{"id":20388,"date":"2020-05-19T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2020-05-19T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:05:26","slug":"former-head-of-streaming-at-disney-kevin-mayer-leaves-to-become-ceo-of-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/former-head-of-streaming-at-disney-kevin-mayer-leaves-to-become-ceo-of-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Former head of streaming at Disney Kevin Mayer leaves to become CEO of TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Head of The Walt Disney Company&#8217;s Direct-to-Consumer and International business is leaving Disney to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p>Founder Yiming Zhang will remain as CEO of ByteDance. President of TikTok Alex Zhu moves to ByteDance as Vice President of product and strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I\u2019m thrilled to have the opportunity to join the amazing team at ByteDance. Like everyone else, I\u2019ve been impressed watching the company build something incredibly rare in TikTok \u2013 a creative, positive online global community \u2013 and I\u2019m excited to help lead the next phase of ByteDance\u2019s journey as the company continues to expand its breadth of products across every region of the world.<\/p><cite>Kevin Mayer &#8211; TikTok CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayer oversaw the <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/disney-hit-50-million-subs-in-just-five-months\/\">very successful launch of Disney+ last year<\/a>. Such success in a streaming role, makes Kevin Mayer a great choice for short-form video app TikTok. This and a high-profile American running the app is a great move at a time where politicians and the public are raising concerns about the Chinese companies privacy and security issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of The Walt Disney Company&#8217;s Direct-to-Consumer and International business is leaving Disney to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance. Founder Yiming Zhang will remain as CEO of ByteDance. President of TikTok Alex Zhu moves to ByteDance as Vice President of product and strategy. I\u2019m thrilled to have the opportunity to join the amazing team at ByteDance. 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