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Press Release Source: Quepasa Corporation On Tuesday May 3, 2011, 8:45 am EDT

WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwire - 05/03/11) - Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and game platform for the Latino community operated by Quepasa Corporation (AMEX:QPSA - News), added nearly 2.0 million registered users in April 2011 to reach a record total of 35.6 million. This marks a year-over-year increase in monthly growth of 54%, compared to growth of 1.3 million new users in April 2010.

"Our user base reached a record level in April by adding approximately two million newly registered users," commented Quepasa's CEO, John Abbott. "We continue to work on the fine tuning and broadening of our user acquisition channels as part of our broader growth plan."

Quepasa.com also reported significant improvement in user engagement during April, with Page Views per Return Site Visit of 30.7, representing an 80% year-over-year increase. Total Page Views in April came in at 245.8 million, representing 162% year-over-year growth. Unique Monthly Visitors totaled 17.0 million in April 2011, up 175% from April 2010.

"Our retention metrics benefitted from user profile enhancements made earlier in the year," said Abbott. "Additionally, we are very pleased with the initial results of the Wonderful City beta-launch, and, as we now begin to market the game on Quepasa.com, we look forward to discussing its impact on overall site metrics next month."

About Quepasa Corporation
Quepasa Corporation (AMEX:QPSA - News), owns Quepasa.com, the leading online social network and game platform for the Latino community. Quepasa.com provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities. Quepasa is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida with offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, and Hermosillo, Mexico. For more information about the company, go to www.quepasacorp.com, or join for free at www.Quepasa.com.
Contact:



Company Contact:
E. Brian Harvey
Vice President of Capital Markets and Investor Relations
Quepasa Corporation
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Designed to support the Mexican launch of a new consumer product, the campaign served as the promotional component of a broader media push that included television, radio and Internet advertising. The campaign invited participants to share their entries across their social profiles to win points and compete for prizes. In addition, participants could double their points for performing "high value" tasks. In six weeks the campaign generated over 13 million engagements, which represents the main success metric for DSM campaigns and is defined as the sum total of views, votes, entries, comments and shares generated in that period. Highlights from the results include over 1.8 million shares -- socially and by email -- with Facebook and Twitter dominating social sharing behavior.

"We are thrilled that our DSM technology produced such powerful engagement numbers on behalf of our customer," said Quepasa's CEO, John C. Abbott. "Using a click-through on a traditional display ad as a proxy for an engagement, we drove the equivalent number of 'clicks' as would a traditional media buy of more than six billion impressions. This provides a compelling case study for social media's potential to drive ROI for advertisers, and sets a great precedent for our relationship with SPT Ad Sales."

"Quepasa's DSM technology allowed us to go far beyond what we could accomplish with a traditional web promotion," said Irving Plonskier, senior vice president and general manager of SPT Ad Sales. "Not only did the campaign achieve massive reach at a low cost, it supported brand awareness by generating real, brand experience. Innovative thinking like this will be critical as advertisers continue to shift their focus to social solutions and develop more sophisticated expectations vis à vis what their ad dollars can accomplish on the social web." Curated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino Redefined. Empower Yourself!]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/04/11/quepasas-latest-social-media-ad-campaign-drives-over-13-million-engagements-doubling-quepasas-previous-record/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/03/21/quepasa-raises-3-7m/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2011/03/21/quepasa-raises-3-7m/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:28:18 +0000 TomasC http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=117502 HispanicTips from www.portada-online.com
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These results demonstrate continued momentum in the growth of Quepasa's user base, following the addition of 2.0 million in September, 1.8 million in August and 1.4 million in July. Unique visits increased to 16.3 million in October from 16.0 million in September.

Quepasa.com continued to see particular growth momentum in its Brazilian user base, which accounted for 26% of its new users. This represents the largest source of new users, making Quepasa.com the fastest growing social network in Brazil on a percentage basis.

This is significant given that Brazil's population dominates social media consumption worldwide, with 86% of Brazilian Internet users regularly using social media sites, according to recent data from The Nielsen Company.

"The popularity of social networking among Latin Americans is clearly evident in our growth rate," said John Abbott, CEO of Quepasa. "With our overall growth rate averaging more than 66,000 new users per day, Quepasa.com is at the forefront of this strong market trend."

About Quepasa Corporation Quepasa Corporation /quotes/comstock/11k!qpsa (QPSA 6.73, +0.03, +0.45%) , owns Quepasa.com, one of the world's largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities. Quepasa Corp. is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida with offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, and Hermosillo, Mexico. For more information about the company, go to www.quepasacorp.com, or join for free at www.Quepasa.com.

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements including continuing momentum of quepsa.com and the number of new users per day. Forward-looking statements can also be identified by words such as "targets," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "may," "will," "plan," "continue," "forecast," "remains," "would," "should," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, are not guarantees of future performance and involve assumptions, risks, and uncertainties. Actual performance and results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. We caution you therefore against relying on any of these forward-looking statements. They are neither statements of historical fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include competitive factors, our continued support from our Mexican sponsors, the failure to develop and integrate the games and our members' usage of the games. Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009. Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.


Company Contact:
Mike Matte
Chief Financial Officer
Quepasa Corporation
Tel (561) 650-8075

Investor Relations Contact:
Liolios Group, Inc.
Scott Liolios or Ron Both
Tel (949) 574-3860
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"During the month of May, we introduced a number of features aimed at improving the user experience on Quepasa.com, such as a redesigned navigation panel, a more dynamic Playboy Mexico community and contest page and a new streaming video channel, all of which contributed to higher traffic figures, " said John C. Abbott, CEO of Quepasa Corporation. "Over the next several months, we will continue to emphasize improved site functionality, new social games and some very exciting sponsored contests."

About Quepasa Corporation

Quepasa Corporation, headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL with offices in Los Angeles, CA; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Scottsdale, AZ; Miami, FL; and Hermosillo, Mexico, owns Quepasa.com (www.Quepasa.com), one of the world's largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities.

Forward-Looking Statements

As a cautionary note to investors, certain matters discussed in this press release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such matters involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the following: changes in economic conditions; general competitive factors; acceptance of the Company's products in the market; the Company's success in technology and product development; the Company's ability to execute its business model and strategic plans; and all the risks and related information described from time to time in the Company's SEC filings, including the financial statements and related information contained in the Company's SEC Filing. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.


Contact:
Company Contact
Mike Matte
Chief Financial Officer
Quepasa Corporation
(561) 650-8075

Investor Relations contact
John Baldissera
BPC Financial Marketing
800-368-1217
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The Allopass micropayments solution currently processes more than eight million transactions per month, making it the largest and most popular micropayment platform in Europe and Latin America. The company has established key partnerships across the virtual goods ecosystem and is set to unveil several new integrations over the next year.

"We chose to work with Hi-media Payments because of their long history of excellence in the micropayments space and their broad geographic coverage in Latin America. We want to provide many alternative payment options to our geographically dispersed user base at Quepasa and Allopass has, in our opinion, delivered the most robust and flexible offering in the industry, specifically with regards to mobile billing solutions," said John Abbott, CEO of Quepasa. "Our partnership with Hi-media Payments demonstrates Quepasa's commitment to bringing best-in-class solutions to facilitate the monetization of our rapidly growing user base."

"Quepasa is one of the fastest growing social networks in one of the fastest growing regions of the world, and an excellent partner for our wide range of micropayment and monetization solutions," said Pooj Preena, CEO of Hi-media USA. "With the addition of Quepasa to our network of publishing partners, we are able to provide their users with an integrated payment offering that supports locally relevant payment methods as well as those that are most popular with their demographic and traverse several countries in Latin America as well as the US. This integration expands our reach into the Latino social networking sector and is an excellent example of how Allopass can extend a virtual currency across an entire portfolio of social games and premium content offerings."

About Quepasa Corporation Quepasa Corporation /quotes/comstock/11k!qpsa (QPSA 3.70, 0.00, 0.00%) , headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL with offices in Los Angeles, CA; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Scottsdale, AZ; Miami, FL; and Hermosillo, MX, owns Quepasa.com (www.Quepasa.com), one of the world's largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities.

About Hi-media Payments Hi-media Payments, through its product offering Allopass, is a leading provider of micropayment solutions worldwide with more than eight million transactions processed every month from thousands of merchant customers worldwide. The Allopass payment service offers multiple micropayment options at online checkouts, including billing through mobile phone or premium SMS; credit and debit cards, home phone billing, ISP billing, prepaid cards, and its own electronic wallet. The company's all-inclusive payment offering enables merchants to monetize in more than 60 countries. For more information visit www.allopass.com or visit our blog at http://blog.hi-media.com Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2010/04/05/quepasa-signs-partnership-with-hi-media-payments-to-bring-allopass-micropayment-solutions-to-quepasa-com-users/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2010/03/01/quepasa-announces-initial-results-of-its-acapulco-revealed-dsm-campaign/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2010/03/01/quepasa-announces-initial-results-of-its-acapulco-revealed-dsm-campaign/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:01:55 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2010/03/01/quepasa-announces-initial-results-of-its-acapulco-revealed-dsm-campaign/ Quepasa (OTCBB: QPSA), one of the world's fastest-growing Latino social networks, announced initial results for its campaign on behalf of Mexican tourist destination Acapulco, using its distributed social media product, Quepasa DSM. Quepasa DSM is a social media advertising solution that allows advertisers and brands to target and distribute their marketing message across all social media sites.

The Acapulco campaign -- labeled "Acapulco Revealed" -- invites Quepasa.com users to build their ideal vacation to Acapulco, based on four possible concepts: (i) Acapulco Nightlife; (ii) Acapulco Beaches; (iii) Acapulco Adventure; and (iv) Acapulco Culture. Vacation packages will be awarded to those contestants who most effectively share their Acapulco entry with friends and contacts across the web.

As of February 26th, 2010, the Acapulco Revealed DSM had generated a total of over 600,000 engagements and a total of over 70,000 votes with 17 days left until the completion of the campaign. The campaign goal was to reach 500,000 engagements during its 6 week duration. With the help of the DSM's easy-to-use viral tools and the expertise of our partner Brickfish, the campaign has generated engagements on Quepasa as well as across other social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, and the results have greatly exceeded our expectations.

The Quepasa DSM product is based on engagement -- which is generally considered to be a proxy for influence in social media -- as the key success metric, which differs from traditional online advertisement models based on impressions (CPM) or click-thrus (CPC).

"We are extremely pleased with the results the Acapulco DSM campaign, which are a result of great viral tools and our ability to seed the campaign among our 10MM users who in turn share their respective entries across the social web," said John Abbott, Quepasa's CEO. "As this is our first DSM campaign we are learning a lot with regards to the mechanics of this advertising tool and we're already iterating on a number of important enhancements." Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2010/03/01/quepasa-announces-initial-results-of-its-acapulco-revealed-dsm-campaign/feed/ 0