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
Week In Review: Disney+ Teams With Verizon To Juice Customer Base, Facebook’s News App
1. Disney+ Teams With Verizon To Juice Customer Base In a story that seems to have flown below everyone’s radar, Disney+ struck a deal with Verizon that will give a Read More
Week In Review: AT&T Boils The Frog, T-Mobile Goes Quibi
1. AT&T Boils The Frog, You know how we keep telling you that the vMVPDs aren’t really all that different from the MVPDs, that the “mesomorph bundles” of 80-100 channels Read More
Week In Review: Open AP Launches A Marketplace, All Those Digital Mergers
1. Open AP Launches A Marketplace Open AP, continuing on its march back from near-extinction, announced something called the Open AP Marketplace this week, which gives advertisers a chance to Read More
Week In Review: Beef Time In Flixopolis, CNN Shows Why TV Is Better Than Social
1. Beef Time In Flixopolis Everybody’s beefing! That’s today’s theme in Flixopolis where every hour seems to bring a new Flix-related beef. First Amazon dissed Disney by telling them they Read More
Week In Review: Another Small MVPD Drops Pay TV, Amazon Makes The NFL Fancy
1. Another Small MVPD Drops Pay TV BELD, a small internet provider in the Boston area is dropping its proprietary pay TV service, claiming the costs had gotten wicked expensive. 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
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
Week In Review: The Network Fall Schedules Are Out This Week, Tubi Goes To Oz
1. The Network Fall Schedules Are Out This Week TV’s fall schedules were released this week, and as this article from Deadline reveals, there are a few things worth taking Read More
Week In Review: Why CBS/Viacom Merger Makes Sense, Why Apple’s $9.99 Price Tag Does Not
The one where we look at why the Viacom/CBS merger is such a smart move and continue to wonder why Apple can’t seem to get TV right. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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