- U.K.-based newspaper website Mail Online has tapped two U.S. digital medai vets to run ad sales and marketing as part of a push to expand its presence in North America. Rich Sutton will oversee advertising as Chief Revenue Officer and Sean O'Neal will head marketing as Global Chief Marketing Officer. Sutton joins from global head of sales at CBS Interactive Music Group. ONeal was president of Vizu.
- U.K.-based newspaper website Mail Online has tapped two U.S. digital medai vets to run ad sales and marketing as part of a push to expand its presence in North America. Rich Sutton will oversee advertising as Chief Revenue Officer and Sean O'Neal will head marketing as Global Chief Marketing Officer. Sutton joins from global head of sales at CBS Interactive Music Group. ONeal was president of Vizu.
- AOL's Advertising.com Group has hired Allie Savarino Kline as CMO. Kline, who reports to Advertising.com CEO Ned Brody, joins from CMO of 33Across.
- Pandora today announced the Internet radio service is now fully live in Australia and New Zealand with the availability of its iOS and Android apps in addition to its Web-based player. The company also hired a local managing director for the countries, Jane Huxley, with more than 20 years experience in digital media. She was most recently head of digital for Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s largest diversified media companies. The localization effort includes creating genre stations on Pandora geared to Australian and New Zealand listeners, with offerings spanning current hits, roots and reggae dub, indigenous, classic pub rock …
- Facebook’s brief experiment with democracy is over. The company closed voting at 3 p.m. EST today on whether users should cast ballots on future changes to privacy and data-collection policies, with 88% of the total of 668,872 people voting opposing changes that would end member voting rights. But since far less than the required 30% of Facebook’s 1 billion users bothered to vote, the social network will go ahead with plans to eliminate user voting on site governance and share users’ information with affiliates such as Instagram, which it acquired this year. A third revision involves tweaking users’ control …
- Facebook has launched the Preferred Marketing Developer Center, a site providing detailed profiles of Facebook ad partners and other tools for running campaigns on the social network. The Center offers profiles of more than 260 Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers (PMDs), including case studies, white papers and local office information. The profile pages also allow marketers to submit RFPs directly to PMDs through an online form. Other resources include simplified specialty lists so users can quickly find firms with the appropriate expertise (e.g., apps, pages), along with lists of Strategic PMDs and Facebook Exchange partners. Facebook created the PMD program …
- Mobile payments provider Bango on Monday turned on its first carrier billing service on Google Play, partnering with Australian wireless carrier Telstra to power payments for subscribers. Bango said in May it had been approached by mobile operators about using the company’s platform to connect their billing systems to the Google Play storefront. Following the launch with Telstra, Bango plans to roll out further operator connections to Google Play in the coming year as Android continues to be the largest mobile operating system. Google Play separately has already teamed with mobile carriers to integrate wireless billing in Germany, France, …
- Out-of-home media ad company adverCar announced today a new campaign that stretches the meaning of "mobile advertising." The campaign is designed for mobile casino game company Koolbit with the tagline "Koolbit wants you!" The "you" is mobile game engineers in the San Francisco area; it is essentially a creative job posting.
- Projecting mobile shipping activity on Thanksgiving would double this year, Digitas rebranded Thanksgiving as “Mobile Thursday.” While the monicker may not stick (let’s hope not), the agency expects the shift toward tablet-centered shopping at home on Thanksgiving will only continue to grow next year. Digitas laid out several other mobile predictions for 2013 in a new blog post featuring contributions from Dave Marsey and Chia Chen, media lead and mobile lead, respectively for Digitas North America, and Warren Midgley, head of user experience for Kitcatt Nohr Digitas. Among their prognostications: lower mobile CPMs will lead to consolidation …
- T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere confirmed the carrier will finally get the iPhone next year, joining the other three major U.S. wireless operators in selling the signature Apple device. The addition of the iPhone will help T-Mobile fill a glaring hole in its device lineup and better compete against its larger rivals for customers. In a prior, vaguer announcement, T-Mobile said only it had agreed with Apple to sell products together in 2013. Speaking at an investor conference in Germany on Thursday, Legere also said the company planned to end subsidies for smartphones, replacing them …
