Conduit is the leading platform for building online communities via community toolbars. Online publishers can use Conduit's online wizard to quickly and easily create a free, customized and hosted community toolbar to persistently connect and engage their users 24/7 via the browser, even when users are not on their site. On the flip side, Conduit community toolbars offer users an exclusive way to search and subscribe to the hottest web communities out there, in a click. Conduit, based in Silicon Valley, offers a new persistent communication channel in the form of a customizable dynamic toolbar. Using Conduit, publishers can create a customizable branded toolbar that takes the best of their site, their offers and community and puts it on the customers’ browser.

Conduit's award-winning service delivers: unprecedented community loyalty; increased traffic to web properties; top-of-mind awareness, with the publisher's brand on the users' browser, 24/7; a mechanism for real-time content delivery; a vehicle for marketing and creating buzz; and a new stream of revenue, all for free. Conduit can boast an exclusive deal with Google, which powers the toolbars' search box. Conduit's innovative search monetization model allows the service to be completely free and without adware, malware and spyware. Conduit is the only fully-hosted and free toolbar-building platform that publishers can use to create toolbars for their sites, without any IT support.

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