Category: marketing online

Local.com® Names Steven Schindler Vice President of Marketing

IRVINE, CA, October 7, 2010 ?

Local.comCorporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search site and network, today announced that Steven Schindler has joined the company as vice president of marketing.

Schindler joins Local.com from Sasa Technologies in San Diego, a Web 2.0 content aggregator, where he served as co-founder and president. In his new role, Schindler will be responsible for leading and managing Local.comâ??s marketing initiatives and branding efforts, and will report to Bruce Crair, Local.com president and chief operating officer.

“We’re pleased to add someone with Steven’s extensive leadership experience and broad range of talents to our management team,” said Crair. “He has a proven track record of success in both online and offline strategic marketing and brand development. We believe his strong background in online content aggregation and brand advertising for both B2B and B2C platforms will be a valuable asset in helping Local.com continue its growth into the future.”

Before co-founding Sasa Technologies, Schindler headed Schindler Marketing Group, Inc., a San Diego-based brand development, advertising and public relations firm. Previously, Schindler held an advertising management position at Ballyâ??s Resort and Casino, and has worked in account management for various other advertising and branding agencies. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from San Diego State University and studied international business at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

About Local.com®

Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM) owns and operates a leading local search site and network in the United States. The company uses patented and proprietary technologies to provide over 20 million consumers each month with relevant search results for local businesses, products and services on Local.com and over 800 partner sites. Local.com owns or manages over 40,000 geo-category domain sites, and over 70,000 small business customers useLocal.comproducts and services to reach consumers using a variety of subscription, performance and display advertising and website products. To advertise, or for more information visit:www.local.com.

Forward Looking Statements

All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this document regarding our anticipated financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of our management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as â??anticipate,â?? â??believe,â?? â??estimate,â?? â??plans,â?? â??expect,â?? â??intend,â?? â??projects,â?? â??feelâ?? and similar expressions and phrases, as they relate to Local.com or our management, identify forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to monetize the Local.com domain, our ability to incorporate our local-search technologies, our ability to market the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-search results, our ability to grow our business by enhancing our local-search services, including through businesses we acquire, the possibility that the information and estimates used to predict anticipated revenues and expenses associated with the businesses we acquire are not accurate, difficulties executing integration strategies or achieving planned synergies, the possibility that integration costs and go-forward costs associated with the businesses we acquire will be higher than anticipated, our ability to increase the number of businesses that purchase our subscription advertising and other business products, our ability to expand our advertiser and distribution networks, our ability to integrate and effectively utilize our acquisitionsâ?? technologies, our ability to develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate our expanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers, competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and usage statistics are from third-party service providers engaged by the company.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.

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Local.com Investor Relations and Media Relations Contact:

Cameron TriebwasserLocal.com949-789-5223ctriebwasser@local.com

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