BrightLine CEO Nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year in 9th Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business

2012 Stevie Award Winners to Be Announced in New York on November 9

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jacqueline Corbelli, founder and CEO of BrightLine, the leading provider of interactive television solutions for entertainment and advertising, has been named a finalist in the 9th Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. These international Awards honor the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run.

“I’m honored to be recognized as one of this year’s top women entrepreneurs.”

The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards and are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards and International Business Awards.

More than 1,200 entries were submitted this year for consideration in more than 90 categories, including Executive of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Women Helping Women, and Communications Campaign of the Year. Ms. Corbelli is a Finalist in the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year category in the Advertising Business Services sector.

"This recognition is a tribute to our deep commitment at BrightLine to building a world-class company of innovators that are not just helping advertisers jump the curve in digital and TV ad effectiveness, but enhancing consumers' television experience in the process,” said Jacqueline Corbelli, co-founder and CEO, BrightLine, “I’m honored to be recognized as one of this year’s top women entrepreneurs.”

Finalists were chosen by more than 130 business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging. More than 90 members of the five final judging committees will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging.

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the complete list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Women.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

About BrightLine

BrightLine is the leading global provider of interactive television solutions for entertainment and advertising. BrightLine creates and implements interactive television advertising strategies that inspire consumers to engage. BrightLine solutions transform passive 30-second commercials into dynamic, customer-driven brand interactions that result in superior viewer involvement. The company's In-Television® product suite consistently leads to increased consumer engagement, brand recall, purchase intent and sales.

BrightLine has become the industry standard with its data-driven approach that currently delivers interactive television advertising campaigns to over 90 million households. The company’s platform agnostic solutions are launched across all available television platforms, including cable and satellite television providers, telecom companies, gaming consoles, connected televisions, smartphones and tablets such as the Apple iPad. BrightLine’s active distribution channels include, but are not limited to: DirecTV, Dish, Xbox Live, PlayStation 3, Cablevision, AT&T U-verse, Verizon FiOS, LG and Samsung SmartTVs, as well as IOS and Android mobile phones and tablets.

Clients value BrightLine’s unique proprietary IQ® data system, which aggregates consumer behavior trends and measures historical program results across all platforms to create intelligent, integrated, interactive advertising solutions. BrightLine has designed and executed over 500 interactive television programs for top marketers including American Express, Cisco Systems, Inc., Jim Beam Global, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, L’Oreal, Unilever and Verizon Wireless.To learn more about how BrightLine is revolutionizing television advertising, please visit www.brightline.tv.