The award-winning podcast services firm The Podglomerate has hired Tiffany Dean – who was previously the director of sales planning and operations at Audioboom, a leading global podcast publisher.
In this newly created role reporting to Dan Christo, The Podglomerate’s Chief Operating Officer, Dean will be integral to the near- and long-term success of The Podglomerate’s monetization department, which services both internal and external stakeholders. With Dean’s expertise, The Podglomerate will enhance partner relationships with publishers, sellers, and buyers, expand network offerings across all client-types, and further develop the company’s cross-promotional network structure.
“I am excited to work with Jeff, Dan, and the entire The Podglomerate team as we look to grow our ad sales service pipeline,” says Dean. “ I look forward to leveraging my skills in strategic planning, audience understanding, leadership, and analytics to grow our monetization efforts.”
Dean joins The Podglomerate with more than 15 years of experience across a range of media industries including podcasting, digital media, and traditional media. Prior to her time at Audioboom she served as the ad innovations manager and digital sales strategist at The Washington Post Digital’s The Root where she was integral in the launch of the social program Chatterati. She also brings experience from her time as a sales service representative for A+E Network’s History Channel.
“Tiffany’s experience managing the growth of ad sales operations aligns perfectly with our roadmap,” says Dan Christo, The Podglomerate’s Chief Operating Officer. “I’m very excited to learn from her, and to elevate the department for our Publishers and buyer-side relationships.”
“The creators we work with are the backbone of what we do at the company, and I’m thrilled to be able to provide them with the extra support that Tiffany brings to the table,” says The Podglomerate Founder and CEO Jeff Umbro. “While I’m proud to say that we’ve generated millions of dollars for the creators in our network, I know there’s more we can do. Tiffany is the missing piece that fills the gap and helps us do it.”
Since its start in 2017, The Podglomerate has grown to represent more than 70 podcasts accounting for more than 30 million monthly downloads, with shows topping the podcast charts and receiving features on every major podcast distribution app with national coverage across print, digital, radio, and television. The Podglomerate’s high-profile list of podcast clients includes the perennially chart-topping and award-winning podcast Freakonomics Radio, NHPR’s “Bear Brook” (named the best true crime podcast by Stephen King) and “The 13th Step” (named a finalist for the 2024 duPont-Columbia University Awards and featured as a best podcast of 2023 by The New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, Vulture, and Paste), and Magnificent Noise’s “This Is Dating” (named “one of the best podcasts of 2022” by Vulture), as well as PBS, NPR, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, A+E Networks, The History Channel, Lifetime, Lit Hub, and The Progress Network, among many others.
