OVEDA BROWN has been promoted to national accounts manager for Advertising Marketing Services at Arbitron Inc. This appointment comes after 16 months as an advertiser training specialist at Arbitron's Chicago office.

SUSAN D. WHITING, a 23-year veteran of Nielsen Media Research, has been promoted from president and chief operating officer to president and chief executive officer. She had been president and COO since May.

MICHELLE LAVERTY has been named Vice President/ Associate Director of Research with Continental Television Sales (CTS) in New York. She had been at Continental Television Sales as Associate Director of Research.

Hodgson/Meyers has added two people to its staff and promoted one: ANTHONY PAI was hired as new media manager, and JOHN KENNEDY, as new business specialist. ELKE HOFFMAN was promoted to account executive.

JEFFREY CHAU has been named account manager at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and myBusiness magazines, in the New York ad/sales headquarters. Previously, Chau was financial account manager at Worth Magazine.

The following promotions within the Adweek Magazines group were announced: WRIGHT FERGUSON, JR. has been promoted from vice president and publisher of Adweek to senior vice president of sales of the Adweek Magazines group. AMI BROPHY has been promoted from publisher of Brandweek and Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine to vice president and publisher of Adweek. CHARLOTTE ERWIN has been promoted to publisher of Brandweek and Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine. Formerly, Erwin was associate publisher of Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine and western region sales director for Adweek Magazines. LINDA D'ADAMO has been promoted from New York regional sales director of Adweek …

EDWARD J. SPIEGEL has been appointed to Digital Impact’s board of directors. Spiegel is a veteran of the direct marketing industry with over 40 years of leadership experience.

DANNY OH has been named Group Media Director at i-traffic's New York office (an AGENCY.COM company). Prior to working at i-traffic Oh was a Research Analyst at Organic Media and a Media Planner at DDB Needham.

GERRY KIERNAN has been named account manager at Smithsonian magazine. Previously, Kiernan was regional sales manager at The Industry Standard.

MITCH BISHOP has joined TightLink Corporation the as the vice president of marketing. He had been vice president of corporate communications at Scopus Technology Inc.