2 posts and columns on Kerry Trainor

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Surprise! Newest AOL Executive Is Not a Google Vet.

in Media on July 7, 2010 at 9:51 am PT

He’s a Yahoo guy instead: Content boss Dave Eun (who is a Google vet) has put Kerry Trainor in charge of AOL’s Entertainment properties. Trainor worked at Yahoo’s entertainment group for eight years before leaving to found FlipGloss, a photo/slideshow start-up that Forbes funded, then eventually bought.

No One Likes Web Ads. What About Web Ads That Look Like Magazine Ads?

in Media on February 19, 2009 at 3:30 am PT

Consumers hate Web ads because they’re boring and annoying. Publishers hate them because they get cheaper every day. A group of Yahoo vets, funded by Forbes, thinks they have a solution: Really nice-looking slideshows.
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