Maine Broadcast Television, Print Advertising

Google Radio-Ad Heads Quit

October 5th, 2009 by Mike

The heads of the radio-advertising firm bought by Google Inc. a year ago have left the company as the Internet giant faces skepticism about its efforts to sell ads on radio stations. Google confirmed the departures of Chad Steelberg and Ryan Steelberg, brothers who led the radio-ad firm dMarc Broadcasting Inc. and sold it to Google last year for $102 million, plus the potential for $1.1 billion in performance-based payments tied to revenue and ad-inventory targets.

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I moved to Maine when I was 16 years old. I got my start as a feeder operator on a press. After a side step into the dying art of letterpress printing (which I quite enjoyed), I moved into film-based prepress. Building on that experience I then jumped head-first into digital prepress. I came on board at Spire Express in 2000, staying quite busy for some time doing imagesetting. Now here I am on the other side of yet another transition (away from silver-based imaging), working to stay on my toes with new technologies and media. When I'm not working, I enjoy playing the fiddle and banjo. Portland is a great town in which to work and play music.

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