For Immediate Release

CHARTATTACK.COM RELAUNCHES
Canada's premier music website enters new era of information-providing and community-building

Toronto, October 22, 2008. Today, Chart Communications Inc., publisher of CHART Magazine, is pleased to announce the relaunch of its website, CHARTattack.com.

Veterans of the music industry can speak to the rapid evolution that has taken place online within the entertainment landscape since the mid-1990s. The shift from static content to participatory social media such as forums, blogs, tagging, photo-sharing, social-networking, news aggregation, mobile tools, etc, has provided an opportunity for Chart to build a platform which invites engagement with its readership.

New CHARTattack.com features include:

• More music news, features and reviews published daily
• The ability for readers to rank and/or comment on all content
• A user-generated photo gallery
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for all content, including specific tags. For example, a user could build an RSS feed which delivers only CHARTattack.com media related to the band “silverstein”
• Sharing and bookmarking tools for readers to save and share CHARTattack.com content with friends via Facebook, Digg, MySpace, etc
• Creative Commons licensing for most content
• Editors’ blogs
• User forums
• Daily polls and regular contests

 "This is an exciting time for us," says President/Publisher, Edward Skira. "CHARTattack has long been known as Canada's premier source for music news and information. Now the site is poised to build on that position as we roll out many new features to further develop the strong music community we've built."

In addition to providing social media tools for its readership, the new CHARTattack.com also offers an exciting service aimed at its dedicated advertising partners in the form of a self-serve ad management system. Banner ads (468x60) and buttons (234x60) are available to be purchased via CHARTattack’s ad-placement system. Once an account is set up during regular business hours, advertisers are able to login to the CHARTattack ad-placement system, day or night, to plan their media buy – from targeted placement to uploading creative to payment.

Payments are made via Paypal which also accepts all major credit cards without the necessity of signing up for a Paypal account.

The revamped CHARTattack.com was built by Fourth Wall Media (http://4thwallmedia.com), a full service agency which specializes in creative production services for digital and interactive kiosk networks.

To experience the new CHARTattack, visit http://chartattack.com

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ABOUT CHART COMMUNICATIONS
Chart Communications is an integrated communications and media company based in Toronto. Since its inception in 1990, the company has maintained a level of credibility and expertise both on the street and within the music industry that is unmatched.  Chart Communications is the publisher of the leading Canadian music website CHARTattack.com (http://www.chartattack.com) and the country's longest running and most respected music magazine, CHART Magazine. Chart Communications has also published several special music publications, such as the Official EdgeFest Concert Tour Program Guide and the Summersault Program Guide, and was the media partner for In The Name of Cool, a pioneering syndicated study that provided a snapshot of the Canadian music consumer. With a solid 18-year track record, Chart Communications is Canada's number one music and youth culture content provider.

CONTACT

Chart advertising and sponsorship opportunities:

Edward Skira
edward@chartattack.com
416-363-3101

Nada Laskovski
nada@chartattack.com
416-363-3101

Inquiries about the website:

Danielle Holke
danielle@chartattack.com
416-363-3101