PodcastOne President, Kit Gray on Podcasting

The Social Network Show welcomes Kit Gray to the September 12, 2014 episode.

If you like listening to podcasts, this is a good show to listen to. Kit Gray, President and COO of PodcastOne shares how people use podcasting as an extension of social networking. Kit gives a little history of podcasting and how he merged with Norm Pattiz to create PodcastOne. He tells us about the shows on their site, and you will recognize a good portion of the famous hosts.  Kit talks about the challenge of getting major brands to advertise on podcasts and their success in doing this.

Kit Gray, the President and COO of PodcastOne, brings over ten years of sales representation experience in traditional spot terrestrial radio sales, network radio sales, national radio sales, mobile content sales, online sales and over the last two years has become a proven sales leader in the podcast medium.Kit connected and developed a podcast offerings on a network basis to advertisers developing a demand for a new medium. Mr. Gray's podcast sales quickly advanced into seven figures for such shows as the Adam Carolla Show, Jay Mohr's Fake Mustache, The Nerdist, Maria Menounous' AfterbuzzTV, Penn Jillette, Tom Segura and more.

Kit has worked with media agencies in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. In 2005, Mr. Gray won Seller of the Year for Katz Media Group, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. He was the first person to sell a mobile advertising campaign for Verizon Wireless EV-DO network called Amp'd Mobile in 2007 and was the first person to sell an online digital streaming network for Clear Channel's Digital in 2009.

Kit Gray has an MBA in finance from Crummer Graduate School and he studied Environmental Studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl.

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