Veteran media government Geoff Isenman has been named CEO of Campside Media, the award-winning podcasting firm identified for bold, non-fiction storytelling like Suspect, Chameleon, and its most up-to-date world hit, White Satan, which has been lodged on the podcast charts for its total run, reaching #6 on the Apple Podcast chart and approaching 3 million downloads.
“The standard and breadth of Campside’s work is inspiring. It’s a testomony to the dedication and keenness of the founders and workforce they’ve constructed,” mentioned Isenman. “I’m thrilled to guide the corporate, with Sister’s partnership, throughout this transformative interval for the whole audio trade.”
Campside co-founder Adam Hoff, who has been serving within the CEO function, will now shift to full-time to supervise the corporate’s fast-growing movie and tv slate as Head of Movie and TV for the corporate.
Mentioned Hoff: “Geoff’s deep expertise goes to be an amazing asset to Campside and we’re past thrilled to welcome him to the workforce. It’s been a pleasure serving as CEO and now I’m trying ahead to specializing in the inventive facet of the enterprise.”
Isenman brings with him an intensive resume in deal-making within the media and know-how house, with a concentrate on audio-forward corporations. He joins Campside from AccelPro, the place he was founder and Normal Supervisor of Kaplan Inc.’s audio-first profession improvement platform. Isenman not too long ago produced the Webby-nominated podcast Massive Sugar, launched in partnership with Think about Leisure and iHeartMedia.
From 2017-2021, Isenman was Chief Enterprise Officer of Cafe Studios, a podcast firm co-founded by Preet Baharara, former U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York (acquired by Vox Media) and in addition Some Spider Studios, a portfolio of the main digital-first parenting manufacturers (acquired by BDG Media).
From 2008-2015, Isenman was an government at The New York Occasions. As Vice President, Company & Enterprise Improvement he oversaw the corporate’s partnerships and M&A, together with its enterprise investing portfolio which centered on early stage SaaS companies.
Isenman started his profession within the leisure trade, at Tribeca Productions. Moreover, he has independently suggested and invested in early stage corporations throughout know-how and media for greater than ten years.
Mentioned Campside Media co-founders Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Matt Shaer, and Hoff, “We’re very joyful to welcome Geoff to Campside and excited for him to speed up the expansion of our enterprise. With Geoff’s arrival and Adam’s shift to concentrate on the exploration of our deep properly of IP, Campside is well-positioned for the long run.”
About Campfire
Specializing in deeply-reported narrative non-fiction podcasts, Campside Media’s award-winning reveals have been downloaded greater than 100 million instances, and featured on “better of” lists compiled by editors at The New Yorker, The New York Occasions, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Esquire, and New York Journal.
Campfire, which was co-founded in 2020 by the veteran journal journalists Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoridias, and Matt Shaer, and the screenwriter/producer Adam Hoff, is the creator of the Chameleon and Suspect franchises, the types of which received the Podcast Academy Award for “Podcast of the Yr” in 2022 for its third season “Wild Boys.”
With over 40 restricted collection podcasts produced so far, Campside has labored with over a dozen completely different companions in audio and at the moment has 25 tasks in numerous phases of improvement for tv and movie. Additional, Campside has 15 documentary tasks within the works, together with current gross sales to Hulu and Netflix. Campside was named one in all Quick Firm’s 10 most progressive media corporations in 2022.
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