Conde Nast Hires Joy Marcus As EVP, General Manager Of Video

Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) has a new executive on its staff. The media publisher has named Joy Marcus to the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Video.

Within Condé Nast’s video department, Marcus will be responsible for overseeing all channels and digital video initiatives (such as the company’s video hub The Scene), including distribution, technology, marketing, revenue, and product and business development. Marcus arrives at CNE with previous video leadership experience from her position as U.S. general manager of digital video site Dailymotion. The new executive’s position is effective starting May 18, and Marcus will report directly to CNE President Dawn Ostroff.

Prior to CNE, Marcus served as the CEO of blog feed platform Bloglovin’. The new EVP of CNE video was also a venture partner at Gotham Ventures, where she organized the firm’s investment in female-centric digital media company DailyWorth

. Before that, Marcus was at Dailymotion, and even farther back she held leadership positions at AOL, Barnes & Noble, and MTV.

“From launching and building Dailymotion’s North American operations to her recent work at Bloglovin’, Joy has spent her career building and scaling successful digital businesses and is joining us at just the right moment to take our premium digital video business to the next level,” said Ostroff as reported by Variety. “Joy is a great manager and extremely well respected in our community, and I’m looking forward to working with her on the expansion of our business.”

Condé Nast recently announced a slate of 2,500 new, original videos for release throughout the rest of 2015. These videos will join the company’s current collection of over 4,000 videos.