AdMeld announced that it closed an $8 million round of Series B funding led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group.
AdReady announced it is powering Yahoo My Display Ads, a self-serve display ad solution designed to help small and medium-sized businesses easily reach their target audiences on Yahoo and its extended network of partner sites.
Billing Revolution announced a partnership with the non-profit Call2Give Network. Billing Revolution provides Call2Give with a mobile payments platform for donors to give and volunteer through their mobile phones at http://www.call2give.mobi/.
Cellufun appointed Andy Bishop (former VP of mobile entertainment at Sony Pictures Television) as VP of business development.
Collective Media announced that Founder and CEO Joe Apprendi has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in the media category for Metro New York. Collective Media also appointed Jennifer Morgan (former director of operations at The Wonderfactory) as chief marketing officer, and Brian Elliot (former director of Yahoo's automotive category) as director, automotive category.
The Concept Farm appointed Matt Plavoukos (former director of sigital strategy for Colangelo Synergy Marketing) as their digital director.
Connextions Inc. appointed James D. Gilbert as SVP of product development and Todd Baxter as chief operating officer.
Crowd Science appointed Robert Hooven (former VP of sales for comScore) as VP of sales.
DoubleVerify announced that David Bell, former CEO and chairman of the Interpublic Group of Companies, has joined its board of directors.
Epsilon, announced that Purple@Epsilon, their multi-channel marketing agency, has won four New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) Awards.
Facebook appointed David Ebersman (former executive VP and CFO of Genentech) as chief financial officer.
Good Health Advertising, a health and wellness-related ad sales network, has brought Bill Jennings on as CEO. The company also announced that it has closed a $1 million Series A equity round of venture funding with Metamorphic Ventures.
HopStop.com appointed Joe Meyer (former VP and general manager for AOL's Quigo Technologies) as president and CEO.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau's board of directors has elected a new chairman: David J. Moore, chairman & founder of 24/7 Real Media; and vice chairman, Neil Ashe, president of CBS Interactive.
Mobile audience media company JiWire has appointed Lindsey Christofferson as director of marketing.
LinkedIn named Jeff Weiner as CEO and has appointed him to the board of directors.
Marketing Management Analytics released Avista 6.1, the latest version of its hosted decision support software service that will provide more precise ROI measures and greater marketing accountability.
Media Logic launched their new social media product Zeitgeist & Coffee, a protocol-driven social media management solution. A free live online demo is available via Media Logic's website.
MediaVest USA, announced the elevation of James Kiernan, Melissa Paz, Sarah Personette, and Caroline Turner to senior vice president, MediaVest USA; and the elevation of Jennifer Byrnes, Jeff Chalmers, Monica Chen, Drew DeSantis, Kathleen Friel-McCartney, Cristina Marrus, Tecla Palli-Sandler, Sunayana Sarkar, and Dan Stubbs to vice president, MediaVest USA.
Meteor Solutions appointed Taddy Hall (former chief strategy officer for the Advertising Research Foundation) as chief operations officer.
PointRoll, in conjunction with Tribune Media Services, introduced a new online ad format, ChannelFinder -- a platform for delivering interactive promotional content and valuable tune-in information directly to internet users.
Quantcast launched Quantcast Media Program, which provides advertisers with the first scalable way to define target audiences via their own data insights and apply this custom segmentation consistently throughout the buying process.
Quattro Wireless announced that CEO Andrew Miller has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 Award in the Emerging Company category in New England, which recognizes the exceptional leader for a company less than five years old.
Ringleader Digital has partnered with Useful Networks to co-develop a solution to offer wireless location services to customers.
Sequans Communications appointed Craig Miller as VP of marketing and business development.
TBA Global signed Western Union Company, to be its agency of record for the mobile business unit.
Telogis announced the newest global release of GeoBase (version 3.0), which supports real-time navigation for commercial vehicles on both laptops and mobile operating systems.
TheStreet.com, Inc. appointed Rich Broitman as chief accounting officer.
TiVo and Quantcast have partnered to deliver a cross-platform audience analysis solution, for evaluating the correlation between television viewership and online activity.
Travel Ad Network announced that vtravelled.com, Virgin Atlantic's new travel website, and Vayama.com have joined its portfolio of over 200 travel planning sites.
tyBit announced free promo registrations for Keywords inside their Global Keyword Registry. The Global Keyword Registry gives customers who pre-register the ability to purchase a keyword and secure the ad position with no concerns about click fraud.
Virilion appointed Amy Arthur (former VP and general manager at Digitas) as VP of finance.
Visible Technologies announced the latest release of its TruCast social media monitoring and engagement platform, with new functionality that allows users to view the scope and tone of social conversations by country.
1Cast appointed Jack Hallahan (former VP at MobiTV) as VP of global advertising sales.
72andSunny has signed the digital business of CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's hamburger chains.
Editor's note: We list the companies and people alphabetically according to what company hires what person or another company. Our bimonthly column is always looking for announcements, so please email them to mediamotions@imediaconnection.com.
