Tubi, Fox’s ad supported streaming service, named veteran ad sales executive Jeff Lucas as chief revenue officer. Lucas replaces Mark Rotblat, who had been CRO since 2018. Rotblat will be focusing on AdRise, another unit in Fox’s Tubi Media Group, a Tubi spokesperson said. AdRise is a large-scale video advertising network that incorporates all of Fox’s video inventory from Tubi, Fox Sports, Fox Entertainment, Fox News Media and Fox Television Stations.
He moves up from the company’s sports and digital offerings to oversee sales and revenue growth strategies for all of Sinclair’s television stations; networks, including Tennis Channel; and Compulse, Sinclair’s marketing technology and managed services company.
DAZN, a top sports streaming provider, has tapped Walker Jacobs as its first global chief revenue officer and president of DAZN U.S. Jacobs most recently served as Twitch’s chief revenue officer and managing director of sports for the Amazon Ads division, before exiting in December 2023 after five years with the company.
The media veteran, most recently at NBCUniversal, will lead Scripps’ push to expand its share of advertising revenue in the local, national and CTV marketplaces.
Telestream, a global provider of workflow automation, media processing and video quality, has appointed Alex Keighley chief revenue officer. Reporting to Telestream CEO Rhonda Bassett-Spiers, Keighley will lead Telestream’s global sales […]
As the advertising industry rounds into the back half of the year, Adweek spoke with a dozen revenue executives at premium publishers to get a sense of the next six months. Despite cautious optimism, few of them expect a substantial turnaround.
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Gray Television on Tuesday promoted Matt Jaquint to chief revenue officer and Mike King to chief marketing officer.
In his new role, Matt Jaquint will be responsible for developing advertising sales strategies and best practices across all platforms. He will lead new business development initiatives and sales training programs.
In his new role, Mike King will oversee marketing and brand strategy for company-wide and multi-market station initiatives. He will lead Gray’s design and marketing groups as well as our recruiting team.
For the past several years, Jaquint and King have overseen groups of local markets in their roles as regional vice presidents, senior vice presidents, and currently, senior managing vice presidents. Both leaders will continue oversight of groups of Gray’s television stations and digital properties.
Gray’s Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland said: “Matt and Mike have proven records of success. The company will benefit from their expanded roles as we leverage their areas of expertise to help guide our local teams to greater success serving local audiences and businesses.”
The media advertising executive is charged with leading a transformation of sales strategy, leveraging Nexstar’s linear, digital, mobile and streaming platforms to develop new revenue.
At Digital Remedy, Haft will join the data technology company’s leadership to accelerate growth, enterprise partnerships and devise revenue strategies. He was most recently CRO for Channel Factory.
The veteran advertising sales executive will coordinate and expand revenue
and new business development.
Baron, a worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence and Baron Lynx to broadcast markets across North America, has promoted Mike Mougey to chief revenue officer. He will also retain his […]
Michael Teicher will be responsible for developing the company’s ad sales strategy for all the Scripps networks across all platforms, including general market, direct response, programmatic/digital, long-form and sponsorship advertising.
Comscore has promoted Carol Hinnant, a 15-year Comscore executive, to chief revenue officer. Hinnant will guide Comscore’s revenue-generating operations across the global digital, television, and cross-platform business, and will serve as a member of […]
After almost four years in the job, Washington Post Chief Revenue Officer Jed Hartman is no longer with the company, company executives informed staffers on Thursday. Kate Davey, vice president of revenue strategy, will serve as interim CRO.
Media exec Greg McCastle will oversee all the company’s media sales efforts, including digital, linear and addressable advertising.
The station group moves up Rob Weisbord from SVP, chief operating officer of Sinclair Digital Group. He will be responsible for “developing, executing and leading sales and revenue growth strategies and initiatives for broadcasting, digital, advanced revenue and all networks sales.”
Former Turner Broadcasting ad sales chief Julio Marenghi will be responsible for the development and execution of all advertising sales plans for Media General’s 71 television stations in 48 U.S. markets.
