L.A. TV and Innovation Week: Streaming Wars, Data Wars, and ‘Star Wars’
OTT is up, silos are down, and everyone is worried about privacy. Here’s what we learned at the LA TV and Innovation Week conference. Read More
Disney+ is a Marvel Cinematic Universe Model for the Entire Entertainment Industry
Disney’s interconnectivity follows the lead of the MCU and makes recommendation algorithms nearly unnecessary on Disney+. Read More
Week In Review: AT&T Rebrands DTVN, Locast Gets Sued
AT&T Rebrands DTVN AT&T rebranded DirecTV Now this week, changing the name to AT&T TV Now (to match its new AT&T TV service) because people won’t realize how much it Read More
Alan Wolk on Cheddar this AM, talking T-Mobile/Sprint
and the role Dish might play. Check it out: Read More
Week In Review: Cable Sub Losses Mount But Their Bottom Lines Don’t Care, “Let’s Make Our Own Roku!” Is Probably A Dumb Idea.
1.Cable Sub Losses Mount But Their Bottom Lines Don’t Care Cable losses are mounting. Again. AT&T lost 946K subscribers, Comcast lost 224K, Charter lost 141K. But you know what none Read More
Week In Review: Wall Street Wallops Netflix, Sinclair STIRR Is A Hit
1. Wall Street Wallops Netflix Netflix had a bad quarter and Wall Street freaked out, sending the stock down by around 10% (or $16B worth of value) following an announcement Read More
Stop Trying To Make “Netflix Killer” Happen. It’s Not Going To Happen
Netflix had a bad quarter, or more accurately, a less good quarter than they’d anticipated, and already the knives are out. TV is one of those topics that everyone has Read More
Waiting For Addressable: Why It’s Taking So Long For The Industry To Get Its Act Together
Two or three years ago, when I’d talk to network executives about addressable advertising, it was like talking to the Three Little Pigs about the Big Bad Wolf. They were Read More
Flixcopalypse Now! (And What You Should Be Looking For)
Netflix is losing two hit sitcoms from the 90s and 00s and you’d think the world as we know it was about to end. Well, the TV world anyway. For Read More
MadHive Goes Local: Q&A with CEO Adam Helfgott
I recently sat down with MadHive Founder and CEO Adam Helfgott to discuss his firm’s recent deals with Inscape and TEGNA, why OTT is so important to the future of Read More
Week In Review: FAST Times At TV High: Tubi Tops 20 Million Viewers, FuboTV Launches Sports FAST
1. Tubi Tops 20 Million Viewers Tubi, the FAST (Free Ad Supported Steaming TV Service) that Viacom didn’t buy, now has over 20 million monthly active viewers. Now that number Read More
Week In Review: Cable Goes Addressable, Locast Goes To California
1. Cable Goes Addressable Open AP, recently rebranded as Open AP 2.0, appears to be rapidly making its way back from its previous Left For Dead After The Departure Of Read More
The Last Great American TV Manufacturer: Q&A With VIZIO’s William Wang
Last week, I sat down with William Wang, the Founder and CEO of VIZIO, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of television sets. Our conversation was wide ranging, everything from Read More
Week In Review: Ad Agencies Join Project OAR, AT&T To Make DirecTV Now Part Of WarnerFlix
1. Ad Agencies Join Project OAR Addressable advertising may be moving yet another step closer to real as all of the major ad agency groups: Publicis, Omnicom, GroupM, Magna, Dentsu, Read More
As Brands Return To Television, Confusion Around Measurement And Addressability Remain Key Issues
Brand advertisers seem to be getting over their infatuation with digital display advertising—years of ad fraud, brand safety issues, viewability issues and the widespread adoption of ad blocking software will Read More
Week In Review: WarnerFlix Dumps The Three-Tier Plan, Quibi Dumps TV
1. WarnerFlix Dumps The Three-Tier Plan, I cringed when I heard about AT&T’s plan to implement a “three tier” plan for their new WarnerFlix product. It was as if they’d Read More
Can HbbTV and ATSC 3.0 Turn Broadcast Into A Broadband Competitor?
If you’re a television broadcaster, the constant drumbeat about how OTT and digitally delivered television are taking over the world is probably more like a pounding headache. How do you Read More
The Upcoming Flixification Of Network TV
Buried a few paragraphs down in most of the stories about the increased likelihood of CBS and Viacom merging this summer, was a little tidbit about how, once the Viacom Read More
Week In Review: Are CBS and Viacom Getting Rehitched, Amazon Acquires Sizmek’s Ad Server
1. Are CBS and Viacom Getting Rehitched? The on-again/off-again romance between CBS and Viacom looks like it’s back on again. At least that’s what CNBC is saying (and they usually Read More
Week In Review: Roku Shows Brands What (And Who) They’re Missing, Facebook Fucks Up Again
1. Roku Shows Brands What (And Who) They’re Missing Roku rolled out a new tool called “Activation Insights” that shows brands the incremental viewers they are missing by only advertising Read More
We’ve Embraced The Fragmentation
Sean Moran, Head of Viacom Ad Solutions, Explains How Viacom’s Acquisition Strategy Is Setting the Company Apart I sat down with Head of Viacom Ad Solutions, Sean Moran to talk Read More