KEVIN STEIN
Kevin Stein is a media and marketing strategist focused on designing and implementing multi-channel brand and artist platforms. He has a history of successful business and content development in both traditional and digital media, with specialization in social media, search, and video marketing. His unique background includes network, cable, and syndicated television and film, both as
a producer for Paramount, Columbia Pictures, and VH1, and with senior management experience as Vice President of Original Programming at HBO, Director of Late Night Programs and Interim VP of Specials at CBS Entertainment, and at King World Productions as Vice President of Development and Head of West Coast Administration. Currently, he is focused on building social broadcast platforms to deliver maximized outreach, search, and consumer engagement for brands, startups, and new product launches. Stein’s marketing agency experience includes his role as GM for DMI Music Media and Marketing Solutions, a music branding agency, and CSO for Buzztone, a digital and experiential marketing agency, where he worked with brands like AARP, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson, Bacardi, Subway, SAKS Fifth Avenue, The Gap, BP, and Showtime. His work also includes consulting for AOL, Sony, SEGA, Time, Immersion, and Microsoft, and has long established him as an expert for web, mobile, game, and youth cultures. Recently, he has consulted on business development, social media marketing and search optimization for Disney, Relativity Media, the New York City Board of Education, Wavefront Technology Solutions, The Total Learning Research Institute, and Saatchi & Saatchi. He co-authored a classic history of rock and roll for Rolling Stone and Dell, and his productions include work for MTV, VH1, The Who, PBS, the Jimi Hendrix Estate, PRI, NBC Sports, CBS News, the Zappa Family Trust, CPB, Bob Dylan, Paramount, and Columbia Pictures. Stein studied English Literature and Cultural Anthropology at Boston University, which led to fieldwork in Brazil for the World Health Organization. He followed with graduate work in Clinical Psychology at Swarthmore College and Harvard University. His teaching experience includes Harvard Alumni College (Psychology of the Human Life Cycle), Cal Arts (Shamanism in Art History), and various courses including Mass Media and Pop Culture and the History of Broadcasting at California State University, and lectures on the future of entertainment, music, television, and search for USC, and UCLA. His non-profit accomplishments include helping to launch NASA’s Challenger Center For Space Science Education, and co-founding the Jimi Hendrix Foundation, which he ran from 1994-96. Email: [email protected]
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