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Todd Steinman
Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Organization Executive Todd Steinman as Chief Earnings and Promoting Officer for Newly Announced KC! Kidaverse
Genius Brand names, Intercontinental
Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Corporation Executive as Chief Profits and Advertising Officer for Newly Declared KC! Kidaverse
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 20, 2022 (World NEWSWIRE) — Genius Brand names International (“Genius Brands”) (NASDAQ: GNUS) now declared the appointment of Todd Steinman to the Kartoon Channel! Executive Crew as Chief Revenue and Advertising Officer of the Company’s just lately declared Kartoon Channel! Kidaverse.
Steinman is an esteemed development advertising government who most a short while ago served as Vice President in the Direct to Client and Worldwide division at The Walt Disney Company, which provided Disney+ in the course of its launch. He assisted develop options to leverage the Walt Disney Company’s portfolio of linear and electronic makes, which includes DISNEY, HULU, ESPN, ABC, FREEFORM, Forex, and Nat Geo, when environment strategy for ad profits and income teams. Prior to his position at The Walt Disney Firm, Steinman co-founded the digital media company, M80, and then led the NBC Common media group for WPP after they acquired M80. He negotiated multi-million-greenback yearly media discounts with Google/YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, and other people, although taking care of an yearly finances north of $1 billion.
Steinman will report to Jon Ollwerther, President of Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse, who mentioned: “Todd has a background of driving development for the most vital names in leisure. With the announcement of the KC! Kidaverse, and the acquisition of Ameba Television, Kartoon Channel! has reached a new inflection level, and I could not be far more thrilled to welcome an govt of Todd’s caliber to support travel our small business to the up coming amount.”
“There is an electrical excitement about the Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse in the kid’s and family members market place,” stated Steinman, “It’s a breakthrough principle, and I’m looking forward to bringing all my abilities to enable push it forward.”
About Genius Brands International
Genius Brands Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNUS) is a major world wide young ones media corporation building, creating, advertising and licensing branded children’s leisure properties and buyer solutions for media and retail distribution. The Company’s ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio consists of 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-winning toddler model Little one Genius experience comedy STEM sequence Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab and entrepreneurship collection Warren Buffett’s Magic formula Millionaires Club. As a result of licensing agreements with top partners, characters from Genius Brands’ IP also appear on a huge selection of customer products for the worldwide retail market. The Company’s Kartoon Channel! and Kartoon Classroom! are readily available in around 100 million U.S. television homes by using a wide vary of distribution platforms, including Comcast, Cox, DISH, Sling Television, Pluto Television set, Amazon Primary, Amazon Fireplace, Apple Television, Apple iOS, Android Tv set, Android Mobil, Google Participate in, Xumo, Roku, Tubi, YouTube, KartoonChannel.com, Samsung Intelligent TVs and LG TVs. For added facts, make sure you pay a visit to www.gnusbrands.com.
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