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Harold Chizick, co-founder of ChizComm and ChizComm Beacon Media, has been appointed to oversee Genius Brands International’s global content sales, consumer products and marketing business.

The president of streaming and COO talks about how ViacomCBS Networks International is navigating the global direct-to-consumer landscape.

The Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures Entertainment have inked a content licensing deal for U.S. streaming and TV rights to Sony’s new theatrical releases across Disney platforms such as Disney+ and Hulu, as well as the ABC, Disney, Freeform, FX and National Geographic linear channels.

Tom Ascheim, the president of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics, is the latest addition to the TV Kids Summer Festival.

Local and regional OTT platforms in Asia are seeing gains as they face off against the global giants for a share of consumer time and spend; Viu’s Janice Lee, iQIYI’s Yang Xianghua, Hulu Japan’s Kazufumi Nagasawa and U-NEXT’s Tenshin Tsutsumi shared their content and expansion strategies at APOS this week.

A+E Networks has promoted Christopher Barry to the post of executive VP of financial and business planning.

The U.K. factual company Zinc Media Group has confirmed the launch of the new production label Supercollider, led by award-winning director Mike Christie.

The content from Roku's Quibi acquisition is being rebranded as Roku Originals, which will also be the brand name for future original programming for The Roku Channel.

Netflix missed its target subscriber growth in the first quarter of 2021, adding 4 million net new customers in the period.

Eccho Rights has secured a deal with Acun Medya in Turkey for the CJ ENM entertainment format I Can See Your Voice.