Harris Interactive has announced that Michael Saxon has joined the company as Senior Vice President for the Technology, Media & Entertainment and Telecommunications, North America business unit. Most recently, Saxon was Senior Vice President, Brand & Communications at TNS, North America. Prior to that he held executive positions at IAG Research and The Nielsen Company. [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2009
Dentsu America has confirmed that Mike Wilson has left the firm. He was Chief Creative Officer and an executive vice president. Wilson joined the firm in December 2006. No reason was given for his departure. Wilson was previously a group creative director at Ogilvy & Mather. Creative directors Paul Laffy and Bruno Corbo, also previously [...]
Continue reading...29. July 2009
NetSeer has brought on John Mracek as president and CEO, replacing Matthew Hall, who will return to his duties as senior vice president of engineering. Mracek joins from Shopping.com, a subsidiary of eBay, where he was vice president and general manager of the Distributed Commerce Advertising Network. He was previously vice president of Advertiser Product [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2009
Ad agency Deutsch New York has appointed Eve Kornblum and Guy Williams to serve as executive vice presidents and co-directors of broadcast production. They replace Jim Frame, who left the agency in April to start his own consulting firm. Kornblum was previously Deutsch’s executive VP/director of content production. Williams was senior VP/executive producer of broadcast [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2009
Santa Monica, California-based digital media firm Ascent Media Group has announced the addition of two key executives. Douglas Parrish joins as executive vice president of operations, from Utah’s Move Networks, where he was vice president, operations & development. He will oversee Ascent’s core media management systems integration and content distribution services. He was also executive [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
Mike Goldwater, a consultant to Taxi Media, has been brought on board full-time as the firm’s marketing director. He was previously client services director at The Marketing Machine/Orchestra, and group head of creative services at Conrad Advertising. London’s Taxi Media represents over 12,000 taxis in the advertising market in the United Kingdom. It was owned [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2009
Advertising executive Tom Hansen is leaving TM Advertising in Dallas to join skate shoe manufacturer Heelys as CEO. Hansen, who helped turn around the fortunes of TM Advertising as president, is being brought on to aid the struggling Heelys. Hansen created advertising campaigns for clients such as Hallmark, McDonald’s and Miller Brewing. He also headed [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2009
Pittsburgh ad agency GatesmanMarmionDrake is adding Dave Kwasnick as an equity partner and co-creative director. The firm’s new name will be GatesmanMarmionDrake+Dave. No, really. Kwasnick joins from Brunner, where he was creative director/vice president. He also worked at Ketchum Advertising with fellow partner John Gatesman; and Campbell Mithun, BBD&O, DDB and Foot Cone & Belding. [...]
Continue reading...23. July 2009
Digital advertising media agency Mediasmith, which brought on Robert Cleary as Group Media Director earlier this year, has promoted him to Vice President, Media Director. Cleary previously held leadership positions with a variety of advertising and media agencies, such as Gyro International, Grey Interactive and JWT. Cleary will be responsible for all day to day [...]
Continue reading...22. July 2009
Video ad management company Auditude has hired Mike Gaffney as chief revenue officer, responsible for growing its customer base of publishers, content owners, distributors and their advertising partners. Former CRO Brooke Chaffin was promoted to president. Gaffney joins from Yahoo, where he was vice president of business development for the search giant’s publisher network. Previously [...]
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31. July 2009
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