On one of my many trips to Los Angeles (what can I say? I like to hang where LoRo* hangs), I dropped in to see Nick Grouf of Spot Runner.
As many might know, Spot Runner is an online-offline ad agency play that has gotten big funding and even bigger hype of late.
Usually, BoomTown runs screaming from such Web 2.0 dandies, but there is definitely some there there at Spot Runner.
Spot Runner, the online ad agency, delivered yet another Web 2.0 miracle today, raising another $51 million in funding from a diverse group of investors.
Among other services, Spot Runner makes and places low-cost television and radio ads for small businesses and is trying to bridge the gap between the traditional and online ad market.
In this [...]
An interesting move with MSN exec Joanne Bradford heading over to the Internet-based ad agency Spot Runner, which helps companies create ads for radio and television.
She will be executive vice president of National Marketing Services, focused on national advertisers, for the ad-services company. Bradford was a VP and chief media officer of MSN Media Network [...]
If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is serious about finding a true No. 2 to replace outgoing exec Owen Van Natta and more, then BoomTown has certainly at least two cents to add.
So here is our list of ideas, which include a number of women execs, since a list that Facebook has made apparently includes a [...]
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