LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC), a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (NASDAQ: LVO), announced today the appointment of Jon Merriman to its Board of Directors.

“We are thrilled to welcome Wall Street veteran Jon Merriman to our board of directors. His track record of finding undervalued, high growth publicly traded and privately held companies make him ideally suited to add significant value to our existing board of directors. We look forward to leveraging his experience and relationships to further scale our business operations, and our Company’s awareness and recognition within the financial and investor community,” said PodcastOne President and Co-Founder, Kit Gray.

Jon Merriman currently serves as Chief Business Officer for B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY), a diversified financial services platform, as well as Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking, with B. Riley Securities, the firm's investment banking arm. In his dual roles with B. Riley, Merriman works closely with public and private corporations across multiple industry groups, private equity investors, law firms and IR firms to create solutions to meet his clients’ needs by leveraging the firm's resources.

Merriman specializes in actively advising high growth public and private companies on complex financing, capital markets related and operational issues and has significant experience working with technology, media and entertainment companies. With over 35 years of experience in the investment banking, brokerage, and trading businesses, he has deep experience helping companies across a broad variety of industries with their strategic growth initiatives and in achieving visibility in the public markets through debt and equity transactions.

“I’m excited to join PodcastOne at such a great inflection point in its growth cycle. Kit and his entrepreneurial team have built an impressive creative and distribution franchise in an enormous and rapidly growing market. I’m particularly impressed with its recent B2B partnerships which have driven its rapidly growing monthly recurring revenues. There couldn’t be a better time to join the team and learn, expand awareness of the PodcastOne opportunity, and help a great team grow the business in every aspect,” said Merriman.

About PodcastOne

PodcastOne (Nasdaq: PODC) is a Los Angeles based podcast network founded in 2012 by Kit Gray and Norm Pattiz providing creators and advertisers with a full 360-degree solution in sales, marketing, public relations, production, and distribution delivering over 2.1 billion downloads per year with a community of 250 of the top podcasters, including Adam Carolla, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jordan Harbinger, LADYGANG, A&E's Cold Case Files and Varnamtown. PodcastOne has built a distribution network reaching over 1 billion listeners a month across all of its own properties, LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Samsung and over 150 shows exclusively available in Tesla vehicles. PodcastOne is also the parent company of LaunchpadOne, an innovative self-serve platform developed to launch, host, distribute and monetize independent user-generated podcasts. For more information, visit PodcastOne.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter at @podcastone. For more investor information, please visit ir.podcastone.com/overview/default.aspx.

About LiveOne
Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO) is an award-winning, creator-first, music, entertainment, and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. LiveOne's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, PodcastOne (Nasdaq: PODC), PPVOne, CPS, LiveXLive, DayOne Music Publishing, Drumify and Splitmind. LiveOne is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Spotify, Samsung, Amazon Fire, Android TV, and through STIRR’s OTT applications. For more information, visit liveone.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter at @liveone. For more investor information, please visit ir.liveone.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
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