The number of video streaming subscribers worldwide overtook cable customers for the first time in 2018, according to The Motion Picture Association of America. Its newly released data shows that subscriptions to online video services hit 613m last year, an increase of 27% on 2017. This was enough to leapfrog cable custom which dropped by […]
PlayStation announced that PlayStation Vue is adding multi-view on Apple TV, allowing users to watch up to four live channels on one screen. This comes just in time for NCAA March Madness, so viewers can keep an eye on all the action or mix and match live games with live news or other programs. Multi-view […]
IPONWEB, an industry pioneer and world leader in the development of advanced advertising platforms and infrastructure, announced the appointment of Moritz Wuttke as Senior Vice President, Commercial for its newly-created TV Solutions Group. In this role, Wuttke will be responsible for developing, leading, and managing all TV commercial opportunities globally and will partner with internal […]
UK consumers are demanding more from the TV and video content available at their fingertips, despite already spending an average of £47 each month on TV, movie, and video subscription services. These viewers believe they’d have increase their spend to as much as £74 per month – or £888 a year – to access the […]
Part of becoming the #1 choice for TV, both in and out of the home, means also building the most innovative ad experiences for consumers and brands. Just as consumers’ viewing habits have evolved, their expectations for advertising have also changed. Viewers no longer accept an irrelevant, intrusive ad experience and appreciate when brands tell […]
PeerLogix, the go-to audience discovery platform for the OTT/streaming TV landscape, announced a partnership with SoMo Audience, one of the largest mobile ad exchanges. The partnership will allow SoMo’s mobile media buyers to target audiences through private marketplaces based on PeerLogix’s OTT engagement data, sourced from of over 170 million viewing households and sortable by title, […]
According to a new report into Traditional TV, Online Video and Streaming from marketing technology firm, AudienceProject, 57% of consumers would cancel their Netflix subscription if the company were to add commercials into its streaming service. When asked whether they would stop watching Netflix content featuring ads even if the subscription price was lowered, 42% of […]
Households in developed countries are set to have at least three separate TV and video subscriptions by 2023, as teenagers increasingly become account holders alongside the adults they live with, according to Deloitte. On average, UK children receive £11.20 in pocket money each week, while pay TV subscriptions tend to start at around £5 per […]
Cyber Communications Inc. (CCI) and SpotX have inked a deal which will see the adtech platform bring its programmatic solutions to television networks in Japan. The deal will see the country’s main broadcasters like Nippon Television Network Corporation, TV Asahi Corporation, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Fuji Television Network and TXN Network adopt SpotX’s solutions for video […]
Channel 4 revealed the world’s first AI driven TV advertising technology that enables the broadcaster to place a brand’s ads next to relevant scenes in a linear TV show. At its first ever 2018 summer Upfronts event, Channel 4 announced it is seeking advertising partners to test its exclusively owned, tech-driven commercial innovation live on […]