Steve Spignese

Steve Spignese

Steve Spignese

Public Relations

Steve Spignese

Public Relations

Steve Spignese has spent his career publicizing entertainment content and its creators.

Steve has driven tune-in campaigns for a variety of networks, producers, and studios, including digital and traditional series for clients like Endemol Shine North America, MGM, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Television. He's promoted streaming series on Netflix, Amazon, other SVOD services, and also daytime syndicated series for Sony Pictures Television, Debmar-Mercury, and NBCUniversal. He has publicized cable programming for networks like Animal Planet and Destination America, and prime-time broadcast series like American Ninja Warrior on behalf of production company A. Smith & Co. He's consulted for the award-winning PBS series Independent Lens and its producer ITVS. He's comfortable at the intersection of entertainment and technology, having worked with the National Association of Broadcasters on the NAB Show, the largest convention in the world devoted to entertainment media and technology.

Throughout his career, Steve has been an active member of the Television Academy. He represented the Television Academy Foundation, the charitable arm of the Television Academy, for several years, and he served on the organization's Daytime Awards Committee. He served on the Public Relations Peer Group Executive Committee for four years prior to becoming PR Peer Group Governor in 2018.

Steve is currently on the Awards team at Amazon Studios. He started his career at entertainment public relations leader Rogers & Cowan where he represented a variety of high-profile actors, writers and producers before moving to online pioneer Yahoo!, and then on to various agencies in Los Angeles. A Massachusetts native, he studied at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, and at the University of Massachusetts.

updated 3.4.22

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