Roku Launches New Tool to Let Advertisers Know About the OTT Audience They’re Missing Out On

Activation Insights compares marketing campaigns linear performance with its streaming potential

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Roku Debuts New Tool to Capture More Linear Ad Dollars Just in Time for Upfronts

Activation Insights shows how much marketers could shift budgets to OTT.

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Roku and Amazon Even in U.S. OTT Market: Research Company

While the Fire TV ecosystem is larger globally, Roku owns more than half of U.S. market share for streaming players, TDG says

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Why YouTube Is Changing the Way It Reports Subscriber Counts

Within the next three months, YouTube will change the way it publicly displays channel subscriber counts: It will provide only rounded figures instead of actual follower numbers. For example, under…

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American Express is Offer 15% Cashback on Streaming Services like Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, Pandora, & More For a Limited Time - Co

Do you own an American Express credit card? Right now, American Express is offering 15% cash back on eligible streaming services including Sling TV, Netflix, Spotify, and Pandora. Now, this is a limited deal and your total credit is capped at $10. You can

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Winter is coming for HBO NOW subscriber growth – TechCrunch

Fan reaction to Game of Thrones’ final season may be mixed, but the show has been undeniably good for HBO’s network — and for its over-the-top streaming service, HBO NOW. The Season 8 premiere drew in 11.8 million live viewers and 17.4 million viewers acro

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Coca-Cola Will Revive New Coke in Alliance With Netflix, ‘Stranger Things’

A rush of TV watchers to streaming video has prompted Coca-Cola to test an interesting pour. Coca-Cola will bring New Coke back to market for a brief time, all part of a partnership with Netflix, w…

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'콘텐츠 왕국' 넷플릭스, 게임쇼 E3 첫 등판…게임까지 넘본다

(서울=뉴스1) 박병진 기자 | 온라인동영상서비스(OTT) 시장 최강자 넷플릭스가 게임 시장까지 노리고 있다. '콘텐츠 왕국'인 넷플릭스가 자체 지식재산권(IP)을 활용해 게임까지 넘보는 것이다.18일 업계에 따르면 넷플릭스는 오는 6월 미국 로스엔젤레스에서 열리는 국제 게임 전...

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CJ ENM, VOD 콘텐츠 6월 17일부터 전면 유료화

CJ ENM이 무료로 제공하던 VOD 콘텐츠를 유료로 개편한다,​무료로 생각하기 쉬운 콘텐츠에 대한 소비자 인식을 전환하고, 안정적인 수익원 확보를 통한 양질의 콘텐츠 제작 환경을 구축하겠다는 취지다.&...

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[TF포커스] 지상파도 졌다...`봄밤`·`배가본드` 등 줄줄이 넷플릭스 行 - 스타투데이

지상파 3사, 넷플릭스와 방영권 계약 체결

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[칸리포트]미중 무역분쟁 불똥 튄 영화제…넷플릭스 등 OTT 성장도 발목

칸 필름마켓(마르셰 뒤 필름)이 미중 무역분쟁에 OTT시장의 성장으로 이중고를 치르면서 썰렁한 분위기 속에서 열리고 있다.올해로 칸 필름마켓을 15년째 찾고 있는 국내 A수입사 대표는 20일 프랑스 칸 현지에서 기자와 만나 “중국 바이어들이 마켓에서 손을 떼고 있...

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유튜브 새옷 입고 돌아온 추억의 시트콤

[아무튼, 주말] 순풍·하이킥 유튜브로 부활 #1. "엄마 '지뚫킥(지붕 뚫고 하이킥)' 빵꾸똥꾸 넘 재밌어. '순풍' 미달이 이모가 스카이캐슬 우주 엄마 맞지?" 김모(43)씨는 초등학교 4학년 딸(10) 질문에

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AT&T U-verse and Verizon Fios Tops in Customer Satisfaction Again

Telco TV and wireline broadband services once again ranked highest in latest American Customer Satisfaction Index survey of telecom users

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AVOD could lead to consumers skipping MVPDs and vMVPDs alike

DENVER—The pay TV industry has seen traditional TV subscribers decline and virtual MVPD subscribers increase, but ad-supported streaming TV could throw a wrench in that balance.

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Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, & Amazon Dominate 78.8% of All Streaming - Cord Cutters News

Today at the Pay-TV show Comscore Gave a look at the current state of streaming in the United States. According to Comscore Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Amazon accounted for 78.8% of all streaming in the United States. All other streaming in the United Stat

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Amazon Fire TV now claims more than 34M active users

DENVER—Fire TV, Amazon’s device and platform ecosystem for streaming video, says it now has more than 34 million active users.

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AT&T Plans to Launch a "Thin" Streaming Version of DIRECTV This Year But Expect DIRECTV Losses to Continue - Cord Cutters News

Today AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he expects DIRECTV’s rapid subscriber decline will continue in 2019. According to Randall, Stephenson AT&T plans to let lower revenue customers leave the service as their contracts expire. Mr. Stephenson did give us a

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AT&T Plans to Pull WarnerMedia Content From Places like Netflix, Amazon, & Hulu - Cord Cutters News

Today AT&T announced plans to pull back content currently licensed to places like Netflix in preparation for its new streaming service. This likely means popular shows will be leaving Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu as AT&T gets ready to launch a new streaming s

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HBO Pay-TV Customers Will Have Access to WarnerMedia SVOD Service, AT&T Chief Says

AT&T shed some new light on plans for the forthcoming WarnerMedia subscription-streaming service, with chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson explaining that HBO customers on pay-TV operators R…

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Sling TV chief calls AT&T carriage behavior ‘anti-competitive’

Sling TV doesn’t require any contract, commitment or equipment. And its President Warren Schlichting says the company has embraced the idea of restarts and pauses.

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WOW! will sell Philo directly to its internet subscribers

TV and broadband provider WOW! has a new deal in place to sell and market streaming TV service Philo directly to its internet subscribers.

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Comcast relinquishes full control of Hulu to Disney

Comcast announced that it has reached a deal allowing Disney to take full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately.

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Disney Assumes Full Control of Hulu in Deal With Comcast

Disney is now the only one with its hands on Hulu’s steering wheel. Disney and Comcast announced a deal under which Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately.…

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Roku in position to ride the AVOD wave

Roku has put years of time and effort into developing its players, platform and advertising tech stack, and now the company is in a good position to cash in on the growing AVOD market.

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NBCU Makes Early Pitch for Streaming-Video Ads

NBCUniversal won’t launch a streaming service until the middle of next year. But it made an effort to win advertising for the venture today. Speaking to advertisers at its annual “upfro…

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Apple Launches New TV App, Providing Access to Over 150 Video Apps Including HBO, Hulu, CBS, Showtime, Starz, ESPN and Amazon Pr

Apple launched its redesigned Apple TV app, now giving users the ability to stream more than 150 video services and subscribe directly to channels like HBO and Showtime. The new version of the app …

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Hotstar claims record with 18.6M concurrent streams

India streaming service Hotstar, which is now owned by Disney, claimed a new concurrent streaming record when 18.6 million tuned in for a cricket match.

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Amazon Prime Video Added to Cox’s Contour Service (EXCLUSIVE)

Cox Communications’ Contour TV customers now have access to Amazon Prime Video from their set-top box, marking the ecommerce giant’s second distribution deal with a U.S. pay-TV operator…

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fuboTV Is Planning to Launch An Ad-Supported Channel, Not A Free Streaming Service - Cord Cutters News

Earlier today, we reported that fuboTV would be launching a free streaming service similar to Pluto. fuboTV has now reached out to say that they are not developing a new streaming service, but will be launching an ad-supported channel. “fuboTV believes in

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fuboTV Hires Away a Sling TV Executive - Cord Cutters News

Today it was announced that fuboTV has hired away Sling TV’s ad sales executive Chris Flatley. Mr. Flatley ran Sling TV’s ad sales and had great success there. Now he is moving over to be fuboTV’s head of ad sales. “Chris brings solid experience leading ad

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TiVo splits business into 2 independent companies

TiVo announced that after months of strategic review the company has decided to split its business into two independent companies focused on products and IP licensing.

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TiVo: Split Will Not Affect Comcast Litigation

Tech company says decision to separate IP licensing from products business will not stop its long-running patent feud with cable company

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‘Game of Thrones’ Nabs No. 1 Spot as Most-Social TV Show in Q1, While Netflix’s Engagement Surges

The looming battle for Westeros led “Game of Thrones” to dominate social buzz in the first quarter of 2019 — even before HBO debuted the eighth and final season to record ratings …

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Netflix Buys Chinese Drama Series ‘I Hear You’ From Youku

Global streaming giant Netflix has licensed rights to Chinese series “I Hear You” from Chinese streaming platform Youku. The 24-part romantic comedy will play out from May 15 to Netflix subscribers…

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Deeper Dive—How AT&T’s 5G will change LiveU’s broadcasting backpacks

LiveU’s portable broadcasting solution, stuffed inside a backpack, already runs off a lot of different network signals. Soon the company will add 5G to that list.

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Viacom plans product and engineering team investments for Pluto TV

Viacom on Friday reiterated its $1 billion domestic advertising expectations for Pluto TV, and the company said it will be investing in the AVOD platform to help make that happen.

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Sinclair AVOD STIRR could add authenticated access to live sports

Sinclair’s recently launched ad-supported multichannel service STIRR could see benefits from the company’s recently announced $9.6 billion deal for Disney’s regional sports networks.

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Sky invests in You.i TV ahead of NBCU’s AVOD launch

Comcast-owned Sky is investing in video app development software company You.i TV ahead of NBCUniversal’s planned 2020 launch of a new ad-supported streaming video service.

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Netflix Issues First Top 10 List in the U.K., With ‘Our Planet’ and ‘The Perfect Date’ on Top

Netflix took a step toward greater transparency Thursday, at least in the U.K., by publishing its first top-10 lists of most-watched content on its platform after having promised investors that it …

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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Returning for Interactive Special at Netflix

Kimmy Schmidt, meet Bandersnatch. Netflix is bringing back “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” for an untitled, one-off interactive special, set to debut in 2020. It’s the first interacti…

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Netflix Acquires StoryBots Kids’ Animation and Education Brand

Netflix announced that it acquired StoryBots, the children’s media brand created by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, the founders of JibJab Media. In addition, the Spiridellis have entered into…

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Roku says it passed Samsung and is now the top smart TV OS in the U.S.

Roku estimated that one of every three smart TVs sold last quarter were Roku TVs, a figure that the company said moved it past Samsung and made it the top smart TV in the U.S.

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Disney’s streaming video business losses swell to $393M

Disney’s direct-to-consumer and international business – which houses ESPN+, Hulu and the upcoming Disney+ – saw its losses soar to $393 million during the company’s fiscal second quarter.

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Iger: Disney Held Talks with Comcast About Buying Hulu Stake

A sale could value Comcast interest at about $5 billion

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Deeper Dive—The unlikely odds that Charter licenses Comcast’s X1

Charter made a surprising admission this week when CEO Tom Rutledge said that his company had held discussions with Comcast about potentially licensing its X1 video platform.

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Dish Network loses 266K satellite subscribers as HBO spat continues

Dish Network is still feeling the affects of no HBO—particularly as the final season of “Game of Thrones” plays out—and it’s resulting in accelerated subscriber losses.

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DirecTV, Dish and other top providers lost 1.28M video subscribers in Q1: Informitv

Satellite TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network once again accounted for a large majority of pay TV subscriber losses in the first quarter, according to Informitv’s new Multiscreen Index.

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CBS says Q1 revenues up 11%, streaming service subscriptions up 71%

CBS released its first-quarter financial results today and boasted an 11% increase in overall revenues and 71% annual growth in subscribers to its direct-to-consumer streaming video services.

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NBCU’s new ShoppableTV feature connects viewers directly to e-commerce sites

NBCUniversal announced the launch of ShoppableTV, a new feature that uses QR codes within TV shows to direct viewers to e-commerce websites.

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YouTube Now Has 2 Billion Monthly Users, Who Watch 250 Million Hours on TV Screens Daily

Has YouTube become the new center of gravity for primetime? That’s the narrative it wants Madison Avenue to believe — especially as it relates to coveted younger demos. The Google-owned…

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OTT 영향력 갈수록↑…넷플릭스ㆍ옥수수 ‘쌍벽’

- 엠브레인 트렌드모니터 조사…OTT 인지도ㆍ이용경험↑- “OTT, TV 시청습관 더욱 바꿀 것…넷플릭스 이용의향 多”[헤럴드경제=정윤희 기자]TV시청 습관이 급변하면서 넷플릭스를 비롯한 온라인 동영상 서비스(OTT)의 영향력이 갈수록 높아지고 있다. 시장조사업체 엠브레인 트렌드모니터가 전국 만 19~59세 성인남녀 1000명을 대상으로 OTT서비스에 대한 설문조사를 실시한 결과, 다양한 OTT 서비스 중 아는 브랜드가 없다고 말하는 시청자는 단 2.6.

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Hulu Zooms to 28 Million Total Subscribers, Up 12% So Far in 2019

Hulu kicked off 2019 by rapidly packing on subscribers — driven by price cuts and promos — with the streamer announcing that its total customer base has swelled to over 28 million. And …

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Hulu Plans Debut of Commercials Aimed at Binge-Watchers

Hulu plans to launch another ad format tailored to the viewing habits of the streaming-video junkie. The company, controlled by Walt Disney and Comcast, said it plans to launch a new format that &#…

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Hulu Taps into Marvel Universe for Two New Live Action Series

Signs Chrissy Teigen to content development deal

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How Netflix Makes Movies, TV Shows Sound Better With High-Quality Audio

Netflix is adding high-quality audio feeds to its catalog, and introducing adaptive audio streaming to make sure its members are getting the best-possible sound based on the speed of their internet…

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DirecTV Now, Hulu and other vMVPDs score 108% viewership growth: Conviva

Virtual MVPDs like DirecTV Now, Hulu with Live TV, PlayStation Vue and Sling TV are making big strides toward increasing viewership on their services, according to Conviva.

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Sky takes up NBCU’s CFlight TV advertising metric

Sky today announced that it is adopting NBCUniversal’s CFlight cross-platform advertising metric, giving the product its first international launch.

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Sling TV is Offering an Extended 14-Day Free Trial - Cord Cutters News

Been thinking about Sling TV and want to try it before you buy it? Right now you can get an extended 14-day free trial but only for a limited time. The downside is if you take advantage of the 14-day free trial you can’t also take advantage of the $15 a mo

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Viacom Launching 14 Free Channels on Pluto TV, Sets Broad Digital Originals Slate

For Viacom, the future of television has an increasingly online sheen. The media conglomerate is bringing a slew of content from its flagship cable networks to Viacom-owned Pluto TV — launchi…

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Viacom Is Creating New Original Shows for YouTube, Hulu, and Facebook - Cord Cutters News

Today Viacom announced that they are going to create more original programs for YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, and others. Awesomeness Brent Rivera’s Dream Vacation (AwesomenessTV YouTube Channel; Summer 2019): Join Brent Rivera and his friends as they ditch the

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Spotify Now Has Over 100 Million Subscribers, Narrows Q1 Losses

Spotify grew its paid subscriber rolls by 32% in the first quarter of 2019 — reaching 100 million Premium customers — while the streaming-music company narrowed its losses and beat Wall…

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Twitter is Adding Video Content From the NFL, ESPN, Univision, Viacom, & More - Cord Cutters News

Today Viacom announced that they are adding a ton of video content to Twitter. Including Content from NFL, ESPN, Univision, Viacom, and more. Here is Everything Viacom Announced Today: Univision: This year, Univision and Twitter are launching a content par

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