Los Angeles-based, Emmy Award-winning Asylum Leisure Group (Asylum), introduced the rent of seasoned audio pioneer Chris Corcoran to run its main audio-forward division Audity (Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith, Hillsong: A Megachurch Shattered, Ice T’s Day by day Sport).
Corcoran, a Founding Associate of Cadence13, joins Audity as Basic Supervisor and Chief Content material Officer to spearhead the corporate’s bold technique and elevate its artistic imaginative and prescient. He’ll report on to Jodi Flynn, President of Asylum Leisure Group.
Most just lately, Corcoran served because the Chief Content material Officer for Cadence13, the award-winning podcast firm he helped launch. As one of many unique architects of Cadence13, he outlined and led the artistic imaginative and prescient and evolution whereas additionally overseeing expertise relations and content material improvement, together with the Peabody-nominated C13Originals documentary research and the C13Features podcast film studio.
Whereas there, he led the launch of unique franchises together with Gone South, Gangster Capitalism, It Was Stated, Root of Evil and The Sunshine Place, launched a few of the most influential voices within the podcast house – notably Jon Meacham, Emma Chamberlain, JJ Redick, Glennan Doyle and Adrian Wojnarowski – and launched highly effective manufacturers and titles, together with Crooked Media, Tenderfoot TV, Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, and Origins with James Andrew Miller.
“Chris epitomizes the entrepreneurial drive, artistic instincts and perception wanted to additional chart our success within the audio universe,” says Steve Michaels, CEO of Asylum Leisure Group. “His impeccable observe report and fervour for constructing manufacturers and voices from the bottom up gas the standard of his storytelling. We’re excited to have him on board.”
“I’m thrilled to be a part of a artistic group that has such nice ambition to construct,” says Chris Corcoran, GM and Chief Content material Officer of Audity. “I’m grateful to Steve and the group for this particular alternative, and to guide the audio studio with an goal of artistic excellence and interesting storytelling.”
The information comes sizzling on the heels of a busy yr for Audity. Amongst their latest credit embrace Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith, a criminal-justice reform sequence that rapidly grew to become Spotify’s number-one podcast, in addition to Hillsong: A Megachurch Shattered, an eight-episode companion sequence to discovery+’s Hillsong: A Megachurch Uncovered, and Ice T’s Day by day Sport for iHeart.
