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
FuboTV Banks On Facebank Merger Amid Skinny Bundle Challenges
Skinny bundle video service FuboTV merges with tech developer Facebank Group, and plans to go public as soon as possible, even as its live sports programming is hobbled by COVID-19 impacts. 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
Could Drooping Disney, Other Media Companies Be Takeover Targets Amid Pandemic?
Collapsing share prices for Disney and other media companies could be an acquisition opportunity for Apple or other deep-pocketed tech firms, an analyst suggested. 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
Could Streaming Services be a Liferaft for Scuttled Movie Releases?
With movie releases seemingly grinding to a halt amid coronavirus fears, studios could opt to use streaming as a means to get films in front of audiences. Read More
Q&A: Vizio’s Katherine Pond On Connected TVs And The Fight For Audience Attention
Katherine Pond is VP of business development for Vizio. As such, she presides over some of the most valuable real estate in streaming video: prime spots on a major Connected TV platform. Read More
Quibi Nabs $750 Million More, Names News Programs Ahead of Launch
Mobile video startup Quibi is having a good week, one month before its launch: it said it has raised another $750 million, and detailed news shows made for it by BBC, NBC and Telemundo. Read More
The Content Cluster Blueprint for OTT Success
We’ve already talked at length about the massive effect America’s growing Hispanic population is having on the entertainment landscape. Reaching these viewers isn’t just a moral imperative; it’s a financial Read More
AT&T TV Service Feels Like Cable’s Bad Old, Good Old Days
AT&T TV launched nationwide today, a successor to the collapsing DirecTV. But for all its modern features, it feels like a throwback to cable TV’s bad old days. Read More
Diversified Revenue: A Digital Media Analysis
When I was young, my Dad took me to Mac’s Smoke Shop in Palo Alto — a musty old store filled with tobacco, magazines and junk food — and let 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
Comcast Pulls A FAST One
Comcast is buying Xumo, the second of the FASTS (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television Service) to get snapped up (Pluto, which was purchased by Viacom last year was the first, and 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
Inscape’s Zeev Neumeier Welcomes TV to the Age of the Impression [VIDEO]
This Measure Up video is brought to you by iSpot.tv, the complete real-time TV ad measurement and attribution company trusted by America’s leading brands and networks. Learn how iSpot is Read More
Nielsen’s Kelly Abcarian Wants to Marry the Panel and the Impression [VIDEO]
This Addressable video brought to you by Project OAR, the consortium of media companies aligned to bring standards for addressable advertising in linear TV. Learn more about the consortium here. 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 MoreFrom Beet.TV: Addressable Was The Word At Beet Retreat
TV[R]EV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk was at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Puerto Rico last week (rough gig, we know) and Beet.TV founder Andy Plesser was kind Read More