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Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 30 Jul 2008 07:17 AM PST
Elle publisher Hachette Filipacchi has given acting digital director Anna Jones the role permanently, but has combined it with her previous head of marketing role - the same thing Absolute…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 28 Jul 2008 04:36 AM PST
Peter Barron, editor of the BBC’s flagship Newsnight current affairs show, is leaving to become Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) communications and policy head in north-west Europe, Guardian.co.uk reports. Four years trying…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 25 Jul 2008 01:50 AM PST
-- Endemol: German interactive TV channel 9Live‘s international MD is leaving to become MD of Endemol’s German unit. Marcus Wolter founded Seegang Music and Seegang Media, as well as Viva,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Jul 2008 09:47 AM PST
-- Vibrant: Vibrant Media, ad ad company responsible for those double-underlined in-line text ads, has hired Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Advertising’s Jonathan Baron to be its new international sales VP and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jul 2008 04:00 PM PST
Bauer Media is to start buying in video to run across its network of magazine websites. It’s hired Blinkx’s content acquisition director Marco Nadotti to a newly created position of…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jul 2008 09:04 AM PST
Caroline Little, who till earlier this year was the CEO of Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s online division and left, has now joined Guardian News & Media (GNM), the UK-based…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jul 2008 01:10 AM PST
-- SonyBMG: Another SonyBMG senior digital appointment, and another from the mobile space, right on the heels of ex-Vodafoner Graeme Ferguson’s addition as UK digital SVP - former Fox Mobile…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Jul 2008 01:06 AM PST
-- Dow Jones: Former Incisive Media MD Tony Gibson is joining DJ as its European consumer media deputy MD, MediaWeek says. He’ll be charged with pulling in revenue across all…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Jul 2008 04:59 AM PST
Another music label staffing up digitally at the top, this time with a mobile track record. SonyBMG UK is hiring mobile media software maker Picsel‘s global content MD Graeme Ferguson…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 02:48 AM PST
As we and several others forecast back in April, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers has just been confirmed in the director post, replacing Ashley Highfield on…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jul 2008 03:13 AM PST
High street newsagent John Menzies is taking Sarah Clegg, commercial director of digital magazine distributor Zinio, to be the new MD of its digital division. There’s plenty of synergy here…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jul 2008 05:34 AM PST
-- Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 03:56 AM PST
New Virgin Radio owner Absolute Radio will use Bauer Performance digital director Chris Lawson to fill the hole created by the loss of Andy Gumbridge from its equivalent position last…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PST
Here’s to embargoes, arrangements and accidents. As predicted, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers is to be crowned director of the unit, according to Guardian.co.uk. Or is…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jul 2008 04:14 AM PST
Online secondary tickets marketplace Seatwave has made a high-profile appointment to its board. News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Europe’s chairman Marty Pompadur is joining as a non-executive director, and is likely…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 11:08 AM PST
Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Joost’s NYC-based EVP of content, has quit the company to become executive director of Peter Gabriel’s Witness human rights organization. Schooled in law, Alberdingkthijm had long held posts,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 02:10 AM PST
-- Virgin Radio: Virgin Radio, soon to be renamed after SMG sold it to Times of India group’s Absolute Radio, is losing its digital media director Andy Gumbridge as part…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 04:10 AM PST
-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 01:37 AM PST
Mippin, a London-based service that repackages web content for mobile handsets, has appointed Judy Gibbons, the Accel VC partner who funded the company, as its CEO. Formed in October out…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 07:52 AM PST
Associated Northcliffe Digital’s MD Andy Hart has left DMGT’s online unit abruptly after six years, ahead of another upcoming restructure. An Associated Newspapers statement (via Hold The Front Page) read:…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:40 AM PST
Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead… -- Sky Media: The broadcaster’s ad sales…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:02 AM PST
Just four months after she joined video sharer Dailymotion as its first UK MD, Kate Burns is joining Bebo on August 4 in a new position as European VP and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:49 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) Worldwide’s head of new media Martin Blakstad is quitting “to pursue other interests”, the broadcaster told us, confirming C21’s report. ITV has now lost two of its…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:35 AM PST
-- EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 01:51 AM PST
Perhaps some dedicated online magic can rescue troubled Yell.com operator Yell Group from its precipitous fall. It’s hired LA car marketer Autobytel‘s chief product officer Mark Canon to its new…
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