The Future Of Television. Dissected Daily.
No One Is Watching, Colbert, The FCC And The Great YouTube Workaround
How the death of news impacts institutions like the State of the Union address and how Carr’s plan to reign in Colbert backfired bigly.
The Great PSKY-WBD Mashup: It’s Not a Media Merger, It’s a Training Data Heist
Everyone’s debating synergies, churn, and the “ticking fee.” They’re missing the real story. This isn’t about streaming scale. It’s about training data dominance.
Tube Trends: MrBeast Uses Giveaways To Hit New Highs
MrBeast’s focus on giveaways has fueled all-time highs in views and engagement — and has laid the groundwork for content growth that brands and publishers haven’t necessarily picked up on yet.
Programmatic Live Sports: How SMB Advertisers Can Tap Into The Cultural Moment
Research continues to show that live sports viewers are among the most attentive audiences in media
The Real Battle in Premium & Social Content: Reach vs. Activation
Whether you’re a social media creator, legacy film studio, or historic cable brand, reaching and activating audiences has never been so difficult.
The Future Of Local TV Programming May Look More Like A Podcast
Video podcasts will not reverse cord-cutting or restore the economics of peak syndication. But they may represent a pragmatic bridge between legacy linear TV and the conversational, multiplatform media environment that now defines viewer behavior.
The AI Backlash Is In Full Force
X users have turned against AI this month in the long-predicted backlash. There are multiple camps, Alan Wolk explains, though their rationales are frequently interlinked.
The Art (And Science) Of Measurement with Extreme Reach’s Sherman Li
How Nielsen and Extreme Reach are closing the loop
The Dashboard Is The Next Media Battleground
As the screens in our cars get bigger and more connected, media companies sense opportunity as Christian Knaebel outlines in his newest report.
Gracenote’s Wheeler And Prasad On The Future Of Personalization, Discovery And Context
In this Innovator Spotlight from our new Special Report on FAST, we discuss everything from better discovery to greater transparency.
Hot List: 10 Originals: How AI, Social, Data are Changing TV/Hollywood
PLUS: The Revisionists with OpenAP’s Brittany Slattery, Warner Bros. hijinks, and more
Metadata, Measurement, And The Evolution To Data Infrastructure
TiVo’s Fariba Zamaniyan talks with TVREV about the importance of metadata and why her company places so much importance on being an independent data source.
AI In Production Is Inevitable: Why McConaughey Is All Right, Alright? Alright!
AI in production is inevitable. Here’s why the 2026 "Trust Wall" is forcing a total rethink of digital identity.
Tube Trends: ‘Primetime’ For Social Video? It Depends
Does social video have a “prime time” window? John Cassillo explores.
Ahead In Awareness, Behind In Urgency: ‘The Odyssey’ vs. ‘Oppenheimer’
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ will undoubtedly be a box office winner. But can it surpass the moneymaking highs of ‘Oppenheimer?’
More Warner Bros Hijinks, The Great AI Scare
Why “Who Buys Warner Bros?” is only at the beginning of its first season and why you are not someone who should be losing it over AI.
TikTok’s Local Feed Arrives At A Fragile Moment For Local News
TikTok’s local turn could become a powerful distribution partner for revitalized journalism. Or it could further platformize and fragment an already stressed ecosystem.
All Grown Up: FAST Comes Of Age
Our newest Special Report revisits the FAST ecosystem eight years in—what’s working, what’s not, which players are well positioned for the future, which is not. A must-read for anytone in the business.
The Revisionists: Inside OpenAP With Brittany Slattery
CMO Brittany Slattery on identity, measurement, collaboration—and why the unglamorous work matters most
Zigging Toward Retail Media? It’s Time For Brands To Zag
Viant’s Jeremy Gold on why brands should stop zigging to CTV to chase retail shoppers and zag towards demand gen instead.

