Boca Raton, FL, December 2, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bright Mountain Media, Inc. (OTCQB: BMTM), a digital media holding company whose primary focus is connecting brands and advertisers with consumers as a full advertising services company, announced today that it has closed the previously announced merger with News Distribution Network, Inc. (NDN).

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, NDN provides data-driven technology solutions for the syndication and monetization of contextually relevant, personalized premium video content. NDN seeks to solve the industry’s supply challenge for premium video by creating new video streams and impression opportunities across the most desirable online publishing destinations in the United States. NDN has aggregated a digital audience which provides ad buyers with near certainty in reaching target demographics.

Kip Speyer, Chairman and CEO of Bright Mountain Media, reiterated that, “NDN provides Bright Mountain with a product-to-market process which reaches from Digital Ad Buyers to the most desirable publications, across a wide variety of content categories. The NDN model is the optimal platform for Bright Mountain to add additional capability with planned acquisitions in the near future”. Greg Peters, Founder and CEO of NDN, stated “The NDN team is looking forward to expanding our value proposition with Bright Mountain. In combination with Bright Mountain, NDN will offer a stronger solution for ad buyers and publishers which provide greater ROI and profitability for our partners.” Greg Peters has become President and COO of Bright Mountain Media, Inc. effective with the closing of the NDN merger.

ABOUT BRIGHT MOUNTAIN MEDIA

Bright Mountain Media, Inc. (BMTM) is a digital media holding company whose primary focus is connecting brands with consumers as a full advertising services platform. Bright Mountain Media’s assets include the Bright Mountain Media ad network, NDN, S&W Media, an ad exchange platform, and 24 websites (owned and/or managed) that provide content and services.

About NDN

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, NDN provides data-driven technology solutions for the syndication and monetization of contextually relevant, personalized premium video content. NDN is the surviving entity resulting from the execution by Inform, Inc. of a corporate inversion which separated ongoing activities from activities associated with certain debts and legal claims pursued by Inform against Google, Inc. NDN seeks to solve the industry’s supply challenge for premium video by creating new video streams and impression opportunities across the most desirable online publishing destinations in the United States. NDN has aggregated a digital audience which provides ad buyers with near certainty in reaching target demographics. NDN is a leading data-driven technology solution for the syndication and monetization of contextually relevant, personalized premium video content. NDN solves the industry’s supply challenge for premium video by creating hundreds of millions of new video streams and impression opportunities across the most desirable online publishing destinations in the United States. NDN’s code has been embedded in 4,700 premium newspaper, news media, magazine, television and radio sites, allowing the Company unique insight into the intersection of how a user is consuming and engaging in a page, video content and advertising.

Additional information about Bright Mountain Media can be found at: https://www.brightmountainmedia.com/
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