Last.fm Names F. Scott Woods Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Germany

03.27.2008 -- Last.fm, the online music discovery network owned by the CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS), announced today that F. Scott Woods has been named Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Germany. Woods, who joins Last.fm from Google where he served as Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Northern and Central Europe, will oversee the expansion of the Last.fm presence in Germany, the country with the second largest Last.fm userbase after the U.S.

Woods will help set up a permanent Last.fm office in Hamburg, where he will manage all marketing, advertising sales and business development partnerships inside Germany and Northern Europe, as well as work with Last.fm's established German PR firm on communications opportunities.

Felix Miller, Last.fm co-founder, said: "We're extremely pleased to welcome Scott to the ever-growing Last.fm team. He brings to the company huge experience in digital and online strategy, a wealth of relationships, and an unmatched understanding of the European market. We're serious about creating more and bigger sales and business opportunities in Germany, a country that's always been hugely supportive of the Last.fm enterprise, as we look to increase awareness and grow our traffic across Europe. We're confident that Scott is the perfect person to take control of this, and we're excited to have him on board."

Woods joins Last.fm after four years at Google, where he was responsible for originating, structuring, negotiating and maintaining all strategic relationships with Google's ISP, Portal, Mobile, ecommerce, media and distribution (OEM) partners in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Nordic markets.

The hiring follows a number of high profile German partnerships for Last.fm, which the social music network will consolidate and expand upon through their Hamburg office. These included deals with Spiegel Online and Bild.de, two of the biggest news publications in Europe which integrated Last.fm radio into their Web sites. These allow users of Spiegel Online and Bild.de to listen to customized radio streams from Last.fm's catalogue, the largest licensed free online music catalogue in the world.

Woods joins Last.fm as the most recent of a number of significant hirings for the social music network from companies including Yahoo!, Amazon and Skype.

About Last.fm

Founded in 2002, Last.fm is the largest global free music platform on the Web. Last.fm can offer music fans millions of tracks in every genre for free-on-demand streaming thanks to partnerships with Universal, EMI, Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, independent aggregators The Orchard, CD Baby and IODA, and more than 150,000 independent artists and labels - without the need to sign up or download any software. As well as being able to access tracks for free - a service which has seen Last.fm become the fastest-growing free online music network in the U.S. - music fans can also share their music preferences by linking their media player to the Last.fm database. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs, artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical tastes. Last.fm also supports unsigned artists by offering them an unprecedented Artist Royalty program through which they can earn revenue directly from Last.fm every time their music is streamed. Learn more about Last.fm at last.fm.

About CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company with constituent parts that reach back to the beginnings of the broadcast industry, as well as newer businesses that operate on the leading edge of the media industry. The Company, through its many and varied operations, combines broad reach with well-positioned local businesses, all of which provide it with an extensive distribution network by which it serves audiences and advertisers in all 50 states and key international markets. It has operations in virtually every field of media and entertainment, including broadcast television (CBS and The CW - a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), cable television (Showtime and CBS College Sports Network), local television (CBS Television Stations), television production and syndication (CBS Paramount Network Television and CBS Television Distribution), radio (CBS Radio), advertising on out-of-home media (CBS Outdoor), publishing (Simon & Schuster), interactive media (CBS Interactive), music (CBS Records), licensing and merchandising (CBS Consumer Products), video/DVD (CBS Home Entertainment), in-store media (CBS Outernet) and motion pictures (CBS Films). For more information, log on to cbscorporation.com.

Source: CBS Broadcasting Inc. / CBS Corporation

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