How Disney coordinates content releases with Stellar
Mike Hunt
Release Operations Manager
Disney creates and distributes some of the most anticipated content in the world. Every release brings together creative, legal, marketing, and distribution teams, each with strict dependencies and hard deadlines.
Coordinating those groups across separate systems made it difficult to see the full picture of a release at any moment.
Why Disney needed end-to-end visibility
Complex releases exposed familiar risks:
- Hand-offs between teams that were easy to miss
- Approvals and clearances tracked in isolation
- No single timeline everyone could trust
When a release date is public, slipping is not an option.
Stellar gave us one timeline for the entire release. Every team can see exactly what they own and when it is due.
Releases that hit their date
By coordinating releases in Stellar, Disney connected every team to a single timeline and a clear set of dependencies. More releases landed on schedule and last-minute surprises became rare.