Los Angeles-based Spot Runner, a firm providing Internet-based ad placement services for television ads, has added AOL's former COO, Robert Pittman, to its board of directors. Pittman is currently at investment group Pilot Group, and was previously COO at AOL Time Warner, COO at America Online, CEO of MTV Networks, as well as CEO of a number of other firms. Spot Runner operates a self-service, web-based platform for placing local television advertising.