-- Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making…

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New Virgin Radio owner Absolute Radio will use Bauer Performance digital director Chris Lawson to fill the hole created by the loss of Andy Gumbridge from its equivalent position last…

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Here’s to embargoes, arrangements and accidents. As predicted, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers is to be crowned director of the unit, according to Guardian.co.uk. Or is…

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Online secondary tickets marketplace Seatwave has made a high-profile appointment to its board. News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Europe’s chairman Marty Pompadur is joining as a non-executive director, and is likely…

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Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Joost’s NYC-based EVP of content, has quit the company to become executive director of Peter Gabriel’s Witness human rights organization. Schooled in law, Alberdingkthijm had long held posts,…

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-- Virgin Radio: Virgin Radio, soon to be renamed after SMG sold it to Times of India group’s Absolute Radio, is losing its digital media director Andy Gumbridge as part…

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-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…

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Mippin, a London-based service that repackages web content for mobile handsets, has appointed Judy Gibbons, the Accel VC partner who funded the company, as its CEO. Formed in October out…

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Associated Northcliffe Digital’s MD Andy Hart has left DMGT’s online unit abruptly after six years, ahead of another upcoming restructure. An Associated Newspapers statement (via Hold The Front Page) read:…

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Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead… -- Sky Media: The broadcaster’s ad sales…

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Just four months after she joined video sharer Dailymotion as its first UK MD, Kate Burns is joining Bebo on August 4 in a new position as European VP and…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) Worldwide’s head of new media Martin Blakstad is quitting “to pursue other interests”, the broadcaster told us, confirming C21’s report. ITV has now lost two of its…

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-- EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music…

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Perhaps some dedicated online magic can rescue troubled Yell.com operator Yell Group from its precipitous fall. It’s hired LA car marketer Autobytel’s chief product officer Mark Canon to its new…

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Trader Media Group, the AutoTrader publisher of which Guardian Media Group sold a 49 percent stake last year, has appointed former Sky online products and services director Dominic Collins to…

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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…

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Lesley Mackenzie, the former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) channels and operations director who was launch CEO of VOD JV Kangaroo for a brief while, has now been appointed CEO of NetTV24/7,…

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Forty years after founding the company, Apprentice lynchpin Sir Alan Sugar is stepping down as chairman of his Amstrad company after completing the task of selling it to BSkyB (NYSE:…

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Young Birmingham Post reporter Joanna Geary’s enthusiasm for threading Twitter and blogs in to the fabric of the newsroom has earned her a promotion to a new position of development…

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Daily Mail General Trust (LSE: DMGT) has lured Thomson Reuters’ (NASDAQ: TRIN) investment and advisory president Suresh Kavan to become the new CEO of its DMG Information (DMGI) B2B info…

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-- CastUp: Samuel Pescara, southern Europe sales manager for Herzlia, Israel-based IPTV hardware maker Optibase, is leaving after six years to become vice president of sales for Castup, the Tel…

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Former BBC light entertainment head Michael Leggo has become TV director for NetPlay TV Broadcasting, which operates interactive roulette and bingo games converged across TV and the web. Currently programming…

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Less than a month after naming Brendan Condon international head for its Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) network of ad firms, AOL is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle that…

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-- BBC: BBC marketing director Tim Davie is being tapped to replace Heritage-Lottery Fund-bound Jenny Abramski as director of Audio & Music, in a move that reflects the BBC’s desire…

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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…

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