[April 27, 2012]

iMeet® Shines - Awarded Silver for Best New Product by Edison Awards 2012

iMeet, the innovative cloud-based video conferencing solution from the meetings experts at PGi (NYSE: PGI), was named the silver winner in the Best New Product category for this year's internationally renowned Edison Awards. Since 1987, the Edison Awards have recognized ideas at the forefront of new products, services, marketing, design and innovation. Winning an Edison Award has become one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation.

"iMeet was designed to be the easiest to use, most personal, most mobile virtual meeting solution on the market to let people meet in simpler, more human ways," said Boland T. Jones, PGi founder, chairman and CEO. "We are thrilled that the Edison Awards recognized iMeet's innovation, among fierce competition, in this year's best new innovative business communications product category."

iMeet is PGi's next generation, cloud-based video conferencing solution that enables up to 15 people to meet face-to-face online - anytime, anywhere, from any device. iMeet expands on the basic video conference, giving users their own personal online meeting room that integrates with their favorite social media and file sharing applications. The iMeet experience is simple and secure - without the hassle of software downloads, hardware investments or IT support.

Winners of the 2012 Edison Awards were determined by a panel of more than 3,000 individuals, including members of the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an organization comprising America's top marketing professionals and academics. The panel also includes professionals from the fields of product development & design, engineering, science and education.

For ore information about iMeet or to sign up for a 30-day free trial, visit www.imeet.com.

About Premiere Global Services (News - Alert), Inc. ¦ PGi

PGi has been a global leader in virtual meetings for 20 years. Our cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice and file sharing technologies. PGi solutions are available via desktops, tablets or mobile devices, helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and green. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an established base of more than 35,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100^™. In the last five years, we have hosted more than 725 million people from 137 countries in over 65 million meetings. For more information, visit us at http://www.pgi.com.

About the Edison Awards

The 2012 Edison Awards are sponsored by Nielsen, Discovery Communications, Science Channel, USA TODAY, CSRware (News - Alert) and applepeak. For more information about the Edison Awards visit www.edisonawards.com.

Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in Premiere Global Services, Inc.'s forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological changes and the development of alternatives to our services; market acceptance of new cloud-based, virtual meeting services, including our iMeet^® and GlobalMeet^® services; our ability to attract new customers and to retain and further penetrate our existing customers; risks associated with challenging global economic conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service providers; service interruptions and network downtime; technological obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network capacity; concerns regarding the security of transactions; future write-downs of goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than anticipated tax liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures; the impact of the sale of our PGiSend business; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, including possible adverse results of litigation or infringement claims; regulatory or legislative changes, including further government regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service providers and data privacy; risks associated with international operations and market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; and other factors described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

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