Veteran TV executive Dawn Ostroff is leaving her position as president of entertainment at Condé Nast to join Spotify as its Chief Content Officer. In her new role, Ostroff will lead all aspects of Spotify’s content partnerships across music, audio and video, the company announced Tuesday.
“I’m excited to welcome Dawn Ostroff to the band!” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tweeted.
Ostroff replaces Stefan Blom, who left Spotify in January just ahead of its direct listing. This is the company’s first big hire since going public in January. Ostroff will begin her job in August and will report to Ek, chief executive, in Spotify’s New York office, the company said.
Ostroff has served as president of entertainment at Condé Nast Entertainment since 2011. Before joining Cne, Ostroff was president of The CW, in charge of a primetime slate that included hit shows like Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and The Vampire Diaries,...
“I’m excited to welcome Dawn Ostroff to the band!” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tweeted.
Ostroff replaces Stefan Blom, who left Spotify in January just ahead of its direct listing. This is the company’s first big hire since going public in January. Ostroff will begin her job in August and will report to Ek, chief executive, in Spotify’s New York office, the company said.
Ostroff has served as president of entertainment at Condé Nast Entertainment since 2011. Before joining Cne, Ostroff was president of The CW, in charge of a primetime slate that included hit shows like Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and The Vampire Diaries,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Dawn Ostroff has exited her job as president of Conde Nast Entertainment to become the chief content officer of Spotify, the music- and video-streaming company announced Tuesday.
Ostroff, who will remain based in New York City, will lead all aspects of Spotify’s content partnerships across music, audio and video.
She replaces Stefan Blom, a music industry veteran who exited Spotify in January after a mostly unsuccessful effort to develop original video content such as the Russell Simmons-produced “Traffic Jams.”
Also Read: Brian Grazer, Nancy Dubuc, Dawn Ostroff, Aaron Levie Join TheGrill 2015 on Oct. 5-6 (Video)
In 2011, Ostroff helped to launch Conde Nast Entertainment and served as its president to develop film, TV and premium digital content based on the company’s magazine brands and stories.
Her feature credits include Sony’s 2017 film “Only the Brave,” as well as the upcoming Fox Searchlight drama “The Old Man and the Gun,...
Ostroff, who will remain based in New York City, will lead all aspects of Spotify’s content partnerships across music, audio and video.
She replaces Stefan Blom, a music industry veteran who exited Spotify in January after a mostly unsuccessful effort to develop original video content such as the Russell Simmons-produced “Traffic Jams.”
Also Read: Brian Grazer, Nancy Dubuc, Dawn Ostroff, Aaron Levie Join TheGrill 2015 on Oct. 5-6 (Video)
In 2011, Ostroff helped to launch Conde Nast Entertainment and served as its president to develop film, TV and premium digital content based on the company’s magazine brands and stories.
Her feature credits include Sony’s 2017 film “Only the Brave,” as well as the upcoming Fox Searchlight drama “The Old Man and the Gun,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Amazon has a new reality series to add to its slate of digital content. The streaming video service and home to Prime Instant Video has ordered a new season of the show The Fashion Fund, an original unscripted series from Condé Nast Entertainment (Cne).
Produced by Cne and Break Thru Films’ Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, The Fashion Fund follows ten novice and/or burgeoning designers as they compete for a chance to win $400,000 and tutelage under some of the top names in couture today. The first two seasons of Cne’s The Fashion Fund ran on the cable TV channel Ovation. The Fund competition itself was originally launched by Vogue and Council of Fashion Designers of America (Cfda) in 2003 to discover and develop American designers. Amazon will release ten new episodes of Cne’s unscripted The Fashion Fund series starting in November 2015 on a weekly basis. The 2015 Fund judges,...
Produced by Cne and Break Thru Films’ Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, The Fashion Fund follows ten novice and/or burgeoning designers as they compete for a chance to win $400,000 and tutelage under some of the top names in couture today. The first two seasons of Cne’s The Fashion Fund ran on the cable TV channel Ovation. The Fund competition itself was originally launched by Vogue and Council of Fashion Designers of America (Cfda) in 2003 to discover and develop American designers. Amazon will release ten new episodes of Cne’s unscripted The Fashion Fund series starting in November 2015 on a weekly basis. The 2015 Fund judges,...
- 10/2/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
"The Fashion Fund" has a new home, moving from Ovation to Amazon. The streaming service has greenlighted a new 10-episode season of the unscripted half-hour series for premiere in 2016. Led by Vogue's Anna Wintour, CFDA Chairman Diane von Furstenberg and an esteemed selection committee, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominates 10 promising designers each year to compete in a four-month competition to prove their place in the future of American fashion. The show is produced by…...
- 10/2/2015
- Deadline TV
As Netflix continues to assert itself as a major television company with such acclaimed series as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Amazon Studios is racing to catch up by ordering series it hopes will be equally well-received. So far, Amazon has scored one big hit in the form of Jeffrey Tambor-led dramedy Transparent, and it hopes to find some more in the new lineup of pilots, which will be made available for viewing as part of the company’s first pilot season of 2015.
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
Enclosed are descriptions of all seven pilots, courtesy of Deadline. The talented involved on all of them is impressive, to say the least. Mad Dogs comes from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), while The Man In The High Castle hails from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files). Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart) are behind Point Of Honor,...
- 11/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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