Mobile video service Vuclip on Wednesday announced raising $13 million in a series D round led by SingTel Inov8, the Singapore telecom giant’s venture capital arm, and including prior investors NEA and Jafco Ventures. That brings the company’s total raised to date to $27 million. Vuclip, based in Milpitas, Calif., says it delivers more than 22 million mobile videos a day to an audience of 45 million unique users globally. It powers mobile video for wireless operators such as Vodafone and Airtel as well as content providers such as the Associated Press and UTV.  On the advertising side, Vuclip offers …

Not only will Viacom's MTV that will be seeing big programming changes soon, but now sister network Nickelodeon is ending a major series. The kids network's "iCarly" is ending its five-year-old run later this month on November 23 with a special hour-long series ender. Nickelodeon says the live-action series currently ranks as the network's number-one show with kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 -- this, according to Nielsen. Still, the series won't go away -- at least on digital platforms:  iCarly.com will feature a brand-new game, "The Epic iCarly Game," as well as …

McCann World Group revenues were down as much as 25% under the tenure of just-ousted CEO Nick Brien according to Adweek. The magazine also reported that Brien was "surprised and angry" when informed yesterday that he was out. He must not read the Wall Street Journal, which reported last week he'd likely out the door by the end of the year. And while Adweek reports he doesn't have a new job lined up, his landing will be cushioned by a $4.2 million contract buy-out.

Mobile location ad company JiWire has named former AT&T executive Michael Fordyce as its new CEO. He succeeds David Staas, who has served as JiWire’s interim president and CEO since March. Fordyce most recently served as SVP, business development, publisher products, and strategic partnership management at YP Holdings (formerly known as AT&T Interactive). During his tenure, digital revenue at YP grew to almost $1 billion. Prior to working at YP, Fordyce led national advertiser sales, business development, and partnership management for Ingenio, leading up to its 2007 acquisition by AT&T. His background also includes management positions at telecom and …

Social games company Zynga today announced several management changes today following a series of high-level executive departures in recent months. Mark Vranesh, chief accounting officer, was promoted to chief financial officer, and David Ko, previously Zynga’s mobile chief, was named chief operating officer. Vranesh succeeds David Wehner, who is leaving Zynga to take a senior finance position at Facebook. Barry Cottle, who had led business and corporate development, was appointed chief revenue officer, while Steven Chiang, formerly VP of games, was named president of games. The executive shuffle comes about two weeks after Zynga reported a third-quarter loss of …

Social data platform DataSift on Tuesday announced raising $15 million in a Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners and including Northgate Capital and Daher Capital. Launched last year, the startup allows companies to aggregate and analyze historical social data from Twitter, Facebook and other social properties to gain insights on brands, businesses, financial markets and public opinion. "We have the world's best infrastructure in real-time, as well as historical processing of social data, and through our Series B funding, we now have the ability to take that infrastructure to the next level," said Nick Halstead, DataSift founder …

Only around one in five Web users say they notice the AdChoices icon, which is aimed at telling consumers about online behavioral advertising, according to research slated to be unveiled today by the University of Pennsylvania's Joe Turow.

A major change at MTV's most senior programming post:  David Janollari is moving on, and Lifetime and WB veteran Susanne Daniels is coming aboard. Daniels will have the title of president of programming of MTV; Janollari had been head of programming of MTV. After three years on the job Janollari decided not to renew his contract, according to the company. At Lifetime, Daniels was responsible for bringing on "Army Wives" and "Drop Dead Diva." Before that at the WB television network she was responsible for shows including "Gilmore Girls,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Dawson’s …

Starcom MediaVest Group has formed a partnership with ad customization platform Flite to power advertising that lets clients create and update ad content on the fly. Flite’s technology allows advertisers to see which types of ad content—text, photos, video or photo galleries—is working best and make changes accordingly during a campaign. “This new partnership truly enables brands to realize the promise of ‘brands as publishers,’ which has been often talked about but rarely realized,” says Lisa Weinstein, president, global digital, data and analytics at SMG. She added that the move signaled the agency’s further expansion into “native” advertising on behalf …

Swrve, which makes a mobile app optimization platform, has raised $6.25 million in new financing from Atlantic Bridge Partners and Intel Capital. The San Francisco-based company said it will use the funding to ramp up sales, marketing and engineering operations and expand its customer base. Swrve’s system is aimed at helping app and game developers improve install and monetization rates by running sophisticated A/B testing scenarios on the fly. It also provides analytics and audience targeting tools. Along with its optimization platform, Swrve today introduced an integrated campaign tracker, allowing game developers to measure campaign performance and return on investment …