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PubMatic Refocuses On Premium To Avoid Commoditized Ads

LAS VEGAS — Publishers’ marketing automation tech vendor PubMatic has announced it wi...

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Advertisers Want Online Data Smarts For New TV: AppNexus’ Rubenstein
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VideoAmp Uses VC Round To Fuel Cross-Screen Ad Tech Sales In 2016
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Rocket Fuel’s New CEO Targets DISH Moments
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Conde Nast Finds A Fit For Films Beyond The Page
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Sky to create 1,000 jobs
Company strategy
Virgin And Sky Involved In Connected-TV Spec Development
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Canvas Beckons Device Makers To Jump Through Its Hoops
Company strategy
Canvas Beckons Device Makers To Jump Through Its Hoops
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Company strategy
UK’s Canvas Web-TV JV Earns A Competition Complaint From Virgin Media
By Robert Andrews  
Mobile Content Bits: Ovi Browser, Autosport App, Pocket TV On C4
Company strategy
Mobile Content Bits: Ovi Browser, Autosport App, Pocket TV On C4
By Robert Andrews  
BT Vision Sign-Ups Sluggish Ahead Of Sky Sports Offer
Earnings analysis
BT Vision Sign-Ups Sluggish Ahead Of Sky Sports Offer
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Virgin Media Names VOD Player Line-Up, ITV Aboard
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Forecast: Internet TVs Will Out-Sell 3D TVs Many Times Over
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Forecast: Internet TVs Will Out-Sell 3D TVs Many Times Over
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Nevermind Ducts, Virgin Media’s Using Electricity Poles To Extend Footprint
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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...

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CNNgo By The Numbers: 9.5 Million Hours Views In March
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Bloomberg’s Bickford Sees TV Ads Held Back By Lack Of Data
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NAB’s New Digital Group Must Fill Data Gaps: Cablevision’s Tatta
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Analyst Views
Forget Cord-Cutting, Subscribers Stick With The Skinny Bundle, Wieser Says
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Blinkx’s Value Has Soared To £158 Million; Now What?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why Five’s Exit Won’t Hurt Project Canvas Or The BBC
By Robert Andrews  
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Funding analysis
Social Sports TV Startup Holds Up Jaiku Founders, Ex Footballer
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Panasonic Adding Movie VOD Transactions To Its Connected TVs
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Orange Wants To Sell French TV Channels – News Corp In The Frame?
Company strategy
Orange Wants To Sell French TV Channels – News Corp In The Frame?
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Company strategy
Canvas Beaten To Market And Disclosure By Europe-Wide Web TV Standard
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Company strategy
STV Becomes YouTube’s Third UK TV Shows Supplier
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BBC iPlayer Costs At Least £5.2 Million A Year
Company strategy
BBC iPlayer Costs At Least £5.2 Million A Year
By Robert Andrews  
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Big Year For Addressable, But Prime-Time Way Off: SMG’s Murtos

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

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Dynamic Ad Inventory Will Be Infinite: Cablevision’s Dolan
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Sky’s Hopes To Retain Its Place In Ad Lifecycle With Smart Analytics
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Banks Follow Autos To Addressable TV: Modi’s Thissen
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TV Will Start Looking Like Internet: FreeWheel’s Rothwell
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Company strategy
ITV, C4, Five Jointly File In Court Against TVCatchup, Who’s Next?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
First Look: Spotify’s On TV, But It Still Needs Partner Deals
By Robert Andrews  
BBC Declines To Publish Canvas Spec, Until Autumn
Company strategy
BBC Declines To Publish Canvas Spec, Until Autumn
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Broadband Content Bits: ITV Mobile Streams, Participation TV, Fetch TV
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: ITV Mobile Streams, Participation TV, Fetch TV
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: Blinkbox Vids, STV App, Dave Series, The FA
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: Blinkbox Vids, STV App, Dave Series, The FA
By Robert Andrews  
iPlayer Makes TV More Social, Without Re-Inventing The Social Network Wheel
Company strategy
iPlayer Makes TV More Social, Without Re-Inventing The Social Network Wheel
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC iPlayer Will Link To Commercial VOD Services
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Interviews
Audio Interview: BBC’s Huggers And Rose On iPlayer, Canvas And More
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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  
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TubeMogul To Take Cross-Screen Planning Self-Service: Rondon
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The Importance Of Video Ad Measurement, By A+E’s Boykoff
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Executive Views
OTT Activations In Europe Are Catching Up: YuMe’s Hanks
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FreeWheel Partnering w/ Sky to Grow Addressable TV Ads Across Europe
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Hungarian VOD Concentration: Port.hu Takes A Filmklik Stake
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BlinkBox Begins Off-PC Box Delivery With PS3 Service
By Robert Andrews  
Project Canvas Verdict Looms: Funny Kind Of Openness
Company strategy
Project Canvas Verdict Looms: Funny Kind Of Openness
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Euro Video Ad Net Smartclip Buying In To Holland
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: CNBC On Livestation, EC Market, Spotify, Five VOD
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Company strategy
Sky Planning iPad TV Service In Germany
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Coming Soon: iPlayer’s Social Upgrade
Company strategy
Coming Soon: iPlayer’s Social Upgrade
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State Of VOD: 6.9 Percent Of UK TV Viewing, Nascent Monetisation
Market indicators
State Of VOD: 6.9 Percent Of UK TV Viewing, Nascent Monetisation
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Executive Views

Adobe Primetime’s Prime Targets For 2016

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

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Addressable TV Ads Are Costlier, But Cheaper: MediaVest’s
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How Nielsen Helps Networks & Brands Understand Social Viewing
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Digital Ads For Legacy TV To Take Off In 2017: Videa’s Williams
By Robert Andrews  
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TV’s Not Dead, We Can Prove Its Worth: Simulmedia’s Piccone
By Robert Andrews  
Updated: BBC, C4, Five Going After TV Streamers; Zattoo Removes Streams
Company strategy
Updated: BBC, C4, Five Going After TV Streamers; Zattoo Removes Streams
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Introducing, Jobsite, Demand Five, Last.fm
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Introducing, Jobsite, Demand Five, Last.fm
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: Absolute Radio, Premier League, Canvas On Freesat
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: Absolute Radio, Premier League, Canvas On Freesat
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer Dip, ITN Fashion, C4 News, Corbis Ads
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer Dip, ITN Fashion, C4 News, Corbis Ads
By Robert Andrews  
Sky to create 1,000 jobs
Company strategy
Sky Strikes Another IPTV Deal – Canvas Box Maker Humax
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Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: Doctor Who Games, EastEnders E20, FanDuel In Philly
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Funding analysis
Sofia’s Diary Maker Campbell Ryan Takes Investment
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
BBC iPad App Popular In U.S., But Brits May Be Denied
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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...

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Cadreon’s Kumar Sees ‘Advanced TV’ Solving Measurement
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FreeWheel Targets Ads to Set-top Boxes via Canoe Collaboration
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The Trade Desk’s Stempeck Talks TV Ad Targeting
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The Evolution of TV Buying and What’s Next: GroupM’s Gotlieb
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Sky Softens On Canvas, May Seek Carriage, But Wants Tighter Rules
Company strategy
Sky Softens On Canvas, May Seek Carriage, But Wants Tighter Rules
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Funding analysis
VideoPlaza Gets
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Excited Publishers Following The Money To Web Video
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Excited Publishers Following The Money To Web Video
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
MSN Now Properly Pitching UK TV, Video Site To Advertisers
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Beet.tv Roundtable: Adobe, Brightcove – HTML5’s No Flash Beater, But We’ll Support It Anyway
Company strategy
Beet.tv Roundtable: Adobe, Brightcove – HTML5’s No Flash Beater, But We’ll Support It Anyway
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Interviews
Beet.tv Roundtable: FT.com’s Stephen Pinches May Take Video Behind Paywall
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Just Three Weeks Old, SeeSaw Picks Its Payment Platform
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Broadband Content Bits: We7 Premium, X Factor Uploads, Mobile Internet
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: We7 Premium, X Factor Uploads, Mobile Internet
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...

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News Corp’s MCN Using Programmatic To Sell TV Ads with AOL in Australia
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MPEG-DASH Moving Toward Deployment: Wowza’s Knowlton
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Microsoft Dashes To MPEG-DASH Support: Sodagar
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Microsoft Unveils New Video Player, Encoding Solutions
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Well-Performing Sky Putting 3D Before VOD
Earnings analysis
Well-Performing Sky Putting 3D Before VOD
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: BT Fibre, Embarrassing Bodies, Pirate Anonymity, Radio Apps, BSkyB/ITV
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: BT Fibre, Embarrassing Bodies, Pirate Anonymity, Radio Apps, BSkyB/ITV
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Updated: Telegraph.co.uk Picks Ooyala For Video, Gives It A Roof At Euston
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: TV Metrics, Slicethepie Band, BT Football
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: TV Metrics, Slicethepie Band, BT Football
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: VOD Stats, OiNK Cleared, Nexus Cheaper
Market indicators
Broadband Content Bits: VOD Stats, OiNK Cleared, Nexus Cheaper
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: Spotify Limit, Russian IPTV, 3D Rugby
Market indicators
Broadband Content Bits: Spotify Limit, Russian IPTV, 3D Rugby
By Robert Andrews  
Broadband Content Bits: Samsung iPlayer, Kirill On Hulu, Chinese Football Game, Pirate Bay Fine
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: Samsung iPlayer, Kirill On Hulu, Chinese Football Game, Pirate Bay Fine
By Robert Andrews  
Canvas’ Biggest Threat Is Happening In Las Vegas Right Now
Company strategy
Canvas’ Biggest Threat Is Happening In Las Vegas Right Now
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Civolution Syncs TV, Online Ads For Amplification

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

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Not Enough Data About Video Content: Coull’s Watkins
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Chinese VOD Getting Combined Theater, Online Movie Window: iQiyi’s Yansong
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Time Inc Sees Greater Role For Video Across Brands
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Authenticated Online Viewing Is Booming: FreeWheel’s Rooke
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BBCs Internet TV Project Will Bring VOD, Widgets To British Living Rooms
Company strategy
BBCs Internet TV Project Will Bring VOD, Widgets To British Living Rooms
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Canvas Approved: Benefits Outweigh Possible Slowdown In Pay-TV Growth
Company strategy
Canvas Approved: Benefits Outweigh Possible Slowdown In Pay-TV Growth
By Robert Andrews  
iPlayer ’09: With 729 Million Requests Served, It’s A Monster
Company strategy
iPlayer ’09: With 729 Million Requests Served, It’s A Monster
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IP Vision Won’t Get To Build Its Own iPlayer
Company strategy
IP Vision Won’t Get To Build Its Own iPlayer
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Canvas Verdict Due At 10am On Tuesday
Company strategy
Canvas Verdict Due At 10am On Tuesday
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Company strategy
UK VOD Gets Vague New Rules From Ofcom, ATVOD
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Company strategy
TV Streamer Livestation Rolling Out Premium Channels
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Company strategy
VOD Arm’s Race: C4, TalkTalk Join Canvas; C4, Five Mounting SeeSaw?
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Connected TVs Are Richer Ad Environments: Brightline’s Aksman

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

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Cisco Boxes Clever With New STB Technology
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15 Billion Video Devices By 2020: Ericsson
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Sports Is Catching Up With Hollywood In IPTV: Diffusion’s Espelien
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Multi-Platform App Enablers Will Be IPTV Winners: Analyst Jackson
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Broadband Content Bits: Sky/Brightcove, Spotify In Stores, NBC On BT, Audioboo Desktop
Company strategy
Broadband Content Bits: Sky/Brightcove, Spotify In Stores, NBC On BT, Audioboo Desktop
By Robert Andrews  
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SeeSaw Finally Announces Some Content, But Only A Few BBCWW Shows
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