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Niche Streamers Seeing Double The Growth Of The Bigs As Netflix, Hulu Market Share Drops

Between the pandemic and an influx of major new services, the number of U.S. subscription accounts has boomed, up 30 percent annually over the past two years, but niche subscription video services have done even better, more than doubling that estimable track record, according to a research note from analytics consultancy Antenna Inc..

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VIZIO’s Adam Bergman On The Advantages Of Owning Your Own Data Set

As part of our upcoming series of Special Reports on the Emerging Smart TV Ecosystem, we sat down with Adam Bergman, Vice President of National Ad Sales at VIZIO, to discuss why having their own built-in data sets via ACR gives smart TV OEMs a real advantage over other programmers in the connected TV space.

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Beachfront’s St. John On Why Decision Making Tech Will Drive Addressable TV Advertising’s Evolution

When it comes to addressable advertising, few companies are as in the thick of it than Beachfront. Beachfront is a convergent TV ad platform that works with programmers and distributors to unify traditional paid TV with connected TVs. The company acts as the ad decisioning partner between the supply/programmer side and the media buying side. When there’s an opportunity for an addressable ad insertion, Beachfront’s tech decides what ads should be served based on that individual or household.

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