Industry Moves: Future Poaches Bauer’s Digital Ads Director
Bauer Media’s digital sales head Kurt Edwards is jumping over to be rival Future’s new digital commercial director, starting in December and reporting at a pretty high level, to COO Simon Wear.
Future’s online ad income in the nine months to June 30 jumped 15 percent from the previous year, though cross-media ad sales dipped 14 percent and magazine circulation revenue was down eight percent.
SEE ALSO: Earnings: Future’s Digital Revenues Grow 15 Percent; Can’t Stop Overall Decline
The publisher, over the last two years, has been all about wrapping its individual print mag brands in to thematic, Radar portals - BikeRadar, GamesRadar, MusicRadar and TechRadar and now PhotoRadar - with 25 million monthly uniques across the portfolio.
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