Against The Wall #1: Three Silver Linings To The Olympic Postponement For NBCU
Given that we’re all stuck at home, we have a chance to play with video and this is our first episode of what we’re calling Against The Wall, because that’s Read More
ESPN Without Live Sports: Looking at Ad, Programming Changes
With no live sports for the foreseeable future, sports networks are being forced to adjust their business. Here’s a look at ESPN without its main subject. Read More
From Cheddar: Streaming In The Age Of Coronavirus
TV[R]EV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk was on Cheddar TV on Friday, discussing the impact of the pandemic on the TV industry with host Hena Doba. Read More
Week In Review: Ratings Are (Unsurprisingly) Up, Fox Buys Tubi
1. Ratings Are (Unsurprisingly) Up As pretty much everyone predicted, linear TV ratings shot up last week, as large swaths of Americans stayed home from work and from school. So Read More
Week In Review: The World Turned Upside Down. (How The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Impact The TV Industry)
It seems more than a little odd to focus on minor shifts to the TV ecosystem this week while The World As We Know It has been turned on its Read More
Week In Review: More MVPDs Jump On The vMVPD Bandwagon, Discovery-Flix Is Coming Soon
1. More MVPDs Jump On The vMVPD Bandwagon Frontier, the Connecticut-based MVPD that recently added a bunch of orphaned FIOS subs and WOW!, the Denver based cable company with an Read More
Week in Review: vMVPDs Hit 10 Million Mark, More Details On VCBS-Flix
1. vMVPDs Hit 10 Million Mark As per MoffettNathanson, vMVPDs, the digital pay TV services originally known as “skinny bundles” now have around 10 million viewers. That’s a remarkable growth Read More
Week In Review: Alphabet Looking To Make YouTube Into A Bundler, Roku Scores Again.
1. Alphabet Looking To Make YouTube Into A Bundler Jessica Toonkel and Alex Heath are reporting that YouTube has been making overtures to subscription services, in an attempt to make Read More
Week In Review: VCBS Will Launch A Flix After All, 605 Enters The Measurement Arena
1. VCBS Will Launch A Flix After All CNBC’s Alex Sherman broke the news yesterday that VCBS is planning to launch its own Flix. This is not all that unexpected—the Read More
Week In Review: AT&T Loses Over 1M subs in Q4, Facebook Cutting Back On Originals
1. AT&T Loses Over 1M Subs In Q4 AT&T racked up some impressive TV subscriber losses in 2019, shedding 945K DirecTV and U-verse subs along with 219K AT&T TV Now Read More
Week In Review: Netflix Adopts Dubious Measurement Standard, Comcast Doubles Number Of New Broadband Subs
1. Netflix Adopts Dubious Measurement Standard Netflix added over 8.8 million subscribers last quarter, all but 420K of them outside the US. Still, that estimate exceeded their earlier projection of Read More
Week In Review: NBC Reveals Its Peacock Feathers, Hulu Adds Even More Cool New Ad Products
1. NBC Reveals Its Peacock Feathers NBC finally released details of its Peacock service and the good news is it sounds like The Way You’d Configure Network TV If You Read More
WEEK IN REVIEW: OAR and Nielsen Show Off Demos At CES, Verizon Tries Some Lighter Bundles
1. OAR and Nielsen Show Off Demos At CES So CES is over and while everyone was SMH-ing (STH-ing?) about Quibi and their cringey rotating phone screens, our attention was Read More
Week In Review: Comcast To Buy Xumo, TV[R]EV Releases Special Report On Addressable TV Advertising
1. Comcast To Buy Xumo? In a notable scoop, our friends Sahil Patel and Patience Haggin at the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Comcast and Xumo are getting Read More
Week In Review: Telaria Merges With Rubicon Project, iSpot Launches Business Outcome Benchmarks
1. Telaria Merges With Rubicon Project Telaria, the company formerly known as Tremor Video and the Rubicon Project are merging in a deal that was announced earlier this week. And Read More
Week In Review: VIZIO Launches An Ad Network, NBCU Still Figuring Out Peacock
1. VIZIO Launches An Ad Network VIZIO, one of the top TV OEMs in the US (and the only one that is actually made in the US) announced that it Read More
Week In Review: Nielsen, Netflix and The Irishman, Viacom And CBS Seal The Deal
1. Nielsen, Netflix and The Irishman While that sounds like the set-up to a Catskills-era joke, it’s actually about the ratings for Netflix’s new Pacino-DeNiro movie or the lack thereof. Read More
Week In Review: Hulu and Sling Are Winning The vMVPD Wars, FASTS Go Even Faster
Hulu and Sling Are Winning The vMVPD Wars The vMVPD market is continuing to boom (well, with one notable exception) and the latest stats from one of the only sources Read More
Week In Review: DisneyPlus Launches, ABC Just Says No To Same Day Ratings
1. DisneyPlus Launches Disney launched its streaming service, Disney+ this week and they are reporting that around 10 million people have already signed up. That’s an impressive or crappy number Read More
Week In Review: Dish Doesn’t Need No Stinkin’ RSNs, Discovery Likely To Get Swole And Flixy
Dish Doesn’t Need No Stinkin’ RSNs As many of you know, Dish (and by extension its vMVPD Sling) have been beefing with Sinclair about the cost of the Fox RSNs Read More