Netflix Turns Up Heat In Online Video’s Shark Pool As Three More Services Jump In
As if the pool of big fish in on-demand video wasn’t already stuffed full, this past week saw three more sharks dive in, just to make it interesting, along with... Read More
Could An Amazon With Sports Be Pay TV’s Waterloo?
For a long time, we’ve been rolling our eyes at the whole cord cutting myth, at the gullibility of mainstream journalists who insist on repeating the canard about the “tidal... Read More
Our New Special Report on Blockchain And Media. Yours For The Downloading.
I’m Alan Wolk and I know nothing about blockchain. Or I didn’t anyway, until I sat down with the TVREV team to start researching and writing the brand new Special... Read More
Vice’s Folly & Defy’s Demise Make You Wonder if Anyone in Media Has a Clue
You may have noticed that Vice Media, after a year of controversy, massive upheaval and leadership changes, has been on a bit a of a press tour. A big feature... Read More
Watch ‘Axios On HBO’ Sunday, Ponder The TV[R]evolution
Every morning, Washington D.C. and much of the world wakes up to Axios AM — founder Mike Allen’s top 10 stories of the day. Allen and Axios are key contributors... Read More
Cable News Networks Cut Ad Loads on Election Night
As America went to the polls Tuesday and then flipped on TV sets to see the results roll in, cable news networks were ready for a big night of coverage,... Read More
Trevor Noah Stars on YouTube, and More Mid-Term Social Video Data
With the election results rolling in, we look at which publishers were rolling in social video views, with data from Tubular Labs.... Read More
Maddow Shares Viewers with Hannity? And More Election Day Stats
There is so much made of how divided America is– but there are things we all have in common. We watch TV, we post on social media, and we express... Read More
Is This the New Look of Tune-In Advertising?
Tune-in advertising faces new demands and challenges every day, and mobile creative ads might be one solution in a crowded content space.... Read More
WEEK IN REVIEW: CBS Revenue Up Thanks To OTT, Crunchyroll Hits 2 Million Subs
1. CBS Revenue Up Thanks To OTT So CBS, one of those “dying” TV networks, announced that their revenues had actually gone up 3% in Q3. Among the bright spots... Read More
Hanging on by a Cord
I’m dying to cut the cord and I can’t. I’m being held as a cable hostage by Kevin Durant, Kristaps Porzingis’ knee and one of the worst humans out there... Read More
Social Video Leaderboard: Cocomelon and WWE Lead U.S. Media Creators on YouTube
We partnered with social video analytics company Tubular Labs to see which U.S. media creators are earning the most views on YouTube. The data below covers the full month of... Read More
Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley on ATSC 3.0, M&A And Online Video’s ‘Sea of Blood’
Christopher Ripley, CEO and president of the country’s biggest chain of TV stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, took to the stage at the recent NAB NY conference to discuss the transformative... Read More
In-Game World Series Ads Needed To Be Better
We saw a range of so-called innovative ad formats take over the World Series on Fox this past week. Adweek’s Jason Lynch wrote a story covering how Fox and YouTube... Read More
Week In Review: Peak TV Isn’t Good For Actors and Writers, Fox To Launch FoxNation OTT App
There’s a fantastic article in Fast Company (hat tip to Jeff DeLong for bringing it to my attention) about how peak TV and the new streaming economy are screwing over... Read More
What AI Might Mean for the TV Industry
Artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting every business which has data and is changing the way they operate. TV is no exception. We already see AI start to change the way... Read More
VR: The Medium That Never Was?
Whatever happened to virtual reality becoming the next great advertising and media vehicle? If you covered media or advertising over the past few years, you surely heard about how VR... Read More
All The News That’s Fit To Stream, And Fits The Stream
As Peak TV ascends ever-higher altitudes, with new streaming challengers and incumbents doubling down on their multi-billion-dollar programming investments, less noticed is the herd of new (or newly acquired and... Read More
Why Can’t Apple Figure Out TV
So if this week’s reports from Silicon Valley insiders prove credible (always a question mark), then Apple’s delivery system for its multi billion dollar content spend will be (a) free... Read More
Google Shows (Versus ‘Tells’) When Speaking to Baseball’s Older Audience
Google continues to present its products in interesting ways during baseball broadcasts — a strategy that may be informed by its audience.... Read More
Director/Cinematographer Vincent Peone About Vogue Streamy Winner “73 Questions”
Creator Joe Sabia and 73 Questions – Vogue’s hot video series featuring one several-minute-take of, yes, 73 questions posed to a celebrity – won Streamy Awards for cinematography and best Pop Culture... Read More
TV and the Gaming of Our Brains (F*CK Fortnite)
TV doesn’t just have to compete with social platforms, mobile screen time and them ad-skipping bastards. Now it has to compete with machine learning — brain-twisting engines tweaked to induce... Read More