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Time Inc.’s HelloGiggles Names Jacqueline Vignone VP, National Sales & Marketing

Mar 31, 2016

New York, NY (March 31, 2016)—Time’s Inc.’s HelloGiggles, a mobile and social-first millennial women's brand covering pop culture, relationships, beauty, fashion and other lifestyle categories from a positive point of view, has named Jacqueline Vignone Vice President, National Sales & Marketing, effective immediately. Vignone, former director of sales at CBS Interactive, leads the sales and marketing team and the creation of advertising solutions for clients in this newly created role for the growing company. She reports to Penelope Linge, General Manager.

Based in New York, Vignone manages a team of 15 nationwide. She is responsible for overseeing revenue and growing the HelloGiggles brand while it expands its already established footprint in the female lifestyle space. Since being acquired by Time Inc. in October 2015, HelloGiggles has significantly invested in creating new content for its various platforms, including social and video. In January 2016, HelloGiggles reached a record 18 million unique visitors.* Together with Time Inc.’s People, Entertainment Weekly and People Español brands, HelloGiggles reaches an audience of more than 55 million per month.

“Jackie has tremendous experience creating unique and authentic client partnerships across social, video and editorial. We are thrilled she has joined the HelloGiggles team to lead our sales and marketing efforts,” said Linge. “Jackie's expertise and talent for providing creative turnkey solutions will enhance our partners' ability to reach our highly coveted female millennial audience.” She adds, “I am thrilled to have someone of Jackie’s caliber on board as we continue to expand HelloGiggles’ overall reach and capabilities.”

Prior to serving as director of sales at CBS Interactive, Vignone was a senior account executive at Outrigger Media and public relations manager at Reem Acra, and she handled sales at Crain Communications, Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

*Source: comScore Multi Platform (Total Digital Population [Desktop + Mobile]).


About HelloGiggles

HelloGiggles is a positive online community for women (although men are always welcome!), covering the latest in culture, style, relationships, friendship, careers and issues that matter most to young women’s lives. A platform for writers and artists to create and share, HelloGiggles welcomes reader contributions and publishes them daily. We were founded in 2011 by Zooey Deschanel, Molly McAleer and Sophia Rossi as a place on the Internet to inspire a smile. We’re still trying to do just that. HelloGiggles was acquired by Time Inc. in October 2015.

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Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is one of the world's leading media companies, with a monthly global print audience of over 120 million and worldwide digital properties that attract more than 150 million visitors each month, including over 60 websites. Our influential brands include People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Time, Real Simple and Southern Living, as well as more than 50 diverse titles in the United Kingdom.

 

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