It’s Way Too Early For A Streaming Score Card
As Disney and Apple launch their streaming services this month and various media outlets go crazy trying to determine which service is doing better—I would not be surprised to see Read More
How Apple TV+ and Disney+ Have Leveraged TV Ads Leading Up To Launch Day
As of today, two new entrants into the streaming wars are officially up and running: Apple TV+ and Disney+. It remains to be seen exactly how things will shake out Read More
Week In Review: Apple TV+ Will Be Just $4.99, Roku Goes To Europe
1. Apple TV+ Will Be Just $4.99 So despite numerous rumors to the contrary, Apple will launch its Apple TV+ service for just $4.99/month. The new service will have eight—count Read More
WTF Wall Street?
Why can’t Wall Street figure Roku out? So Apple announces that their TV product, the long-awaited Apple TV+ is going to launch soon at just $4.99/month, with a free year-long Read More
Can FASTs Avoid Fraud?
Netflix paved the way for the OTT explosion, but subscription fatigue is starting to set in with consumers. And this is presenting a huge opportunity for ad-supported services like Hulu Read More
Week In Review: AT&T and the HBO Max Pricing Dilemma, Roku and Amazon FTW
1. AT&T and the HBO Max Pricing Dilemma So this week’s rumor about AT&T chief John Stankey’s pricing plans for HBO Max have the new service launching at a paltry Read More
Network Spotlight: Advertising and Viewership Trends for ABC
Labor Day has officially come and gone, so it’s time to start looking forward to fall TV. To help usher in the new season, we’re shining a spotlight on the Read More
TV Ad Attention Trends: Burger King and Taco Bell
When it comes to measuring the success of TV ads, actual viewer attention is key. iSpot.tv, the always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company, has attention analytics that measure both Read More
MyPillow Can Avoid Advertising on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ with Some of These Alternatives
MyPillow has alternates to the likes of Tucker Carlson and Fox News when it comes to TV advertising. We explain a few with data from iSpot and Inscape. Read More
What if Disney Just Buys Sony for the Hardware… and Spider-Man?
If Marvel winds up losing Spider-Man completely to Sony, could they just buy the whole company to get him back, with a hardware play to boot? Read More
ViacomCBS Should Go All-In on All Access
XuXu is blowing up. The streaming service now has over 24 million monthly users. And these users are accounting for 100 billion hours of video stats each month, as well Read More
Amazon Ramps Up Originals Ad Spend Ahead Of New Competitors’ Arrivals
Amazon substantially increased advertising spending on its new original shows the first half of 2019, as it tried to pull in consumers before the arrival of several new competitors, a new report found. Read More
TV Ad Attention Trends: Walmart and Target
When it comes to measuring the success of TV ads, actual viewer attention is key. iSpot.tv, the always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company, has attention analytics that measure both Read More
Disney Launches A Bundle, Comcast Launches A Study
1. Disney Launches A Bundle So The Great Rebundling has begun, with Disney’s relatively unsurprising announcement that they will be bundling Hulu and ESPN+ together with their new Disney+ service Read More
Disney May Have Already Won Streaming Wars with New, Cheap Bundle
Disney has an ability to act as MVPD and content provider on a level no one else can, at a price point that no one else is going to be able to compete with, either. Read More
Can Socially Minded TV And Films Build Brands Too?
The concept of corporate social responsibility has been around for a couple of decades now, morphing into an increasing willingness by CEOs to take public stands on controversial issues that Read More
Network Spotlight: Advertising and Viewership Trends for NBC
Ready for some fall TV yet? We are! So as summer winds down, we’re shining a spotlight on some of the networks as they prepare to kick off the 2019-20 Read More
Should There Be Gun Ads on TV?
TV has a gun problem of its own. Not the violence on CSI, that’s whatever. We’re used to that. Not the hunting channel, where animals get stalked and killed and Read More
Ninja’s Leap To Mixer Scrambles Livestreaming But Don’t Cry For Twitch Just Yet
One of Twitch’s biggest stars, Ninja, surprised the livestreaming industry by jumping to rival Mixer. It could be a big deal for the burgeoning business, but Twitch isn’t going anywhere. Read More
Q2 TV Advertising Report for Merck and Pfizer
Pharmaceutical companies are consistently big spenders when it comes to TV advertising; in fact, of the top 30 industries that spent the most on TV commercials in Q2 2019, four Read More
Amazon Leads Tech Giant TV Ad Spending… and it’s Not Even Close
U.S. tech giants spent millions on advertising in the first half of the year. Using data from iSpot, we take a closer look at who spent what where. Read More