BSkyB has appointed former Burger King executive Andy Brent as its group brand marketing director. Brent will report to BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch and “The Sky brand is a critical factor in our growth,” Darroch said. “Its strength has allowed us to reach out to new customers and to enter new product categories and […]

ITV Worldwide, the broadcaster's overseas commercial arm, is appointing former Roo sales director Jason Binks as head of digital and new media. ITV Worldwide says

Glen Sakata, who successfully led Harmonic’s EMEA reorganization for the past two years, has been named Vice President of Sales for the Americas, with responsibility for North America broadcast, satellite and telco sales, as well as Latin America sales across all market segments. In addition, Jim Marino was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales […]

Ashley Mackenzie says the company will aggregate videos and the rights to commercially exploit them, then syndicate them to what he says is a growing appetite for web video amongst small- and medium-sized destinations, like magazine websites. The focus is on short-form clips and MyVideoRights will handle all the video encoding chores on behalf of […]

The Paris-based company said its net loss for the quarter ended June 30 was E1.1 billion, compared with E586 million a year earlier.

Rose, a French-American national, was formerly president of Alcatel-Lucent's Europe, Asia and Africa business and a member of the telecoms equipment-maker's executive committee.