• by Richard Whitman , Columnist, May 27, 2015

Media planning software provider Telmar has named former Arbitron, Simmons, Traffic Audit Bureau and TNS exec Anna Fountas to the position of President of the Americas. Fountas will lead Telmar’s sales and client service organization in the U.S., Canada and South America to further expand usage of its core media planning system as well as applications for emerging media and data integration. 

On joining Telmar, Fountas said: “Media planning software is more important than ever. Every day advertisers get more options, complexity, data and urgency to contend with. Advertising depends utterly on targeting, and targeting relies increasingly on data synthesis. Nothing performs like Telmar. I’m excited to have the opportunity to extend Telmar’s lead in performance and move the advertising business forward by increasing the number of planners with real-time capability.”

Over the years, Fountas has introduced media research standards and advanced the state of the art for providers as well as associations. As president of the Traffic Audit Bureau, Fountas helped modernize the out-of-home measurement system. As president for syndicated studies at Simmons, she helped create the strategy for Hispanic measurement services. Earlier, as svp/sales and marketing/advertiser/agency services at Arbitron, she led the team that developed the first PC-based ad expenditure application for advertising data. She also ran sales and marketing for the TNS AdScope service, research for the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association (DPAA), and media information services for ad agency Campbell-Ewald.

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