40 Most Important People in Streaming [Media Play News]

Logos for various streamers on a television screen. From left: Netflix, Apple TV, Disney Plus, and Paramount Plus.

40 Most Important People in Streaming [Media Play News]

By Media Play News Staff

November 24, 2025| Welcome to the fourth annual edition of The 40 Most Important People in Streaming, in which we profile the key executives driving streaming and its alphabet soup of acronyms — SVOD, AVOD, TVOD and FAST.

Our fourth annual list has quite a few new names, including Cindy Holland, who brought original content to Netflix and now leads streaming at the new Paramount, a Skydance Corporation; Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann, who oversees billions in annual content spending while keeping investors confident in Netflix’s long-term profitability; Salek Brodsky, under whose leadership Samsung TV Plus has become one of the largest FAST services globally; and Stephen Hodge, who heads OTTera, a global leader in OTT solutions powering hundreds of AVOD, SVOD, TVOD and FAST services worldwide.

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