Addressable Advertising: A Primer
While addressable TV advertising had been getting a goodly amount of buzz lately, it’s still largely misunderstood by many in the industry. And with good reason: the ecosystem is still... Read More
Why Open AP Won’t Close (Just Yet)
As you’ve likely heard, Warner, the pioneer member of Open AP, announced it would be withdrawing from the consortium on a Passover/Good Friday/Mueller haze drop. The announcement comes as a... Read More
WarnerMedia’s Zucker Returns To Sports Roots, And Another Chance To Remix An Industry
Well, that didn’t take long. Seemingly hours after a U.S. appeals court killed the Justice Department’s misbegotten (and, possibly, politically motivated) attempt to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger,... Read More
Taking A Bite Out Of Data Confusion At RampUp
Last week’s RampUp Conference in San Francisco featured a very well attended panel moderated by Live Ramp’s Head of TV Platforms, Jessica Hindlian and featuring iSpot CEO Sean Muller, Freewheel’s... Read More
Podcast: Netflix Wins Even When It Loses, Oscar Edition
Netflix had a very good Oscar season. Its most celebrated awards contender, Roma, from Alfonso Cuaron, picked up three major Oscars – for best foreign language film, directing and cinematography” – and a... Read More
Week In Review: Hulu and YouTube vMVPDs are Surging, AT&T Brings Merger Realness
1. Hulu and YouTube vMVPDs are surging Bloomberg reports that the two popular kids in the vMVPD clique are Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV, with subscriber numbers now reaching... Read More
Inside the Mega-Hits of The CW
If you’re looking for supernatural flair or heroics of the sci-fi kind, The CW is always a good bet. The network has been cranking out otherworldly teen dramas with much... Read More
International Insights: Netflix, The Global Monolith
In the fourth quarter of 2018, Netflix beat subscriber estimates, adding a record 8.8 million subscribers, 7.3 million of them outside the United States. With more than 50 % of... Read More
Measuring OTT Ads: Always-On Attribution with iSpot CEO Sean Muller
iSpot.tv began life as a way for brands to keep track of where their ads—and, more importantly, their competitor’s ads were running. The business has evolved considerably since then and... Read More
Podcast: Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi On VR, Esports and the Future of Movie Theaters
With the possible exception of music, perhaps no corner of the entertainment business has faced more intractable challenges from tech-driven changes in our culture, lifestyle and consumption habits than the... Read More
Week In Review: Nielsen Buys Sorenson, Are The Oscars A Victim Of The Content Bubble?
1.Nielsen Buys Sorenson Nielsen announced that they would be buying Sorenson Media, noting in their various press releases that it was a sign of how serious they were getting about... Read More
The Joys of Directing, Hollywood’s Gender Issues and Poking Surveillance Culture – Soloway And Magid At Neuehouse
This episode of the Bloom in Tech podcast includes a fascinating discussion between two very different film directors, speaking together at NeueHouse Hollywood last week as part of the huge... Read More
OTT Unlocks New Audiences & Revenue: Q&A with Inscape’s Jodie McAfee
Jodie McAfee asks provocative questions. Right now, from the media industry’s point of view, the excitement around OTT advertising mostly revolves around TV networks finding new, ‘extra’ audiences and revenue.... Read More
The Dangers of the “Business Outcome” TV Buzz
As someone that works with networks and their marketing and sales teams, with measurement companies, ad tech companies and major advertisers directly, I understand the urgency to transform TV advertising... Read More