Week In Review: Google Gears Up For Streaming Wars, Amazon Integrates vMVPDs
The one where we look at how Google is once again going over the wall and into the fray against Amazon and Roku and then look at Amazon’s linear play. Read More
Conference-Only College Football Season Could Have Numerous TV Effects
As college football conferences start trimming schedules for fall, it has major effects for both the schools and television partners alike. Read More
It’s All Local Now: The End Of National TV Ad Buying During The Pandemic
The television ad industry is about to undergo a tremendous upheaval, far more dramatic than the slashing of ad budgets we’re seeing right now. As my friend Tom Morgan pointed Read More
Week In Review: NBA To Launch New App With Microsoft, Peacock Soft Launches
1. NBA To Launch New App With Microsoft The NBA announced that it would be launching a super fancy new app in conjunction with Microsoft. The app will arrive in Read More
The Curious Case Of Peacock
Peacock, NBCU’s new streaming service is due to launch tomorrow. Kinda, sorta. You see, it will be available to the approximately 20% of American households that subscribe to Comcast, which Read More
From Cheddar: Streaming Services Surge During Pandemic Stay-at-Home Orders
TV[R]EV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk was on Cheddar TV this morning, talking about how the surge in streaming (up 75% as per VIZIO) will affect the future prospects Read More
Announcing Our New Special Report: “Eyes On Local TV”
The digitization of television is leading advertisers to take a second look at something they may have once dismissed: local TV. As advertisers realize that they have the power to Read More
Week In Review: Quibi Makes Its Debut, Disney+ Has 50M Paid Subscribers
1. Quibi Makes Its Debut Quibi, the multi-billion-dollar high-end TV platform with lots of celebrities and lots of ad commitments launched this week at what would seem to be the Read More
Week In Review: The NFL Goes Big, HBO Goes Free
1. The NFL Goes Big The NFL, which is still counting on the 2020/2021 season happening, expanded the playoffs to 14 teams and announced that it would be streaming the Read More
Quality Over Quantity: Why We’re So Hot On VCBS
There is a lot about the new TV economy that Wall Streeters don’t seem to quite get, but one piece that’s been somewhat surprising is the tendency to focus on Read More
Week In Review: Disney Plus Rolls Out In Europe, Showtime and Sling Offering Up Free Trials
1. Disney Plus Rolls Out In Europe Disney began its international expansion at what may be an opportune time for them, judging by the 5 million downloads the app got Read More
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
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