The NFL is developing a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts and team content. The streaming service is nascent, and likely won’t be ready for an owners’ vote until the next meeting in May,...
Read MoreBut Prebid’s growing membership numbers and the expanded scope of projects taken on by its committees necessitated hiring a leader who could focus full time on running Prebid as a company, Racic said. Although Prebid maintains a...
Read MoreThis new phase, Ampere predicted, will be characterized by “structural positioning.” As part of that, one wave of M&A activity will focus on content intellectual property where acquisition targets will include...
Read MoreSoaring revenues from the legalized sports betting industry continue to boost sports TV networks — benefitting from national TV advertising marketing dollars as well as other revenue in closer partnerships and ownerships....
Read MoreThe rollout of ATSC 3.0 opens the door for cable companies, broadcasters, and other content library owners to leverage solutions like Advanced HDR by Technicolor to upconvert movies and episodic programming so that they can be...
Read MoreDespite its increasing focus on streaming, the transition is not complete for RTL, which operates linear TV channels in all of its countries and owns the Fremantle production group, which delivered 15,000 hours of programming...
Read MoreCIMM is working with The Project X Institute and TVRev on the guide, which aims to provide profiles and objective comparisons of the capabilities and services offered by all industry players offering cross-platform TV and video...
Read MoreAnd remember, there’s no one definition of what constitutes premium content for consumers today. In the final instalment of Facebook and Instagram’s Fast Forward series, we explore the advantages of embracing a broader...
Read MoreThere are three fundamental reasons why this is likely to happen 1) The gross profit margins on players is negligible if not non-existent, 2) The gross margin on advertising revenue for player providers is significant, and...
Read MoreAt $10 per subscriber per month, Disney earns $10 billion per year in pay TV subscriber fees for the four ESPN channels. Four years ago, $9 of every pay TV customer’s monthly subscription went to Disney in licenses fees for...
Read MoreIn a session titled “The Attention Revolution”, the Founder and CEO of Amplified Intelligence, Karen Nelson-Field, and Chrissie Hanson, Global Chief Strategy Officer at OMD (the media agency network), discussed the growing...
Read More“We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar to our expansion into original films, animation and unscripted TV,” the company wrote in its letter to shareholders back then, leaving open the timing of its...
Read MoreThose that group all “creators” together risk missing out on the next phase of opportunities: particular tools that help breakout stars grow their business, improve the quality of their content, and offer bespoke resources to...
Read MoreIn disagreeing with Apple, Judge Gonzalez Rogers first ruled that digital games are a distinct market from general non-gaming apps; the list of reasons are worth noting: 1 Most of the rest of Judge Gonzalez Rogers’ decision...
Read MoreWith the acquisition, IAS says it will be accelerating its CTV strategy to help publishers better monetise their video programming across CTV devices, while building new tools to provide advertisers with much-needed transparency...
Read MoreThat heft comes from subscribers, which means the same executives working to grow their subscription numbers are also thinking about how they can maintain those numbers when they know churn is already happening as more folks put...
Read MoreMr. Roberts, known as an aggressive deal maker in his two decades atop Comcast, has told people close to him that he doesn’t feel a need to seek a merger. Comcast is alone among the industry’s titans with its all-encompassing...
Read MoreMost Important Story of the Week – More Evidence that Antitrust Enforcement is Back on the Business Agenda The FTC will likely try to fight any major Big Tech acquisitions, increasing the odds that deals don’t close and that...
Read MoreAt the same time, AMC theaters having a huge stock price means it can sell stock and use the capital to invest in its business, while ViacomCBS–which tried to take advantage of it–cannot. Most Important Story of the Week –...
Read MoreThe problem for Verizon is that Oath had the opposite problem of its core business: digital content requires effectively zero fixed costs to get started, but never-ending marginal costs to produce, which means it had effectively...
Read MoreAnd crucially, game publishers aren’t licensing their IP for adaptation to film/TV to monetize (#3), but to instead to grow love for their content (#2) through new types of stories (#1). There is no better evidence that power...
Read MoreBeachbody and Myx Fitness, component companies in the new corporation, Mayer said, have created video content with long shelf life. No matter what the mechanism that is used, whether you are part of a pay-TV bundle, or whether...
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