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Quibi had a rather short stint, but it’s vanishing act will leave a stale taste in the mouth of everyone in the ad tech industry. Investors lost $1.8 billion that they invested hoping to build an adtech-centric company that would revolutionize the way viewers consume video content on their smartphones. They almost managed to sail through the months of challenge, until the ship sank in shallow waters within 7 months of their "Titanic" entry into the global VOD space.  When we are witnessing a rise (flattering if we go by…

Popular subscription Video on-demand (VOD) streaming service provider Disney+ is entertaining millions of users with great content. But, the platform has earned special recognition from an unexpected quarter. The American Council of the Blind (ACB) has recognized Disney+’s immersive content delivery campaigns and honored it with the 2020 Achievement Award in Audio Description. The ACB is an independent US-based organization which strives to provide security and equality of opportunity to all blind and visually-impaired…

VIZIO's Smartcast Experience Is Faster and More Responsive, With More Free Channels and Popular Apps Built-In, and Wireless Streaming Features for the Ultimate Smart Home Experience VIZIO, Inc., the #1 American-based TV brand, known for delivering incredible value and performance, continues to improve the award-winning SmartCast platform. With faster navigation, more content than ever before, versatile work from home features and improved smart home functionality, it is easier than ever to stream and interact with your…

If I were to get brand advertisers in a room and ask them about their three biggest advertising nightmares, chances are most of them would say ad fraud, brand safety and lack of transparency. Digital advertising, particularly in the modern-day AdTech industry, has struggled with these three issues for many years now. Brand safety continues to be a serious concern for 99% of ad industry professionals surveyed this year by CHEQ and Digiday. Earlier this year, YouTube and Google found themselves in the middle of a…

Back in 2008, Barack Obama (then Senator) achieved a sort of firsts when his presidential campaign ads appeared in the popular EA game Burnout Paradise on Xbox 360. A billboard message inside the game encouraged players to register to vote. Obama realized back then what many brands are taking note of today: young audiences of 18 to 34-year-olds — which represent the core gamer group — are getting harder to reach via traditional advertising mediums such as television, and are instead spending a considerable amount of time…

New report finds a high level of anticipation for Disney+ in the US, with thousands of consumers planning to cancel existing streaming subscriptions in favour of the service Disney+ only went live yesterday but 40% of US consumers planning to sign-up are already considering canceling their subscriptions to other streaming services. Of these, one third (33%) are considering canceling their Netflix subscription in favor of Disney+ according to a new report from the technology-based market research company AudienceProject,…

New Service Combines Streaming Platforms For Free; Eliminates Wasted Search Time for Favorite Movies and TV Series Minnow, a next generation streaming video guide is being unveiled in a national rollout that combines all of the popular premium video on demand services like Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu, and Amazon Prime into one unified application on TV and mobile. Minnow will support emerging streamers Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock and Quibi as soon as they launch in the US.…

LiveRamp Offers the World’s Largest Omnichannel Audience Measurement Graph. Marketers and Advertisers are Set to Benefit with the Company’s Latest Infusion of Connected TV to Its Platform LiveRamp is one of the global leaders for marketers in providing exceptional customer experience through its IdentityLink Platform. The company’s measurement graph is capable of collating global audience data about consumer engagement with a brand. The results provide clarity to brands to target their marketing efforts to a global…

With Global Conglomerates Withholding Data Behind Iron Fortresses, TIM Ventures into Other Avenues to Find Solutions for Precise Measurement of Advertising TIM (Truth in Measurement) has established itself as an industry category that intends to infuse transparency in the Advertising Technology Landscape. TIM’s vanguard is known as Thunder Experience Cloud, which is essentially an ad server built on technology that will target people instead of cookies for advertisements. CEO Victor Wong is indicative that they are trying…

When I was launching the first Season of Survivor with the rest of the team at CBS in 1999, I remember getting a lot of very skeptical feedback. Who would have thought 18 years later Survivor would still be on the air, producing fresh, new episodes? “It’s not live!” “It’s reality television with cheap production value!”  “There’s no celebrity star appeal!” This was some of the feedback I received when I was out in the market pitching Survivor with Mark Burnett, the Executive Producer. Yet, here we are almost 20 years…

Report Acknowledges Internet Advancements as Biggest Driving Factor of Changes In Consumer Viewing Habits and Growth in Digital TV SpotX, the global video advertising and monetization platform, released a new white paper exploring the evolution of TV and digital video. Based on intelligence from select industry reports, the white paper entitled, "Global TV and Video: Five Trends Contributing To The Continued Rise of Digital" concludes that traditional methods of TV viewing remain popular due to television's ability to…

OpenX's Latest Announcement Follows Series of Senior Mobile and Video Product Hires Leading programmatic adtech provider, OpenX has announced the appointment of Todd Parsons as Chief Product Officer. An expert in audience identification, Todd Parsons brings more than 15 years of experience developing products that meet the changing needs of marketers in the rapidly evolving media landscape. The new position will allow the company to increase focus on innovation, and accelerate the development of programmatic solutions for…

A Lie Detector on Steroids, SPARK Neuro's Unmatched Ability to Evaluate Audience Engagement Provides Critical Data to Clients Including Hulu, Anheuser-Busch, Paramount, Clorox and More SPARK Neuro, the company revolutionizing the evaluation of audience engagement in advertising and entertainment, announced that it has secured a $13.5 million Series A financing round led by Thiel Capital with participation from actor and producer Will Smith and media and entertainment industry titan Michael Eisner's Tornante Company.…

Most Consumers Now Supplement Renting and Buying Video with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Other SVOD Services While the majority of consumers in the United States view video content from a variety of sources, in both physical and digital formats, the number of people using only Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and other subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services is on the rise. Nearly one-fifth (17 percent) of the US population relied solely on SVOD services to view video content in the 12-months ending in March 2018,…

comscore's New Product Will Offer Unduplicated Campaign Measurement Across Linear TV, Network OTT and Hulu on Desktop, Mobile, and Living Room Devices comScore has announced a pilot program for its newest solution aimed to solve the industry’s need for sophisticated cross-platform video advertising measurement. The product, called Campaign Ratings, launches in beta this September with ABC, CBS, CNN, Disney, Fox, Freeform, GroupM, NBCUniversal, The CW Network, Turner, and Viacom, and will provide media buyers and sellers…

Walmart Will Reportedly Offer Video-streaming Service at a Cheaper Rate than Competitors Netflix and Amazon Prime Video The next brand to reportedly enter the video-streaming war is Walmart. This will put Walmart in direct competition with subscription streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. According to a report by The Information, Walmart is reportedly planning to offer the service at a cheaper option than those of the competitors. The report also stated that Walmart might offer the service at a price…

Parks Associates' OTT Video Tracker Identifies Consumer Adoption of Multiple OTT Service Subscriptions as Key to Future Growth New video research from Parks Associates finds more than 85% of Millennials in US broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video service. This research comes from Parks Associates' OTT Video Market Tracker, which includes an exhaustive analysis of market trends and profiles of OTT video service providers in the US and Canada, such as Netflix, HBO, YouTube, and Amazon. The Tracker…

"Welcome to the modern day gold rush of 2018 – OTT. If you are close enough to it, you can almost feel what the ‘49ers must have felt as those pioneers traversed the continental United States in hopes and dreams of found gold in 1849. Our version in digital media has all the smallest and largest companies grasping for some piece of the OTT pie (our gold) to market in the mega-billion dollar Video advertising industry. Before I get started, it makes sense to present my take on the definition of OTT. OTT is TV on all…

Netflix, PlayStation Vue, and Twitch Lead are Among Streaming Services Atop the Telecommunications Segment, says ACSI Report Customer satisfaction with video streaming services far eclipses that of subscription TV service, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) 2018 Telecommunications Report. Video streaming services make their debut in this year's telecom report with an ACSI score of 75, far and above subscription TV's score of 62 – a 3.1 percent decline over last year. By nearly every measure,…

OpenX Welcomes Senior Hires from Viacom, Hulu, and Adcolony; Demonstrates How Mobile and Video Growth Continues to Surge in Q1 of 2018 Outpacing Overall Industry Growth OpenX, a leading independent advertising technology provider, shared deeper insights into the rapid growth of its mobile and video business today and announced it has appointed a trio of industry veterans in product development and management to support the company’s thriving mobile and video business units. Sophia Chung joined as Vice President of Product…