Bill Wilson
President, MediaGlow
As President of MediaGlow, Bill Wilson is responsible for AOL’s publishing efforts, including its reinvented flagship portal, AOL.com, and all of AOL’s content websites, which include vertical sites in the following categories: Women & Lifestyle, News, Sports, Money & Finance, Music, Movies, TV, Celebrity, Games, Latino, and KOL; all passion point targeted sites including Asylum, AutoBlog, Black Voices, Bloggingstocks, Cinematical, Engadget, Fleaflicker, Joystiq, Lemondrop, ParentDish, Pixcetera, PopEater, Spinner, StyleList, TheBoot, TheBoombox, TourTracker, TVSquad, WallletPop, Winamp, and others; and AOL’s commerce and marketplace channels, including AOL Autos, AOL Real Estate, AOL Travel and AOL Shopping. In addition, Bill oversees the state-of-the-art MediaGlow Studios in New York and Los Angeles. Under his leadership, AOL’s content websites have grown to reach 70 million unique visitors and more than 4 billion page views every month.
Wilson joined AOL from BMG Entertainment where he served as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and managed the marketing campaigns for the world's biggest artists including Outkast, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews Band, Santana, and Whitney Houston. He began his career in entertainment at BMG's most successful record label Arista Records under the leadership of the legendary Clive Davis and was the principal product manager for a variety of artists including Notorious BIG, Sarah McLachlan, Monica, Spiritualized, and Kenny G.
Wilson, who won an Emmy Award in 2006 for AOL's Live 8 program, was named on the Hollywood Reporter’s “Digital Power List” in 2008 which profiles the 50 people most influencing the creation and distribution of content online, Crain's New York Business "40 under Forty" in 2005, Billboard's "Power Players" in Digital Entertainment in 2005, and Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation" in 2003.
He graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a BA in economics and a BS in business management and earned an MBA with honors in finance and marketing from Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.