Tribune Media Doubles Down on Mobile Interactive Content with Jebbit Expansion

Boston, MA (August 16, 2016) — Jebbit, the leading mobile interactive content platform, announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Tribune Media (NYSE: TRCO), starting with the media company’s Cleveland market. Previously, Jebbit and Tribune partnered to create interactive mobile, video, and native digital solutions for PIX11, Tribune’s New York City affiliate.

Tribune Media uses Jebbit’s platform to create engaging, mobile interactive content solutions as part of its digital product offering to advertisers. The expansion to other markets reflects the success that the PI X11 team in New York City has had selling interactive mobile solutions.

“Jebbit’s platform lets us add a layer of interactivity to our digital solutions,” said Tom Donoghue, Tribune’s Director of Digital Local Sales. “The technology helps differentiate our digital offering, allows us to give better data back to our clients, and will help us acquire new business.”

The Fox8 team in Cleveland has already signed six new customers in the first few weeks of the partnership.

“We’re excited to expand our work with Tribune Media,” Jebbit President and Co-Founder Jonathan Lacoste said. “Mobile interactive content helps media companies like Tribune win new business and upsell their existing clients, and we’re looking forward to working with the Fox8 team in Cleveland.”

Jebbit’s platform enables marketers and digital sales teams to create branded, personalized experiences to engage, profile, and convert any audience. It helps media companies drive revenue by providing interactive mobile content solutions as part of their digital offerings.

Jebbit‘s platform enables marketers and digital sales teams to create branded, personalized mobile experiences to engage, profile, and convert any audience. Jebbit helps media companies drive revenue by providing interactive mobile content solutions as part of their digital offerings. Jebbit helps brands increase conversions while capturing user-provided data that ultimately boosts lifetime value. Jebbit was named one of the Top 25 Most Promising Companies in the World by CNBC and its cofounders are Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees. To learn more about how interactive mobile content can grow your business or digital revenue and how partners like Tribune Media, Mazda, and The Boston Globe use it, visit www.jebbit.com.

Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO) is home to a diverse portfolio of television and digital properties driven by quality news, entertainment and sports programming. Tribune Media is comprised of Tribune Broadcasting’s 42 owned or operated local television stations reaching approximately 50 million households, national entertainment cable network WGN America, whose reach is approaching 80 million households, Tribune Studios, and Gracenote, one of the world’s leading sources of TV and music metadata powering electronic program guides in televisions, automobiles and mobile devices. Tribune Media also includes Chicago’s WGN-AM and the national multicast networks Antenna TV and THIS TV. Additionally, the Company owns and manages a significant number of real estate properties across the U.S. and holds other strategic investments in media. For more information, please visit www.tribunemedia.com.

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