Samuel Harowitz is Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition and Partnerships at Tubi, America’s most watched free TV and movie streaming service. Samuel leads all content partnerships at Tubi, including third-party licensed programming acquisitions, original content, and off platform content distribution. He also oversees partnerships with indie producers and licensors, major studios, global indies and brands. In addition, Harowitz manages international content acquisitions, sports, and FAST channels.

Harowitz has been instrumental in helming the expansion of Tubi’s industry-leading content library of more than 275,000 movies and TV series episodes. Most recently, he secured several premium TV series titles for the platform including Empire, La Brea, Gossip Girl, Grown-ish and Scandal, original programming such as Boarders, Big Mood, and Dead Hot, and a deal with Warner Bros Discovery for various DC films and series. Harowitz also supported Tubi’s recent launch in the UK, ensuring a robust offering from major studios, global indies, and local content.

Before Tubi, Harowitz oversaw TV content acquisitions at Freevee fkna IMDb TV (Amazon’s AVOD service) where he led third-party licensed programming and optimized its first run licensing program. During his time, he also managed all aspects of content selection, financial analysis and forecasting, and led relationships with studios, global indies and third-party producers.

Previously, Harowitz served as Vice President, Digital Content Licensing at A+E Networks, where he was charged with licensing programming to SVOD and AVOD platforms and led partner management of digital and OTT platforms. Prior to that, he held roles as Senior Vice President, Development and Production at Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky’s Is or Isn’t Entertainment and Vice President, Acquisitions and Co-Productions at FremantleMedia.