30 Jan Vizio’s Katherine Pond Selected as Media Play News’ 2025 Fast Forward Honoree [Media Play News]
January 30, 2025 | Katherine Pond, Group VP, Platform Content & Partnerships at Vizio, will be this year’s Fast Forward Award honoree, Media Play News announced Jan. 30.
The Fast Forward Award is presented each year by Media Play News, one of the five major Hollywood trades and the only one to focus on “last mile” home distribution of films and shows, to people, technologies, organizations, products or services that move the home entertainment industry forward.
Pond, who will be saluted in the February 2025 issue of Media Play News, is a key driver in the CTV realm. She heads distribution, content acquisition, programming, platform partnerships and marketing at Vizio, a top smart-TV maker and leader in the CE industry’s embrace of streaming. Pond has played a key role in getting Vizio to leverage platform data to gain insight into what consumers want to watch and make the right content choices for Vizio’s WatchFree+ FAST service.
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