The Advertising Council announced the selection of A.G.LAFLEY, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company, as the recipient of its 50th Annual Public Service Award. Lafley will be presented with the award on November 19, 2003, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

MARGO COBLE has been named Director of Brand Development for PARADE Magazine. Coble joined the company in 2001 as Marketing Development Director and was promoted in September of that year to Director of Marketing/Advertising. Coble came from The Hearst Group, where she was an Associate Marketing Director and Senior Program Development Manager. Also at the magazine, ALLISON WHITE has been named Director of Business Development. White joined PARADE in 2002 as Manager/Planning and Development, where she worked with senior management to develop competitive and long-term business strategies for the magazine. Lastly, LAURA WHISNAND has been named Director of Marketing. Whisnand …

Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles announced the addition of HARVEY MARCO as creative director. Marco will work on the Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and Procter & Gamble accounts. Marco comes to Saatchi & Saatchi from Fallon in Minneapolis. He spent more than 8-years with Fallon, as creative director working on Citibank, Lee Jeans, Jim Beam, Mercury Marine and Ralston Purina accounts.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations announced the addition of JESSICA COURI as manager, advertiser and advertising agency marketing. Couri was most recently with OMD in Chicago, where she acted as media supervisor for Quaker brands including Gatorade and Cap'n Crunch. Prior to OMD, she was a media supervisor for FCB Chicago on Kraft and Quaker Oats accounts.

SendTec has appointed CARMEN ROUSE JADUS as vice president/national sales manager. Jadus is primarily responsible for managing SendTec’s digital advertising sales force, as well as developing and maintaining new advertising clients for the Company’s subsidiaries.

MARC EDWARDS has been named senior vice-president, marketing at Spike TV. Most recently, Edwards was the General Manager for Emerging Media Ventures, a consulting firm providing services to media concerns operating in the new media area. Edwards assisted USA Interactive in the development of e-commerce initiatives to the telecommunications and Sports Media industries. In addition, he established the US Sales and marketing functions for ExtendMedia, Canadian-based interactive TV and Web design firm.

Meredith Corporation announced that BRENDA SAGET DARLING will become Publisher of Traditional Home magazine. Saget Darling most recently held the position of Vice President/Publisher of Conde Nast Publications' House & Garden where she was responsible for sales and marketing of the magazine.

Google has appointed JANE BUTLER to head up their travel category. Butler is responsible for driving the strategy for both advertising sales and product development with travel marketers company-wide. Butler joined Google from LastMinuteTravel, where she led global sales and marketing as president.

WALTER RODRIGUEZ has been named Regional Director Advertising Sales, Sony Pictures Television International. Rodriguez takes on the responsibilities of supervising all on-air advertising sales strategies and initiatives as well as overseeing annual billings for SPTI's wholly owned networks and channel investments in Mexico. Most recently, Rodriguez served as Executive Vice President and Managing Partner of MindShare Mexico.

MARC SMALUHN has been named Senior VP of Sales at ADTECH. Smaluhn assumes worldwide sales responsibilities for the technology provider in online marketing.