WME has employed Millie Webber as a digital agent, with a deal with creators and podcasting.
Webber has constructed a profession specializing in representing digital expertise and commercializing the podcasting trade. She has managed and closed offers for expertise together with Gemma Types, Tom Felton, and James Buckley In Illness and In Well being, in addition to launching the F1 podcast Pitstop.
Webber will be a part of WME from impartial content material manufacturing firm Spirit Studios the place she served as Head of Digital, She beforehand labored at expertise company Gleam Futures for six weeks the place she was Expertise Director and Podcast Lead. A member of the World Academy Business Board, Webber has consulted for expertise businesses, offering strategic progress recommendation and coaching for entry- and senior-level brokers.
Her begin date shall be April 8 and shall be based mostly within the company’s London workplace.
WME’s digital division has had a presence in London for over a decade and most lately added former TikTok creator Lola Oyewole as an agent final yr. Latest new shopper signings from the London crew — which represents Goalhanger Podcasts and Persephonica — embrace Alice Levine and Charlie Webber in podcasting, in addition to content material creators Saffron Barker and Eddie Abbew and writer Candice Brathwaite.
WME’s digital division, led by co-heads Jad Dayeh and Ben Davis, contains shoppers within the podcasting house akin to Jay Shetty, Dax Shepard, Bobbi Althoff, and Morbid.
