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Email Marketing Expert Recognized for Data-Driven Marketing Innovation and Growth of BizFACTZ Business Contact Database Service

LOS ANGELES – Dec. 8, 2015 – Outward Media, Inc. (OMI), a leading provider of multi-channel marketing data, today announced that its CEO Paula Chiocchi has been named the silver winner in the 7^th Annual 2015 Golden Bridge Awards in the category of “Best Female Entrepreneur/Founder.” The award was announced at a gala event in San Francisco last month. Chiocchi and other award winners from around the world are now featured on the Golden Bridge Awards website.

The annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, largest to smallest and new start-ups.

Chiocchi founded Outward Media, Inc. in 1998 to help organizations expand their reach, find new customers and enter new markets. The company’s multi-channel marketing data and fresh, accurate email data drives business growth and success for Fortune 2000 firms and small to mid-sized companies worldwide. In partnership with Data-Graphix LLC, Chiocchi is credited with launching and expanding BizFACTZ, the largest and most economical business contact database. Business customers can use the self-service BizFACTZ platform to obtain verified multi-channel marketing data to reach their ideal customers and prospects and achieve greater success in their sales and marketing campaigns. The platform contains information on 41 million business contacts overall, including 23 million business locations and 17 million associated email addresses.

“It’s an honor to be named a winner by Golden Bridge as a testimony to the many accomplishments of our company this past year,” said Chiocchi. “As a leader in business contact services, maintaining the highest levels of data accuracy—so that we never fail to exceed clients’ expectations for sales growth and email campaign success—is what continues to set BizFACTZ and OMI apart. We’d like to thank the Golden Bridge Awards program for recognizing our many years of innovation and success in the email marketing field.”

BizFACTZ leverages OMI’s more than 16 years of data-driven marketing experience, including its expertise in data accuracy, data integration and intelligent B2B customer analysis. Selecting and downloading business contacts takes as little as 10 minutes, and credit card payments are accepted, making the platform easy to use and affordable for small to midsize businesses (SMB) as well as larger enterprise customers.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world determined the 2015 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were honored during the awards dinner and presentation on November 16, 2015 in San Francisco attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

For a full list of the gold, silver and bronze winners for the 7^th annual Golden Bridge Awards, visit http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/world/index.html.

For more information on BizFACTZ, visit www.bizfactz.com or follow Outward Media on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+.

About the Golden Bridge Awards

Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com.

About Outward Media and BizFACTZ

BizFACTZ is the largest and most cost-effective business contacts database specifically designed to drive sales, profits and customer growth for organizations of all sizes. An easy-to-use self-service platform, BizFACTZ takes the fear out of database marketing, with minimum orders of only $50 and simple credit card payment options. The online service allows small businesses to quickly identify and download contact information associated with their desired target markets across a broad section of business demographics and industries. A joint venture between Data-Graphix LLC and Outward Media, Inc. (OMI), BizFACTZ delivers all the advantages of OMI’s proven, verified email address database technology – successfully used by the world’s largest, most sophisticated marketers – to small business entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.bizfactz.com and www.outwardmedia.com or call 310-274-5312.

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