Brendan Condon, head of overseas ops for AOL’s Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) advertising group, is leaving London after 13 months for a new role - the latest exec change as new CEO Tim Armstrong’s 100-day review nears completion. A UK spokesperson told us: “Brendan is returning to his home base of…

In a surprise move, TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE firm OpenGate Capital, has appointed former Hachette CEO and magazine industry vet Jack Kliger as the interim CEO and senior adviser to the company. This comes as the troubled mag tries to revive itself and the format. This fills…

In a move that may hint at the outlines of a new-look AOL (NYSE: TWX), Bebo’s European VP and MD Kate Burns is moving over to head AOL’s European ad sales ops, just before new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong completes his 100-day company review. AllThingsD already reported in May Bebo…

Former Feedburner CEO and Co-founder Dick Costolo joins the stream of senior level ad exec departures at *Google* within recent months. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bought out Feedburner for $100 million in 2007, and quickly integrated its RSS feed monetization technology into AdSense. (It also aggravated many publishers with bugs and…

Jerry Kern, who took on the role of Playboy (NYSE: PLA) Enterprises’ interim CEO when Christie Hefner said she was leaving the company in December, is relinquishing his seat on the company’s board, Playboy announced. Last month, Kern handed off the CEO title to Scott Flanders, the former head of…

So much for any of the whispers that had Mike Volpi moving to another executive operations role—less than a week after stepping down as CEO of struggling video company Joost, Volpi has surfaced as a partner at venture capital firm Index Ventures. Index was one of the investors in the…

The search for a new CEO for also-ran online video site Dailymotion has ended, as Cédric Tournay (pictured) has agreed to take the reins of the Paris-based site, the company said in an e-mailed announcement. Tournay is the former CEO of European health portal Doctissimo.

Al Gore-backed Current Media enticed multiple ad agencies to tweet for its business in April, but now the attention-grabbing idea has been shelved and the executive behind it is gone—as the digital media company reevaluates whether it even needs an ad agency at all. VP of brand Jordan Kretchmer hatched…

Julius Genachowski started work as the head of the Federal Communications Commission this week and quickly named his key staff. Appointments include litigator and former prosecutor Ed Lazarus as chief of staff, and, from the digital side, Sherrese Smith, most recently VP and general counsel of Washington Post (NYSE: WPO)…

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen (pictured) is leaving the video service, three years after being bought by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), but is staying with the search giant, Peter Kafka confirms. Chen left his CTO position at YouTube last year, and not involved with day-to-day ops anymore. Google says he has moved…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—which reportedly hired two outside firms recently to lead a major rebranding effort—has apparently decided to take some of that work in-house. The company said Tuesday it had hired branding veteran Penny Baldwin to fill the new position of senior vice president of brand management. Kara Swisher of…

In its search for a new CFO, Facebook mentioned only one criteria: public-company experience. And on Monday it announced it had hired an executive who matched that profile in a big way. The company named David Ebersman, the former CFO of publicly traded biotech giant Genentech, as CFO. Ebersman held…

Just a few months after rival *Activision* brought in *Yahoo* vet Dan Rosensweig to head up its Guitar Hero division, comes news that MTV Games has added two new senior execs to its roster to prep for the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band. THQ’s former EVP of publishing Scott…

Almost lost in the news overload: the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s choice of Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission, finally moving with speed after several delays since the March nomination. The confirmations of Genachowski and Republican Robert McDowell, nominated for his first full term, were unanimous consent…

Reid Hoffman, who stepped in the CEO of LinkedIn only six months ago, has stepped down again, and Jeff Weiner, the former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) exec who has been interim president at the company for those six months, is the business social network’s new CEO. Weiner has also joined the…

—Another senior exec departure at FIM: Mike Angus, FIM’s EVP and general counsel, will be taking a new role within News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), according to Kara. Angus’ exit comes on the heels of a major restructuring at FIM, including the exit of CFO Ed McKenna.  —Philip Kaplan, the founder…

After just six months as editor Newsweek.com, Will Tacy is leaving the company, paidContent has learned. A rep for the weekly mag confirmed that Tacy is exiting, but declined to say if this was voluntary. In any case, Tacy’s departure after just a few short months is only going to…

Social gaming startup Playdom has scored its most high-profile new hire yet: EA COO John Pleasants, who’s taking the reins as CEO. Pleasants told us about EA’s interest in social gaming—not to mention his belief in the viability of the industry’s low-cost, high-ROI business model—so it’s not surprising that he’s…

In addition to the 420 layoffs announced today at MySpace, nearly 30 percent of the social network’s U.S. staff, Fox Interactive Media quietly is cutting corporate staff. Unlike MySpace, whose CEO Owen Van Natta was open about the amount, FIM is playing it closer to the vest. Then again, investors…