Cannes Lions honors YouTube CEO
The organizers of the Cannes Lions Festival honor Salar Kamangar, CEO of YouTube, with the "Media Person of the Year" award. Kamangar will receive the award on June 19, 2013 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
According to the press release, the award is presented each year to a prominent person who has a significant influence on the development of the media industry and plays an important role in shaping the future of the sector.
Salar Kamangar has been CEO of the video portal YouTube since 2009, which was founded in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2009. Kamangar was responsible for the expansion of YouTube into a global broadcast platform, which today has a worldwide community of around 1 billion people per month. Under his leadership, the video portal also launched a new website and "TrueView", an advertising option where advertisers only pay for advertising that is actually viewed. Salar Kamangar will receive the "Media Person of the Year" award on June 19, 2013 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
Previous winners of the award are Jack Dorsey, Creator, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Twitter; Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation; Tsuneo Watanabe, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings; Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom; and Gerald Levin, CEO of AOL Time Warner.
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