Industry Moves: Rubicon Paris, Edelman Digital, IPC Social, FT Brussels
– Project Rubicon: On its seemingly neverending hiring spree, the ad network optimiser is adding former DrivePM/Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) adve… Read more »
Industry Moves: Ogilvy Creative, Rights.tv, Believe MD
– Ogilvy & Mather: WPP’s agency is adding the chief creative officer role to NY-based chief digital creative officer Lars Bastholm’s portfo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Sony Ericsson; SMS GupShup; ChaCha
– *Sony Ericsson*: The joint venture handset maker has promoted Jan Uddenfeldt to the position of CTO, effective July 1, reports WSJ. Udden… Read more »
Industry Moves: Airey For Lovefilm, Google Mobile, Unanimis Restructure
– Lovefilm: Five CEO Dawn Airey is joining the board of the promising DVD and web movie rental service as a non-executive director. Via C21… Read more »
Industry Moves: Player X; Smule; Booyah
– Player X: Co-founder and CEO Tony Pearce is leaving to explore new opportunities. Six months ago he sold the company to Zed Worldwide.
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Industry Moves: Viadeo U.S., Smartclip, 4th Screen Advertising, BBWW
– Viadeo: The Paris-based professional social network aims to hire 50 staff at a San Francisco office it’s opening as part of an attempt to… Read more »
Industry Moves: Skype Marketer, Tom Coates, Guardian.co.uk, Joost
photo: Joi
– Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33′s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN’s Gleeson, AskJeeves Europe, Financial Times
– AskJeeves: The search engine has added Google’s northern and central European marketing analyst Francine Rump as its European operations… Read more »
Industry Moves: Haymarket MD, Associated Newspapers, BBC Newsroom
– Haymarket: In the mag publisher’s ongoing exec rejig, the consumer media unit’s sales director David Prasher (pictured) becomes its MD, f… Read more »
Industry Moves: MySpace; Simulmedia; SmartMoney; Ascent Media; Studio One
– MySpace: Manu Rekhi has been named GM of MySpace (NYSE: NWS) Games and developer platform. Most recently, he oversaw strategy, marketing,… Read more »
Industry Moves: Nexage; PlayPhone; Clearwire; Motally
– Nexage: Ernie Cormier has been appointed CEO and president, taking over for Founder Devkumar Gandi. Cormier has held executive roles at L… Read more »
Industry Moves: Thrillist; About; Liberty; AP; Vevo; DataSphere; Betawave
– Thrillist: Bauer Publishing’s Mark Oltarsh joins Thrillist as chief revenue officer. He previously was VP and group publisher of In Touch… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN EMEA, TradeDoubler, FT Weekend
– ESPN: A blow for the sportscaster’s European ambitions – Lynne Frank, who, as EMEA MD, oversaw the acquisitions of Soccernet, Cricinfo an… Read more »
Industry Moves: Brandwatch, Press Association, Slicethepie
– Brandwatch: The Brighton-based social media monitor has hired Ask Jeeves’ European ops director Bryan Tookey as COO. Via TechCrunch.
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Industry Moves: PopCap; WebVisible; Fox Networks; Fancast; Glam; Seeking Alpha
– PopCap Games: The video game maker hired Frits Habermann as its CTO, reporting to EVP of Studios Ed Allard. Habermann succeeds Brian Fiet… Read more »
Industry Moves: Videoplaza, Glam Media, Accel VC, Telegraph
photo: Spotify Press
– Videoplaza: Ex Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn (pictured) and AdTech chief security officer Nils Winkler are consulting on technology and busines… Read more »
Industry Moves: Criteo, MSN, Rubicon, Steak, Ascent Media
– Criteo: Former AOL (NYSE: AOL) UK MD Michael Steckler is joining French PPC retargeting network Criteo, which lets e-commerce operations… Read more »
Industry Moves: Apple; McGraw-Hill; Cablevision; NewProNet; iVillage; The Orchard; Maxus
– Apple: Tony Fadell, one of the chief architects of the company’s audio strategy, is leaving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for good, Digital Daily re… Read more »
Industry Moves: 3i, TradeDoubler, Syco CEO, Tate, Hoberman
– 3i: The VC firm’s growth capital director Stephen Lowery is leaving to join Frog Capital as a partner, investing in IT, digital media and… Read more »
Industry Moves: Fortune/Money; MomsLikeMe.com; MySpace; Playboy.com; Ancestry
– Fortune/CNNMoney: Jed Hartman is now group publisher of Fortune magazine and CNNMoney, Mediabistro reports. He will work closely with For… Read more »
Industry Moves: PRS Reorg, Babelgum NY, Lonely Planet TV
– PRS For Music: The royalty collector’s broadcast and online MD Andrew Shaw, who renegotiated YouTube’s license, inked Spotify’s deal and… Read more »
Industry Moves: BBC Comms, Bauer Media Sales, VBS.tv’s Bebo Grab
– BBC Comms: A year after joining as Auntie’s head of strategic comms, former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Media PR Sophie Brendel is becoming the B… Read more »
Industry Moves: Zynga; Fairchild; Emmis; E!; Microsoft; FishBowl; Mesa; Publicis Seattle
– Zynga: The FarmVille creator has hired Steven Chiang as president of the development studios, CEO Marc Pincus announced on his blog this… Read more »
Industry Moves: AOL Advertising, Adconion, Ben Hammersley, Ilana Fox
– AOL (NYSE: AOL) Advertising: New AOL Europe head Kate Burns is making two promotions to re-strengthen its advertising business – search m… Read more »
Industry Moves: Google; eAgency; Vibes Media
– Google: XML co-inventor Tim Bray has joined the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android team as developer advocate. He wrote in his blog this morning… Read more »
Industry Moves: Tremor Media; TVGuide.com; NYTCo; AP; Cablevision
– Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOL’s Platform-A (NYS… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: MTVNI Digital SVP, Epiphany, Specific Media
– MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) International: The music broadcaster is expanding the role of its UK, Ireland and Australia and New Zealand SVP… Read more »
