Disney: The 350 Word TL;DR Version
So many book-length articles about the Disney Plus announcement out there now, so we wanted to follow up on our Week In Review piece to give you a TL:DR version... Read More
Week In Review: Disney Raises Hopes, YouTube Raises Prices
1. Disney Raises Hopes Disney made the long-awaited announcement about their new Disney Plus OTT service this week, which came with a number of surprises. Why It Matters The biggest... Read More
Week In Review: The Flixes Say Whoa, The vMVPDs Continue To Grow
1. The Flixes Say Whoa So after much speculation that a party Apple was throwing for Jennifer Aniston and other celebrities was actually going to be the launch of their... Read More
Seven Questions With Hulu’s Peter Naylor
If there’s any one company that sits at the heart of the ad-supported OTT ecosystem, it’s Hulu. Peter Naylor, Hulu’s SVP and Head of Advertising Sales has seen the industry... Read More
Week In Review: ESPN Hits 2M Subs For Plus, CBS Hits 2.6M Streamers For The Super Bowl
1. ESPN Hits 2M Subs For Plus ESPN+ now has over two million viewers and Disney is understandably pleased with the results, given that the service is just 9 months old.... Read More
Week In Review: The Rise Of Local Streaming Apps, The Fall Of DirecTV Now Subscriber Numbers
1. The Rise Of Local Streaming Apps It’s been a big week for local broadcast networks and OTT. Sinclair launched STIRR, their new app that combines their local broadcast channels... Read More
How The Great Cord Cutting Myth Gets Spread, Part 2
Another day, another “study” on cord cutting that gets repeated as fact by the tech press. Hat tip to TV Answerman Phillip Swann for bringing this to our attention. This... Read More
Roku’s Extreme Walled Garden Is A Bold But Risky Move
Roku announced an even more extreme version of the so-called “walled garden” today, in a press release that outlined how Roku’s version of Amazon’s Channel Store concept would work. Viewers... Read More
Week In Review: Hulu Raises/Lowers Prices, Viacom Buys Pluto
1.Hulu Raises/Lowers Prices Busy week for the TV industry, made all the more notable by the series of layoffs at digital companies that were once considered threats. Meanwhile, Hulu lowered... Read More
Maybe It’s Not The Algorithm
There’s been a lot of talk about how Netflix’s amazingly awesome algorithms were responsible for taking the show You from purgatory on Lifetime and turning it into a streaming hit. ... Read More
WEEK IN REVIEW: Netflix Raises Prices, NBCU Launches An OTT App
1. Netflix Raises Prices Netflix raised prices again this week, taking its most popular package, the one that allows for two simultaneous streams (aka the family package) from $11/month to... Read More
Could An Amazon With Sports Be Pay TV’s Waterloo?
For a long time, we’ve been rolling our eyes at the whole cord cutting myth, at the gullibility of mainstream journalists who insist on repeating the canard about the “tidal... Read More
WEEK IN REVIEW: Amazon Launches Its Own FAST, Hulu, AT&T Get Attributable.
1. Amazon Launches Its Own FAST Happy 2019. While rumors of Amazon launching its own FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV Service) have been swirling about for a few months now,... Read More
CBS Has A Plan B, And Its Name Isn’t Nielsen
Remember how last week in our TVREV predictions, number 10 was “Networks insist on adding ACR data to Nielsen”? Well call us prescient yet again. While at CES, we wound... Read More
The Year Ahead. Our Fearless Predictions For 2019, Part 2 of 2
Picking up where we left off with Part 1, here are our last six predictions for 2019. 7. As the content bubble explodes, a lot of great shows get lost... Read More
The Year Ahead. Our Fearless Predictions For 2019, Part 1 of 2
It’s that time of year again, time for us to get out our crystal balls and predict the future. Before you laugh, remember that we were spot on last year... Read More
Week In Review: T-Mobile vMVPD Service Might Launch in 2019, NBCU Might (Finally) Launch A DTC Service Too
1. T-Mobile vMVPD Service Might Launch in 2019 So it seems that T-Mobile is not going to launch its TV service in 2018. Which, given that there are just 10... Read More
WEEK IN REVIEW: AT&T and Hulu Launch “Pause” Ads, Amazon Starts Selling Chromecasts Again
1. AT&T and Hulu Launch “Pause” Ads Given the popularity of binge viewing, both Hulu and AT&T decided that rather than bury their heads in the sand and pretend it... Read More
Warner Spares Netflix. But At What Cost?
Sometime in the spring of 2015, a secret memo went out to 12-year-old girls across America. “Log into your parents Netflix account and start watching Grey’s Anatomy,” it commanded. “All... Read More
Week In Review: AT&T Reveals The Three Faces Of Warner, Pluto Discovers Europe
1. AT&T Reveals The Three Faces Of Warner While the industry awaits the “Attack of the Giant Flixes” one of the biggest questions has been what those “Flixes” will actually... Read More
Week In Review: Amazon Bids for Fox RSNs, Apple Might Be Thinking About A Lower Priced Dongle
1. Amazon Bids for Fox RSNs As part of their deal with Disney, Fox has just 90 days to get rid of their 22 RSNs (Regional Sports Networks, the ones... Read More
Week In Review: AT&T Goes Full Digital, Netflix Goes Full Mobile
1. AT&T Goes Full Digital AT&T finally admitted to doing what we’ve long assumed every MVPD is going to do: move all their pay-TV subscribers to digital. Why It Matters... Read More