Next New Networks Names Denise Garcia Head of Advertising Sales

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - April 6, 2009) - Next New Networks, the leading online television company, today announced that Denise Garcia has joined its executive sales team as senior vice president of sales where she will be leading the sales, advertising solutions and ad operations teams and advancing Next New Networks' integrated advertising offerings.

Garcia brings extensive advertising, new media and market research experience to Next New Networks, joining from video advertising network Vibrant Media where she was senior vice president of corporate strategy and research. Prior to Vibrant Media, Garcia served as vice president, Internet equity research at AG Edwards & Sons and Internet analyst at W.R. Hambrecht + Co. Additionally, she specialized in researching advertising innovations and trends as vice president of advertising and media with renowned research firm Gartner Inc.

Before joining Gartner, Garcia developed advertising and sales strategies for International Data Group (IDG) and CMP Media's print and online media properties. She also launched Industry Standard magazine as the publication's first online advertising salesperson and launched Red Herring magazine as part of the print advertising sales team.

"Next New Networks is a true innovator in the online media industry and Denise will be a tremendous creative asset in working with and attracting top brands," said Lance Podell, CEO of Next New Networks. "As more and more advertisers capitalize on the enormous opportunities present in online video, Denise's extensive experience and strategic know-how will lead our sales team in approaching the evolving video advertising market through a fresh, innovative lens."

"This is an extraordinary opportunity to work with an exceptional team to break new ground in innovative and authentic advertising concepts and deliver new levels of online video audience engagement to our advertisers," said Garcia, SVP sales at Next New Networks. "Online video is the most interesting, rapidly evolving and promising facet of the online ad market. Next New Networks is creating remarkable original content and making powerful connections with the most sought-after consumer audiences on the Internet, opening up wonderfully innovative new ways for brands to market online."

Since the beginning of 2009 Next New Networks has launched new networks $99 Music Videos and Barely Digital and signed on top advertisers including Warner Bros. and Verizon FiOS. The company has seen over 200 percent growth in viewer audiences since 2007 with over 300 million views as of the end of 2008.

About Next New Networks

Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online television networks Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web's most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 400 million times.

Hit programming from Next New Networks includes Channel Frederator (home of the popular series "Nite Fite"), Barely Political (the creators of Obama Girl), $99 Music Videos (home to the Web's first original music videos network), TMI Weekly (co-hosted by Web celeb Julia Allison), daily auto news network Fast Lane Daily, DIY filmmaker network Indy Mogul, lifestyle network ThreadBanger, tech comedy network Barely Digital and your one-stop showcase of the cutest pets across the globe, Ultra Kawaii. The company, headquartered in New York, is privately owned, with investors including Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs and Velocity Interactive. For more information, please visit www.nextnewnetworks.com.

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