Phoenix New Media Limited announced that Ms. Ling Jin has tendered her resignation as Chief Marketing Officer of the company in order to devote more time to her family. While Ms. Jin's resignation is effective immediately, she will continue to work with the company until June 30, 2015 to ensure an orderly transition, and will remain as a senior strategic advisor to the company through June 30, 2016. The company also announced that Mr. Andy Jin Xu has been promoted to Senior Vice President of the company, effective immediately.

In his role as SVP, Mr. Xu will be responsible for the advertising sales, marketing and branding activities, and auto channel development of the company and report to Mr. Shuang Liu, Chief Executive Officer of the company. Mr. Xu has over 15 years of professional experience working in the advertising industry. Prior to joining Phoenix New Media as Vice President in 2013, Mr. Xu served as Managing Director of J Walter Thompson, which is owned by the WPP Group, and CEO of LINTAS China.

Mr. Xu is a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Advertising Association, the Vice General Secretary of the Internet Marketing Committee of the Internet Society of China, a researcher of the New Media Marketing Communication CCM Research Center of Peking University, the academic director of the China Campus Marketing Institute (CMI), and a part-time Professor for the College of Creative Culture and Communication at Zhejiang Normal University. Mr. Xu also served as a final judge for more than ten regional Chinese marketing awards.