POMPANO BEACH, Fla. and NEWARK, Del., Dec. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — O2 Media™, the leader in branded entertainment and a fully integrated broadcast media production company announced today that it has acquired the health and fitness e-retailer InboxFitness.com.

The capital infusion underscores O2 Media’s investment in strengthening and expanding InboxFitness.com’s growth which will enhance O2 Media’s ability to accelerate their e-commerce expansion across their TV shows which are typically women-centric, and expand their reach to the male audience with new programs and distribution channels.

InboxFitness.com is a fast-growing e-commerce business focused on health and fitness. The e-retailer offers over 3,000 products from more than 200 brands including healthy foods, nutritional supplements, exercise equipment as well as content and resources for workout plans, recipes and more.

O2 Media’s four award-winning and long-running branded entertainment shows The Balancing Act, Designing Spaces™, Mission Makeover, and All Mixed Up™ currently air on Lifetime and are also seen in U.S. syndication markets. Access Health, the fifth show on its roster, launched November 26, 2014.

“InboxFitness.com is a great fit for us as we take the next step in expanding our reach into the health and wellness market with our television programming and now e-commerce capabilities. InboxFitness.com provides another platform that will engage audiences and provide solutions to help both men and women achieve their fitness goals,” said Thomas Deters, President and CEO, O2 Media.

According to InboxFitness.com Founder and CEO Vincent Scalisi, “We’re excited to team up with O2 Media and cross promote their shows, open up new audience segments, and help them serve their viewers and advertisers by connecting people with products they’ll love.”

This acquisition also reunites Scalisi and Deters who were previously both top executives at Weider Publications Inc., and who helped position that company for sale to American Media Inc. for $350 million in 2003. Both executives also helmed Weider’s flagship publication, Muscle & Fitness as Editor-in-Chief, in successive tenures that spanned almost 20 years of that magazine’s history.

About O2 Media™
O2 Media is the leader in branded entertainment, creating and producing more than 2,000 episodes airing across their four award-winning shows The Balancing Act, Designing Spaces™, Mission Makeover, and All Mixed Up™ currently airing on Lifetime Television and U.S. syndication markets, and launched its new series Access Health this fall. O2 Media™ has collaborated with over 2,900 global and national brands, including Forbes top 500 companies that have come to shoot in the company’s state-of-the-art production and development studios in South Florida. This has allowed O2 Media™ the unique opportunity to produce successful shows and test brand concepts for Marketers.
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About Inbox Fitness
Inbox Fitness is a flash-sale e-retailer of health and fitness products, including nutritional supplements, exercise equipment, fitness apparel and accessories, healthy home and kitchen items, and a variety of organic and natural nutrition products.

Inbox Fitness is the first flash-sale/event-sale retailer in the $124 billion U.S. health and fitness market, and in less than a year has amassed a range of nearly 3000 unique products from over 200 top national brands. www.inboxfitness.com

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