Immediate Announces Tamar Riley as Portfolio Managing Director

Published: 16 Feb 2026

Immediate, home to trusted brands that people love, have appointed Tamar Riley as Portfolio Managing Director. The newly created role will have overall strategic leadership for Immediate’s Food & Wellness, Knowledge and Entertainment portfolios, including market-leading brands Good Food, Radio Times and HistoryExtra, as well as Immediate’s Central Content Strategy function.

Tamar will work alongside Immediate’s brand leadership teams, as well as Immediate’s product, commercial and technology teams, to develop and implement editorial, commercial and audience growth strategies, as well as new product and revenue opportunities.

With over a decade in senior media leadership roles, Tamar joins Immediate from The Standard, where as CEO she’s strengthened the brand’s core proposition, whilst accelerating its digital evolution, maximising impact for audiences and clients alike.   

Prior to that, as Global Managing Director at Refinery29, she helped the digital entertainment business drive reach and revenues across multiple territories, through IP innovation, digital transformation, and strategic content and distribution partnerships. Tamar has also held senior Audience and Content strategy roles at i-D Magazine and Vice Media.

Tamar Riley, says: “I’m excited to be joining Immediate at a pivotal moment. With its portfolio of powerful, trusted brands and a strong focus on innovation and digital growth, there’s a clear opportunity to evolve how we engage audiences and create value. I’m looking forward to shaping what’s next and driving sustainable growth across the portfolio.”

Sean Cornwell, Immediate CEO, adds: “I’m delighted to welcome Tamar to Immediate. We’ve got ambitious plans to accelerate growth across our portfolio, driving deeper engagement for our brands through new content offers across multiple platforms, growing our subscriptions base and developing new partnerships and commercial opportunities to diversify and grow our revenues. Tamar has a fantastic track record of delivering successful audience, transformation and revenue strategies, alongside a commitment to quality content and we’re really looking forward to her joining the team.”

Tamar takes up the role in early March and also joins Immediate’s Leadership Team.

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For further information contact: Dominic.lobley@immediate.co.uk or Toby.hicks@immediate.co.uk or call 0780-362-8050

About Immediate

Immediate, home to trusted brands that people love, own and operate to some of the biggest and well-known consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food, Nutracheck, HistoryExtra and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine.

Our trusted, quality content reaches 21 people in the UK every month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps, live events, tools and services.

We are a purpose-driven business, bringing our audiences joy by helping them do what they love, creating content and experiences to inspire our audience’s passions in food, wellness, gardening, history entertainment, and beyond.

With over 1.4million active subscribers across print and digital, we are the UK’s leading publisher by subscriptions. Immediate is the market leader in many of the sectors we operate in, including food, gardening and children’s publishing.

Our brands include Radio Times, Good Food, olive, Nutracheck, HistoryExtra, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, Girl Talk, and MadeForMums. We publish BBC Top Gear on behalf of BBC Studios and children’s titles for LEGO and Pokémon.

Immediate Live, our live events business, is the UK’s leading organiser of unmissable consumer events. We create premium events and experiences that connect and inspire our audiences, including BBC Gardeners’ World Live, the Good Food Show, London Art Fair, Move It and the Hampton Court Food Festival.

With offices in London, Bristol and Nottingham, Immediate was named AOP (Association of Online Publishers) Digital Publisher of the Year 2024 and won the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) Diversity & Inclusion Award 2024.

Immediate is part of Burda International, the global arm of Hubert Burda Media.