Kartoon Channel! Appoints Former Senior Walt Disney Organization Govt as Chief Earnings and Internet marketing Officer for Freshly Declared KC! Kidaverse

Todd Steinman

Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Company Executive Todd Steinman as Chief Income and Advertising and marketing Officer for Recently Declared KC! Kidaverse

Kartoon Channel! Appoints Former Senior Walt Disney Organization Government Todd Steinman as Chief Income and Advertising and marketing Officer for Recently Introduced KC! Kidaverse

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Kartoon Channel! Appoints Former Senior Walt Disney Company Executive as Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer for Newly Announced KC! Kidaverse

Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Corporation Executive as Chief Profits and Promoting Officer for Freshly Announced KC! Kidaverse

Kartoon Channel! Appoints Previous Senior Walt Disney Firm Government as Main Earnings and Internet marketing Officer for Freshly Announced KC! Kidaverse

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 20, 2022 (World NEWSWIRE) — Genius Models Global (“Genius Brands”) (NASDAQ: GNUS) these days announced the appointment of Todd Steinman to the Kartoon Channel! Government Group as Main Profits and Advertising and marketing Officer of the Company’s recently declared Kartoon Channel! Kidaverse.

Steinman is an esteemed development advertising and marketing government who most not long ago served as Vice President in the Immediate to Customer and Global division at The Walt Disney Company, which provided Disney+ through its start. He helped produce methods to leverage the Walt Disney Company’s portfolio of linear and electronic brand names, which includes DISNEY, HULU, ESPN, ABC, FREEFORM, Forex, and Nat Geo, when setting approach for ad income and income groups. Prior to his role at The Walt Disney Company, Steinman co-launched the digital media company, M80, and then led the NBC Universal media crew for WPP right after they obtained M80. He negotiated multi-million-greenback once-a-year media specials with Google/YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, and other folks, though taking care of an annual spending budget north of $1 billion.

Steinman will report to Jon Ollwerther, President of Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse, who stated: “Todd has a background 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 achieved a new inflection position, and I could not be additional thrilled to welcome an govt of Todd’s caliber to support travel our business to the subsequent degree.”

“There is an electric exhilaration about the Kartoon Channel! and KC! Kidaverse in the kid’s and spouse and children current market,” explained Steinman, “It’s a breakthrough notion, and I’m on the lookout forward to bringing all my abilities to help generate it ahead.”

About Genius Models Worldwide
Genius Models International, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNUS) is a main world-wide youngsters media business producing, making, marketing and licensing branded children’s enjoyment properties and shopper products and solutions for media and retail distribution. The Company’s ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio involves 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-profitable toddler model Baby Genius journey comedy STEM sequence Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab and entrepreneurship series Warren Buffett’s Top secret Millionaires Club. As a result of licensing agreements with primary companions, people from Genius Brands’ IP also show up on a huge range of client goods for the around the world retail marketplace. The Company’s Kartoon Channel! and Kartoon Classroom! are out there in about 100 million U.S. television households through a wide vary of distribution platforms, together with Comcast, Cox, DISH, Sling Tv set, Pluto Television, Amazon Key, Amazon Fire, Apple Tv set, Apple iOS, Android Television, Android Mobil, Google Enjoy, Xumo, Roku, Tubi, YouTube, KartoonChannel.com, Samsung Wise TVs and LG TVs. For further information, make sure you go to www.gnusbrands.com.

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