TACODA hires Christopher Polos as VP of inside advertising sales, plus more interactive industry new hires and partnerships.
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Bazaarvoice had named Michael Osborne VP of sales. Osborne will be responsible for driving Bazaarvoice's sales efforts, with a focus on Bazaarvoice's continued leadership among Top 100 retailers. Osborne joins Bazaarvoice from Coremetrics where, as director of client services, he built executive relationships with the world's largest multichannel retailers and many high-profile travel services, business-to-business, and financial services organizations.
BrightWave Marketing, Inc. announced that Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a premier provider of business process outsourcing and information technology solutions, has signed an agreement with BrightWave Marketing to manage its email marketing programs for the Georgia Health Partnership (GHP) and its Medicaid program.
CCi announced that The UPS Store in Canada, the country's largest franchised retail network of business support services, has selected CCi's Retail Digital Media Solution over competitive offerings to provide dynamic digital video signage at point-of-purchase at select The UPS Store locations across Canada.
ClickShift, an online advertising optimization company, announced the addition of Eddie Smith, Jeff Goodman and John Pacholski to the company's management team. Smith joins as vice president of marketing, Goodman as vice president of sales and Pacholski as vice president of finance.
CNN Ad Sales and The Dominican Republic Tourism Board have renewed and expanded their advertising partnership for CNN networks in Latin America and the United States, to launch The Dominican's new creative campaign. CNN Ad Sales partnered with Turner Network Sales (TNS) to offer the wide-ranging, strategically targeted ad campaign which doubles the client's investment from the previous year.
myGeek, one of the largest keyword-targeted ad networks online, announced that it will be changing the company name to AdOn Network.
Questus, an interactive marketing and research firm, has signed ESSENCE magazine to their rapidly growing client roster of media and communications companies.
TACODA, a provider of behaviorally targeted online advertising solutions, announced today that it has hired VeriSign, Inc.'s Christopher Polos to be vice president, inside advertising sales, a newly created position in the company's New York headquarters.
vMix.com, a website that enables users to create music slide shows from their consumer-generated digital photos and videos, has signed for Winstar Interactive to be its exclusive national ad sales rep.
WebSideStory, Inc., a provider of digital marketing and analytics solutions, announced that Wynn Las Vegas has selected its award-winning web analytics solution, HBX Analytics, to optimize the business performance of its website.