adweek.comPublished Facebook has appointed one of U.K.advertising’s most high-profile players as the social network’s new head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa: Nicola Mendelsohn, executive chairman of the Karmarama agency and a former president of the U.K.based...
allthingsd.comPublished The Tunigo Spotify app will keep running (there’s also an iPhone app), but presumably Spotify’s new hires will be put to work on Spotify’s main service, which has 24 million users and 6 million paying subscribers.
adweek.comPublished Glamour has hired its first digital art director, a move that underscores its effort to reach the digital natives craved by the fashion brand and its advertisers. Yvonne Lao will oversee product design across Web, mobile and social.
adweek.comPublished The first step, or “sprint” as Mayer called it, centered on talent—those acqui-hires and the Yahoo alumni that accounted for 14 percent of all new hires in Q1. Companies typically open their quarterly earnings calls with the disclaimer that current...
Attrition is about half what it was a year ago.of the hires in the first quarter were “boomerangs,” people who are returning to Yahoo. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (Image: Getty Images via @daylife) Yahoo just reported another uninspiring set of...
Is it important for your hires to be ‘on board’ with the mission? Oxfam America is one of those rare organizations that seems to truly get it. Not only are they trying to do good by helping stamp out (insert your favorite form of injustice here...
Catastrophically bad hires? Some of us know what we’re doing It’s true! You can find internet marketers who know what they’re doing with a simple question: “Do you guarantee your work? If they say yes, flee immediately.
No one knows for sure (or at least Yahoo isn’t publicly saying) what Yahoo plans to do with these acqui-hires, but it appears the portal plans to assemble the mobile homepage. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made of point of prioritizing mobile as...
That investement has included both technology and hires; the firm has built out a Quailty Team with experts from Yahoo and other companies. Not only are banners dull and click-through rates low, but all the technology flooding the industry...
One of our most recent hires in our London office is a fellow maths graduate and I've been enjoying the little discussions and puzzles. Posted by willcritchlow I've been hiding from my natural geekiness recently.