Former NBCUniversal Exec Jacob Selzer Joins Digital Brand Almost Friday Media As Head Of Sports

Jacob Selzer, who earlier worked at NBCUniversal, has joined rising digital brand Nearly Friday Media as its initial head of sporting activities.

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Selzer will oversee the company’s athletics articles, situations, and partnerships.

He joins from Wave Athletics and Amusement, where by he served set up the company’s first programming initiatives. He earlier spent three yrs as a senior supervisor of development in NBCU’s news and sports activities division, doing the job on situations such as the Olympics, Earth Cup, and Premier League. He also previously worked in ICM’s unscripted divison.

He will operate intently with Almost Friday Media’s President and COO Andrew Kenward, CEO Jack Barrett and Main Innovative Officer Max Barrett.

The media organization operates Friday Beers, a media system, output enterprise, and life-style model with its have established of characters that it phone calls the Friday Beers Cinematic Universe. It was developed in November 2019 by the Barrett brothers, starting off as a viral Instagram feed with achieve now in merchandising, branded information, podcasts, songs, stay functions and film and Television jobs.

Its thought is to make a globe of comedy that helps make self-deprecating, giggle-out-loud occasion humor cool once more.

Friday Beers is represented by WME and Mosiac.

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