Founded by digital veterans Jeff Hurlow and Chris Slater, Hitch Media Group is a digital-first design agency and content studio with 25 years of know-how, creating premium, award-winning experiences.
Jeff is a creative executive with over 25 years of experience in advertising, design, and branded entertainment.
Jeff has built powerful interactive experiences at Napster, Yahoo, FlipGloss, and AOL/Verizon. In 2013, Jeff founded the Vimeo Brand Studio, producing films for top-tier brands as well as content partnerships with The New York Times.
His award-winning work has involved collaborations with celebrity talent including Heidi Klum, Jonathan Adler, Tiffany Shlain, Baratunde Thurston, and Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist).
Chris met Jeff as Executive Producer of Pepsi Smash, a Top 40 music program. Together, they were recruited to AOL/Verizon to build a new content studio, developing digital series with James Franco, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Richie, and Steve Buscemi for blue chip brands like Verizon, Citi, Target, Kelloggs, Chevy, Dodge, Disney, and General Mills.
Some of their shows successfully moved to television on VH-1, Comedy Central, The CW, and The Food Network.
Most recently, Chris served as Vice President of Global Content at Warner Music Group and acted as Co-Executive Producer on "In The Booth”, a documentary TV series starring DJ Tiesto for Fuse Television.