Award Winning Sports Anchor Nancy Newman Joins FotoYapp as Official Influencer

NEW YORK, NEW YORK--(Marketwired - Sept. 17, 2014) - Yappn Corp. (OTCQB:YPPN) is pleased to announce that its new worldwide media and social platform, FotoYapp, has begun its rollout program with key Influencers, bringing real-time global storytelling, in 67 languages, to image and video sharing and aggregation. Award winning sports anchor Nancy Newman with the NY Yankees YES Network is among the first major influencers to be able to share their social content on a global scale.

FotoYapp works by providing brands, influencers and consumers with the ability to create their own media content, such as sharing images and 18-second videos, as well as curate media from other users and content to and from major social media platforms, in 67 languages.

Users can also apply tags and descriptions to their posts to pull in the social conversation happening around each social post from a variety of social networks based on the tag words in their own native language regardless of the originating language of the content.

"We are very excited to have Nancy on board as an Official Influencer for FotoYapp. Nancy's professional and visual approach to sports communication will enable fans around the world to consume images, short video and social content in a way not previously possible - instantly in their native language," said David Lucatch, CEO and Founder of Yappn.

Baseball and basketball rank among the top 10 sports globally reaching an estimated 900 million plus fans, according to Topendsports.com, with the NY Yankees ranked at the 4^th most valuable sports franchise globally and the number 1 sports franchise in the US, according to the NY Daily News.

"The future growth of baseball and basketball is linked to its ability to capture a global audience and communicate with them without a time or language barrier," said Nancy Newman. "Yappn and FotoYapp give fans the opportunity to see and read, in real time, and in their native language, content that matters to them and allows them to be part of the action instantly."

Nancy Newman is an award winning sports anchor for the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets pre and post-game shows as well as the Yankees Magazine program, the official magazine show of the New York Yankees. Nancy Newman joined the YES Network in 2003 from CNN. Newman has also reported as a sideline reporter for the network's Ivy League college football package and is now host for The New Era Pinstripe Bowl college football coverage on YES.