Industry Moves: Screenlife; Giant Realm, Entertainment Weekly, Omniture, News Corp.
This story was written by Alex Ferreyra.
Screenlife Games: Barry Watts has joined the DVD-game company as its CEO. Watts most recently served as president and co-founder of digital entertainment firm Musicandbrands; prior to that he headed up U.K-based music delivery service Startle, plc. Screenlife, a division of Viacom's Paramount Digital Entertainment, develops games like Scene It? that ask viewers questions about movies and TV shows.
Giant Realm, Inc.: The male-centric online media company believes they've found a major piece of the puzzle in selling their wares to advertisers. Tom Koletas is their new VP of Sales after his stint as VP/Managing Director at Imaginova. He'll be in charge of overseeing all advertising sales and marketing initiatives at Giant Relm, which counts 36 million uniques visiting their online communities geared to entertainment and gaming enthusiasts.
Entertainment Weekly: In the entertainment business, you always get a second chanceand that's what EW is giving Ray Chelstowski by making him its new publisher, replacing Scott Donaton. Chelstowski worked for nine years at the title in the sales department before being hired, and subsequently fired, as Rolling Stone's publisher. Before singing on at EW, he had been the publisher of the rich-people-only publication Prestige New York for seven months.
Omniture: The web analytics firm said Tuesday it had hired Yahoo executive Ron Belanger as its vice president of worldwide agency sales. Belanger was most recently the vice president of agency development at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Belanger is the latest executive to leave the Internet giant in recent months. Prior to Yahoo, he was an executive at Carat.
*News Corporation*: It's no secret now that Fox Interactive Media/MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu (Hemu) Nigam has been placed in a broader role at *News Corp*. He's now in charge of making sure all of the company's online properties are secured against the online elements.
By Alex Ferreyra