On January 14, 2022, Bright Mountain Media, Inc. appointed Mr. Matthew Drinkwater, the recently appointed Chief Executive Officer to the Board of Directors. Mr. Drinkwater is a digital executive with extensive, progressively advancing leadership experience at iconic high tech brands. From 2017 to the present, he served as the Senior Vice President, International for BuzzFeed.

He also was in Agency Development and Global Accounts at Twitter from 2015 to 2017 and head of Twitter's Global Online Sales in San Paolo, Brazil from 2013 through 2015. Mr. Drinkwater served as Vice President of Groupon East Coast from 2011 to 2013 and, Senior Director of Sales, New England and Canada at Yahoo from 2009 to 2011.