Friday, September 01, 2006
ValueClick, Inc. Appoints Seasoned Sales Executive to Drive Western Media Sales
ValueClick Media Welcomes Catherine McConville and Nine Others
to Fuel Growth and Expand Market Share in Digital Media Sales
ValueClick, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCLK), a leading company offering advertisers and direct marketers innovative media and technology solutions to achieve their multi-channel marketing goals of acquiring, retaining, and growing customer relationships, today announced that Catherine McConville has joined its media division as Director of Western Sales. McConville's primary responsibilities are to lead the Western region's sales development with substantial revenue growth and to identify new market opportunities.
McConville, former Director of Sales at SkyGo, Inc., a prominent provider of mobile marketing, comes to ValueClick Media with over twenty years of sales and business development experience. At SkyGo, McConville was responsible for 95% of its wireless ad sales as well as the structure of its sales territories and goals. Prior to SkyGo McConville has held prominent sales positions for companies such as Ziff Davis, where she signed 90% of accounts within her territory during the first year of the publication's launch; Individual.com, where she led the Western region's sales development with a 59% growth in revenue; and UN/Miller Freeman, where she achieved the highest month in ad sales and profit for the magazine's history.
"I am confident that Catherine will be extremely successful increasing sales of ValueClick Media's solutions for advertisers seeking online reach and results," stated James Zarley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ValueClick Media. "Our positioning, matched with Catherine's vast experience in sales, will ensure deeper and broader penetration in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest Region. We are certainly excited to have her on board."
In addition to the appointment of Catherine, Bill Todd and Dan Desmet of ValueClick Media have been promoted to lead sales efforts for the East Coast Sales Team. Nine new account executives have also been hired to increase market share and continue to provide high levels of customer service. The account executive roles have been designed to expand major account sales through customized media solutions and to manage campaign sales, development, execution and results analysis.
About ValueClick, Inc.
ValueClick, Inc. offers direct marketers and advertisers innovative media and technology solutions to achieve their multi-channel marketing goals of acquiring, retaining, and growing customer relationships. ValueClick, Inc. has offices worldwide and drives measurable results to clients such as General Motors, eBay, and McCann Erickson. For more information, please visit www.valueclick.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including trends in online advertising spending and estimates of future online performance-based advertising. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are detailed under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made from time to time by ValueClick, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 22, 2002, recent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements include the risk that market demand for online advertising, and performance-based online advertising in particular, will not grow as rapidly as predicted. ValueClick undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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