Agnes Chu Leaves Condé Nast Entertainment In Shakeup
There’s a shakeup at Condé Nast Entertainment.
Agnes Chu, who was President of the nascent division of the publishing company, is exiting as part of a restructure. The news was revealed this morning in a memo from Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch.
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Lynch said that it is moving its editorial teams into a new structure. “As part of these changes Agnes Chu will be leaving the company at the end of this month and I want to thank her for her many accomplishments with us. From building up our film, television and entertainment business with over 70 projects in development and ten projects in production, to helping grow our digital video audience to a projected 20B annual video views, she has been a valued member of our leadership team these last three years,” he wrote.
Condé Nast Entertainment has been involved in projects such as FX/Hulu’s Secrets of Hillsong, in partnershop with Scout Productions, In Vogue: The 1990s with Disney+, Last Chance U: Basketball with Netflix and Discovery+’s Broken Harts.
Chu was formerly content chief at Disney+ and left in 2020.
See Chu’s note to staff below:
Dear Condé Nast Entertainment Team,
I am writing with the tough news that I will be leaving the company.
These past 3 years represent some of the most inspirational experiences of my life – your remarkable creativity, energy and teamwork drive the storytelling that define us as human beings and as a culture, and I am deeply proud of what we have accomplished together.
Around the world, our creativity fuels conversation and community. The New Yorker logo now graces the silver screen with 7 Academy Award nominations and counting. Along with Vanity Fair Studios’ Secrets of Hillsong on FX/Hulu and premieres of The New Yorker Studios’ Cat Person, Vogue Studios’ LEE, Invisible Beauty and John Galliano: High and Low in the past year alone, we have 8 film and television projects in active production across our iconic brands. Our award-winning Bon Appetit’s Dinner SOS will celebrate live onstage next week, part of our revived audio slate that has delighted listeners, yielding 48% growth in downloads since our new programming strategy.
In the last 9 months on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, we engaged new Gen Z audiences with our storytelling influence, scaling our organic video network views nearly 20% more so far this year with 16B+ views in 9 distinct languages across our brands. Audiences also swiped into the cultural conversation with our global Vogue’s Met Gala, Vogue World, and Vanity Fair Oscars livestreams and always-on content, delivering 1.2B views.
I am proud to leave Condé Nast Entertainment better than the one I joined. By building and stewarding a cultural moment content strategy with our iconic brands, we transformed into a globally diversified media division. New and returning advertisers actively seek the creative quality showcased in our branded entertainment – driving business up 40% year over year – as do new distribution partners and platforms across the entertainment landscape who value our IP and our production of film, television, podcasts and social video. Most importantly, I am proud of the culture we have created together – one of integrity, teamwork and quality results. Thank you for your timeless contributions and relentless commitment to creative excellence.
I would also like to thank Roger Lynch, Anna Wintour, David Remnick and all the editors for their trust. I will continue to be a lifelong fan of the journalism and the entertainment from the best and brightest minds at Condé Nast.
Agnes
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