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Josh Linkner is founder and CEO of ePrize, an interactive promotion agency that develops and carries out online promotions, incorporating online sweepstakes, instant-win games, interactive loyalty programs, online trivia games and other promotions that directly connect individual consumers with company Web sites. As a pioneer in interactive marketing, he’s been involved in the development of thousands of digital marketing strategies and e-commerce solutions over the last 15 years.
Linkner has led the firm from inception to its current No. 3 overall promotion agency position as named by PROMO Magazine in 2006. ePrize has produced an industry-leading 2,200 interactive promotions for clients including Coca-Cola, American Express, The Gap, P&G, Warner Brothers, Dell, Adidas, The Home Depot and General Motors.
Despite a floundering economy, Linkner achieved annualized revenue growth over 100% since the company’s birth in 1999. From just two employees and less than five clients in 1999, Linkner has built ePrize into the world’s largest and most experienced agency of its type, with offices in Detroit, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and London.
Prior to founding ePrize, the 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year recipient built one of the world’s first Web marketing agencies, GlobalLink New Media in 1995. The firm grew to be recognized as a “Top 100 Interactive Agency” by Advertising Age in both 1997 and 1998.
Linkner earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Florida.
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