Hot List: Labor Day + Right’s Fights
Fun fact: Labor Day was born from the riots of anarchist laborers in 1886 who fought for an 8 hour workday. Here is an explainer and 4 minutes of oral history from C-SPAN on the riots that give us this Monday off.
Speaking of cable TV, labor disputes and the fight for rights:
Alan Wolk blows a few whistles in the VAB/Nielsen beef for the Week In Review and explains why Mark Thompson's road to success at CNN starts and ends with CNN.com.
Meanwhile - Charter and Disney are squared off in a new bundle war.
Here's how Charter lays out a new bundle position... aside from the copy count, it's a pretty amazing slide
“We’re either moving forward with a new collaborative video model, or we’re moving on,” - Charter CEO Chris Winfrey
NEWS YOU CAN USE
Advertising
WHY ADVERTISERS AREN’T MOVING TO STREAMING TV AS QUICKLY AS VIEWERS - Parker Herren [AdAge]
Future of TV Briefing: CTV ad sellers are pushing more content-related signals into the programmatic bidstream - Tim Peterson [Digiday]
Premion Campaign For Florida Auto Dealer Wins Advanced Advertising Innovation Award for Best Use of Data - Jon Lafayette [B+C]
Mediaocean Will Make Magnite CTV Inventory Available to Local Buyers - Jon Lafayette [B+C]
YOUTUBE KIDS’ AD PLACEMENT ISSUE RAISES BRAND DOUBTS BUT HASN’T HURT GOOGLE’S US AD REVENUE - Garett Sloane [AdAge]
Streaming Wars
Disney To Offer Free Cricket As It Fights Back In India’s Streaming Wars - Liz Shackleton [Deadline]
The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars - Angela Watercutter [Wired]
Disney, Bob Iger, Bob Chapek Hit With Another Investors Suit Over “Fraudulent” Streaming Costs - Dominic Patten [Deadline]
Streaming’s big pain point: there’s too much stuff to watch - Kelsey Sutton [Marketing Brew]
TikTok Execs Reveal How TV & Films Go Viral on Their Platform - Andrew Wallenstein [Variety]
Disney-owned channels, including ABC and ESPN, go dark on Charter Spectrum due to dispute - Simrin Singh [CBS News]
Declining Ads And Streaming Upsurge Have Old-School TV Reeling - Toni Fitzgerald [Forbes]
Data & Measurement
NIELSEN OPENS BIG DATA FOR TRADING WITHOUT MRC ACCREDITATION OR EXPLAINING SOME OF ITS FIGURES - Jack Neff [AdAge]
Ad-Supported Apps Draw 66% of Connected TV Viewing: TVision Report - Jon Lafayette [B+C]
NIELSEN AND TV NETWORKS CLASH AGAIN OVER AMAZON DATA AS MRC DEBATES ADOPTION - Jack Neff [AdAge]
A+E Networks Signs With TVision for Linear, CTV Measurement - Jon Lafayette [B+C]
Landscape
David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero - Clare Malone [New Yorker]
The SAG-AFTRA strike is the best thing to happen to Cameo, the short-video app where celebs get paid to make clips for fans, since the lockdowns - Kai Xiang Teo [Insider]
Data Transparency Not Just For Advertisers: Writers, Actors Want The Same - Wayne Friedman [MediaPost]
NBCU NAMES MARK MARSHALL AS CHAIRMAN OF ADVERTISING AND PARTNERSHIPS - Parker Herren [AdAge]
CNN NAMES FORMER NEW YORK TIMES CEO AS NEXT LEADER - [AdAge]
Five Late Night Hosts Unite to Launch Podcast Benefiting Strike-Impacted Staff - Lacey Rose [THR]
Sports
Amazon in Talks With Disney About ESPN Streaming Partnership - Sahil Patel [The Information]
Illegal Streaming Costs Sports Billions, Leagues Want Swift Government Action - Andrew Cohen [Front Office Sports]
ESPN Televising Regular Season College Football Games At Movie Theaters - Ty Rousch [Forbes]
Sports Wagering Continues To See Sharp TV Ad Growth - Wayne Friedman [MediaPost]
NBA is prepared to broadcast where Diamond Sports Group can’t. Will things come to that? - Mike Vorkunov [The Athletic]
CBS Faces New Super Bowl Ad Plays Thanks to Nickelodeon Simulcast - Brian Steinberg [Variety]
Sources: ACC votes to invite Stanford, Cal, SMU - Pete Thamel [ESPN]
