NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/13/12 -- Cake Marketing, the SaaS division of Accelerize New Media, Inc. (OTCBB: ACLZ), announced that it has achieved Premier Platinum status within the partner program for Rackspace Hosting® (NYSE: RAX). Cake Marketing's patent pending technology offers affiliates and marketers a flexible yet powerful solution allowing for custom features and innovative ideas to increase productivity and improve the life cycle of online campaigns. As the service leader in cloud computing, Rackspace Hosting is dedicated to providing clients with superior customer support and uptime guarantees, and this relationship supports Cake Marketing's Tracking and Analytics Software platform by effectually eliminating unexpected server downtime for its clients. The Premier Platinum status solidifies Cake Marketing's increasing presence as a leading SaaS provider, dedicated to delivering a trusted and scalable infrastructure, while allowing performance based marketers the opportunity to successfully manage their online operations.

"Rackspace is excited about the success Cake Marketing has seen in the performance based marketing segment and we look forward to our ongoing collaboration to address this growing industry need," said Christopher Rajiah, vice president of worldwide channel sales for Rackspace.

Cake Marketing has worked closely with Rackspace to create optimal redundancy and failover solution to help ensure maximum uptime for all of its clients. The solution includes redundancies for Web and Database servers across various data centers in the U.S. and Europe. To date, uptime with Rackspace has exceeded its benchmark of 99.9 percent.

"At Cake Marketing, we provide reliable and accurate software to our clients. We take this responsibility very seriously, therefore we will only work with the best as we continue to grow our business and take market share. Our collaboration with Rackspace is further evidence of our commitment to providing clients with the best tools in the industry," said Jeff McCollum, president of Cake Marketing.

Cake Marketing is a global provider of an advanced tracking and management platform for affiliate, lead generation, and performance based marketing companies who leverage digital media.

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About Cake Marketing
Cake Marketing is a highly scalable SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform providing a comprehensive and complete online tracking solution for advertisers -- from acquisition through conversion. Easy-to-use wizards and real-time reporting guide users through every step of managing and optimizing campaigns. From traffic providers to advertisers, tracking to data distribution, Cake Marketing offers the most robust platform to manage your business and analyze the performance of your marketing relationships. Seamless integration with other services through a developed API eliminates bottlenecks while increasing ROI for advertisers. For more information and demo visit www.cakemarketing.com or call 949-548-CAKE.

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This press release may contain forward-looking statements from Accelerize New Media, Inc. within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities laws. For example, when we describe Cake Marketing's increasing presence as a leading SaaS provider and its expectations for taking market share, we are using forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Accelerize New Media only, and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: changes in technology and market requirements; our technology may not be validated as we progress further; we may be unable to retain or attract key employees whose knowledge is essential to the development of our products and services; unforeseen market and technological difficulties may develop with our products and services; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; loss of market share and pressure on pricing resulting from competition, which could cause the actual results or performance of Accelerize New Media to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Except as otherwise required by law, Accelerize New Media undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. For a more detailed description of the risk and uncertainties affecting Accelerize New Media, reference is made to Accelerize New Media's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.