New York—January 27, 2010—AudienceScience, a targeting technology company driving digital media success, announced today that it has hired Julie Saxon as Sales Manager in its newly opened Atlanta office. The addition of Saxon to the AudienceScience team and the new Atlanta-based office will further facilitate the company’s expansion in the Eastern U.S. With over ten years of experience in sales and marketing, Saxon will drive revenue growth in this region and will be an integral part of the AudienceScience sales team.
Before joining AudienceScience, Saxon worked as the Southeast Sales Director for MySpace. In this role, she was responsible for the hiring and management of the Southeast region sales team focused on branded advertising to key accounts including Verizon Wireless, Coca-Cola, AT&T and Bank of America. Through her strategic business planning, Saxon was able to increase earned annual revenue at MySpace by 200 percent while building advertising partnerships with major brands and leading agencies across the Southeast.
Prior to MySpace, Saxon was the National Account Director at Yahoo!, where she was in charge of developing strategic relationships with advertising agencies and Fortune 500 clients. She created diverse marketing opportunities within Yahoo! to expand client portfolios and increase the effectiveness of marketing efforts across all accounts. Due to her expertise in account management, Saxon was able to retain and grow Yahoo!’s most critical customer business relationships.
“We’re excited to have someone of Julie’s caliber joining the AudienceScience team,” said Jeff Hirsch, president and CEO of AudienceScience. “Julie has an amazing track record at MySpace and Yahoo!, and we look forward to leveraging her extensive management background to launch the AudienceScience office in Atlanta.”
AudienceScience technology provides a unique gateway enabling universal access to audiences. This integrated audience platform, The Audience Gateway, drives digital marketing success for quality brand advertisers and premier publishers. Accessing 200 billion data insights into 386 million people worldwide, AudienceScience empowers marketers with the intelligence and control to execute effective global campaigns. Since 2003, AudienceScience has delivered over 50,000 targeted campaigns for clients including American Airlines, Financial Times, Gannett, New York Times Digital, Nikkei.com, SKECHERS, and Wall Street Journal Digital. For more information, please visit www.AudienceScience.com/.
Hollis Guerra
blast! PR on behalf of AudienceScience
hollis@blastpr.com
919.757.1174