Quintus Studios, the international factual content distributor and channel owner today announces a new senior executive hire as it continues to expand its reach and launch innovative new content, channels and funding initiatives.

David Woodford has joined the company as Head of Operations based in the company’s Berlin headquarters. David was formerly Director of Programming Europe at Paramount Global’s AVOD business Pluto TV Europe where he oversaw channel launch, content and scheduling strategy.

He will be responsible for the cross-platform and geographic optimisation of Quintus Studios’ content and workflow management across the business.

David joins as Quintus Studios’ channel portfolio surpasses 6 million subscribers on YouTube alone. Quintus Studios owns and operates channel brands with a combined yearly reach of more than 200 million unique visitors including Free Documentary (3.8m), Free Documentary – Nature (1.1m) FD Real, FD History, FD Paranormal and ENDEVR. It also owns and operates FAST channel Radical Docs which is available on platforms including Rakuten TV and Samsung TV Plus.

The business develops and funds unscripted TV projects via a disruptive new partnership model – Quintus Originals. It also owns and operates a new factual co-financing initiative, theQuintus Content Club, designed to streamline the development and fundraising of factual series for international channels, streamers and producers. Producers partners include Middlechild, Phoenix Television, CIC Media, Cry Havoc and Maximus Film.

“I am excited to join such a talented and hardworking team, to help optimise the exploitation of such an extensive and fast growing catalogue of captivating documentaries. I look forward to helping bolster Quintus’s growing position in the market, and helping extend its reach so more viewers can discover such entertaining and intriguing content,” said David Woodford, Head of Operations at Quintus Studios.

“We are very happy to welcome David to the Quintus family. The market and Quintus´ activities in it have become more and more complex, so presenting the right piece of content in the right form to the right audience on the right platform in the right territory and at the right time is key in this environment. David’s experience and expertise will help us to exploit Quintus´ thousands of hours of content even more efficiently and across its activities in TV, FAST and VOD,” said Gerrit Kemming, Managing Director at Quintus Studios.