Medialink Opens San Francisco Office; Holly A. Hartz Joins as General Manager

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Medialink Worldwide Incorporated (Nasdaq: MDLK), the global leader in communicating corporate news to the public via television and radio newscasts, has opened a regional sales office in San Francisco. This sales office, which opened on Oct. 1, becomes Medialink's seventh regional sales office in the United States. The office address is: One Maritime Plaza, Suite 1670, San Francisco, CA 94111.

Holly A. Hartz, former executive in two prominent Silicon Valley interactive software companies, has joined Medialink as General Manager of this new sales office. Ms. Hartz is a well-established senior manager with a diverse background in marketing, including twelve years' experience in television and radio, and eight years in the interactive entertainment industry in Northern California. Ms. Hartz will be responsible for sales operations for Medialink clients throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

"It is important for Medialink to establish a presence wherever there is a need for the comprehensive communications services we provide," said Laurence Moskowitz, President and CEO, Medialink. "The San Francisco Bureau is evidence both of the importance of the Northwest as a business center and of our firm's continued growth throughout the world."

Most recently, Holly Hartz was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBYT), where she was responsible for domestic product publicity, corporate media relations and supervision of the company's outside investor relations agency. Before that, she served as Director of Public Relations for Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS), one of the world's leading interactive software publishers. During her five-year tenure there, she helped shape the direction of the public relations effort during EA's growth from a $65 million company to a $311 million company.

Prior to that, Ms. Hartz was Director of Corporate Communications at KQED Inc., Public Television and Radio in San Francisco and has held positions as varied as Advertising Manager at PacTel Communications Systems, Director of Information Services for KCBS Newsradio, and On-Air Audience Manager at both KPIX-TV in San Francisco and WJZ-TV in Baltimore.

"I know that Holly's professionalism, enthusiasm and intimate knowledge of the marketplace will be instrumental in successfully establishing Medialink's San Francisco presence," said Bonnie Nijst, Vice President, Western Region, Medialink. "Her experience in television, communications and the high-tech world -- Northern California's most defining industry -- makes Holly valuable to clients as both a consultant and a partner for success."

Medialink is the world leader in providing video and audio production and satellite distribution services to thousands of television and radio stations for corporations and other organizations seeking to communicate their news to the public. Medialink also provides corporate consultation and production through its Medialink Corporate Television division. In addition to broadcast media services, the company also provides press release distribution services as well as tracking and analysis of print and broadcast news coverage to help its more than 1,200 clients understand how they are perceived in the media, including the Internet, and to gauge the effectiveness of their public relations efforts.

Medialink, founded in 1986, is based in New York and maintains offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Norwalk, CT; international headquarters in London with a regional office in Birmingham, England; and a network of affiliates in more than 17 countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim and Latin America. The New York office can be reached at 212-682-8300 and via the Internet at www.medialink.com .

With the exception of the historical information contained in the release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve various risks and may cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include, but are not limited to, the ability of the Company to grow internally or by acquisition, and to integrate acquired businesses, changing industry and competitive conditions, and other risks outside the control of the Company referred to in the Company's registration statement and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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