There’s no crystal ball to reveal the future of OTT and D2C, but an Advertising Week panel with representatives from Hulu, AOL and MLB Advanced Media made some compelling predictions. The panel, “Direct-to-Consumer: OTT and the Future of Video Entertainment,” … Continue reading
Americans are steadily watching less TV, with the decline particularly pronounced among teens and young adults who have grown up watching billions of YouTube videos. And cord-cutting storm clouds are already clapping thunder over the TV biz. So what’s a mammoth cable TV … Continue reading
The Emmys this year witnessed the inception of a new premium rivalry, the one between VOD platforms Netflix and Amazon. Last year, the big guy Netflix scooped up 31 nominations while Amazon had a grand total of zero. But … Continue reading
Netflix is evolving into something that more closely resembles a movie studio, as it continues to shoot and produce more original TV shows and films itself, and reduce its reliance on outside companies for content. According to reports, the video streaming … Continue reading
Traditionally, fall premiere week for broadcast television networks has been a sparkling time of peak sampling as millions upon millions of viewers tune-in to new and returning shows. Save for 16 million viewers gobbling up Fox hip-hop drama Empire on Wednesday … Continue reading
Verizon’s much awaited internet TV service Go90 will hit the web this week and the industry is abuzz! TV advertising won’t change much, just like it didn’t after the inception of VOD platform Netflix. The same 15 & 30 … Continue reading
Mobile and OTT platforms are cutting into overall video usage patterns, but traditional pay TV still leads the way – by a big margin.That’s according to streaming video platform vendor Wurl, which introduced a U.S.-focused index called AMOV (an acronym … Continue reading
All’s not well in the OTT paradise. Among consumers who cut the cord in the last two years but now express doubts over it and probably want to go back to Pay-TV, 2 out of 5 (almost at 39%) say sports … Continue reading
comScore is looking to unify metrics for viewing across the two major viewing platforms – traditional TV and Internet TV – by bridging the platform gap that has plagued TV networks, content owners, advertisers and Nielsen for the past … Continue reading
In an industry in which over-the-top (OTT) operators are outgrowing third-party networks and convergence is gathering a huge part of the telco business, Argentina’s cable companies are calling for a new regulation to set a framework for current and … Continue reading