AdSafe Media Appoints Advertising Industry Veteran as New CEO

NEW YORK, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AdSafe Media, (www.adsafemedia.com), the rating standard for online media today appointed Scott Knoll as its new Chief Executive Officer. Knoll takes over management of the privately owned company during a time of rapid growth.

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Knoll brings a solid combination of management experience, media sales, and technological savvy with a history of innovation to AdSafe Media.

AdSafe's co-founder Helene Monat, said, "AdSafe is at an important cross-road in its evolution and Scott joins at an exciting time to spearhead its next stage of rapid growth and expansion, especially into new products and digital platforms."

"AdSafe Media has a tremendous opportunity to innovate with technology that offers a unique and scalable approach to more effective advertising. It's an exciting time to join the company and help capitalize on the growth opportunities that exist," said Knoll.

"AdSafe is a company with tremendously knowledgeable and committed employees, with a unique culture and with many strong and exciting brands, agency, network and publisher partners.  I am looking forward to helping AdSafe accelerate the recent trend of top brands choosing AdSafe's superior technology and solidifying AdSafe Media's position as the rating and verification standard in the online advertising industry," Knoll added.

Mr. Knoll most recently served as Founder and President of Aperture, a Datran Media company that provides audience targeting and measurement technology to blue chip brands, agencies and online publishers. Prior to joining Datran Media, Knoll, was CEO of BlackFoot, a digital advertising solutions company.  He also spent 6 years as a senior executive at DoubleClick, directing the launch and development of the DoubleClick ad network in nine countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea.

Mr. Knoll also served as Managing Director of DoubleClick Asia Pacific and Vice President and General Manager of Global Marketer Solutions. Previously he co-founded and served as COO of Verified Person, and has held management roles at Time Warner Inc. and Andersen Consulting. Mr. Knoll holds an MBA degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

About AdSafe Media

AdSafe Media is the rating standard of online media. AdSafe uses proprietary algorithmic modeling and human verification to rate the brand safety of content on commercially supported web pages via the AdSafe Content Rating System. AdSafe's BrandSafe Firewall enables brands, agencies and ad-networks to prevent advertising from appearing on publisher web pages that do not conform to brand guidelines. AdSafe's Network Monitor platform enables ad-networks and publishers to identify and segment problematic site content, increasing monetization of display inventory. AdSafe is headquartered in New York, NY with operations in California and London, England. For more information visit http://www.AdSafeMedia.com or follow @AdSafe on Twitter.

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