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Todd Steinman
Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Corporation Government Todd Steinman as Chief Income and Promoting Officer for Recently Declared KC! Kidaverse
Genius Brands, Intercontinental
Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Corporation Govt as Chief Revenue and Advertising Officer for Newly Announced KC! Kidaverse
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 20, 2022 (Globe NEWSWIRE) — Genius Models Global (“Genius Brands”) (NASDAQ: GNUS) these days introduced the appointment of Todd Steinman to the Kartoon Channel! Government Group as Main Income and Promoting Officer of the Company’s recently announced Kartoon Channel! Kidaverse.
Steinman is an esteemed development marketing and advertising executive who most recently served as Vice President in the Direct to Customer and Intercontinental division at The Walt Disney Corporation, which included Disney+ for the duration of its launch. He served make solutions to leverage the Walt Disney Company’s portfolio of linear and electronic brand names, which include DISNEY, HULU, ESPN, ABC, FREEFORM, Fx, and Nat Geo, though environment approach for advertisement gross sales and earnings groups. Prior to his function at The Walt Disney Organization, Steinman co-established the digital media company, M80, and then led the NBC Common media team for WPP right after they obtained M80. He negotiated multi-million-greenback annual media bargains with Google/YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, and some others, while managing an once-a-year funds north of $1 billion.
Steinman will report to Jon Ollwerther, President of Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse, who stated: “Todd has a history of driving expansion for the most vital names in entertainment. With the announcement of the KC! Kidaverse, and the acquisition of Ameba Tv set, Kartoon Channel! has arrived at a new inflection point, and I could not be more thrilled to welcome an executive of Todd’s caliber to support drive our enterprise to the next amount.”
“There is an electric pleasure about the Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse in the kid’s and loved ones marketplace,” reported Steinman, “It’s a breakthrough thought, and I’m hunting forward to bringing all my know-how to enable generate it forward.”
About Genius Brands International
Genius Manufacturers International, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNUS) is a top international kids media corporation building, making, advertising and marketing and licensing branded children’s amusement homes and buyer products and solutions for media and retail distribution. The Company’s ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio incorporates Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Kartoon Channel! Shaq’s Garage, starring Shaquille O’Neal on Kartoon Channel! Rainbow Rangers on Kartoon Channel! and Netflix Llama, starring Jennifer Garner, on Netflix award-successful toddler manufacturer Toddler Genius journey comedy STEM series Thomas Edison’s Magic formula Lab and entrepreneurship collection Warren Buffett’s Mystery Millionaires Club. As a result of licensing agreements with foremost partners, figures from Genius Brands’ IP also surface on a extensive array of buyer merchandise for the around the globe retail marketplace. The Company’s Kartoon Channel! and Kartoon Classroom! are readily available in above 100 million U.S. tv households by means of a broad variety of distribution platforms, together with Comcast, Cox, DISH, Sling Television set, Pluto Tv set, Amazon Prime, Amazon Hearth, Apple Tv set, Apple iOS, Android Tv, Android Mobil, Google Play, Xumo, Roku, Tubi, YouTube, KartoonChannel.com, Samsung Clever TVs and LG TVs. For supplemental details, you should check out www.gnusbrands.com.
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