Industry Moves

Industry Moves: Arts Alliance’s Valkin Is Endemol’s New Digital Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 02:31 AM PST

Adam Valkin, a partner in Arts Alliance and an online media veteran, is leaving the VC house after nine years to join Endemol as its global head of digital media…

Industry Moves: Verisign CEO Roper Resigns; Bidzos Is Interim Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:27 PM PST

Verisign, which has pared down the company over the last year, has seen another CEO change: William Roper, who had been president and CEO for a bit more than a…

Industry Moves: Skype; AOL; NBCU - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:50 AM PST

-- Skype: Skype has tapped former Motorola exec Scott Durchslag as its COO, a new post reporting to recently appointed president Josh Silverman. Durchslag brings 20 years of experience from…

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Corrected: Starz Reorgs Management; Digital Consolidated Under Bill Myers - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2008 10:25 AM PST

Ed. Note: The following post has been corrected to more accurately reflect the report structure. We regret the error. Starz, the cable TV network owned by Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA),…

Industry Moves: AOL; Facebook; Smalltown; NaturalPath - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 30 Jun 2008 04:34 PM PST

-- AOL: The Time Warner unit is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle emphasizing the ad operation over AOL UK’s publishing side. AOL UK MD Michael Steckler is…

Industry Moves: NBC Universal Promotes Zigler President, Digital Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:41 AM PST

Vivi Zigler is being promoted to president, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) Digital Entertainment. The change is meant to reflect the added responsibilities she’s accrued under her previous title, EVP, NBC…

Updated: CBS’s New New Interactive Unit: Quincy As CEO; Ashe As President; More Changes - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:34 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced a reorg of its interactive unit, after completing the big acquisition deal of CNET: the newly expanded and integrated CBS Interactive division will have Quincy…

Google’s CFO Search: Why’d It Take So Long? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 27 Jun 2008 05:37 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ended its 10-month CFO hunt with the hiring of Bell Canada exec Daniel Pichette. Throughout the long executive search, there were persistent questions about its length. Until…

Industry Moves: WB; Rotten Tomatoes; IAB; ESPN; MSN UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- WB: Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes has been promoted to SVP-business and legal affairs for the company’s Digital Distribution division. In her new capacity she will provide counsel on acquisition, distribution…

Interview: Yahoo’s Schneider And Moore On Reorg: ‘The Changes Are Larger Than Any One Individual’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 26 Jun 2008 01:22 PM PST

(with David Kaplan) Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) new U.S. head Hilary Schneider and her new direct report Scott Moore spent some time on the phone with paidContent this afternoon in full…

Yahoo’s Reorg: How Long Was It In The Works? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 12:36 PM PST

We’ll learn more about how the just-announced Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reorg all went down, but at this point we have to wonder about the timing. President Sue Decker said in…

Yahoo’s Latest Reorg Is Official: Three New Teams Reporting To Decker With Schneider Heading U.S. - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:55 AM PST

As had been anticipated, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced yet another reorganization. In a move designed to “leverage”, “accelerate”, “monetize” and “enhance” (all Jerry Yang’s words), the company is centralizing…

Industry Moves: James Murdoch New President Of Sky Italia - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 26 Jun 2008 07:25 AM PST

More official powers for News Corp (NYSE: NWS) scion James Murdoch… after gaining hold of operations in Europe and Asia last December, he has been named the president of Sky…

Industry Moves: CondeNet; Microsoft; Charter; Technorati; Disney-ABC - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 25 Jun 2008 02:52 PM PST

-- CondeNet: After three years in the role of CFO at CondeNet CondeNast, Debi Chirichella has been upped to the new post of COO for CondeNet. The company also promoted…

Industry Moves: Google Imports New CFO Pichette From Bell Canada - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 25 Jun 2008 01:11 PM PST

When George Reyes announced plans last August to resign as CFO of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), his replacement was expected by the end of 2007. But the search just officially left…

RealNetworks Does a Reorg; New Operating Structure and Exec Promotions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jun 2008 04:28 PM PST

RealNetworks, which is in the process of spinning out its games unit, has done a long-due reorg of its business structure and promoted three senior executives. -- John Giamatteo has…

AT&T Creates CDN Unit; What About Acquisitions? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:45 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) is getting serious about getting into the CDN business to compete with the likes of Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) and Limelight and has created a new group. AT&T…

Industry Moves: Meredith; Dow Jones; NYT; Dailymotion; Invision - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:37 PM PST

-- *Meredith* Corp.: Meredith (NYSE: MDP) has named Tom Harty chief revenue officer for the publishing group, according to AP. Formerly a magazine publishing exec, he will continue to oversee…

Industry Moves: Downie To Leave Washington Post As New Publisher Continues Makeover - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 23 Jun 2008 03:13 PM PST

Despite protests to the contrary earlier this year, Leonard Downie Jr. is stepping down as executive editor Sept. 8 for a successor to be selected by still-new publisher Katharine Weymouth.…

Industry Moves: USA Today Shakes Up Ad Sales, Brings In Money Mag’s Wilson; Webber Retains Web Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 20 Jun 2008 08:25 AM PST

Former Money Magazine publisher Brett Wilson, has been hired by USA Today to run the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) unit’s ad sales. Wilson replaces Jeff Webber as SVP, ad sales. Webber…

Vish Makhijani Becoming CEO of Yandex Labs, Not Yandex; Company Buys Online Traffic Info Firm - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 09:14 PM PST

Earlier today we had reports that Vish Makhijani, the SVP and GM of Search at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), was leaving to join as the CEO of Yandex, the big Russian…

More on Yahoo’s Major Reorg; Could Centralize Product Groups - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 06:08 PM PST

While the plans for the major Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reorg are fluid, some more details are leaking out, including that the company may centralize its crazy amount of product groups,…

Industry Moves: Changes At FIM’s Scout: SVP Patrick Crumb Leaves For Liberty Media; Husvar New GM - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 03:24 PM PST

Patrick Crumb, the SVP at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), and GM of sports site network Scout Media, which FIM bought in 2005, has left the company, and is joining…

Industry Moves: Revenue Science; Tribune; Generate; Metacafe; Glam Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 19 Jun 2008 12:49 PM PST

-- Revenue Science: Jeff Hirsh has taken on the position of CEO in addition to his current role as president, replacing Bill Gossman, who will remain on the board. Hirsch…

Updated: Yahoo’s Exit Door Blown Open: Garlinghouse, Makhijani, Lu Leaving; Reorg Plans Still Fluid - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:56 AM PST

Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) senior management exodus is picking up steam by the minute: next to go is Brad Garlinghouse, the head of Yahoo’s communications and communities group—and author of the…