OTCBB:GOFH), the leading Internet Video Network showcasing original, Made-for-Internet ('MFI') programming, today announces a strategic partnership with adap.tv, an in-video advertising network, to insert third-party ads within video clips shown on the GoFish Network. 2007-08-29

Steven Kotok Named General Manager of THE WEEK Magazine
THE WEEK (www.theweekmagazine.com), America's fastest growing news and opinion magazine, has appointed Steven Kotok as general manager. Based in New York City, he will oversee The Week's publishing operations including editorial, circulation, advertising and marketing. 2007-08-29

John S. Herold/Harrison Lovegrove Study Finds Record Oil & Gas Investment, Record Replacement Costs, Minimal Reserve Growth: 2007 Global Upstream Performance Review Reveals Profits Climb But Soaring Costs Pressure Margins   The worldwide upstream investment of 228 oil and gas companies increased 45 percent to $401 billion in 2006, more than $1 billion per day, according to the 2007 Global Upstream Performance Review, released today by oil and gas research firm John S. Herold, Inc., an IHS company (NYSE: IHS), and upstream corporate advisor Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Ltd. This record capital spending generated just a 2 percent increase in reserve volumes to 263 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), while reserve replacement costs climbed 33 percent to $13.60/boe. 2007-08-29

The Knot Unveils Fabulous Fall Wedding Trends: Fresh Ideas from the Pages of The Knot Magazine Fall 2007/Winter 2008 Issue, Now on Newsstands   What do vintage chandeliers, Grecian inspired fashion, and Port served alongside artisan cheese have in common? They are all considered HOT according to leading wedding resource TheKnot.com (www.TheKnot.com) and the new issue of The Knot Magazine Fall 2207/Winter 2008. 2007-08-29

Internet Advertising Group Announces New Marketing Vehicles
Internet Advertising Group, an IAG Interactive company and an industry leader in online lead generation, has launched CoRegConnect and merged Internet Media Affiliates (IMA) and Partner Stats, its two affiliate networks, into one affiliate network as a way to streamline and advance the implementation, management and optimization of its own proprietary and exclusive offers as well as IAG's clients' offers. 2007-08-29

Bringing Home the Bacon: Wendy's Sells 25 Million Baconator Hamburgers; 'Red Wig' Advertising Resonating with Younger Audience   Consumers like the catchy name of Wendy's latest premium hamburger, the Baconator, but they apparently love the taste even more. 2007-08-29

APS Expands Renewable Energy Programs: Solar Energy, 'Green Rate' Choices Enable Customers to Help Environment
APS customers can help usher in a future where energy from the sun, wind and other renewable sources play an ever-increasing role in lighting and cooling Arizona's homes, schools and businesses. 2007-08-29

First Command's Package Brigade Sends Love to Soldiers Through Care Packages: Group Sends a Bit of Home to Iraq Soldiers on Labor Day for the 'Labor' They Endure Every Day
For a group of employees at Fort Worth-based First Command Financial Services, supporting our troops overseas is a labor of love and they are showing it by sending them care packages on Labor Day. 2007-08-29

Jackson DeMarco Tidus Petersen Peckenpaugh Files Overtime FLSA Lawsuit on Behalf of Superior Court Employees and against San Diego County Superior Court and County of San Diego: - Petitions Court to Certify the Lawsuit as a Collective Action, with up to 1,000 Court Employees Eligible to Join
Jackson DeMarco Tidus Petersen Peckenpaugh ("JDTPP") announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in United States District Court, Southern District of California on behalf of employees of the San Diego County Superior Court and the San Diego County Court Employees Association ("SDCCEA"). The lawsuit, Tran, et al. v. San Diego County Superior Court, County of San Diego, et al. ("Tran"), asserts that the court employees were required to work overtime without compensation in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). The lawsuit also asserts on behalf of the court employees and the SDCCEA a breach of contract claim as to the parties' written Memorandum of Agreement that governs the employment relationship between the court employees and the San Diego County Superior Court. 2007-08-29

Multicast Announced as a Finalist for Streaming Media's Readers' Choice Awards
Multicast Media Technologies, Inc. ("Multicast") today announced that Vidego(TM), a new service that provides mainstream and emerging video content publishers a simplified way of publishing flash video on demand libraries and TV channels online, has been nominated "Best Content Management Platform" for the 2007 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards. The Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, services, and tools in 16 categories. 2007-08-29

Multicast Named to Inc. 5,000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America: Multicast Ranks No. 789 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 431%
Multicast Media Technologies, Inc. ("Multicast"), a leader in the turnkey delivery of online video solutions, today announced that Inc. magazine has ranked Multicast number 789 on its Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Multicast is also ranked 30 out of 207 companies in the state of Georgia, and 19 out of 71 companies in the Media Industry category. The Inc. 5,000 companies are decided after extensive screening and interviews by reporters and writers for Inc.com, and inclusion on the list is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards for high-growth companies in the private sector. 2007-08-29