With over fifteen years of public relations experience in the entertainment field, Joy Phillips is skilled in publicity, public relations, corporate communications, media relations, and event planning for a variety of media and consumer audiences.
Currently a Senior Vice President of Public Relations, Joy oversees consumer publicity campaigns for several series across AMC Networks’ linear and curated streaming platforms. Recent highlights include AMC/AMC+'s Dark Winds, Monsieur Spade, Parish, and Gangs of London, BBC America’s Killing Eve, Acorn TV’s My Life Is Murder and Harry Wild, and Sundance Now’s State of the Union. Her upcoming series include a new season of AMC’s Dark Winds, The Terror: Devil In Silver, and Sanctuary, to name a few. She also directly oversees public relations strategy for Acorn TV, Sundance Now, We TV, and ALLBLK. We TV and ALLBLK feature popular and targeted unscripted programming such as The Braxtons, Tia Mowry: My Next Act, Brat Loves Judy, the Love After Lockup franchise, Mama June, and more. Joy has been with AMC Networks since 2019 and oversees the LA-based PR team.
Joy started at Rubenstein in 2015 and worked with clients including Color Force, HBO, Netflix, Amazon, AMC Networks, Refinery29, SundanceTV, and Jimmy Iovine. Before joining Rubenstein, she was a Publicity Manager at Starz Entertainment where she created and executed campaigns to promote original Starz programming including Spartacus, Boss, Power, Survivor’s Remorse, The White Queen, and Flesh and Bone, among others.
Prior to Starz, Joy worked at Fifteen Minutes Public Relations, where she created tactical campaigns and developed strategy and programming for Alloy Entertainment & Alloy Digital, Soledad O’Brien, Mark Cuban’s HDNet, and Mandalay Films & Peter Guber. She began her career in personal publicity at Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations, where she worked on PR, marketing, social media, and branding for prestigious clients in the television, film, fashion, literary, and non-profit spaces.
Joy earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin, and she now carries the role of Adjunct Professor for the University's Los Angeles-based program teaching Entertainment Publicity. Joy also serves as an Executive Committee member for the Television Academy Public Relations Peer Group. She resides in Los Angeles.
BOARDS & ADVISORY ROLES
- Television Academy Public Relations Peer Group
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News’s 40 Under 40
- Public Relations Society of America’s 30 Under 30
