Are Media hires SUDDENLY founder Simon Smith as commercial content, creative exec

News 9 Jun 2022 - 2 min read

Are Media hires SUDDENLY founder Simon Smith as commercial content, creative exec

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After more than four years building content agency SUDDENLY, Simon Smith will join Are Media in the newly created role leading commercial content, creative and events, pushing media engagement for the company across platforms.

What you need to know:

Are Media have hired Simon Smith, the founder and Executive General Manager of SUDDENLY, the News Corpowned content agency, to the newly created role of head of commercial content and creative.
He starts on Monday.

Are Media has named Simon Smith, founder and head of News Corp’s content agency SUDDENLY, as its new head of commercial content and creative.

Smith has been at the content agency since he founded it back in early 2018, building it into a team of more than 60 people across content, strategy, creative, events and production. Clients include Woolworths, The Good Guys, SWEAT, and hipages.

He will work alongside the advertising sales teams in the newly created role, leading commercial content, creative and events.

He starts on Monday 14 June.