Sergey Stamboltsyan Appointed Acting General Director of Premier

Sergey Stamboltsyan has been appointed acting CEO of Premier online cinema. It starts work on February 4, Kommersant was told at Gazprom-Media Holding (which owns the service). In this position, he will replace Sofya Mitrofanova, who has been the head of the video service since August 2021. She previously stated Vedomostithat wants to pursue a career as an independent producer and therefore leaves the service.

Sergey Stamboltsyan has been the Product Director of Premier since October 2022, and before that, he worked at Gazprom-Media Holding on other products, in particular those related to big data, for more than a year. Prior to joining the holding, he was the CEO of 2WiFi (a platform for personalizing ads for visitors to offline points of sale).

Premier Online Cinema was launched in August 2018. Among the original projects of the service – “UZZZ”, “Drip”“Survival Game 2”, “Epidemic 2”“Restaurant by Concepts 2”, “Poor Oligarch”, etc. At the end of 2022, the number of paying platform subscribers increased by 45%, to 3.6 million, and revenue grew by 22% by 2021, the service reported without specifying absolute figures for revenue.

Valeria Lebedeva