Forbes Joins Audacy As SVP/Digital Business

• Audacy announced the appointment of Palak Forbes as Senior Vice President, Digital Business Operations. In her new role, Forbes will provide commercial and operational leadership for Audacy’s podcast business, while working across the company’s entire digital portfolio and with key strategic partners to enable continued strong growth in Audacy’s digital and podcast businesses.

Forbes joins Audacy from The New York Times, where she was most recently Head of Business Development & Operations. Before that she was the Times‘ VP Corporate Strategy & Development leading new ventures, off-platform relationships, and M&A; and programming the Board of Directors’ special committee on Technology & Innovation. Earlier in her career Forbes was VP of Strategy at Sesame Workshop and held digital advertising strategy and subscriber marketing roles at Viacom and HBO, respectively. Forbes earned her MBA in Marketing from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Information Systems from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Forbes reports to Audacy’s Chief Digital Officer, J.D. Crowley, who commented, “As we make consistent strides to evolve and enhance our digital and podcast businesses, Palak is a perfect choice to lead our day-to-day efforts to provide a world-class experience for our customers, creators and consumers. Her deep experience launching and scaling innovative new businesses, and expertise managing strategic relationships with companies across the media and technology sectors will enable us to continue delivering robust growth.”

Forbes remarked, “Digital audio is in a really exciting phase where we have evolving audio formats and listening experiences as well as new ways of life emerging from the pandemic. Audacy has brought together a portfolio of innovative brands to meet the needs of the modern listener, content creators, and advertisers alike. I’m so excited to operationalize our strategy across the digital portfolio. It’s an honor to  join the leading creator of original and premium audio during this time of growth and transformation.”