7 posts and columns on Mark Ellis

Yahoo Reorgs U.S. Ad Sales After Talent Departure (Internal Memo, Natch!)

in Media on January 20 at 1:15 pm PT

I love the smell of reorg in the morning!
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AOL Names Jim Norton as New Head of Sales

in Media on December 9, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Hey kids, it’s a new ad honcho at AOL! Replacing that other guy, who replaced that other guy.
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Memo Time: Yahoo Reorgs Its Ad Staff, As "The Race" Begins

in News on March 9, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

In the wake of the departures of two top ad execs to social buying sites, the hiring of another from AOL and a whole new sales management team in place, it’s got to be time for a reorg at Yahoo! And so it is, just before the company’s annual sales conference takes place.

Actually, AOL's Mark Ellis Is Headed to Yahoo

in News on March 1, 2011 at 3:06 pm PT

As AOL CEO Tim Armstrong works to integrate his $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post into the Internet portal, one of its top advertising leaders is departing for a big job at Yahoo. Mark Ellis will become head of the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s North American field sales, after serving in a wide variety of jobs at AOL and being a key lieutenant to global ad sales head Jeff Levick.
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Another AOL Shuffle, This Time in Ad Sales

in Media on March 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm PT

Another org chart shuffle at AOL following its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post. This one is in sales, where North American ad chief Mark Ellis is out, and several of his deputies will be elevated.

Ellis Gets Sales Promotion at AOL's Platform-A

in News on April 8, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

More moving of the chairs at AOL’s Platform-A. The Time Warner online unit will announce today that Mark Ellis has been promoted to EVP of sales at the advertising division. He will lead Platform-A’s digital ad sales, sources said, including premium efforts at AOL’s MediaGlow content unit and for its third-party ad network. It is all part of extensive management reorganization being done by Platform-A President Greg Coleman, as new CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong started yesterday in his new job of reviving AOL.
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AOL Ad Head Greg Coleman Reorgs Too! (It's Spreading Like the Flu at Web Firms Today)

in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:58 pm PT

Another Web company, another management restructuring! Yahoo reorg fever struck AOL today too, as its advertising head, Greg Coleman (pictured here), moved the exec chairs around his domain at AOL’s Platform-A unit. Coleman–who actually once was Yahoo’s sales head before taking the new gig at the Time Warner online unit earlier this month–is replacing some execs and elevating others. You know the drill!