- Roku Buys Exclusive Rights to Quibi Library, Will Stream Content Free
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, January 8, 2021
Roku, which reportedly paid signficantly under $100 million for limited-time exclusive rights to 75 Quibi programs--some as yet unseen -- will begin by streaming the content on the Roku Chann ...
- Roku Close To Deal To Acquire Quibi Content: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 4, 2021
Acquiring rights to Quibi's content library would advance Roku's push into content via its ad-supported Roku Channel app. ...
- Discovery+ Announces U.S. Distribution On Major Platforms, Vodafone European Deal
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 4, 2021
Discovery+, live today in the U.S., has distribution deals with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Roku and Samsung. ...
- Hulu + Live TV Ends Blackout Of 23 ABC Locals, Adds WGN America
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 21, 2020
In its recent carriage deal negotiations, Nexstar has been pushing a requirement to carry WGN America, which it is trying to launch as a national news network. ...
- HBO Max Finally Bows On Comcast's Xfinity X1, Flex
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Comcast was a distribution partner for Max's launch, but creating "frictionless" access to the new SVOD for the platform's customers took some time. ...
- Amazon, Sky Agree To Carry Each Others' Services In Europe
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 14, 2020
Amazon Prime Video will be accessible through Sky and Now TV devices, and the Sky Ticket and Now TV apps will be carried on Amazon Fire TV devices. ...
- Atypical Shopping Patterns For Black Friday May Point To A Recovery
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 23, 2020
To minimize shopper traffic in brick-and-mortar locations on Black Friday, retailers are staggering deals and discounts, which could help with recovery in the U.S. ...
- HBO Max Finally Comes To Amazon Fire Devices; No Deal Yet For Roku (But There's A Workaround)
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 16, 2020
The belated deal brings the HBO Max app to 40 million Amazon Fire TV streaming devices, Fire TV Edition smart TVs, and Fire tablets, filling much of a distribution ...
- Microsoft Lets Advertisers Highlight Deals With Promotion Extensions
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Microsoft Promotion Extensions, which launched on Tuesday, allow brands running ads on Microsoft Advertising to highlight a specific deal or special offer in their text ad. ...
- Don't Be A Clutterbug: Personalized Emails Are More Welcome Than Batch-And-Blast
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Retailers are the primary generator of overstuffed inboxes, with daily deals the most prevalent, SmarterHQ reports. ...
- Dish Media To Automate Addressable Access Through Verizon Media's DSP
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 3, 2020
The addition of Dish Media's 7 million addressable households to Fios TV's nearly 4 million subscribers expands Verizon Media's addressable footprint to nearly 11 million. ...
- Google Prepares Retailers For Holiday Season With Tools To Highlight Offers, Information
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Know this about consumers before the holiday season approaches. ...
- Deal Keeps HBO App On Amazon Fire TV Devices, For Now
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 3, 2020
While they continue to wangle over getting the new HBO Max app on Fire TV devices, Amazon and WarnerMedia agreed to extend those device users' direct access to the H ...
- Kickback Friend-To-Friend Shopping App Launches With Nike, Walmart, Others
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
The app relies on digital advertising to create consumer loyalty, providing a financial kickback by putting money back into the pockets of consumers who make purchases and spread the wo ...
- Spotify Inks Podcast Deal With Warner Bros., DC, And Hits New Stock High
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 19, 2020
This deal, along with one with Kim Kardashian West, is part of Spotify's aggressive push to go beyond music content. ...
- Let's Make A Deal: Consumers Open Emails With Discounts In The Subject Line, Study Shows
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Amazon far outperforms other retailers with its email marketing, SparkPost and SurveyMonkey report. ...
- We Care: Brands Strive For Empathy In Their Emails
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Marketers are using words that suggest togetherness. But consumers are already getting tired of packaged empathy, Dorothy Crenshaw writes. ...
- SEO Expert Jumps From Vivid Seats To CouponCabin
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 29, 2020
Bryson Meunier this week became SEO director for the local coupon site, which offers cash back and codes to save money at online checkout, after working at Vivid Seats, whi ...
- Verizon Media, Dugout Form Global Advertising Partnership
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Dugout, owned by 10 of the world's largest soccer leagues, claims to reach 60 million unique users with 2,500+ videos per month. Verizon will market exclusive Dugout ad packages throu ...
- Pluto TV Partners With TiVo, Adds CBS Sports HQ
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
ViacomCBS continues to expand Pluto TV's distribution, with the TiVo deal coming on the heels of a Verizon deal. TiVo device owners will have one-click access to Pluto's 250-plus channe ...
- Ampersand To Be Exclusive Seller For Fios Addressable Inventory
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Ampersand will also use Verizon Media's DSP as its primary buying platform for CTV and OTT inventory. ...
- HBO Max Bows Discount Offer, Signs Hulu As Distribution Partner
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, May 4, 2020
Some pre-launch orders made directly through WarnerMedia are eligible for $2 off the standard $14.99-per-month price. Hulu customers already buying HBO as an add-on through Hulu get a no-additional-cost upgra ...
- Vote On Proposed TiVo, Xperi Merger Set For May 29
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, April 23, 2020
If approved, the merger would close in the current quarter. ...
- Comcast, Fox Ink Long-Term Renewal Of Fox Channels Distribution Deal
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, April 2, 2020
The deal includes retransmission of the channels to Comcast Xfinity customers, VOD and TV everywhere rights. ...
- FuboTV Agrees To Merge With FaceBank Group
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, March 23, 2020
Fubo will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of FaceBank -- which creates "hyper-realistic digital humans" for use in media assets--but the new entity will be called FuboTV Inc., and Fubo's C ...
- ViacomCBS Suspends Efforts to Sell Black Rock HQ
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 19, 2020
In an SEC filing, the company cited safety restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis, noting that prospective buyers would want to view the property in person. ...
- Dish, Cox Suspend Retrans Feud During Pandemic
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Cox-owned stations in 10 markets that have been blacked out by Dish since Jan. 18 have been restored in the interest of keeping the public informed during the crisis, t ...
- PGA Tour U.S. Rights Deal Adds Disney's ESPN+ For Digital
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Under the Tour's first digital component deal, its subscription service will live exclusively on ESPN+ starting in 2022, and will be expanded to include multiple live content channels nearly eve ...
- HBO Max, HBO, Cinemax Coming To YouTube TV
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, February 24, 2020
The deal extends WarnerMedia's existing YouTube TV carriage agreement covering TBS, TNT, truTV, CNN, HLN, Turner Classic Movies, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network to the SVODs, including HBO Max ...
- Netflix Cozies Up To Samsung With Bonus Content For Galaxy Users
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 14, 2020
Though not really "exclusive," Netflix's agreement to provide bonus content from its shows to Galaxy smartphones is unusual, and reflects its need to bond with Samsung to achieve the ty ...