Disney hires Google VP Jeremy Doig as its new streaming CTO - The Verge

The streaming platform behind Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Star Plus has a new CTO — Jeremy Doig. Doig worked at Google for the last 18 years developing technology used in YouTube and Chrome.

Jeremy Doig worked on compression and video tech thats in YouTube and Chrome Image: Disney Direct-to-customer streaming is now a focus for Disney, and today it took another step in organizing that … [+1944 chars]

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