2 posts and columns on Walt Disney Internet Group

Disney Combines Digital Units (Here's the Iger Memo)

in News on June 4, 2008 at 9:52 pm PT

In what is likely to turbocharge its heft in the digital space, according to an internal email sent out by Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, the company is combining its Disney Interactive Studios and the Walt Disney Internet Group. The new unit, called Disney Interactive Media Group–will be headed by WDIG’s Steve Wadsworth. WDIG has a wide range of properties, like Club Penguin, ABC.com and Disney.com. DIS makes a range of games for Disney brands like “Hannah Montana” and “Wall-E.”
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MicroHoo: Should They Stay or Should They Go?

in News on April 28, 2008 at 2:32 am PT

Should they stay or should they go now? If they go there will be trouble. And if they stay it will be double. In other words, BoomTown’s got nothing! I am traveling this morning to Los Angeles for paidContent’s Economics of Social Media conference, where I will interview Walt Disney Internet Group President Steve Wadsworth [...]