The Meet Group Adds Industry Executive to Lead Video Platform as a Service (vPaaS) Business
January 06 2020 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions, today announced that Blake
Barrett Kuhre has joined the Company as Senior Vice President of
Corporate Development. In this new role, Kuhre will lead
development for the Company’s vPaaS solutions business and general
corporate development efforts, with responsibility for identifying
and executing new partner opportunities to drive revenue and
earnings growth. Additionally, he will contribute to expanding the
Company’s video talent recruitment processes and will pursue
industry opportunities to further strengthen the Company’s
leadership position in social and dating safety.
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The Meet Group, Inc. announced that Blake
Barrett Kuhre has joined the Company as Senior Vice President of
Corporate Development. (Photo: Business Wire)
“vPaaS is one of our most compelling growth initiatives and we
believe that we are at the forefront of bringing live video to new
partners across the mobile landscape,” said Geoff Cook, Chief
Executive Officer of The Meet Group. “We are pleased to welcome
Blake to our team. We expect his expertise in driving new revenue
in live video will contribute to our objective of expanding our
vPaaS business and realizing the next level of growth for The Meet
Group."
Kuhre joins The Meet Group having served as Head of Global
Partnerships at LiveMe, a leading livestreaming platform, where his
responsibilities included global strategic partnerships, corporate
development and trust and safety management. Prior to working at
LiveMe, Kuhre held various leadership roles including in Viewer
Experience and Product Launch at Hulu and a decade of experience
with On-Air Programming at The Walt Disney Company.
About The Meet Group
The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions designed to meet the universal
need for human connection. Our ecosystem of livestreaming apps
enables users around the world to interact through one-to-many
livestreaming broadcasts and text-based conversations. Our top
apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, Tagged® and Growlr®, deliver live
interactions and meaningful connections to millions of users daily.
Headquartered in New Hope, PA, we have offices in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. The Meet Group is committed to
safety. You can find a description of current safety practices
here: https://www.themeetgroup.com/safety-practices/. For more
information, visit themeetgroup.com, and follow us on Facebook,
Twitter or LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including whether we will identify and execute
new partner opportunities that drive revenue and earnings growth,
whether we will expand our video talent recruitment process,
whether we will pursue industry opportunities to further strengthen
our leadership position in social and dating safety as expected,
whether we will bring live video to new partners across the mobile
landscape as expected, whether we will expand our vPaaS business
and realize the next level of growth for The Meet Group as
expected. All statements other than statements of historical facts
contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words
“believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,”
“should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,”
“outlook,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they
relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our
current expectations and projections about future events and
financial trends that we believe may affect our financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial
needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that
our applications will not function easily or otherwise as
anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features
and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events
affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile
operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that
degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected
issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices.
Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC
on March 8, 2019 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
quarters ended March 31, 2019, June 30, 2019, and September 30,
2019 filed with the SEC on May 9, 2019, July 31, 2019, and November
8, 2019, respectively. Any forward-looking statement made by us
herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or
events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge
from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of
them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by
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