-- Newsweek: The *Washington Post Co*. mag has named Pamela Raley, a former online ad sales exec at Hearst, *Disney* and Revolution Health, to the new post of chief revenue officer. Raley will be responsible for overseeing all ad revenue and the magazine's ad sales teams, but her main...
After a wave of speculation as to where she would land after resigning as president and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) in June, Susan Lyne has been named CEO of Gilt Groupe, an online retailer of discounted luxury items. The e-commerce site is open to customers...
-- Federated Media: Former *CNET* exec Keith Bencher has signed on as SVP-strategy and development, where in this capacity he will manage partnerships and expand the company into new businesses. Bencher previously headed up strategy and development and *CNET*'s games, entertainment and lifestyles business unit, having earlier managed corporate...
-- Glam Media: Scott Schiller has been promoted to the new position of EVP of global marketing, where he will lead the U.S. women's ad sales team and report directly to CEO Samir Arora. With over 20 years of ad and sales management experience, Schiller worked at Disney (NYSE:...
According to multiple reports coming out of China, the CEO of MySpace China, Luo Chuan, has resigned, following differences with the company about the strategic direction. Luo was the former CEO of MSN in China, and joined MySpace in 2006. The company released the first test version of MySpace.cn...
Bill Day, the co-founder and former CEO of About.com, has been tapped to head video ad net ScanScout, Adweek reported. Day moves over from local online media and ad firm Marchex, who hired him in Aug. 2007 to lead its consumer-facing media business as chief media officer. Before that,...
Janet Scardino, the former Reuters Media EVP who joined TheKnot in October last year as CMO, has left after 11 months, and joined Simon Fuller's company 19 Entertainment as President of Commercial, responsible for all of their global commercial enterprises. Scardino will be tasked with "building relationships with major...
-- Media6°: *NYTCo* and About.com exec Andrew Pancer has been hired as Media6's COO. In January, he had moved from About.com as COO to NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) to help with digital development initiatives and M&A activities. Release.-- Jobvite: Jobvite has appointed Tim Lambert to lead sales and business development...
Clearwire's (NSDQ: CLWR) CEO Ben Wolff sent out an email today, announcing who he will recommend for the top senior positions of the New Clearwire when the merger closes with Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's WiMax division, according to a document filed with the SEC. The appointments are a mix...
After a decade at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Lisa Utzschneider is leaving her post as GM, sales, for the Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions group, to join and build up Amazon.com's (NSDQ: AMZN) ad business, NYP reported, citing emails by unidentified sources discussing her exit. Amazon, which hasn't made any...
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has appointed SK Telecom's Richard Chin and Sungwon Suh to its board following the acquisition of Helio and SK Telecom's investment in the company. -- Chin is President of SK Telecom Americas, a U.S. subsidiary of SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM). In this role, he...
NPR has finally found a new digital head, after Maria Thomas left in April. Kinsey Wilson, the executive editor of USA Today and previously the editor of USAToday.com has left the paper and joined NPR as its digital head, according to the internal memo posted on Romenesko. Wilson had...
Ad-supported free mobile network Blyk has appointed Carat Belgium's MD Eric Samson as its CEO in the country, as it gears up to launch there. The MVNO running on Orange will open there in the first half of 2009; launches in Holland, Spain and Germany are also planned.Blyk targets...
-- Venrock-eMusic CEO: Outgoing eMusic CEO David Pakman is joining the venerated VC firm Venrock as a Partner in New York City, where he will be part of the recently enhanced Digital Media team led by David Siminoff in Palo Alto. He announced his departure from the online music...
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) vet Yusuf Mehdi will lead much of the company's online services, including marketing, business development, product management for MSN, and search, according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. However, CEO Steve Ballmer has yet to appoint an overall replacement for Kevin Johnson, who left his post as...
The search for MySpace Music CEO just got a bit more competitive: The longtime CEO of online music service eMusic David Pakman is leaving, and joining an as-yet-un-named venture capital firm. The company, owned by Dimensional Associates, the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, has retained a search...
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is reorganizing the Connected Life division with the intention of actually making money. The reorganization, announced internally today at an all-hands meeting, includes a management shuffle and the new goal of contributing to Yahoo's bottom line by 2009, according to an email we obtained. The email...
That didn't last long. Veteran online ad exec Joanne Bradford is on the move again, leaving Spot Runner for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to be SVP-U.S. revenue and market development reporting to Hilary Schneider, EVP, Yahoo U.S. In that role, new for Yahoo, Bradford will oversee sales, market development for...
Supermarket telco Tesco Telecoms has promoted its marketing director Lance Batchelor to be CEO, encompassing its Tesco Mobile MVNO, internet access, VoIP, mobile sales and more. The supermarket giant reckons it could turn a sub-£400 million ($705 million) annual profit in to £1 billion ($1.7 billion) and recently rebranded...
-- Disney/ABC-TV: The broadcast and cable unit has added three execs to its digital team? Karin Timpone and Lauren DeVillier are joining from *Yahoo*. Timpone will serve as SVP, marketing and product strategy for the Digital Media team, while DeVillier will serve as VP, digital media at the *Disney*...
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