Hot List Originals: On Google and How AI is Eating TV

Jun 1, 2025

“Right now, we are living in a sort of golden age of privacy violations”- Alan Wolk from Week in Review

COMING IN HOT

This week’s Hot List is stacked full of original analysis and data driven insights on the trends reshaping the conversation for 2025: especially as it relates to TV’s new heavy weight: Google. Yes, Google. More on that below, but first some community announcements:

THIS Monday June 2nd @ 3 PM ET: TVREV and Comscore are hosting a live conversation on the future of TV measurement ahead of a special report.
This week we’ll launch a special report on B2B for CTV in partnership with LinkedIn and iSpot. If you are B2B in streaming, hit me up for a special offer.
Weds June 11th at the Stream TV show, TVREV is Powering a Series of Panels be sure to register
Explain it to a Teenager is back again this Summer, if you want to participate, be in touch
Cannes June 16-19 TVREV is powering discussions and shooting content at the Fabric Innovation Studio with friends Evan Shapiro, Mike Shields and a special Tues morning with Marketecture Media. Be sure to ping us if you’re interested in stopping by or getting involved. And If you’re not going to France, we’ll have video series from the discussions all summer.

TVREV ORIGINALS

AI is Eating TV, Powered by Google - by Jason Damata

YouTube Dominate The Television Set, Oregon’s Privacy Alarm - Alan Wolk

I’m Buying! The Beverage Industry Boosts Spending On TV Advertising, iSpot Report Finds - Jon Lafayette

TV’s Generational Divide: Reimagining Local Content For A Fractured Audience - Tim Hanlon

Big Subscription Streaming Services Offering 5% More Content - Jon Lafayette

What Disney+ Adds With Cocomelon Licensing Deal - John Cassillo

Is CABSAT Becoming The IBC Of The Middle East? - Yann Colléter

The Streaming Wars Might Be Renamed The Platform Wars - Jo Redfern

What’s Possible: KERV + WBD On Making Shoppable Content Actually Work - Alan Wolk

YouTube Has The Largest Share, But The Battle To Monetize Streaming Viewers Is Just Getting Started - Jon Lafayette

Kevin Hart’s LOL Network Turning Laughs Into Watch-Time - Martha Bennett

MSNBC Goes All-In On Tariff Videos Since Trump Inauguration - Sid Zohar

Chewy Scores With Linear TV Ad Breakthrough 34% Above Norm - Eleanor Semeraro

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Jason Damata

Jason is the founder and CEO of Fabric Media, a media incubator and talent consortium. The company serves leading-edge TV disruptors- from data and analytics platforms to TV networks to emotional measurement companies. Damata has traveled the country for C-SPAN, where he worked with MSOs, produced educational political programming. He has served as CMO of Bebo when it was the world's 3rd largest social network, led marketing for Trendrr until it was acquired by Twitter and helped build the world's largest LIVE broadcast offering at explore.org where he built up a global syndication network. He is an analyst for companies on the edge of TV innovation such as iSpot, Inscape, Canvs, TNT and more.

http://linkedin.com/in/jasondamata

Hot List Originals: On Google and How AI is Eating TV

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