| New York,   NY – January 17, 2008 – VMS, the  worldwide leader in integrated media intelligence solutions, is sponsoring a  panel discussion today titled “Integrated Communications: The Impact of News  and Advertising Coverage on Your Business," at the 2008 Argyle Executive CMO Leadership Forum at the New York Athletic Club. Moderating and facilitating the panel will be: 
        Peter Wengryn, President and CEO, VMS  Panel participants will include: 
        Bonnie J Carlson,  President, Promotion Marketing AssociationTom Collinger, Integrated Marketing  Communications Chair and Associate    DeanMedill School,  Northwestern University
Gary Getto, Executive Vice President, Integrated  Media Intelligence, VMSTom Stein, President and CEO, Stein Rogan +  Partners This highly respected event will bring together the marketing leadership of approximately 150 public and  private large-cap and mid-cap corporations, complementary areas of executive  leadership -- CEOs, CFOs, COOs and CMOs -- members of the endowment foundation and  family office community, select advisory firms, and select founders or senior  managing partners of investment firms.   “As the  unchallenged leader in the fast-moving media intelligence marketplace, we  remain dedicated to ensuring that important issues facing our customers are  analyzed and discussed,” notes Wengryn.    “This panel of experts will inform and educate the audience  with insights into the current state of measurement research, the correlation  of paid and earned media -- integrated across all offline and online media  channels -- to business outcomes, and the need for more comprehensive solutions  and reliable metrics.”   ABOUT VMS VMS is the world leader in integrated media intelligence  solutions that bring together news monitoring and advertising monitoring across  all media – broadcast, radio, print, Internet and outdoor.    VMS provides public relations firms, advertising agencies  and marketers worldwide with the most comprehensive, cutting-edge editorial and  ad retrieval, management and analysis solutions, including a broad spectrum of  industry-leading advertising and public relations measurement and tracking  tools.     VMS monitors thousands of hours of television broadcast news in all 210 U.S  DMAs™ – by far the most of any provider – through a unique nationwide digital  network, enabling us to help manage brand reputation with unparalleled speed,  breadth and depth.   VMS also monitors approximately 10,000 hours a  week of radio broadcasts nationwide again the industry's broadest coverage.
    VMS provides access to the largest continually updated advertising database in  the world with over five million ads and commercials through the market leading  AdSight platform.  The competitive advertising intelligence VMS provides  includes U.S. and  international creative content as well as domestic spending and occurrence data  from Nielsen for the top 100 U.S.  television markets.    VMS operates 15 full-service offices and 3 monitoring centers throughout the U.S. For more  information about VMS call (800) vms-2002 or visit www.vmsinfo.com. |