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rumpeter Takes One to Know One Digital Daily New iMacs May Include Bag of Hurt Option Digital Daily Analyst Reports that Verizon Snubbed Palm Off Base Digital Daily Perhaps by Devices Like the Pre Verizon CEO Meant the iPhone News analysis and opinion about the digital revolution Home Kara Swisher Walt Mossberg Digital Daily MediaMemo Voices Video D Jobs MediaMemo by Peter Kafka The MediaMemo FeedFollow Peter on Twitter AOL More Org Chart Shuffles Coming So Are Ad Dollars But Mum on Microsoft by Peter Kafka Posted on September 21 2009 at 8 15 AM PT Print Sharevar obj SHARETHIS addEntry title AOL More Org Chart Shuffles Coming So Are Ad Dollars But Mum on Microsoft url http mediamemo allthingsd com 20090921 aol more org chart shuffles coming so are ad dollars but mum on microsoft button false var elem document getElementById share 11130 11575000 1254055236 obj attachButton elem It rsquo s Advertising Week in New York Which way that for the next few days ad sellers will be meeting greeting and buttering up ad buyers in hopes of prying some of their dollars free Just like every week in New York One difference for the likes of me Big ad sellers are making themselves very usable to the press This morning for instance AOL sent out CEO Tim Armstrong sales boss Jeff Levick sales deputy Erin Clift and Acirc nbsp content boss Bill Wilson to poke at eggs and cut a plate of bagels and lox Oh and they talked too The big message was that they rsquo re still in the work of overhauling the Internet giant on behalf of Time Warner TWX which brought in Armstrong from Google GOOG earlier this class and says it still plans on spinning off the company by the end of 2009 Afterward I got a brief interview along with PaidContent rsquo s David Armstrong with the AOL chief The video is at the tail of the post and you may want to go up your speakers to try it But the takeaways are AOL is even look for a main marketing officer The search is in the ldquo early stages rdquo Do you love anyone Internet experience is not a prerequisite More org chart moves like the one that saw COO Kim Partoll pushed out last week are coming They rsquo ll be part of the national review process Armstrong has dubbed ldquo Project Everest rdquo which should be accomplished by the end of the year So are layoffs See above Internet ad dollars are first to run out again ndash or if they rsquo re not flowing Armstrong thinks they will be as big marketers like Procter amp Gamble PG make permanent shifts in their advertising mixes Armstrong professes to be surprised by a report last week that he had met with Yusuf Mehdi who runs Bing and MSN for Microsoft MSFT ldquo I know Yusuf I rsquo ve known him personally for years So if I saw him I would be happy but hellip rdquo Print Sharevar obj SHARETHIS addEntry title AOL More Org Chart Shuffles Coming So Are Ad Dollars But Mum on Microsoft url http mediamemo allthingsd com 20090921 aol more org chart shuffles coming so are ad dollars but mum on microsoft button false var elem document getElementById share 11130 12762300 1254055236 obj attachButton elem 1 Comment Tagged Google Internet MediaMemo Microsoft Peter Kafka advertising digital media search video ad Advertising Week AOL Bill Wilson Bing buyers chief marketing officer David Armstrong Erin Clift industry moves feature Jeff Levick Kim Partoll layoffs MSN New York org chart PaidContent Procter amp Gamble Project Everest sellers Tim Armstrong Time Warner Yusuf Mehdi permalink Follow Peter on Twitter Follow AllThingsD on Twitter Sphere Inline search http mediamemo allthingsd com 20090921 aol more org chart shuffles coming so are ad dollars but mum on microsoft Comments Wait a minute AOL still exists Posted by Dave Barnes at September 21st 2009 at 9 34 am Add a Comment You must be logged in to place a comment Sign up here or log in below Comments posted on this place must be signed with your full real name Please see our Comments policy for details Username Password Remember 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