Executive Views

TV Will Start Looking Like Internet: FreeWheel’s Rothwell

FORT LAUDERDALE — They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks – but that’s exactly...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Alphonso’s Chordia On ‘Insane’ Targeting Possibilities
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Viant’s Xumo Makes Web Publishers TV Programmers via OTT
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Sky’s AdVance Connects Ad Ops Across Screens: West
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Facebook Wants Advertisers To Think Different About Auto-Play
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
With A Million Streams, SeeSaw Changes Its Ad Sales House
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Updated: BSkyB Is Now Officially A YouView Content Partner
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Channel 4 Asks UK Government To Outlaw Online Re-Transmission
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
ESPN Adding Web TV Show, Apps In UK
By Robert Andrews  
The Filter Takes On More Funding For Content Recommendation
Funding analysis
The Filter Takes On More Funding For Content Recommendation
By Robert Andrews  
iPad Added 300,000 iPlayer Views Last Month
Market indicators
iPad Added 300,000 iPlayer Views Last Month
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Big News Is Good News For Livestation
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘German Hulu’ Blocked For Being Anti-Competitive
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

FCC Cable Box Reforms Make Data-Driven TV Urgent: Simulmedia’s Morgan

SEVILLE – Government regulation “FCC 16-18” may sound innocuous enough – but the impl...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
CNNgo By The Numbers: 9.5 Million Hours Views In March
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Bloomberg’s Bickford Sees TV Ads Held Back By Lack Of Data
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
NAB’s New Digital Group Must Fill Data Gaps: Cablevision’s Tatta
By Robert Andrews  
Analyst Views
Forget Cord-Cutting, Subscribers Stick With The Skinny Bundle, Wieser Says
By Robert Andrews  
UK Hikes Fees VOD Services Must Pay To Be Regulated
Company strategy
UK Hikes Fees VOD Services Must Pay To Be Regulated
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Finally Turns iPlayer In To A VOD TV Aggregator
Company strategy
BBC Finally Turns iPlayer In To A VOD TV Aggregator
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Is It A Web-TV? Is It A Mobile? Meet Vodafone’s Webbox
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: BBC iPlayer Boss Says All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Confirmed: UK’s YouView IPTV JV Delayed To 2012
By Robert Andrews  
Confirmed: iPlayer App Coming To iPad, Android This Week
Company strategy
Confirmed: iPlayer App Coming To iPad, Android This Week
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
MTV UK Tries Charging For Online Catch-Up TV
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Blinkx Aims For Over-The-Top Through The Back Door
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Big Year For Addressable, But Prime-Time Way Off: SMG’s Murtos

FORT LAUDERDALE — Although the advertising industry spent last year assessing ad tech...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Dynamic Ad Inventory Will Be Infinite: Cablevision’s Dolan
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Sky’s Hopes To Retain Its Place In Ad Lifecycle With Smart Analytics
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Banks Follow Autos To Addressable TV: Modi’s Thissen
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
PubMatic Refocuses On Premium To Avoid Commoditized Ads
By Robert Andrews  
Slide Deck: UK Linear TV Viewing Has Hit A Record And A Peak
Market indicators
Slide Deck: UK Linear TV Viewing Has Hit A Record And A Peak
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC’s iPlayer App Finally Nearing Release
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Ahead Of The Shake-Out, Sony Says IPTV Sales Going Well
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
How News Corp Plans To Profit From Mobile Audio Subscriptions In India
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Video Remixer Masher Takes £250k North-East Funding
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Amazon Buying Lovefilm To Build European Movie Rentals Business
By Robert Andrews  
Hunt’s Local TV Plan Re-Invents The Wheel As A Square
Essays
Hunt’s Local TV Plan Re-Invents The Wheel As A Square
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC’s VOD Syndication Refusal Backed By Regulator
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Adobe’s Three Solutions For TV Everywhere

FORT LAUDERDALE — It may seem confusing to viewers in other parts of the world, but T...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
TubeMogul To Take Cross-Screen Planning Self-Service: Rondon
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
The Importance Of Video Ad Measurement, By A+E’s Boykoff
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
OTT Activations In Europe Are Catching Up: YuMe’s Hanks
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
FreeWheel Partnering w/ Sky to Grow Addressable TV Ads Across Europe
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
SeeSaw Tries A 1p On-Ramp To Premium
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
O&O: Pay-TV Viewers Not Ready To Cut Cord For YouView
By Robert Andrews  
Sport Webcaster Perform Group ‘Surprised’ By IPO Talk
IPO analysis
Sport Webcaster Perform Group ‘Surprised’ By IPO Talk
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad
Company strategy
BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
BBC’s Bennett Will Be Global iPlayer President
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: Virgin Media’s Cindy Rose On The Connected-TV Explosion
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin Media Puts Its Connected-TV Future in TiVo’s Hands
By Robert Andrews  
Slide Deck: More People Using VOD For Same Old TV
Market indicators
Slide Deck: More People Using VOD For Same Old TV
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Adobe Primetime’s Prime Targets For 2016

FORT LAUDERDALE — Adobe has spent the last couple of years getting its Primetime suit...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Addressable TV Ads Are Costlier, But Cheaper: MediaVest’s
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
How Nielsen Helps Networks & Brands Understand Social Viewing
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Digital Ads For Legacy TV To Take Off In 2017: Videa’s Williams
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
TV’s Not Dead, We Can Prove Its Worth: Simulmedia’s Piccone
By Robert Andrews  
C4 Could Struggle To Profit From Paid PC Movies
Company strategy
C4 Could Struggle To Profit From Paid PC Movies
By Robert Andrews  
Sky to create 1,000 jobs
Company strategy
BBC Red Button Underperforms Websites And Must Cut Costs
By Robert Andrews  
BT Vision Has 50k Sky Subs And Is Adding BBC iPlayer
Earnings analysis
BT Vision Has 50k Sky Subs And Is Adding BBC iPlayer
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Broadcasters Round On TV Streaming Site FilmOn
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
UK TV Viewers Allowed To Vote In Shows Via Mobile App
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
YouView Calls For Long-Form Professional Video Portals In Test
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The IPTV Revolution Will Be Television, Little More
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Blinkx In Half-Year Profit; Now Connecting Amino Boxes
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Research: Digital Video Growing On Live, Long-Form Demand

The old adage used to be that digital video had to be short, that viewers wouldn’t si...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Cadreon’s Kumar Sees ‘Advanced TV’ Solving Measurement
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
FreeWheel Targets Ads to Set-top Boxes via Canoe Collaboration
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
The Trade Desk’s Stempeck Talks TV Ad Targeting
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
The Evolution of TV Buying and What’s Next: GroupM’s Gotlieb
By Robert Andrews  
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IPO analysis
Another IPO: Internet TV Company PeerTV Floating For £6 Million
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
@ AOP: BBCWW Starts Thinking About YouView VOD
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Updated: Blinkx Going To City To Raise New £19.5 Million For Growth
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Cloud Video Editor Maker Forbidden Recapitalises From AIM
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Ofcom’s YouView Opinion Is Due; Here’s The Background
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Veebeam Raising $6 Million For Wireless Video Sending
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
X Factor Eyes Season-Long iTunes Sales
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Blinkx Expects To Beat Expectations With Big Revenue Jump
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Programmatic TV Challenges: Transparency And Management, Execs Say

Slowly but surely, television is opening up to the “programmatic” ad sales revolution...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
News Corp’s MCN Using Programmatic To Sell TV Ads with AOL in Australia
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
MPEG-DASH Moving Toward Deployment: Wowza’s Knowlton
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Microsoft Dashes To MPEG-DASH Support: Sodagar
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Microsoft Unveils New Video Player, Encoding Solutions
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Lovefilm Is Going To Be Huge; But First, An Amazon Buy-Out Rumour
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Motive Buying Bestv Majority For Freeview Pay-TV Roll-Up
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: YouView Has No Web Browser, No Payment Gateway, New CEO Says
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Canvas UK IPTV JV Confirmed ‘YouView’; Halton Is CEO
By Robert Andrews  
Canvas Complaint #5 Comes From Open-Source Software Fans
Company strategy
Canvas Complaint #5 Comes From Open-Source Software Fans
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
IBC Wrap: Miniweb On Samsung, BT TV Network, STV Discovery
By Robert Andrews  
Canvas Specs: Audience Measurement, Web Apps, Linux On-Board
Company strategy
Canvas Specs: Audience Measurement, Web Apps, Linux On-Board
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Shazam Unlocks TV Shows, Converts Buyers To Subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Civolution Syncs TV, Online Ads For Amplification

Dutch video technology company Civolution says it has a recipe for helping advertiser...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Not Enough Data About Video Content: Coull’s Watkins
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Chinese VOD Getting Combined Theater, Online Movie Window: iQiyi’s Yansong
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Time Inc Sees Greater Role For Video Across Brands
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Authenticated Online Viewing Is Booming: FreeWheel’s Rooke
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
PlayJam Playing For A Piece Of Casual Gaming Boom
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Gets iPlayer Bundled On More TVs, Laptops
Company strategy
BBC Gets iPlayer Bundled On More TVs, Laptops
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Connected-TV Race: Yahoo Lands A European Telly Maker
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Video: Here Is Google TV Running On Sony Internet TV
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Apple Lacks International TV Rentals, Packs A Price Premium
By Robert Andrews  
TV Producers Will Oppose BBC iPlayer For UK Travelers
Company strategy
TV Producers Will Oppose BBC iPlayer For UK Travelers
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
YouTube Piggybacks BlinkBox, Others To Kick Off UK Movie Ambitions
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
YouTube Piggybacks BlinkBox, Others To Kick Off UK Movie Ambitions
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views

Connected TVs Are Richer Ad Environments: Brightline’s Aksman

LAS VEGAS — The burgeoning array of internet-connected TVs won’t change the industry ...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Cisco Boxes Clever With New STB Technology
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
15 Billion Video Devices By 2020: Ericsson
By Robert Andrews  
Analyst Views
Sports Is Catching Up With Hollywood In IPTV: Diffusion’s Espelien
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Multi-Platform App Enablers Will Be IPTV Winners: Analyst Jackson
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC: HTML5 Is Not Ready For Video And Sailing Off-Course
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Soccer’s Premier League Gets ESPN Mobile Apps, U.S. Web Streams
By Robert Andrews  
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