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Stitcher’s Drew Welborn Joins WME as Digital Agent – The Hollywood Reporter

Drew Welborn has returned to WME as an agent in the digital media division after three years at Stitcher.

During his time at Stitcher, Welborn served as vp and head of partnerships before leading programming and development across the podcast company, overseeing teams working on popular shows like My favorite murder, Conan O’Brien needs a friend, Female office, Ringer and WTF With Marc Maron.

Prior to joining Stitcher in 2018, Welborn was an agent for the Billions Group and before that a comedy touring agent at New York-based UTA. Now, Welborn is returning to the company, where he started in the mailroom before rising in the ranks of talent representation in the comedy and digital space, including Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper , Grace Helbig, Jermaine Fowler and Hari Konbabolu at time.

Welborn rejoins WME as the agency is expanding its representation in the audio and podcast space. This year, the agency signed the podcast Million Dollars Worth of the Game and its servers, as well as podcast producer Broccoli Productions. Other programs represented by WME include Dax Shepard’s Armchair specialist, Brene Brown’s Unlock us, Rob Lowe’s Literally!, Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Network, Radio Freakonomics and Pod Save America.

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