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New Hires

ITV has made several appointments to its sponsorship team. ITV has drafted in Jon Smale as head of sponsorship and interactive from its planning team. It has also appointed Kirsten Gillard, a group head in GCap Media's promotional unit, as sponsorship controller.

Steve Playford has been appointed head of recruitment at the Financial Times. He joins from the Telegraph Media Group where he was head of recruitment.

Kat Burr has been promoted by thelondonpaper to the post of advertising group head and Ed Povey has been appointed sales executive. Burr recently served as advertising entertainment manager, while Povey joins from Spectator magazine.

Blinkx has doubled its ad sales team. Kat Kashefi, an account director for Euroclick, will join the London office as ad sales manager. Darrin Porter, who worked for publisher Ziff Davis, will join the San Francisco office as director of advertising sales. Jason Whidby, who worked in the ad sales team at MTV, will be a sales manager for Blinkx based in LA. Finally, Maximiliano Ramirez will join as director of ad sales based in New York.

Customer publishing agency Haymarket Network has appointed Ben Oakshott as advertising director for its portfolio of titles, including Sky Sports magazine. Oakshott has previously held roles on Haymarket brands Stuff and FourFourTwo.

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