Adblade Welcomes New Vice President of Strategic Alliances

SOMERVILLE, NJ, March 22, 2013

Adblade, the largest content-style ad network, is pleased to announce Owen Weed has joined the company as Vice President of Strategic Alliances. Weed comes to Adblade with 17 years of strategic agency sales experience, most recently as investor and Head of Global Sales and Business Development at social media technology firm BLiNQ Media. In that position, he successfully launched offices in the US and UK / EMEA whilst signing multiple global deals with agency holding companies. BLiNQ Media was acquired by Gannett in August 2012.

"Owen comes to Adblade with a wealth of sales and business development experience," said CEO, Ash Nashed. "We're excited to have Weed on the team to lead our efforts in partnering with agencies and offering their brand advertisers access to our suite of advertising solutions."

Prior to his career at BLiNQ Media, Weed held management roles at AT&T Interactive, NBC Universal, Yahoo!, and started his digital career in 1996 at Quote.com. Lycos acquired Quote.com in 1999.

"I'm thrilled to join Adblade, which is uniquely positioned to help agencies and brand advertisers to get their messages out to the public," said Owen. "This is a pivotal point in the online advertising space, and I look forward to working to deliver the future of online advertising."

About Adblade
Adblade, is the largest content-style ad network that offers a unique value proposition through innovative proprietary ad units, expansive reach and distribution through only select top-tier publishers. A comScore and OMMA top 25 ad network, Adblade reaches more than 200 million monthly unique users in the US through over 1,000 branded content sites. With highly responsive customer support and proprietary optimization technology, Adblade provides brands and agencies with industry-leading value and ROI. Adblade is headquartered in Somerville, NJ with operations in New York, NY. For more information, visit http://www.adblade.com.