Blinkx expands ad sales team

by John Reynolds, Media Week 07-Oct-08, 14:35

LONDON - Blinkx, the video search engine, has made a number of appointments to its ad sales team as it looks to expand its operation.

Former Telegraph Media Group and Channel 4 commercial executive Simon Voysey joins Blinkx as sales manager. He will be joined by Alexis James in another sales manager role.

James worked previously as UKTV’s commercial development manager, where he managed the external sales team. Before that, he worked at ITV as part of the launch sales team working on ITV.com.

In its overseas operations, Blinkx has hired Franc Gomez, who previously worked on brands such as the History Channel and National Geographic, as director of advertising sales.

Federico Grosso, senior vice-president of business development at Blinkx, said the appointments would allow the company to take advantage of the growing video advertising market.