Disney Hires Former iTunes Director to Helm Upcoming Streaming Service

Disney parted ways with Netflix last year and announced plans to offset its very own streaming service, and a lot has happened since then.

In a bid to go a streaming powerhouse, Disney has hired onetime iTunes Director, Kevin Swint, to guide its efforts in the domain and help Disney launch a streaming platform that can rival the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime number Video.

Co-ordinate to a study from Variety, Swint will be the Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Managing director (GM) of Disney SVOD Service. He will report to Michael Paull, CEO of The Walt Disney Company'south engineering science subsidiary, BAMTech Media. Swint's hiring will surely create ripples in the manufacture, given the quondam iTunes lead's impressive resume and achievements.

Disney Hires Former iTunes Director to Helm Upcoming Streaming Service

Swint was at Apple for 5 years betwixt 2008-2013, and in that elapsing, he oversaw the global expansion of the iTunes Movies Store, licensing and programming deals related to the iTunes' international movies business, and helmed multiple product launches. He later joined Samsung where he served as the VP of Product/Content & Services and helped in the evolution of 'Milk Video', Samsung'south short-lived video streaming service.

At this bespeak, not much else is known nearly Disney'due south upcoming service, aside from the fact that information technology is expected to launch in 2019 and will serve every bit the sectional platform for viewing live action and animated movies produced under Disney and Pixar'due south imprint.

Disney's subscription-based video-on-demand service will host its own titles released in 2019 and after, starting with Toy Story 4, Frozen's sequel, and the upcoming alive-action The Panthera leo Male monarch pic.