IZEA Worldwide, Inc. set to join Russell Microcap® Index

Orlando, Florida, June 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IZEA Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: IZEA), the premier supplier of influencer advertising and marketing know-how, information, and providers for the world’s main manufacturers, introduced immediately that it’s set to join the Russell Microcap Index® on the conclusion of the 2021 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, efficient after the US market opens on June 28, in accordance to a preliminary listing of additives posted June 4. Membership within the Russell Microcap® Index, which stays in place for one 12 months, means automated inclusion within the acceptable development and worth type indexes. FTSE Russell determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by goal, market-capitalization rankings and elegance attributes. “The addition of IZEA to the Russell Microcap is a significant milestone for our firm and a mirrored image of the unbelievable optimistic momentum now we have seen over the previous 12 months,” commented Ted Murphy, Founder and CEO of IZEA. “We are proud to be included within the index and welcome the improved visibility as we proceed to execute in opposition to our development technique.” Russell indexes are extensively utilized by funding managers and institutional buyers for index funds and as benchmarks for lively funding methods. Approximately $10.6 trillion in belongings are benchmarked in opposition to Russell’s US indexes. Russell indexes are a part of FTSE Russell, a number one world index supplier. For extra data on the Russell Microcap® Index and the Russell indexes reconstitution, go to the “Russell Reconstitution” part on the FTSE Russell web site. # # # About IZEA Worldwide, Inc.IZEA Worldwide, Inc. (“IZEA”) is a advertising and marketing know-how firm offering software program {and professional} providers that allow manufacturers to collaborate and transact with the total spectrum of immediately’s high social influencers and content material creators. The firm serves as a champion for the rising Creator Economy, enabling people to monetize their content material, creativity, and affect. IZEA launched the business’s first-ever influencer advertising and marketing platform in 2006 and has since facilitated practically 4 million transactions between on-line consumers and sellers. Leading manufacturers and businesses accomplice with IZEA to enhance digital engagement, diversify model voice, scale content material manufacturing, and drive measurable return on funding. # # # About FTSE Russell:FTSE Russell is a world index chief that gives progressive benchmarking, analytics and information options for buyers worldwide. FTSE Russell calculates 1000’s of indexes that measure and benchmark markets and asset lessons in additional than 70 nations, masking 98% of the investable market globally. FTSE Russell index experience and merchandise are used extensively by institutional and retail buyers globally. Approximately $17.9 trillion is at the moment benchmarked to FTSE Russell indexes. For over 30 years, main asset house owners, asset managers, ETF suppliers and funding banks have chosen FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their funding efficiency and create ETFs, structured merchandise and index-based derivatives. A core set of common rules guides FTSE Russell index design and administration: a clear rules-based methodology is knowledgeable by unbiased committees of main market individuals. FTSE Russell is concentrated on making use of the best business requirements in index design and governance and embraces the IOSCO Principles. FTSE Russell can also be targeted on index innovation and buyer partnerships because it seeks to improve the breadth, depth and attain of its providing. FTSE Russell is wholly owned by London Stock Exchange Group. For extra data, go to www.ftserussell.com # # # Safe Harbor StatementAll statements on this launch that aren’t primarily based on historic truth are “forward-looking statements” supposed to qualify for the protected harbor from legal responsibility established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, that are primarily based on sure assumptions and describe our future plans, methods and expectations, can usually be recognized by way of forward-looking phrases akin to “might,” “will,” “would,” “may,” “ought to,” “count on,” “anticipate,” “hope,” “estimate,” “consider,” “intend,” “seemingly,” “initiatives,” “plans,” “pursue,” “technique” or “future,” or the unfavorable of those phrases or different phrases or expressions of comparable that means.  Examples of forward-looking statements embrace, amongst others, statements we make relating to expectations regarding IZEA’s skill to enhance income and bookings, development or upkeep of buyer relationships, and expectations regarding IZEA’s enterprise technique. Forward-looking statements contain inherent dangers and uncertainties which may trigger precise outcomes to differ materially from these within the forward-looking statements, because of varied elements together with, amongst others, our skill to set up efficient disclosure controls and procedures and inner management over monetary reporting; our skill to fulfill the necessities for continued itemizing of our widespread inventory on the Nasdaq Capital Market; altering financial situations which are much less favorable than anticipated; and different dangers and uncertainties described in IZEA’s periodic experiences filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements made on this launch converse solely as of the date of this launch, and IZEA assumes no obligation to replace any such forward-looking statements to replicate precise outcomes or adjustments in expectations, besides as in any other case required by regulation.