Immediate appoints Charles Cox as Performance Marketing & Acquisitions Director

Published: 21 May 2026

Immediate, home to trusted brands that people love, have appointed Charles Cox as Performance Marketing & Acquisitions Director.

Charles joins from Mindvalley, the personal growth platform, where he held a senior marketing leadership role. He has previously led performance marketing at Experian and held leadership positions across a range of wellness brands.

In his new role, Charles will oversee top-of-funnel marketing, with Immediate’s Subscriptions Acquisitions, and Performance Marketing teams reporting to him. His focus will be on optimising Immediate's owned and paid marketing channels and effectively segmenting audiences to accelerate growth. He will be reporting to Jess Burney, Immediate’s Managing Director, Customer Marketing & Subscriptions.
Immediate have seen significant growth in subscriptions with a total file of 1.2 million subscribers, including 786k digital subscriptions, across brands like Radio Times, Good Food, HistoryExtra and Nutracheck.

Jess Burney, says: "I'm delighted to welcome Charles to Immediate. He brings a wealth of experience in digital performance marketing and customer acquisition for subscriptions, within matrix organisations. He joins at an exciting time, as we have ambitious plans to accelerate growth, building on the strong foundations we've laid across our marketing, data and subscriptions capabilities."

Charles Cox adds: "Immediate has built something really impressive with a sophisticated subscriptions business, supporting a portfolio of iconic brands. I'm looking forward to working with the team to drive growth across our marketing channels and help reach even more people with the content they love."

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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 million 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 1.2 million 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 and Manchester, Immediate is part of Burda International, the global arm of Hubert Burda Media.