Production designer Arad Sawat (A Tale of Love and Darkness directed by Natalie Portman), editor Jeff Castelluccio (Cardinal X directed by Angie Wang) and costumer designer Tracie Delaney (commercials and music videos) have signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation. DDA has also booked the feature films Breakable You (director: Andrew Wagner) for its client, production designer Dara Wishingrad, and House Cat (director: Robert Logevall) for costume designer Patrik Milani….
RadiumOne, a global omni-channel programmatic ad buying platform, has appointed Brian Gardner to the newly formed position of director of Canada, heading up the company’s growing business in the region. The veteran sales exec will lead the RadiumOne Canada team from the company’s Toronto office. He will be responsible for generating strategic partnerships with agencies, trading desks and brand advertisers. Gardner has over 15 years of agency, publisher and programmatic partnership development experience, most recently as a sr. account executive at RocketFuel. Previously he held leadership and management positions at Real Media Group 24/7 and Yahoo Canada, among others. Additionally, he helped develop the supply side programmatic strategy for North America’s largest independently owned newspaper publisher, The Chronicle Herald. San Francisco-based RadiumOne builds software that automates media buying, making big data actionable for digital marketers. The company uses programmatic advertising to connect brands to their next customers by incorporating valuable proprietary data about behaviors, actions and interests demonstrated by consumers across web and mobile touch points. Using insights and data intelligence, RadiumOne helps marketers activate customer engagement in real-time with relevant and personalized offers, messages, content and ads across devices, locations and screens….