| New York, NY, April
30, 2007 – TNS Media Intelligence (TNS MI) announced
today that Matthew Sullivan has been named Sales Director, Eastern
Region for AdScope™. A seasoned sales and business development
executive, Sullivan comes to TNS MI from VMS where he held numerous
positions for more than 10 years, including most recently, Senior
Account Manager – Business Development. Other previous positions
include Financial Advisor, PaineWebber, Inc. in Boston, MA, and account
work at McCann-Erickson Worldwide in New York.
Launched in 2006, AdScope is the first all-digital competitive
creative monitoring service which monitors and delivers thousands
of high quality television, radio, print and internet creatives
with occurrence data, and automatically alerts customers when there
is breaking competitive ad activity.
Other executive staff changes at TNS MI in the sales organization
include the promotions of Wendy Newell and Todd Isaacson.
Wendy Newell has been promoted to Vice President, Western Region
Sales and Service, based in Los Angeles. Wendy joined TNS MI in
2004 as Account Executive and became Sales Director, Western Region
for AdScope in 2006. Prior to TNS MI, Wendy was Regional Sales Director,
West Coast at VMS and Regional Sales Manager, West Coast at Burrelle’s.
Also based in the Los Angeles office, Todd Isaacson has been promoted
to Vice President, National Interactive Business Development, in
which he leads TNS MI’s national sales strategy for Interactive.
Since joining TNS MI in 2002, Todd was Vice President, Western Region
Sales. Prior to joining TNS MI, Isaacson spent nearly three years
at Evaliant Services where he began as Director of Sales and rose
to Senior Vice President, Business Development.
“The appointments of Matthew, Wendy and Todd align with TNS
MI’s goals of providing our customers access to leading talent
in the advertising and media industries who understand their business
needs and challenges in today’s multi-faceted, competitive
advertising marketplace,” said Bev Andal, chief operating
officer, TNS MI.
About TNS Media Intelligence
Established in 23 countries with more than 16,000 customers, TNS
Media Intelligence is part of the TNS Group, ranked #2 worldwide
in marketing information. TNS Media Intelligence monitors 3 million
brands worldwide across a multitude of media, including TV, radio,
print, Internet, cinema and outdoor. The company offers a full range
of insights and analyses, including the tracking of advertising
expenditures and advertising creative, as well as news and social
media monitoring and sports sponsorship evaluation.
In the US, TNS Media Intelligence is the leading provider of strategic
advertising intelligence to advertising agencies, advertisers, and
media properties. The company's tracking technologies collect advertising
expenditure and occurrence data, as well as select creative executions,
for more than 2.4 million brands across 20 media in North America.
The U.S. headquarters are in New York City with sales locations
in major markets throughout the United States.
www.tns-mi.com
About TNS
TNS is a global market insight and information group.
Our strategic goal is to be recognized as the global leader in
delivering value-added information and insights that help our clients
to make more effective decisions.
As industry thought leaders, our people deliver innovative thinking
and excellent service to global organizations and local clients
worldwide. We work in partnership with our clients, meeting their
needs for high-quality information, analysis and foresight across
our network of over 70 countries.
We are the world’s foremost provider of custom research and
analysis, combining in-depth industry sector understanding with
world-class expertise in the areas of new product development, segmentation
and positioning research, brand and advertising research and stakeholder
management. We are a major supplier of consumer panel, media intelligence
and internet, TV and radio audience measurement services.
TNS is the sixth sense of business.
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