Crowd Community (Crowd), a fast-growing Manchester audio-on-demand community, has welcomed Rob Roberts-Facey to its group as a senior producer, becoming a member of the BBC. Roberts-Facey will work carefully alongside Tom Fordyce, Crowd inventive director, to develop on the community, Crowd Sports activities.
Having beforehand labored as inventive lead for BBC Sport, Robert-Facey additionally labored throughout Match of the Day, Sports activities Persona of the 12 months and sports activities documentaries for BBC One. With over 11 years’ expertise on the broadcaster, he has been concerned in protection of the most important sporting moments of the final decade, from World Cups to the Olympics.
Presently residence to chart-topping podcasts The Geraint Thomas Biking Membership and The Joe Marler Present, Crowd planes to formally launch the brand new sports activities division subsequent 12 months. Roberts-Facey and Fordyce will lead on the growth of the community’s current sport exhibits and growth of recent podcasts, with extra high-profile sports activities stars set to affix in 2022.
Crowd Sports activities will be part of the community’s current content material divisions. Crowd Tales, together with the likes of critically acclaimed Homicide In Home Two and American Vigilante, brings trailblazing investigations and documentaries to life. Crowd Individuals, residence to podcasts together with The Sam and Billie Present and Go Love Your self, sees listeners get nearer to a few of the hottest names in leisure.
Roberts-Facey’s appointment bolsters Crowd’s senior management group, which has undergone vital progress since its 2020 launch. Having began as a group of 4, the community now counts 18 amongst the enterprise and is ready to welcome additional new hires later in the summertime.
Mike Carr, CEO of Crowd Community, stated: “It’s implausible to have Rob on board, given his expertise in main productions for a few of the greatest world sporting occasions and exhibits. It stands him in good stead as we glance to develop our sports activities podcast providing, work with extra good names and types in spot, and proceed to develop authentic exhibits that listeners really join with.
“As we broaden the exhibits, expertise and types that we work with, we’re targeted on having the appropriate individuals within the group to help this, who’ve the drive and power to push us ahead. Rob specifically might be important to growing our sports activities specialism, alongside Tom, as we glance to formally launch Crowd Sports activities subsequent 12 months. I’m excited to welcome him into the group.”
Rob Roberts-Facey, Senior Producer at Crowd Community, stated: “Having watched Crowd go from energy to energy over the past two years, I’m thrilled to be a part of the group. Its productions are high quality, and the concentrate on connecting listeners with the exhibits, hosts, and folks behind the podcasts is one thing I’ve at all times admired. To have the ability to play an element on this and work carefully alongside Tom and the group once more, is good. Now we have a lot scope to develop – from the names we work with, to the podcasts we carry to listeners – and I’m extremely excited to assist take Crowd Sports activities to the subsequent stage.”
