Customers Can Now Launch Custom Community Toolbars to Drive User Acquisition, Engagement and RetentionRedwood Shores, Calif. -- Conduit, the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars, today announced an exciting new series of partnerships, with more than 20 of the world's top web hosting companies. AWARDSPACE, BizLand, BlueDomino, Bravenet, DomainHost International, easyCGI, Easyspace, eHost, EntryHost, FatCow, FreeYellow, HostCentric, HyperMart, IMOutdoors, Lycos Europe, Networks, PowWeb, PureHost, ReadyHosting, USA.NET, Virtual Avenue, Xeran Technologies and zoomshare have selected Conduit's award-winning platform for inclusion in their suite of marketing tools for web hosting customers.

Conduit gives web hosting companies a free, value-added offering for their customers who seek increased site traffic and revenues as well as better branding and user engagement. Conduit-powered community toolbars are a proven marketing solution. They deliver:

• A 24/7 real-time connection with users, no matter where they are on the Web
• Improved user loyalty and stickiness
• A boost to traffic
• Bolder branding on the users' browser
• Increased ROI and a new revenue source

Lycos Europe is one of the leading European internet destinations, operating a pan-European network of websites in seven languages, from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.

"With Conduit, a large number of people can be supplied simultaneously with relevant information," commented Holger Thiemann, Lycos Product Director Web hosting Europe. "Especially eShop operators benefit from Conduit, because now they can not only make news and links available, but can also send their offers to their customers' monitors, even when those customers are not on their website."

One of the first domain and web hosting companies in the UK, Easyspace remains a force in the world of domain and web hosting today, with more than 200,000 web hosting clients.

"At Easyspace, we're always looking for new ways to increase site traffic and improve user loyalty for our customers. We are delighted to offer Conduit's powerful but free service in our suite of promotional tools," said Brian Tait, Online Marketing Manager at Easyspace. "Conduit lets our customers build and deploy high-impact community toolbars that are a powerful and free way to connect with users real-time."

Anna Love, Director of Network Marketing at web hosting company Bravenet pointed to another major benefit: "By offering a community toolbar as a service rather than as software, Conduit has made the breakthrough to allow Bravenet to fulfill this critical need," she says. "It’s refreshing to see Conduit’s commitment to the highest ethical and technological standards combined with great service for Bravenet and its members."

"Community Toolbars are a wonderful way for our publishers to stay in touch with their users," added Dan Richfield, CEO of easyCGI. "The toolbar you can now build using Conduit not only has the power to promote a sense of community among visitors to your website, but also drives traffic to your website."

"Our partnerships with web hosting companies represent a natural convergence of values and objectives; namely, to offer website publishers effective tools to help them engage their users, drive traffic, and enhance web presence," commented Ronen Shilo, CEO of Conduit. "Our community toolbars give web hosting clients a revolutionary website marketing tool, and enable web hosting companies to both extend their client offerings and establish a new revenue stream.”

Conduit has forged several strategic partners beyond web hosting companies with website design firms, digital marketing firms, companies offering marketing tools, and product partners. For more information on Conduit's strategic partnerships or to become a partner, visit: http://www.conduit.com/Partner/Default.aspx.

To create a community toolbar for your website visit: http://www.conduit.com/Wizard.

About Conduit

Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit to quickly and easily create a free community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users via the browser. Consumers can use the myConduit toolbar to search and subscribe with one click to the hottest web communities. Conduit delivers unprecedented community loyalty and site traffic for over 130,000 publishers, including major brands such as Major League Baseball, Fox Carolina TV, Greenpeace, RE/MAX, TechCrunch, Blogdigger and small and medium organizations in 112 countries around the globe. Conduit's innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware and spyware. The company is privately-held with headquarters in Israel and Redwood Shores, CA. For more information about Conduit, visit www.conduit.com or email info@conduit.com.