David Kohl

Look Who’s Selling Warner Music’s Videos on YouTube: Veoh’s Sales Team

Peter Kafka in Media on October 8, 2009 at 8:18 am PT

Last month, Warner Music Group won the right to sell ads on its YouTube videos. Next step: Getting someone to sell ads on its YouTube videos, since the music label doesn’t have its own sales team. The plan: Hand those duties over to someone who’s already doing it for Veoh and other video outfits.

Vevo, Universal Music’s Hulu for Video, Gets a Salesman

Peter Kafka in Media on September 23, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

Vevo, the music industry’s attempt to create a Hulu-like hub for its videos, is going to attract a lot of eyeballs when it launches later this year. Here’s the guy who’s supposed to attract advertisers: David Kohl, a former Nokia executive who starts work today as the site’s sales boss.