Average weekly time spent in apps and games on Android phones grew 20% year-over-year. Read the whole story
Kilar succeeds John Stankey, who was promoted to president/COO, AT&T last year. Stankey said Kilar will be key to the HBO Max launch in … Read the whole story
Compared to the U.S. economy as a whole, cable TV operator/broadband companies will "remain relatively stable" through the COVID-19 crisis, says Moody's Investors Service … Read the whole story
The deal includes retransmission of the channels to Comcast Xfinity customers, VOD and TV everywhere rights. Read the whole story
Ad spending by the top 500 advertisers on premium news sites on the Connatix video platform declined 17% in mid March alone, including Amazon's … Read the whole story
Following an unprecedented spike in news viewing, national TV audience patterns are beginning to normalize as kids and general entertainment audiences rebound, according to … Read the whole story
Expect news organisations to furlough staff as ad blacklists mean they cannot fully monetise the mass attention paid to COVID-19 stories. Read the whole story
Chairman/CEO Brian Roberts and other top executives donating salaries for duration of the crisis, with $500 million in corporate funds earmarked to help employees … Read the whole story
Since January, more than 1.4 larger influencers have generated more than 940,000 posts and about 3 billion social media interactions, according to an analysis … Read the whole story
"We're hoping that the advertising industry uses this to address issues like native advertising, influencer advertising, the misleading use of consumer reviews," Laura Brett, … Read the whole story
In its first discrete estimates for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing category, eMarketer projects it will expand more than 24%, reaching nearly $18 billion this … Read the whole story
Digital marketing firms are susceptible to making costly mistakes, with 99% of agency decision makers saying they have witnessed mistakes at their companies. Read the whole story
Home entertainment has sharply risen as the out-of-home entertainment business -- movie theaters, concerts, theater and other entertainment events -- has virtually stopped. Read the whole story
Facebook users are pressing a federal judge to allow them to proceed with a lawsuit over the platform's alleged "persistent, duplicitous, profit-driven collection and … Read the whole story
"Zoom has a troubling history of software design practices and security lapses that have posed significant risks to the privacy and safety of its … Read the whole story
Per the pact, Slack users can now launch a Microsoft Teams video conference directly from the collaboration app. Read the whole story
In a New York Times op-ed Tuesday, columnist Kara Swisher makes the case that Fox News spread not just disinformation in the early days … Read the whole story
I don't know who created that meme, but he or she should join Joe Biden's campaign, because there's no more effective message for the … Read the whole story