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Crate and Barrel Chooses Omniture SearchCenter to Increase Return on Ad Spend
Leading Home Furnishings Retailer Ties Individual Keywords to Performance Based on Revenue

Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider
of online business optimization software, today announced that Crate and Barrel, one of the
largest home furnishing retailers in the country, is using Omniture SearchCenter(TM) to increase their return on ad spend. Natively
integrated with Omniture
SiteCatalyst® Web analytics, SearchCenter enables Crate and Barrel to
identify revenue associated with individual keywords and automatically
optimize bidding strategies to drive the most valuable traffic to their Web
site -- improving search engine marketing efficiency while increasing the
company's return on ad spend.
"Crate and Barrel offers thousands of innovative, high-quality furnishings
online and it's important that we understand how effective our keywords are
at driving customers to the information and items they are looking for,"
said John Seebeck, Crate and Barrel direct marketing. "Competition among
online retailers has increased for keyword advertising and impacts the
effectiveness of online advertising budgets. SearchCenter has given us a
competitive advantage by helping to identify the highest performing
keywords that drive online business. SearchCenter automatically adjusts our
keyword bidding strategies based on customized rules that are specific to
our marketing objectives and search marketing budgets."
Keyword inflation, or the rising cost per click due to increased
competitive pressures for key words, is driving up marketing budgets.
Search marketing spending is expected to rise from $6.5 billion in 2006 to
$11.1 billion in 2011 according to a study published by Jupiter Research, an independent technology
and market research company. In addition, the study states "the number of
marketers bidding on more than 10,000 keywords has doubled from 2005." The
report concludes, "as a result, marketers will be encouraged to enlist
agency and technology support to efficiently manage their search
campaigns."
Because SearchCenter is integrated with SiteCatalyst, Crate and Barrel can
more effectively associate search engine marketing initiatives with overall
online marketing activities. The company can measure keyword effectiveness
across multiple product types and SKUs such as bath, bed, rugs, etc -- as
well as evaluate trends such as low-performing keywords on a seven- or
14-day basis, for example. In addition, because SearchCenter integrates
across all the leading search engine networks, Crate and Barrel can compare
keyword performance across various search engines and geographic regions.
"Customers are increasingly turning to Omniture as cost-per-click inflation
continues to erode search marketing budgets," said Chris Harrington,
president, worldwide sales and client services, Omniture. "SearchCenter is
especially attractive because it is powered by SiteCatalyst, Omniture's Web
analytics solution, recognized by Internet Retailer as the solution used by
more etailers in 2007."
About Crate and Barrel
Crate and Barrel was born from an idea that newlyweds Gordon and Carole
Segal had while washing and drying their dishes in the early 60's -- "there
must be other young couples like themselves with more taste than money."
They decided to open a store, and running out of money for fixtures, turned
over the crates and barrels that their newly imported merchandise was
shipped in -- and thus was born a retail phenomenon. Now, 45 years and
over 150 stores later, Crate and Barrel has set the standards for value,
design, and customer service. Gordon Segal, still CEO of this brand and
CB2, has made his mission "people, products and presentation."
About Omniture
Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization
software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and
multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture's software, which it hosts and
delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service, enables
customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web
sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the
performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other
business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional
services that complement its online services, including implementation,
best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through
Omniture University(TM). Omniture's 2,500 customers include eBay, AOL,
Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, Countrywide Financial,
General Motors, Sony and HP. www.omniture.com
Note on Forward-looking Statements
Management believes that certain statements in this release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the abilities and
expected benefits of our services and the search market. These statements
are based on current expectations and assumptions regarding future events
and business performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited
to, risks associated with our ability to ensure that our services address
the specific requirements of our customers and partners, the continued
adoption by customers of our services, the significant capital requirements
of the business model, our ability to develop or acquire new services and
enhance existing service offerings, risks associated with our acquisition
strategy and disruptions in our business and operations as a result of
acquisitions, the continued growth of the market for on-demand, online
business optimization services, changes in the competitive dynamics of our
markets, errors, interruptions or delays in our services or other
performance problems with our services, our ability to hire, retain and
motivate our employees, the adoption of laws or regulations, or
interpretations of existing law, that could limit our ability to collect
and use Internet user information; and the blocking or erasing of
"cookies"; and such other risks described in Omniture's quarterly report on
Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2007, and from time to time in
other reports filed by Omniture with the U.S. Securities Exchange
Commission. These reports are available on the Investor Relations section
of our Web site at http://www.omtr.com. Omniture undertakes no duty to
update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual
results or changes in the company's expectations.
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