- Nielsen's Gauge Metric Shows Slight Gains For Netflix, Disney+ And Cable TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 16, 2021
Netflix improved one percentage point to a 7% share -- the top streaming platform for total day viewing for persons 2+. Disney also added one point. ...
- Amazon Prime Video, IMDb Snap Up Available Windows For Universal Group Movies, In Content Coup
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, July 9, 2021
Prime Video will stream live-action Universal Filmed Entertainment Group films during the 10-month window between Peacock's exclusive four-month post-theatrical windows, and iMDB TV will have an exclusive window for movi ...
- Pay To Play: Consumers Are Highly Willing To Join Premium Loyalty Programs
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Most shoppers are tired of redeeming points, and will join a paid program if the benefits are right, Clarus Commerce reports. ...
- Amazon Prime Day Drove 53% Hike In Ad Spending YoY
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 24, 2021
But return on ad spend declined this year, reports Jungle Scout. ...
- Prime Day Deal: Free Disney Bundle With Amazon Fire TV Sticks, Tablets
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Shoppers who buy sale-priced Fire TV devices can also get three free months of the Disney Bundle -- a promotion designed to give a supersized boost to Amazon's device us ...
- Reaching Rural Shoppers On Amazon Prime Day Who Spend More
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Adobe Analytics and Salesforce released Amazon Prime Day data Tuesday with unexpected results in states with the highest purchase gains in the first 24 hours of sales. ...
- Ahead Of Prime Day, Amazon Did Not Dramatically Increase Ad Spend
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 21, 2021
The top five retail advertisers collectively spent $1.03 billion year-to-date -- up 8% vs. a year ago, when they spent $954 million. ...
- Amazon Prime Will Lead To A Halo Effect: Adobe
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 17, 2021
Amazon Prime Day will create a halo effect for large retailers and drive email marketing. Here are the findings of a survey by Adobe Analytics. ...
- Amazon Reportedly Faces $425 Million Privacy Fine In Europe
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 10, 2021
Amazon is facing a possible fine of nearly half a billion dollars for allegedly violating Europe's broad privacy laws, according to a report in "The Wall Street Journal." ...
- Trying To Make Sense Of Amazon's Big MGM Content Buy
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
What is the value of video content? In the case of Amazon's acquisition of MGM Studios, this particular motherlode is worth $8.45 billion. ...
- Amazon Prime Members Hit 200M, Prime Video To Spend $650M On S1 Of 'Lord Of The Rings"
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, April 19, 2021
Prime's 200 million members have access to Prime Video, though Amazon still isn't revealing active user numbers for the streaming service. Amazon did report that its 2020 costs for vid ...
- Amazon Grows Total Video-Music Spend To $11 Billion
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 16, 2021
Amazon's total video and music video spend for TV, movies, and other content for its Prime Video and other services rose 41% in 2020 to $11 billion, according to i ...
- How Amazon's NFL Deal Could Redefine 'Prime' Time
RTBlog, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 22, 2021
"It's Amazon's world, and other rights holders are living in it," GroupM Business Intelligence Global President Brian Wieser wrote in an analysis of the new NFL rights deals he se ...
- Competition, Price Hike, 'Cuties' Blowback Impact Netflix's U.S. New-Subs Share
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The largest and most established streamers' share of new U.S. SVOD subscriptions was down to 7.4% in Q4, while Amazon Prime Video and newbie HBO Max had 18.2% and 19. ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Amazon Prime Over Cancellation Hurdles
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Amazon uses "dark patterns" to manipulate people from canceling their Prime memberships, advocacy groups allege in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission. ...
- Amazon, Twitch Score Highest Viewing For Streaming NFL Game -- 4.8M 'Average Minute' Viewers: NFL
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Saturday's NFL regular-season game posted 4.8 million "average minute" viewers on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch -- the highest ever for a streaming digital NFL game, based on estimated viewe ...
- Amazon Prime Video Trumps National TV With 'Exclusive' For NFL Cards, 49ers Game
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The Dec. 26 game won't be on national TV -- although it will be aired on local TV affiliates in the teams' home markets, and be accessible through mobile ...
- Amazon Set To Shake Up Pharma's $1.3 Trillion Universe
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Thursday, November 19, 2020
Still, "similar to its foray into food, Amazon will find itself facing formidable, deeply embedded competitors with voluminous store networks," says an analyst. ...
- Big SVODs' Subs Projected To Grow 62%, Reach 678M, By 2025, With Disney+ At 194M
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Disney+ will add 112 million subscribers (+58%) worldwide, while No. 1 Netflix will add 73 million (+36%), to reach 274,000, projects Digital TV Research. ...
- Even Without Prime Day, Amazon Sales Up 37%
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Friday, October 30, 2020
Easily beating Wall Street estimates, company says net income rose to $6.3 billion in Q3, compared with net income of $2.1 billion in same period last year. ...
- 'Borat' Streams Hit 1.6 Million TV Homes, National TV Ad Spend At $20.4 Million
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Amazon Prime Video's "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" has now bested "Mulan" as the top theatrical movie shifted to premium streaming distribution. For its opening weekend, Samba TV says, 1.6 million U. ...
- Amazon Prime Video Is H1 Top Streamer Marketer At $170M, Quibi At $41M
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 22, 2020
Hulu, Disney+ and Apple TV+ were right behind Amazon Prime Video at $144.6 million, $135.3 million and $104.7 million, respectively. Now-defunct Quibi was sharply lower at $40.8 million. ...
- Amazon Expands NFL Streaming With 2021 Wild Card Game Rights
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Amazon Prime Video, which already has rights to stream 11 "Thursday Night Football" games, will now also livestream one of two new NFL postseason playoff games. ...
- NBCU's Peacock, Amazon Prime Video See Major Gains In New Q3 Subscribers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
From July-September, Peacock took 17.2% of new premium streaming subscribers with Amazon Prime Video at 16%, according to Kantar, followed by HBO Max at an 11.3% share. ...
- A Very Merry COVID Christmas? Pandemic Will Permanently Change Consumer Behavior: Analysts
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Capital Markets Analysts believe the impact of COVID-19 will extend into 2021 and "almost certainly solidify the permanent changes in consumer behavior brought about by this pandemic." ...
- Amazon Prime: Buy Today, Pay Tomorrow?
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
As I give in to the siren call of Bezos and Co., I wonder what forces I might be unleashing. ...
- Analyst: National CineMedia Upfront 'Sold Out,' Albeit Lower Ad $
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 12, 2020
Even with advertising remaining "strong" since the movie theater industry's restart, National CineMedia is projected to see lower revenue this year and next, according to a new analyst estimate ...
- Amazon Gains Product Searches, As Google Shares Continue To Fall
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 2, 2020
COVID-19 is changing ecommerce behavior more than first expected. Raymond James data shows a clear increase in searches on Amazon -- and how search engines lost share in September v ...
- Target, Walmart Look To Poach From Prime
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Target says its promotional event, called Target Deal Days, will include its largest-ever sale, with Black Friday pricing available throughout November. ...
- Global SVOD Subscriptions, Revenue To Double By 2025, Big Gains For Netflix, Disney+, Amazon: Study
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 28, 2020
Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video will control half the world's subscription-video on demand users by 2025, according to a new survey. ...
