- CES Researchers Tout 'Connected Health,' Other Technology Solutions Spurred By Pandemic
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 11, 2021
In a CES opening day briefing, the Consumer Technology Association's top researchers made the case that the COVID-19 pandemic helped to accelerate many consumer media technologies, including the "connected healt ...
- Nielsen's Gracenote To Provide Real-Time Sports Data For Smart TV, Connected Auto Systems
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Live sports data will be integrated into smart TV sets and connected automobile information systems, allowing smart TV makers to offer previews of upcoming games and real-time score information, wi ...
- Predictions: Buy Direct On Google, Verified Reviews, Data Security, Cookieless Standards
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 31, 2020
Zoom became a verb in 2020. Cloud services showed their worth. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook will be in better shape next year than most companies, as the wor ...
- Google Services Just The Beginning Of Subscription-Based Offers In 2021
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Apple created hardware, then a services business and subscriptions. Whether or not this will offset future ad declines based on antitrust lawsuits, 2021 will become the year of subscription servi ...
- For Safer Holidays, Amazon Recruits 'Granfluencers'
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The idea is to showcase the Amazon Echo and ways families can use it for impromptu drop-in visits. ...
- WarnerMedia's HBO Max Film Release Move Puts Pressure On Roku
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 7, 2020
With Amazon Fire now supporting HBO Max, Roku, as the remaining holdout, is getting pressure from Roku device users who now want to get HBO Max for its no-extra-charge one-mon ...
- Nielsen: Daytime Is The New Prime Time
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Daytime TV viewing has become a "second prime time," according to Nielsen, due to the continued growth of kids viewing and at-home workers' TV and internet consumption. ...
- Apple Announces M1 Chip For Mac -- What It Means For Advertisers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
All aspects of the machine can now run on one chip that provides a unified architecture. All technologies can access the same data without having to switch between multiple poo ...
- Fitness Equipment Brands Capitalize On Data Through Membership Services
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, November 8, 2020
Lockdown has driven high demand for at-home exercise equipment and a gold mine of data for manufacturers like Mirror and Peloton, athletic clothing designers like Lululemon Athletica, and app make ...
- Project OAR Expects To Begin Live Campaigns Before Year's End
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 30, 2020
Project OAR, which had targeted a mid 2020 launch prior to the pandemic, now expects to have 10 million households with Vizio smart TVs ready to roll for deploying ...
- WarnerMedia Officially Unveils In-Car Streamer; HBO Max On Tap For 2021
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
WarnerMedia Ride is now available to consumers with AT&T unlimited data plans in select General Motors Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac connected car models. ...
- The Next Big Mobile Media Battle Will Be Inside The Home
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Almost no medium is more associated with reaching people outside their homes than mobile, but that may change soon. ...
- TransUnion's Tru Optik Acquisition To Strengthen Cookieless Identity-Based Marketing, Reach Into CTV
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 2, 2020
Matt Spiegel, TransUnion EVP of marketing solutions, believes the two companies can deliver addressable consumer experiences without legacy identifiers like cookies, while matching the pace of
accelerated change. ...
- Nielsen Shutters Place-Based Audience Measurement Service
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 10, 2020
Nielsen has shut down its 12-year-old place-based video networks measurement service, as many place-based media venues face challenges due to shutdowns or sparse attendance during the COVID-19
pandemic. ...
- TV, Video Devices Grow To 1.1 Billion, Samsung Has Top 14% Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 4, 2020
TV and video streaming devices have grown to 1.15 billion devices worldwide, with Samsung the leading brand in global share, Strategy Analytics says. ...
- Comcast Looks To Integrate X1 In Smart TVs
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 31, 2020
Achieving integrations of X1 in smart tvs could help Comcast gain more leverage for its own Peacock and Xumo streamers as it faces gatekeepers like Roku and Amazon. Comcast isn ...
- TiVo+ Adds 18 Loop Media Music Video Channels, Library
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Expanding the ad-supported TiVo+ streamer, which is free to TiVo device owners, along with leveraging the new TiVo Stream 4K tech on smart TVs, is part of TiVo's push in ...
- Audio Content Remains Strong Among Remote Workers As Local News, Radio, Podcasts, Music Thrive: Nielsen
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Nielsen says 23% of remote workers listen every day to "spoken word" audio -- local news, podcasts, news/talk radio stations -- and 30% listen at least once a week. Mus ...
- Daily Video Time On TV-Connected Devices Surpasses An Hour
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 14, 2020
Daily average time spent on TV-connected devices has grown by 20 minutes over two years, and 12 minutes in the past year alone, Nielsen reports. ...
- Google Secures Applications with Private Certificate Authorities
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 4, 2020
To help set up digital certificates that underpin identity and authentication for many networked devices and services, Google and AppViewX on Tuesday announced Google’s Certificate Authority Service: Securing Applications with Priva ...
- OTT/CTV Programmatic Ads Spike 40%, Fox News Channel, The CW, Hulu Show Big Gains
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The CW, Fox News Channel, Hulu, ABC and Sling TV showed big gains in the number of programmatic ad impressions from April 5-May 16 on the Roku Store. ...
- IAB: Digital Ad Spending Rises 16%, But CPMs Fall 16%
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, May 28, 2020
First-quarter 2020 showed YoY ad growth, but the COVID-19 pandemic created significant pricing pressure on CPMs, with digital falling 16%. The IAB released its 2019 Internet Ad Revenue Report Thursda ...
- Amazon Kindle, Echo Groups Test COVID-19 Tech To Keep Ecommerce At Full Speed
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Amazon's hardware group responsible for the Kindle e-reader and Echo Smart speaker is hiring engineers to work on its COVID-19 testing initiative. ...
- Pandemic Turns Morning Into Prime Time, Digital Device Usage Soars
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, April 30, 2020
The period from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. has become the new prime time as many Americans turn to their digital devices, computers, tablets, smartphones and connected TVs for wor ...
- Alexa: Who Cares What Time It Is?
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Friday, May 1, 2020
There are some small, but telling insights about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the daily media routines of American households contained in the latest edition of NPR ...
- Daytime Kids Viewing In Top 25 Markets Soars Nearly 300%, Big Gains In Internet, Gaming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Daytime broadcast TV viewership for kids and teens has soared 200% to 300% on average in the top U.S markets in the last month and a half. There have al ...
- Back Off! My SocialSafety Smartphone Is Beeping
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, April 27, 2020
When one co-worker gets less than six feet away from another, their smartphones start to vibrate and beep. ...
- InMobi Names Greg Archibald To SVP Role
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Archibald, who previously served as an EVP at Criteo, will be responsible for revenue across InMobi products. ...
- Coronavirus Slashing Smart Home Market Revenue By $19.5 Billion
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 13, 2020
The global smart-home market is being hit hard by the coronavirus. The market now is forecast to fall nearly $20 billion short of previous estimates for 2020. ...
- Kellogg Sells Pringles During Super Bowl In Real Time
MediaPost Connect, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, March 10, 2020
You can register to read more brand case studies like this one by clicking this.The Challenge CBS Interactive was looking to do something that had never been do ...
