GERMANTOWN, MD and LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/01/08 -- WeatherBug®, a leadingprovider of live, local weather information for consumers and professionalusers, announced today that Becky Scholten has been promoted from senioraccount executive to director of West Coast advertising sales. Based in LosAngeles, Scholten will also manage the West Coast ad sales team."WeatherBug has a great track record for delivering integrated solutions toits customers and Becky has been instrumental in driving our success withmajor brand name advertisers," said Michael Lombardi, vice president ofadvertising sales and marketing for WeatherBug. "Under her direction, ourWest Coast team will continue to work closely with agencies and clients tocreate powerful programs unique to WeatherBug."
Prior to joining WeatherBug, Scholten worked at Advertising.com. Beforethat, Becky also held positions with Dynamics Direct, CBS Sportsline andThe Walt Disney Internet Group.
As a leading digital property, WeatherBug is consistently ranked as a top10 News and Information site on the Web and a top six Web property overallin terms of average usage per day, according to comScore. Millions ofconsumers trust WeatherBug for live, local weather information, severeweather alerts, precise forecasts and live weather images from its desktop,mobile and Web applications.
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WeatherBug (http://weatherbug.com andhttp://weatherbugprofessional.com) is a trusted source of dynamic weatherinformation enabling people worldwide to make more informed weather-relateddecisions. By combining its proprietary asset -- the world's largest, mostdense network of live weather stations and cameras -- with aggregatedweather data from around the world, the WeatherBug Network delivers highlyprecise weather information and forecasts for the most accurate,neighborhood-level weather available. Millions of consumers andprofessional organizations, including the National Weather Service, rely onWeatherBug to make more informed personal and mission critical decisionswhich safeguard lives, impact communities and improve business operations.WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.(http://www.aws.com)
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