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AOL Canada & Le Huffington Post Québec Add Four to Quebec Team
<p class='bwalignc'> <i>Success of Le HuffPost Qu</i>é<i>bec and demand for Advertising.com inventory drives expansion in Qu</i>e<i>bec</i> </p>
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
AOL Canada & Le Huffington Post Québec Add Four to Quebec Team08:57 EST Tuesday, December 18, 2012
MONTREAL (Business Wire) -- AOL Canada announces today the following new additions to its Quebec
team, based in Montreal, to drive advertising revenues against the
growth of Le Huffington Post Québec and to capitalize on increasing
demand for French language inventory through its industry leading ad
network, Advertising.com.
Jean-Sébastien Tremblay, Sr Account Executive
Sabrina Antenucci, Account Manager
Christian Duperron, News Editor, Le Huffington Post Québec
Khatir Soltani, Senior Director, Advertising.com Publisher Services
Since launch in February 2012, unique visitors to Le
Huffington Post Québec have grown more than 201%. The sites' highly
unduplicated audience is very engaged, spending close to 15 minutes on
the site per visitor and loyal, visiting close to 5 times per month.
AOL's ad network, Advertising.com, is the second largest network in the
country and reaches more than 24 million Canadians or more than 86% of
online Canadians each month*.
Jean-Sébastien Tremblay, named senior account executive, was previously
at Evolve Media Canada as the Director of Sales & French Publishers
Business Development and at Canoe (Quebecor Media), Astral Media Inc.
and Météomédia.com. Tremblay will be responsible for selling Le
Huffington Post Québec, AOL Canada and Advertising.com display, premium
formats and video inventory across three screens, desktop, tablet and
mobile.
Sabrina Antenucci has taken the role as account manager, overseeing
campaign delivery and client relations. Antenucci has extensive
experience in the industry from the agency, publisher and network sides,
applying her vast array of strategic and operational skills to delight
clients in every way possible. She has held previous roles at Gorilla
Nation, Yellow Pages Group, Sympatico and Media Experts. She has built
solid relationships with our agency partners in Quebec and will be a
valuable member of the sales organization during this great time of
growth.
To enhance the suite of original reporting, day-to-day management and
news coverage, Le Huffington Post Québec welcomes Christian Duperron in
the role of news editor. With a vast knowledge of online news sites from
senior positions at Metro Montreal including: interactive director,
managing editor and editor-in-chief, Metro Montreal; Christian's strong
sense of original reporting, social and digital media will further
support AOL and The Huffington Post's mission to inform, entertain and
connect advertisers, consumers and publishers online.
Lastly, Khatir Soltani joins AOL Canada as senior director, Publisher
Services and will be responsible for driving the growth of new publisher
relationships for Advertising.com in the Quebec market. Soltani was
previously at Rogers Digital Media and has over 10 years of market
development expertise in Quebec, having built a strong network of French
partners and millions of unduplicated unique visitors and impressions
per month. Soltani has held senior positions at Networldmedia and BV!
Media.
Said Graham Moysey, general manager, AOL Canada, “Quebec is an important
part of the country for us and we are committed to delivering quality
content experiences to Quebecers and French speaking Canadians as well
as top tier advertising solutions and service to our Quebec based
clients. We are thrilled to welcome these latest additions to our team.”
Le Huffington Post Québec was the first regional edition of The
Huffington Post Canada, launched in February 2012. AOL has since also
launched regional editions, The Huffington Post British Columbia and The
Huffington Post Alberta. The Huffington Post reaches over 4.2 million
Canadians monthly and is Canada's largest national news site when
compared to The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post**.
*Source: comScore, Inc., Total Canada, Home and Work, October 2012.**
[E] Huffington Post Global, Oct 2012
About AOL and The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is a part of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) - AOL is a global
media company with the missions to inform, entertain and connect with
consumers, advertisers and publishers worldwide. The AOL brand
encompasses a robust family of brands, products and digital advertising
solutions focusing their efforts on creating original digital content
across their suite of properties. We help brands connect with consumers
online through innovative ad formats, custom digital advertising
solutions, and premium content brands.
AOL Media Inquiries:Kira LeBlanc, 647-291-1598kira.leblanc@teamaol.com
