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Exclusive: Yahoo's Top Ad Money-Maker Bradford Leaving for New Job at Demand Media

in News on March 15, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

According to several sources, Yahoo’s SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford is planning on leaving the Internet giant to take a new position as Chief Revenue Officer of online content upstart Demand Media. The surprise move is sure to have reverberations throughout the online advertising arena, but more so at Yahoo, where Bradford’s job encompasses a wide range of key revenue-generating duties. She has also been tapped as one of the execs to play a key role in the recently approved search and online ad partnership with Microsoft.

Spot Runner's CEO Nick Grouf Speaks!

in News on July 31, 2008 at 10:05 am PT

On one of my many trips to Los Angeles (what can I say? I like to hang where LoRo* hangs), I dropped in to see Nick Grouf of Spot Runner. As many might know, Spot Runner is an online-offline ad agency play that has gotten big funding and even bigger hype of late. Usually, BoomTown runs screaming from such Web 2.0 dandies, but there is definitely some there there at Spot Runner.