agency industry internet advertising founded 1997 founder alex konanykhin headquarters new york city key people alex konanykhin silvina moschini nikolai mentchokov elena gratcheva simon erblich services internet commercials web presentations website design commercial software subsidiaries publicity guaranteed wikiexperts.us transparentbusiness website kmgi homepage kmgi group is a private holding clarification needed of internet companies which includes kmgi studios intuic transparentbusiness and wikiexperts . wikiexperts its employees and any related firms are banned from editing wikipedia . 1 contents 1 history 2 webmercials 3 software and services 4 references 5 external links history edit originally founded in 1997 in new york city by alex konanykhin nikolai mentchokov and elena gratcheva as an advertising agency . the company later shifted focus to work primarily on website design . the company name is based on the initials of the founders last names . the company s first headquarters were located in the empire state building . at that time many of the company s employees were russian . 2 the company began with 35 employees based in one physical location but has since moved to the use of a virtual office using employees from different countries instead of just one location . 3 webmercials edit in 1998 kmgi introduced the use of macromedia s flash technology for online advertising . 4 alex mentchoukov the agency s chief creative officer created a way of using vector based graphics for web advertisements without using as much bandwidth as pixel based graphics . from this work kmgi became one of the first companies to create animated television style webmercials for the internet . 2 5 6 in august 2000 kmgi partnered with unicast to move from using the interstitial format for its commercials to the superstitial format which reduced the slow down effect of browser downloads . 7 in 2002 the kmgi website then became the first to be carried entirely in flash lingo . 8 kmgi s webmercial and other services clients have included volvo pfizer dupont best western verizon and macromedia . 3 4 in addition the agency has produced advertisements for companies including coca cola lexus and the new york post . 6 software and services edit in 2000 the company began selling retail software and by 2004 kmgi had 1.4 million in sales of software . 9 part of the company s marketing plan included the distribution of free anti spam software to consumers who watched a 30 second commercial . 10 kmgi also created webpresentations a producer of online product demonstrations . 11 in 2004 kmgi released seepassword a program that allowed users to recover hidden or lost passwords from internet explorer . 12 in 2005 kmgi formed a subsidiary called publicity guaranteed public relations firm . 13 in 2010 kmgi then formed a subsidiary called wikiexperts which creates and repairs wikipedia articles for companies or advises them on how to create articles themselves . at the time of wikiexperts creation konanykhin suggested that wikipedia should use advertising to generate more revenue and pay qualified experts to improve its content . 14 15 16 17 18 19 in 2011 kmgi released transparentbusiness software which allows employers or clients to monitor the activity of those working for them on computers via a cloud supported activity monitor and screenshots . 20 in 2012 transparentbusiness received the pc world latin america rising star award for the best cloud computing solution for enterprise . 21 references edit see community ban proposal for paid editing firm wikiexperts.us a b mcrae susan september 2000 . the getaway article . los angeles daily journal reprinted at www.konanykhin.com . retrieved 17 may 2012 . a b sonnenberg danielle 19 july 2007 . foreign entrepreneurs finding the american dream article . thestreet.com . retrieved 16 may 2012 . a b greenberg karl 3 july 2000 . iq interactive special report flash forward article . adweek . retrieved 4 june 2012 . swartz jon 13 september 1999 . the internet s future is now article . forbes . retrieved 16 may 2012 . a b jantz richard 1 september 1999 . internet ads get a flashy face lift article . pcworld . retrieved 18 may 2012 . cotriss david 25 august 2000 . net mercials combine affiliate model with rich media ads article . online media daily . retrieved 18 may 2012 . glenn fleishman ; toby malina ; jeff carlson 2002 . web design basics ideas and inspiration for working with type color and navigation on the web . rockport publishers . p. 192 . henricks mark 1 january 2005 . tech please next generation cios offer more than just tech advice article . entrepreneur . retrieved 5 june 2012 . swartz jon 24 november 2003 . marketers hunt for ways to score attention online article . usa today . retrieved 5 june 2012 . ed applegate 2005 . strategic copywriting how to create effective advertising . rowman & littlefield . p. 178 . rubenking neil j. 2 november 2004 . revealing passwords article . pc magazine . retrieved 20 june 2012 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name rubenking defined multiple times with different content see the help page . archie obrien . arrogance triggers pr issues between russia and the us . empresa propone nuevo modelo de negocio para wikipedia article in spanish . el mercurio . 14 january 2011 . retrieved 13 june 2012 . salvatierra blanca 23 may 2011 . los expertos de pago reivindican un hueco en wikipedia article in spanish . p blico . retrieved 14 june 2012 . wikipleadia the promise and perils of crowdsourcing content article . the economist . 13 january 2011 . retrieved 18 june 2012 . mchugh molly 15 december 2010 . analysts advise wikipedia to stop asking for donations article . digital trends . retrieved 19 june 2012 . scola nancy 27 december 2011 . jimmy wales needs your help article . the american prospect . retrieved 20 june 2012 . newman andrew adam 29 october 2007 . publicity firm shames client for failure to pay a bill article . the new york times . retrieved 5 june 2012 . kmgi control software presents the use of work time . pc world . february 23 2012 . access date requires url help idg latin america announces the 2012 pc world latin america awards winners . pc world . october 26 2012 . retrieved november 1 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kmgi group & oldid 723179652 categories advertising agencies of the united statespublic relations companies of the united stateshidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namescs1 spanish language sources es pages using citations with accessdate and no urlwikipedia articles needing clarification from february 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa ol edit links this page was last modified on 1 june 2016 at 14 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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