Updated: Mark Ellis is leaving AOL (NYSE: AOL) to join Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to run North American sales, paidContent has heard from multiple sources. The news was broken by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, who noted that Ellis previously worked with Yahoo’s current U.S. ad sales head Wayne Powers when the latter…

As it looks to repeat its ad sales successes from 2010, The Huffington Post is adding a dozen ad sales people to its roster. In an interview with paidContent, Greg Coleman, president and chief revenue officer, declined to go into sales figures, but did confirm that the company did reach…

A year after the Big Three car makers looked like they could wind up as just the Big Two, auto ad spending has recovered somewhat, and General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are expected to shift more dollars to online. Huffington Post president and chief revenue officer Greg Coleman is sensing…

While layoffs continue to occur elsewhere in the media world, The Huffington Post keeps on hiring. The online news aggregator has followed through on plans to build up its sales force with four new execs. The additions are part of a set of efforts being put into place by HuffPo…

The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust: the September numbers for *comScore* and Nielsen showed Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post beating WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors for the first time. Coincidentally, just…

Greg Coleman, the former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) sales exec who was ousted from the top spot at AOL’s *Platform-A* by CEO Tim Armstrong, has a new gig lined up: president of Huffington Post, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports. The company confirmed his hire, adding that he will also take on the…

As Tim Armstrong completed his first official day as AOL’s new CEO by outlining his 100 day plan, Platform-A President Greg Coleman is continuing to put the pieces in place at his unit. In a memo obtained by paidContent, Coleman informed staffers that five-year AOL vet Mark Ellis has been…

About a week before Google’s Tim Armstrong takes over as head of AOL (NYSE: TWX), Platform-A President Greg Coleman has implemented the second phase of his reworking of the advertising unit. Last month, Coleman issued some major changes at the top of Platform-A’s ad sales teams. This latest realignment digs…

This is the week of reorgs… Platform-A’s recently installed president, Greg Coleman, has informed his troops of big changes in ad sales. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher has Coleman’s memo, which says that Mike Peralta is out as SVP, North America Sales, Global Accounts, along with Don Kennedy, SVP, ad sales, who…

For the most part, in conversations I’ve had with executives at the AlwaysOn NYC media conference this week, incoming Platform-A president Greg Coleman got high marks for “strategic thinking” and for the extensive relationships he’s established with advertisers over the years. Coleman, Yahoo’s former EVP-Global Sales, replaces AOL vet Lynda…

Less than a year after she stepped in for Curt Viebranz as president of AOL’s Platform-A (NYSE: TWX), Lynda Clarizio is being replaced by former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ad exec Greg Coleman, AllThingsD reported and paidContent has confirmed. The move apparently occurred suddenly, just within the past week, Kara Swisher…

Greg Coleman, who officially departed Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) last month as EVP of Global Sales, has landed a position as president and CEO of NetSeer, a startup focused on search and ad targeting. NetSeer credits Coleman with helping Yahoo grow its revenues from $600 million to more than $6 billion…