Disney Distribution Chief Kareem Daniel on Juggling Streaming and Linear Content Operations: ‘Collaboration Is Absolutely Critical’
variety.comBreAnna Bell The television industry has been laser-focused on the transition to streaming in recent years, but that doesn’t mean that the linear side is being ignored or neglected.
That was the message Thursday from Kareem Daniel, chairman of Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, the unit that oversees all TV and film distribution and monetization within the Disney empire.
Daniel was a keynote speaker at Variety‘s Entertainment & Technology Summit at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood. “We’ve always had the focus internally about the variety of platforms that we have in [Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution], or the variety of experience touchpoints that we have across the Walt Disney Company with consumers –– that is no less of a priority now than it ever has been.
And we tie these organizations together in a way that, again, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” he said. “If you look at historically what the Walt Disney Company has done, we have exceeded and perhaps even led those industries despite the [changes] that may occur in the industries in which we participate in,” he added in his keynote conversation with Cynthia Littleton, Variety’s co-editor in chief.
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