Dawn Ostroff

Dawn Ostroff is the current Chief Content Officer of Spotify and the former President of Entertainment of The CW and President of Condé Nast Entertainment.[1][2][3] Identifying an untapped revenue stream, Ostroff and Condé Nast CEO Bob Sauerberg launched CNE in 2011, an in-house production and distribution studio for digital video, film, and TV.[4]

Career

Ostroff began her career in news as a reporter for WINZ, a CBS affiliate in Miami. She also worked in local news at WPLG and WTVJ in Miami.

Ostroff joined Lifetime Television in October 1996 as Senior Vice President, Programming and Production. She was Executive Vice President of Lifetime starting in 1999.

Ostroff served as President of UPN Entertainment from February 11, 2002 until 2006, when she helped start The CW, considered America's youngest skewing broadcast network.[5] Ostroff was in charge of the network’s primetime slate[6] and all creative efforts of the network, overseeing such areas as current programming, series development, scheduling, research, marketing, and publicity.[7]

She ultimately announced that she would be leaving the network in 2011, after which she was appointed President of Condé Nast Entertainment.[1][8]

When Ostroff made the move to CNE in 2011, Condé Nast tasked her with digesting its 19 magazine brands and more than 100,000 articles and developing these stories into film, TV and digital videos under the banner of Condé Nast Entertainment. Condé Nast’s parent company Advance Publications invested more than $50 million in CNE, which now has more than 300 employees in New York and Los Angeles, and turned a high-seven-figure profit in 2016, just five years after CNE’s creation.[9] TV veteran Ostroff grew Condé Nast Entertainment’s content umbrella to include diverse forms of media, from films, like “Only the Brave” adapted from a GQ feature, to virtual reality projects, such as "Invisible," a supernatural series shot in VR. The division has major projects including the film "The Old Man and the Gun," with Robert Redford, and "King of the Jungle," set to star Johnny Depp; TV projects including "Last Chance U" on Netflix, "Vanity Fair Confidential" on Investigation Discovery and "Most Expensivest," a digital series that evolved into a TV show on Viceland.[10] Additionally, through its digital franchises, such as Vogue’s “73 Questions” and WIRED’s “Autocomplete Interview,” CNE makes about 5,000 videos a year, garnering more than 11 billion views in 2017.[11]

On June 26th, 2018 it was announced that Ostroff would join Spotify to 'lead all aspects of Spotify’s content partnerships across music, audio and video.'[12]

Personal life

Ostroff was born to a Jewish family[13] and is a graduate of Florida International University in Miami, Florida, where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in journalism. She resides in New York, NY with her husband Mark Ostroff and their four children: Justin, Jonathan, Michael, and Lane. Justin and Jonathan are both graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. They are currently working in finance. Michael and Lane attend day schools in New York.

Ostroff has also devoted herself over the years to working with several organizations such as A Place Called Home,[14] which helps children in South Central Los Angeles, and the Independent School Alliance as well as the American Jewish Committee.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 Steigrad, Alexandra (11 December 2013). "Dawn Ostroff Talks Condé Nast's Digital Strategy". WWD. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Conde Nast Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff Predicts 'Digital' Competition for Broadcasters". Hollywood Reporter. 1969-12-31. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  3. ↑ Staff, Variety (2018-06-26). "Spotify Names Dawn Ostroff Chief Content Officer". Variety. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  4. ↑ "Is Condé Nast Entertainment Finally Ready To Take Hollywood By Storm?". Fast Company. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  5. ↑ CW Gaining in Young Women
  6. ↑ CW Revamps Its Primetime Line-up
  7. ↑ Dawn Ostroff CW Biography
  8. ↑ "Dawn Ostroff Tapped as President of Conde Nast Entertainment". Hollywood Reporter. 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  9. ↑ "Conde Nast's Dawn Ostroff on Turning Magazine Articles Into Movies and New TV Plans". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  10. ↑ "Q&AA: Dawn Ostroff Has Some Thoughts for Video Pivoters". Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  11. ↑ "How Condé Nast went from magazine publisher to entertainment company". Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  12. ↑ "Dawn Ostroff Named Chief Content Officer, Spotify" (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-06-26.
  13. ↑ Jewish Journal: "Balance Paramount to UPN Head Ostroff" by Soriya Daniels June 24, 2004
  14. ↑ "The Hollywood Reporter Philanthropy Directory". Hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  15. ↑ Balance Paramount to UPN Head Ostroff Archived 2009-01-08 at the Wayback Machine.
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