Which One of These Business Ideas is Worth $10,000 on Advanta’s ideablob.com? Winner to be Selected by ideablob* Community on February 29 Spring House, PA (February 25, 2008) – Advanta Corp. (NASDAQ: ADVNB; ADVNA) has announced February’s eight ideablob.com finalists for the $10,000 monthly contest prize. They are: Noah Curran, Janice Dotti, Erin Ely, Aaron Fleishman, Sunny Hall, Megan Lopez, Ryan McIntyre and Gunter Pfau. Launched by Advanta in September 2007, ideablob.com is where small businesses and entrepreneurs can share, compare and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them. The finalists include the top two winners from each of the first three weeks of February, as voted on by the ideablob.com community. In addition, the finalists include two contestants who received the most votes overall from the community since the ideablob.com contest began. “Seven of the eight finalists this month are social entrepreneurs,” said Ami Kassar, Advanta’s Chief Innovation Officer. “It’s heartwarming to see so many entrepreneurs and small businesses coming up with these inspirational ideas to change the world and using ideablob as springboard to grow their ideas.” Advanta recently presented Boston’s Naomi Bar-Yam with a $10,000 award as January’s ideablob winner at a reception at Brandeis University. Naomi will use the money to start the Mother’s Milk Bank of New England. February’s $10,000 contest winner will be the finalist that receives the most votes from the ideablob.com community during the 10-day period that began on February 22 and ends on February 29. The ideablob.com community is free and easy to join. In addition to voting, community members are encouraged to submit ideas or comment, advise and offer feedback on other members’ ideas. Here is more information about the finalists and their ideas. Noah Curran, 20, Belmont University, Nashville, TN Noah hopes to grow his popular web-based charity called T.A.G. - Turning Actions into Good (www.TurningActionsIntoGood.com). His idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/1459-Web-Based-Charity-T-A-G-Turni Janice Dotti, 21, Belmont University, Nashville, TN/Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX Janice plans to open Roots Fair Trade Organic Coffeehouse in her Texas hometown sponsoring Social Justice Causes. Her idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/1462-Fair-Trade-Organic-Coffeehouse- Erin Ely, 52, Eugene, OR Professional volunteer, Erin, founder of Ely Organics (http://elyorganics.com), hopes to start a Permanent Indoor Farmers Market in Eugene. Her idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/894-Permanent-Indoor-Farmers-Market Aaron Fleishman, 23, Penn State University, State College, PA Chemical Engineering student, Aaron’s idea started as a class project that he’s turned into reality. Mashavu is a laptop-based system that enables children in the developing world to connect with doctors (anywhere) using existing cell-phone infrastructure. His idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/1528-Mashavu-Networked-Health-Solu. Sunny Hall, 30, Knoxville, TN Sunny, a work-at-home mother of triplets has developed The Faces of Autism website (www.thefacesofautism.com) to address the huge impact autism has on families. Her idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/1290-The-Faces-of-Autism-Website Megan Lopez, 20, Belmont University, Nashville, TN Megan, a professional nanny, has started Organic Baby to educate and change the way parents raise their children. Her idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/1566-Organic-Baby-Changing-the-way-p Ryan McIntyre, 32, Chicago, IL Ryan, owner of MedBed ((www.beds4meds.com), and has come up with a way to economically reduce the environmental impact of apartment buildings. His idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/285-Economically-Reduce-the-Environ Gunter Pfau, 30, Philadelphia, PA Social media expert, Gunter plans to expand his interactive agency, Stuzo (www.stuzo.com) specializing in the development of Facebook applications and other viral social media. His idea can be found at http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/946-Stuzo-social-media-applicatio Beginning on March 1, 2008, the latest cycle of the ideablob.com contest will begin with all new ideas. February entrants may re-submit ideas for March and subsequent months. The eight finalists who will compete for March’s $10,000 contest prize will be named approximately one month from now. Please visit www.ideablob.com for more information. There is no purchase necessary to enter the ideablob.com contest. Contest began on 9/24/07 at 12:00:00 am CT and ends on 3/31/08 at 11:59:59 pm CT. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. states and D.C. who are of the legal age of majority in their state of residence at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Official Rules are available online at www.ideablob.com. Sponsored by Advanta Bank Corp., PO Box 30715, Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0715. * ideablob.com and ideablob are service marks owned by Advanta Bank Corp. About Advanta Advanta is one of the nation’s largest credit card issuers (through Advanta Bank Corp.) in the small business market today. Advanta’s exclusive focus on this market, as well as its size, experience and commitment to developing meaningful product offerings and a high level of service tailored to the needs of small businesses, differentiate the company from other issuers. Founded in 1951, Advanta has long been an innovator in developing and introducing many of the marketing techniques that are common in the financial services industry today. Learn more about Advanta at www.advanta.com. 08/04 Media Contacts Advanta Corp. David M. Goodman Director, Communications 215-444-5073 dgoodman@advanta.com Allison Clark, ideablob Public Relations 847-921-7417 allison@inktankpr.com Matthew Vlahos, ideablob Public Relations 267-402-2001 mvlahos@redtettemer.com