About Us

Welcome to Popdust, the world’s foremost authority on pop music. Founded in February 2011, Popdust super-serves fans with a vibrant, irreverent, 24/7 mix of news, opinion, interviews, reviews, music premieres, and original video and content features on today’s biggest and brightest pop, hip-hop, R&B and country stars. Pop music has never been more commercially dominant or more creatively fertile–think Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and on and on–and yet its artists have never been afforded the kind of expert, passionate online coverage so often lavished on lesser, and lesser-selling, rock artists. Part music-nerd watering hole, part tart gossip outlet, Popdust is laser-focused on the never-ever-boring creative and personal lives of this generation’s most compelling entertainers.

SENIOR POPDUST TEAM

Hugh Panero, Chief Executive Officer: Co-founder/CEO of XM Satellite Radio. Grew company from early stage venture concept to 10M subscriber public company. Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates, Forbes’ 2011 best venture capital firm.

David Wade, President and General Manager/Co-founder: Headed worldwide strategic sales & services for imeem, a social music service that reached 25M users, $14M annual revenue, and was acquired by News Corp in 2009. Senior sales management roles with Vanity Fair, Jane, and Maxim.

Craig Marks, Editor-in-chief/Co-founder: Top editor of Spin and Blender magazines, and editor of Billboard. Co-author of the book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, published by Dutton in October 2011.

Bradford Campeau-Laurion, Chief Technology Officer: Led the software development and product teams for Forbes.com, the world’s #1 business news website for 10 years. Decade of experience in software development. Thought leader in digital media.

David Hargis, Vice President, Business Development: Held executive positions with branded content and strategic partnership responsibilities with Listen.com, MOG, and Rock River. 18 years of experience in the music industry, positions with Warner Records, UMG and Verve.

Kevin Fortuna, Chairman: Founder of Gramercy Labs, an NYC-based incubator of Popdust, Snooth, Lot18. Formerly CEO of Quigo, an advertising technology company sold to AOL Time Warner for $360 million in 2007.