KOMI Group – the Manchester headquartered social media, marketing, and licensing business – has grown its team by 10 since the start of the year. The new appointments are spread across the business and increases its total headcount to 62.
Aban Mechti joins KOMI as a social media manager from LadBible where he worked for two years. Aban’s focus will be on working with the firm’s network of social and viral content creators to manage the flow of content from submission through to client delivery.
Abbey Lam, James Farrington, Luke Hampson, Bailey Sadler, and Phoebe Johnson-Bird have all been appointed junior video editing coordinators. Their roles involve every part of the video creation process including ingesting, syncing, and editing footage as well as graphics and audio elements.
Hannah Green has joined KOMI as a junior graphic designer from Stonegate Group; Lewis Rattigan is a new gaming streamer; and Lucy-Kate Green is the company’s newest junior community coordinator. She joins from ASDA.
The final new starter is Jodie Giblin – KOMI’s new business development manager. Their last role was at MediaBodies in Leeds. They will be driving KOMI’s agency sales revenue, with a particular focus on selling partnerships and community management opportunities direct to brands and organisations.
Andrew Trotman – Managing Director of KOMI – said: “2022 is going to be a pivotal 12 months for the business as we capitalise on the growth that we have achieved over the past couple of years. Our success is as a result of the talent, creativity, and strategic thinking of our team so we are delighted to welcome each of these new starters as they all bring some fantastic experience that I’m sure will add real value to our offering.”
KOMI Group is a three-divisional business consisting of one of the UK’s largest digital publishing portfolios, a social first digital agency, and video content licensing hub. Its team of content creators, analysts and video producers have made and then distributed video content and viral campaign adverts for international brands such as BBC Films, O2, Universal, Bud Light and Disney.
Content is shared across its Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and LinkedIn accounts including the It’s Gone Viral page as well as Happiest, which focusses on bringing the most entertaining and inspiring real-life stories; and Ultimate which is a community based around home and lifestyle. On average the company delivers over one billion views across its portfolio of pages each month.
In September last year, ARK Media, KOMI’s licensing division, signed distribution partnerships with Reuters and AFLO that will give the business the opportunity to distribute its content to a broad network of leading international publishers and broadcasters for the first time.
