Clear Channel announced the appointment of Bob Stohrer to chief marketing officer of Clear Channel Digital, in which role he will report to Brian Lakamp, president of Clear Channel Digital.

Social video platform company Jun Group has closed $2.5 million in financing from Western Technology Investment. WTI’s portfolio also includes Facebook, in which the firm was an early investor, Google, Plaxo, StumbleUpon, Ustream and other socially oriented companies.

Lockerz, the community that rewards its members for social expression and interacting with content, has partnered with Stacy Igel, the founder and creative director of fashion line Boy Meets Girl, on "Behind the Seams with Stacy Igel," a new original online series.

FreeCast.com has developed a service that enables users watch web-based television from within Facebook. It’s an extension of the main FreeCast service, which locates, aggregates and categorizes about 1.5 million new videos a day from multiple sources.

Yahoo has found something to laugh about. It announced that a new Yahoo Comedy Channel will kick off Feb. 23 with an exclusive and free live broadcast of the webcast special "CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live from Silicon Valley," a free live stream from his performance in San Jose, California.

Digital media platform Martini Media has raised $13 million in venture capital led by Granite Ventures, with participation from existing investors Reed Elsevier Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and Venrock.

NCM Media Networks is encouraging movie theater audiences to wave their arms around in the air. Working with Audience Entertainment Group, it has added a 90-second game to its programming that turns theatergoers into a virtual “human joystick” to control the on-screen action.

Fans of Tom Cruise and director Brad Bird are being encouraged to unlock a first look at exclusive footage from their upcoming tentpole "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" by sending a tweet with the hashtag #mission.

Clear Channel Radio and Cumulus Media Inc. today announced an agreement that will make all 570 Cumulus radio stations in 120 markets available on the New iHeartRadio platform. Of equal if not more importance, it also calls for Clear Channel Radio to advertise SweetJack, Cumulus’s daily deals platform.