Zvents, a local search and advertising network featuring event listings to promote local businesses, today announced that Paul Levine, Vice President of Marketing of AdBrite, has joined Zvents’ board of directors.

“We’re very pleased that Paul has joined our board,” said Ethan Stock, Zvents CEO and co-founder.  “Paul’s considerable experience in local search and local advertising will help us enhance user satisfaction and merchant adoption across the Zvents Media Network.  Paul’s years leading Yahoo!’s local efforts and his current position at AdBrite give him unique insights into search, advertising, and consumer behavior within a local context.”

Zvents is a local search and advertising network of hundreds of web and mobile partners featuring event listings to promote local business. Using unique technology that enables location- and time-based search for businesses and events, Zvents helps millions of people find local businesses and discover things to do.  Thousands of local merchants use Zvents’ free and paid listings products to submit local events and activities, thus promoting their businesses and providing unique and hard-to-find local content to users throughout Zvents.

Zvents connects local businesses with millions of monthly users in diverse categories including music, movies, restaurants, sports, retail shopping, and community.  The company aggregates rich business and event information from web sites, user-contributed content, and 3rd party sources, and integrates high-quality partner editorial content with its search index.  The company is a leader in local search relevance and is the main sponsor of the open-source Hypertable project.

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