Industry News for Digital: People Moves
Reader’s Digest ad director Flora MacMillan leaves after 22 years
Reader’s Digest’s UK advertising director Flora MacMillan is one of nine staff to be made redundant at the publisher since the company’s slide into administration last month. MacMillan had been working at the original pocket-sized title since 1988. The administrators for Reader’s Digest are in talks with potential buyers, understood to include the Budworth family, the owners of 125-year-old title The Lady. The Lady’s owners refused... [Read More...]
Sky appoints Glen Matchett to lead Sky Movies marketing
Former UKTV marketer Glenn Matchett has been appointed head of movies marketing at Sky, replacing Paul Gilshan who joined The Times in January. In his new role, Matchett will have responsibility for the marketing of Sky’s film proposition, including Sky Movies and Sky Box Office. He will manage relationships with relevant media and creative agencies, and all above and below-the-line activity. Matchett will report to Naomi Gibney, director of marketing... [Read More...]
AAR appoints Agency Republic’s Marshall as head of digital
AAR, which builds relationships between clients and marketing services agencies, has appointed Agency Republic’s Gavin Marshall as head of digital. He replaces Juliet Blackburn, who left AAR in December to join Skype as director of consumer marketing after almost nine years at AAR. Marshall will be responsible for advising clients on which digital agencies best match their needs. He joins from Agency Republic where he was marketing director.... [Read More...]
R/GA hires Sam Dallyn as art director
Digital agency R/GA London has hired Sam Dallyn as art director to head its Nike account. Dallyn joins R/GA following a three-year spell as art director at website development agency Blast Radius. He will report to R/GA London’s executive creative director James Temple and design director Lucio Rufo. The new art director will lead the London office’s Nike account, liaising with R/GA’s New York-based Nike team. Dallyn has previously... [Read More...]
Adconion boosts UK team
Online ad network Adconion has expanded its UK business, making five new hires as part of plans to boost its global headcount by 50 per cent this year. The network, which last year acquired online video service Joost, has appointed Walker Media’s Esther Tobie as billing specialist. It has also hired three delivery executives: Helen Quaid, who was a campaign manager at TMP Worldwide; Louise Edrupt, previously in the business data analysis department... [Read More...]
DraftFCB appoints Alistair Ross as head of ideas
DraftFCB has appointed VCCP’s Alistair Ross to the newly created role of head of ideas. Ross will be responsible for helping to devise ideas across the agency’s range of accounts, and then applying the thoughts to the relevant channels. He will report to Mark Fiddes, the executive creative director of DraftFCB, who joined the agency in January last year. During his time at VCCP, Ross held the role of integrated creative director, working... [Read More...]
Edelman hires BBC news chief to create content for clients
PR firm Edelman has appointed Richard Sambrook, the BBC’s director of global news, to a global role designed to help clients create and shape content. Sambrook, who has spent 30 years at the BBC, will join the independent PR firm as its first global vice chairman and chief content officer in May. He will be based in London and will help Edelman clients, which include Heineken, Nike and Unilever, produce words, video and audio content. Sambrook... [Read More...]
Van Natta exits MySpace after less than a year
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta is leaving the social network less than a year after joining. Former Facebook executive Van Natta was brought in last April to replace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson as part of a shake up which saw the company shed over a third of its workforce. However, just ten months later he is to leave the company, with MySpace saying the decision was mutual. A MySpace statement read, “Owen took on an incredible challenge... [Read More...]
IDS hands digital controller role to Steven McHenry
IDS has appointed Steven McHenry as a digital controller within its digital sales team. McHenry has worked at IDS since 2003 on the TV portfolio, but has helped generate revenues across all platforms as IDS digital platform has grown. Reporting to Stuart Flint, director of digital, McHenry will be responsible for sales across IDS’ digital portfolio which includes Virginmedia.com, UKTV and VMtv’s digital portfolios and The Online Video... [Read More...]
Alison Jones quits Debenhams for Arcadia
Alison Jones, marketing director at department store-chain Debenhams is leaving the company to take a marketing position at the Arcadia Group. Jones, the daughter of David Jones, the former chairman of Next and JJB Sports will take the position of group marketing director at Arcadia where she will oversee marketing plans surrounding the integration of its retail brands into the BHS chain. Jones was promoted to the role of marketing director at... [Read More...]