PostRelease Appoints New Vice President Of Sales

LONG BEACH, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PostRelease, an advanced content marketing platform, today announced the company has appointed George Carney as vice president of sales. In this newly created position, Carney's responsibility includes driving revenue generation for all offices and ramping efforts to support PostRelease's rapidly growing business.

Carney brings more than 15 years of comprehensive experience in digital media, advertising and sales to PostRelease. An expert in sales management and team leadership, Carney has managed cross-functional teams – marketing, product and business development, and technical – to achieve ad sales objectives and create new advertising opportunities and solutions. Carney has also worked with some of the largest automotive, beverage, technology and entertainment companies, including: Honda, Toyota, Hyundai Motors, Miller-Coors, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Microsoft, Mattel and Las Vegas Tourism (LVCVA). Additionally, he is an advisory board member to multiple startup companies and provides consulting services for businesses including Rhapsody International.

Most recently Carney served as general manager/vice president Advertising Sales and Operation at RealNetworks, Inc., where he staffed and trained national sales and operations teams, and executed integrated sales and marketing efforts with international divisions. During his tenure at RealNetworks, Carney also served as Director, Advertising Sales and National Accounts Manager where his team was recognized as top producing region for the company. Carney also served as a sales manager at CMP Media where he worked for Computer Reseller News, and helped develop product and lead sales for the first internet media sales team for ChannelWEB. He was also a sales manager at Ziff Davis Publishing, where he vended advertising for PC Computing Magazine.

"George has an excellent track record with building out and training successful sales teams, and his proactive approach to creating innovative solutions has consistently resulted in increased revenue growth and deep rooted relationships with clients," said Justin Choi, CEO, PostRelease. "We're confident that his expertise and passion for our product will help fuel and support PostRelease's accelerating growth."

PostRelease is an advanced platform for driving discovery of branded content. By enabling companies to insert their content as sponsored posts in forums, blogs and content sites, PostRelease extends the value of brand-generated content by delivering it to relevant sites. The PostRelease platform also enables networks and publishers to use the power of the platform to easily manage sponsored placement across their own sites.

Officially launched in 2011, PostRelease has already driven revenue to more than 600 forums and has served more than 100,000 placements to top consumer brands including Ford®, Intuit®, Armor All®, STP® and Dodge®.

For more information about PostRelease, visit: www.PostRelease.com.

About PostRelease
PostRelease is an advanced content marketing platform that provides companies and brands with a simple, scalable way to reach audiences with text, images, embedded video and other valuable content that is automatically distributed and published on relevant blogs, forums, and content sites. PostRelease provides marketers with a medium by which they can tell a deeper story about a brand, product or service and drive discovery of their content. It also provides a premium revenue stream for the content-rich website, blog and forum publishers who opt-in to the PostRelease network. For more information, visit www.PostRelease.com.

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