Vadim Fedotov, the ex-head of
Groupon Russia, will become the new CEO of
RuTube . The company "Rutyub" is controlled by the holding
"Gazprom-Media" and includes services
RuTube.ru ,
Now.ru and
Zoomby.ru . Fedotov will replace the current CEO Elena Sakharov in early July.
Its main task will be to expand the audience of services. Megamind
wrote that Gazprom-Media was planning to sell Rutube to Rostelecom. However, after the departure of the chairman of the board of holding Mikhail Lesin, it was decided to keep the "Rutyub".
According to TNS data for May 2015, 5.5 million people visit RuTube.ru every month, Now.ru - 0.4 million, Zoomby.ru - 5.7 million. The main Russian competitor of the service is
Ivi.ru. Its monthly attendance is 5.1 million. However, the Russian audience of a foreign service
YouTube is much more - about 45 million people per month.
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Fedotov has been working in the Groupon discount service since 2011. First, he led sales in Russia and Ukraine, and in the summer of 2012 he was appointed general director of Groupon Russia. Prior to joining Groupon, Fedotov worked for
Barkawi Management Consultants , an international consulting company, where he was engaged in procurement optimization, Vedomosti
reports .