- Lockdown TV Viewing: From 'Me' To 'We'
Digital News Daily, Michael Baer - Friday, April 3, 2020
As nationwide quarantines took hold in March, an interesting and clear shift occurred: The key driver for consumers' video choices changed from "me" to "we," according to Ipsos research. ...
- T-Mobile Offers Free Year Of Quibi; SVOD's Launch Shadowed By Tech Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 3, 2020
In addition to its own 90-day free trial offer, the short-form mobile video SVOD, set to launch April 6, now has a free tie-in deal with T-Mobile. Meanwhile, though it ...
- Shifting Prime Time: Global Daytime Streaming Soars, Evening Streaming Slips
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Overall streaming video is soaring as well as in specific dayparts, like in daytime. But prime-time and late-fringe streaming is slightly down or flat. ...
- Sen. Blumenthal Questions Zoom Over Privacy, 'Zoombombing'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
"Zoom has a troubling history of software design practices and security lapses that have posed significant risks to the privacy and safety of its users," Sen. Richard Blumenthal writes to ...
- Premium Streaming Continues To Climb -- Netflix Still Tops, YouTube Is Next
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Total streaming minutes were up 22% to 156 billion minutes for the week of March 16 vs. the week of March 9 -- more than double the growth of the ...
- Former Senior Hulu Exec Jason Kilar Named CEO, WarnerMedia
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
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 May. ...
- TV's Shift To Digital Has Greatly Accelerated, And It Changes Everything
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Home entertainment has sharply risen as the out-of-home entertainment business -- movie theaters, concerts, theater and other entertainment events -- has virtually stopped. ...
- Zoom Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Disclosures To Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Zoom's "wholly inadequate program design and security measures have resulted, and will continue to result, in unauthorized disclosure of its users' personal information to third parties," the lawsuit
alleges. ...
- Nielsen: Streaming's Share Of TV Time Leaps To 23%, Disney+ Drives Share Gain By 'Other' Platforms
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Streaming's share was just 14% at this juncture last year. And over four weeks in March, "other" platforms -- a group that includes Disney+ -- grew share of weekly minutes ...
- Videoconferencing Apps Skyrocket Due To COVID-19
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Zoom Cloud Meetings led downloads in the U.S., U.K. and Europe, with downloads reaching 14 times the weekly average in the U.S. during the week of March 15. ...
- Video, IM, Texting Drive Mobile During COVID-19 Crisis
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Consumers homebound due to COVID-19 are taking a big turn toward mobile technology. This means they're spending more time on the phone, whether speaking, texting or using video. ...
- Verily, Google's Sibling, Releases COVID-19 Screening Guide For Community Test Sites
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 30, 2020
Verily Life Sciences on Monday released a guide to set up community test sites for COVID-19 screening and a YouTube video of the test process for Project Baseline. The guide ...
- Video Streamers Maintain High National TV Spend, New Launches
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 30, 2020
As more stay-at-home state orders are issued -- and amidst TV analysts' expectations of higher streaming usage -- video streaming services have maintained or raised national TV marketing. ...
- Pandemic-Driven Kid-Related Video Boom: Even DIYs Are Diving In
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 31, 2020
As views of kids' videos are spiking and hit classics remain most-watched, kid-oriented DIY videos like workouts and hand-washing how-tos and food-and-drink and science-and-tech videos are also trending up as ...
- Quibi Pre-Launch Numbers Already Big
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, March 30, 2020
It could be the first runaway hit of the stay-at-home season, or it could be a massive miss. ...
- Brightcove Suffers Outage, CEO Apologizes
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 27, 2020
Video platform Brightcove was hit with a service outage this week, promoting CEO Jeff Ray to apologize. Fay says that the outage, while it may not be tied to the coronavirus ...
- vidREACH Unveils Email Video Product For SMBs
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The new offering can be integrated with Gmail and the major ESPs, the company says. ...
- The Social Distancing 7: Media Channels That Will Grow During The COVID-19 Outbreak
MediaDailyNews, Jeff Larson - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Media consumption will significantly increase as our routines and habits adjust to a new reality. Which media channels will grow the most? ...
- Amid The Crisis, Video Ad Inventory Growing, Overall Digital Ad Spend Holding Its Own
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The expected surge in streaming consumption is materializing, and users who say they're planning to spend more on those services have risen, at least for the present. Ad platform data ...
- Vizio's Smart TV Homes: Higher Linear And Streaming Viewing Over The Recent Weekend
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 20, 2020
Vizio's Inscape, the smart TV data business, says linear TV and streaming OTT viewing are up 10% for March 14-15 vs. March 7-8 due to more people staying home and ...
- YouTube Hit With New Children's Privacy Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
A Massachusetts mother of two is suing Google for allegedly tracking her children's YouTube viewing habits for ad purposes. ...
- Instagram To Sell Ads On IGTV Video App, Take On YouTube
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Facebook Inc., counting on Instagram for growth, will woo top video creators with 55% of ad revenue generated by ads on the IGTV long-form video app. ...
- Four Decades of Pent-Up Need For Changes Will Upend TV Ad World
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Expect more video consumption and fragmentation among platforms, particularly with the loss of live sports and other aspects of tentpole TV. ...
- VideoAmp Names Comscore's Chasin Chief Measurability Officer, Signals Broader Industry Shift
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Josh Chasin, the Chief Research Officer of Comscore since 2007, has joined VideoAmp as Chief Measurability Officer, a title and a role he says reflects the future of the media ...
- CSM Exec: Streamers Now Need To Go Beyond Content To Create Affinity, Retention
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Content is too ubiquitous to achieve retention on its own -- particularly with even more big-brand new streamers about to debut, says Rob Drury, VP, client partnerships at the CSM ...
- TV Is THE Metaphor For Video's Future
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, March 12, 2020
New devices have neither supplanted television's unique role in delivering video, nor come as close as TV to shaping video content itself. ...
- FAANG Stocks Grow 18% In TV Ad Spending In 2019
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Five big media tech stocks -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, the FAANG stocks -- continue to increase their collective TV ad spending. ...
- Playable Forms Video Email Arrangement With Mailchimp
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Users of Playable's Stock Video Library can upload videos into emails sent by Mailchimp. ...
- Advertisers Press Judge To Approve Facebook Inflated Video Metrics Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 9, 2020
None of the video advertisers who were notified about Facebook's proposed $40 million class-action settlement over inflated video metrics have objected to the deal, class counsel says in papers filed ...
- Lifesize To Merge With Serenova In Move To Grow Communications Market
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Serenova is a contact center-as-a-service provider that helps firms utilize email and other channels. ...
