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Comedy Podcast Network Forever Dog has named Gary Reisman its first CEO. In one of his first official duties as CEO, Reisman hired tapped veteran entertainment and advertising sales executive Karen Bressner as Forever’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Forever Dog has a roster of over 30 shows and feature talent including James Adomian, Sabrina Jalees, Alaska, Abby Elliott, Bowen Yang, Patti Harrison and many others.
Reisman brings to Forever Dog a decades-long background in entertainment, media and strategic marketing. He was previously founder and CEO of LEAP® Media Investments, a premiere, strategic data and analytics company with clients including NBCU, FOX, FX, Ovation TV, TV One, FUSE, AOL and Yahoo. Prior to launching LEAP, Reisman was vice president of strategic marketing at Turner and vice president of sales and marketing for CNN.com international, where he guided the expansion of CNN.com across Europe, Asia and Latin America.
“Podcasting has become the preeminent platform for marketers to build relationships with the seemingly unreachable millennial and GenZ audiences,” said Reisman. “As an industry leader in content created by and for those audiences, Forever Dog is in the midst of constructing exciting new avenues for brands to integrate into an ever-growing roster of comedy programming. I’m delighted to be blazing the trail alongside Brett, Joe and Alex, and I’m also pleased to have an executive as proficient as Karen leading our ad sales initiatives, as we usher in a new chapter at the company and navigate the industry’s fertile grounds.”
Bressner leverages nearly 30 years in entertainment. After beginning her career at advertising agencies Young & Rubicam and Foote, Cone & Belding, Bressner moved into ad sales with a 10-year stint at Discovery Communications, helping grow the brand from a single network to the mass media company it is today. She went on to become senior vice president of national advertising sales at Viacom and then at TiVo. She has also served as head of ad sales at AccuWeather Digital Media and was an ad sales executive for Fox Digital Studio. Before joining Forever Dog, Bressner led ad sales for cable network Z Living.