
The Future Of Television. Dissected Daily.
Media As The History Channel
As media slides into medieval disarray there’s hope that a new renaissance is on the horizon.
MLB’s Outdated Local TV Rules Are Hurting Fans
If baseball is serious about growing its audience, especially among younger fans, it must overhaul its television and streaming policies to make it easier — not harder — for people to watch their favorite teams.
Hot List: Is TV Learning To Ride Again?
Pay TV is recovering through persistence, but new disruptions keep reshaping the ride… PLUS: 2 free reports and 15 originals
What Did YOU Do Last Week, FAST Marketers?
Jonathan Verk lays out the new rules for marketing FAST channels, relying on algorithms and social media to make discoverability easier.
The Resistance Has An Unlikely Hero
How the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has become the voice of the anti-MAGA center… and what that means for the media industry writ large.
Movies Are In Trouble, Hulu’s Big Oscar Screw-Ups (Plural)
The Movie Issue: Why movies and movie theaters are in so much trouble, plus the fallout from Hulu’s Oscar screw-ups.
How TV Can Build Your Brand. And Your Bottom Line
A new report from Tatari and Morning Brew shows how TV is moving way beyond brand building to become a true performance marketing vehicle.
Comscore Map Shows Where Super Bowl Viewers Tuned In And When Some Tuned Out
Viewership was low in Monterey-Salinas and other West Coast markets
Broadcasters Want To Kill ATSC 1.0 – But At What Cost To Viewers?
The transition to ATSC 3.0 may be inevitable, but it should not come at the expense of consumer choice and accessibility.
Breaking Down TV’s Great Divide: Why Ad Sales Must Evolve
This excerpt from our TVREV Special Report looks at how the divide between linear and streaming his holding TV ad sales back..and what you can do about it.
OKAST's Cédric Monnier On Distribution & Personalization In The FAST Space
We sat down with OKAST CEO Cédric Monnier to get his take on the FAST landscape.
Could A Pharma Ad Ban Shake Up The TV Industry?
TripleLift’s bold new report, written by Mike Shields, looks at what happens to television if a DTC pharma advertising ban goes into effect.
Samsung Ads Makes ‘CTV First’ Campaign Planning Pitch
‘By broadening their CTV targets, marketers can reach lighter category and brand users who don’t fall into traditionally targeted segments but who represent significant growth potential,’ Samsung Ads report says
Hot Takes: The Future Of Shoppable TV
We asked our TVREV Thought Leaders Circle members what they thought would need to happen in order to make shoppable TV take off. Their unexpected responses may surprise you.
Hot List: Moving on from Movie Going and the Era of “Great Television”
12 TVREV originals this week from analysts who tell it like it is.
Streaming Over Theaters: The New Movie Viewing Norm
TVREV and MX8 Labs partnered to survey U.S. viewers about their movie watching habits, and found that 46% prefer to stream flicks at home, while only 15% favor theaters.
Live Sports Streaming Is Taking Over
A trio of new reports from LG Ad Solutions examine the rapid growth of live sports on streaming in the US, UK and Canada with some very eye-opening stats.
The Lessons Of Skype’s Unnecessary Failure
In March 2020, Skype was a verb and Zoom was a largely unknown videoconferencing software company. What happened to since is a cautionary tale for companies in all industries.
Max Disses Ad-Supported Viewers, YouTube Pushes Its Channel Store Hard
WBD takes CNN and Bleacher Report away from ad-supported viewers and we wonder WTF. Plus YouTube’s resurgent channel store strategy.
Magnite Study Says YouTube Is Still Not TV, Especially When It Comes To Ad Performance
Is CTV more effective than video sharing platforms? A new report from Magnite shows some interesting differences.