The Week: People News - Highfield quits Kangaroo
14 Nov 2008
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the planned video-on-demand service Kangaroo, is quitting
LONDON - Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture...Highfield will take the new role of managing director and vice-president, consumer and online UK ... 4, has been appointed interim chief executive of Project Kangaroo. Highfield had joined Project ... was director of new media and technology. Highfield's new role will involve bringing together Microsoft ...
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the planned video-on-demand service Kangaroo, is quitting
Ashley Highfield, the director of future media and technology at the BBC, is leaving to become
and technology, under the director Ashley Highfield. The BBC's marketing, communications and audiences division
Huggers, who joined the BBC last year from Microsoft, is currently group controller of the division, and will start his new role on 1 August. He replaces Ashley Highfield, now the chief executive of Kangaroo, the proposed broadband video-on-demand service from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. ...
"Murdoch is not going to be able to make commodity content pay ... overall, I think it is more likely ad-funded or subscription models will work." - Ashley Highfield, the UK online managing director at Microsoft, is sceptical about newspaper attempts to introduce 'micro-payments' for content "We expect ...
"We're like pigeons under the table, scrapping for little bits of bread, while on top of the table you've got Google and YouTube having a sumptuous meal." - Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media, defends his £100 million annual budget "I am delighted to see the state ITV are in ...
- Flextech Interactive has appointed Krista Johnson to the newly created position of head of advertising sales and marketing. Reporting to general manager, Ashley Highfield, Johnson will be responsible for generating new revenue streams from interactive advertising both on TV and the Internet ...
- Flextech Interactive has appointed Krista Johnson to the newly created position of head of advertising sales and marketing. Reporting to general manager, Ashley Highfield, Johnson will be responsible for generating new revenue streams from interactive advertising both on TV and the Internet ...
"The project won't miss a beat without him. I'm not a novice. I've run bigger businesses than Kangaroo. The project was under way long before Ashley joined." - Rob Henwood, the interim chief executive of Project Kangaroo, dismisses the idea that the departure of his predecessor Ashley Highfield will set ...
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