Industry Standard 22: Will Keenan

WILL KEENAN is the President of ENDEMOL BEYOND USA, the digital division within the world's largest production company. Prior to that, he was a VP at top online MCN (Multi-Channel Network) MAKER STUDIOS where he developed and launched YouTube’s first entertainment & politics network (PoliPop/ 33 channels), partnered and optimized YouTube’s #1 Mom’s Network (TheMomsViewNetwork/25 channels), led vertical optimization for their ThePlatform lifestyle network launch (60 channels), their animation network (27 channels), and led their social account profiles, as well as their, initial network-wide social strategy.   Before his entry into the digital world, Will had garnered recognition as an indie & "cult" film star & stunt legend for his starring roles & producing efforts in over 30 independent movies in America, France, Germany, and India's "Bollywood."     Among his unique historical achievements, Will is the “World's First Digital Star” (Lead role in the first fully-digital feature film LOVE G-D), star of the last black and white widescreen musical feature film (THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X), named the “21st Century's Buster Keaton” (by Trevor Groth at The Sundance Film Festival), the “Cinema's First Hermaphrodite Serial Killer" (TERROR FIRMER), photographer of one of the "Most Legendary Pictures Ever Taken" (BUZZFEED '13 with Snoop Dogg & Phillip Seymour Hoffman), the only person ever to have publicly "Punk'd" legendary comedian/filmmaker Jerry Lewis, credited with single-handedly bringing Twitter to mainstream India, and as a "death-defying stuntman whose trademark was getting hit by cars" (Filmthreat Magazine). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.