Disney Streaming Exec Kevin Mayer Becomes TikTok’s New CEO
迪士尼高管将出任「Tiktok」新CEO
Kevin Mayer, head of The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer and international business, is departing to become CEO of TikTok, as well as COO of the popular video app’s parent company ByteDance.
华特-迪士尼公司(Walt Disney Company)直接面向消费者的国际业务主管凯文•梅尔(Kevin Mayer)即将离职，出任TikTok首席执行官，同时也是这家流行视频应用程序的母公司字节跳动(ByteDance)的首席运营官。
Founder Yiming Zhang will continue to serve as ByteDance CEO, while TikTok President Alex Zhu (formerly the co-founder of the predecessor app Musical.ly) becomes ByteDance’s vice president of product and strategy.
创始人张一鸣将继续担任字节跳动的首席执行官，而TikTok总裁Alex Zhu(之前的app Musical.ly的联合创始人)将担任字节跳动的产品和战略副总裁。
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to join the amazing team at ByteDance,” Mayer said in a statement.
梅耶尔在一份声明中表示:“我很高兴能有机会加入抖音这个令人惊叹的团队。”英语新闻网
“Like everyone else, I’ve been impressed watching the company build something incredibly rare in TikTok – a creative, positive online global community – and I’m excited to help lead the next phase of ByteDance’s journey as the company continues to expand its breadth of products across every region of the world.”
像其他人一样，我很感动，看到公司做出了一些难以置信的成就，抖音——一个创造，积极的网上全球社区-我很激动去做为抖音的下一任领导去继续扩大公司产品的广度以至于让他们在世界的每一个地区。https://781203.com/
The news was confirmed in announcements from ByteDance and Disney.
字节跳动公司和迪斯尼公司的公告证实了这一消息。
Mayer’s role involved overseeing Disney’s streaming strategy, including the launch of Disney+ last fall, which has already grown to more than 50 million subscribers.
梅耶尔负责监督迪士尼的流媒体策略，包括去年秋天推出的“迪士尼+”，该网站的订阅用户已经超过5000万。
