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Google has added one more to its growing collection of packaged-goods marketing executives — Julie Eddleman, who was the top U.S. media executive of the biggest U.S. advertising spender, Procter & Gamble Co.

Jodi Allen, VP-North America brand of P&G and Ms. Eddleman’s boss, has assumed Ms. Eddleman’s duties, a P&G spokeswoman said. The move comes as P&G, which spent $3.2 billion in measured media in the U.S. last year according to Kantar Media, is moving toward buying 70%-75% of its digital media programmatically, an effort in which Ms. Eddleman was involved. Google, owner of one of the largest digital-display ad networks and active in working to establish private programmatic exchanges linking publishers and big brand advertisers, is likely to play a key role there too.

Ms. Eddleman, now director-client service at Google, joins a team that includes fellow P&G executive Kirk Perry, now Google’s president-brand solutions, who had been president-global family care and a rising star seen by many within P&G as a top contender to ultimately become CEO. Google within the past year also has added former L’Oreal Global CMO Marc Speichert and former Kellogg Co. digital executive Bob Arnold, who had led a push to increase programmatic digital buying there.

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