- Disney Isn't Late To The FAST Party - New Party Favors?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Disney is beginning to look at starting up FAST channels - again ...
- Prime-Time Upfront Ad Sales Rise 9% To $33.7B, CPMs Fall 6%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Streaming rocketed 30% to $17.2 billion from the year before, with cab ...
- Streaming, FAST, Content Deals: What's Left For Indie Cable Groups?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 6, 2026
Disney-Hearst's $1.2 billion deal begs the question: what is next for A+ ...
- IAB Updates Video Definitions, Seeks Input
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 9, 2026
The IAB has released its Redefining Media Types Standard for public commen ...
- Top FAST Shows Still Smoking: 'Gunsmoke,' New And Old Titles
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 25, 2026
"Gunsmoke" was the series with the most-streamed minutes on FAST platforms fr ...
- The Fox-Roku Combo: Regulatory, OS, FAST Issues
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Is Fox Corp. now the major gatekeeper - in the way Comcas ...
- Pique TV
TV Watch, Joe Mandese - Thursday, June 11, 2026
No, my headline isn't a typo. It was just a way ...
- News Is Booming On FAST Channels, But Advertisers Cautious About Brand Safety
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 5, 2026
News now accounts for 8.6% of all FAST viewing hours, with so ...
- FAST Growth Among Younger Audiences - How Far Can It Go?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Can we drill down into all the overlapping behavioral and viewing tren ...
- Legacy Stations On The Ropes? Define Their 'Core'
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 1, 2026
The focus is on live programming of all types - news, sport ...
- Brand-Safe - And Not-So-Safe - News
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 27, 2026
There are significant reasons to buy news content -- "meaning advertisers w ...
- New Roku 'Creator Content' Access: Where's Your Bundle?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Roku is starting a new dedicated area for content creators and n ...
- Fox Corp. Q1: Core Ads +11%, Fox News Gains
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 11, 2026
Just ahead of its upfront presentation, Fox posted Q1 results for i ...
- Sports Teams Must Take A Holistic Approach To TV Advertising: Nielsen
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Sports teams advertising in today’s three-pillared television scene should take a holistic approa ...
- The CW Forges New Program Partnerships With Roku Channel, ESPN
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The CW has made a major shift by adding key live spor ...
- Citing Supply-Side Intel Gains, Buyers Push Past Cheap Reach
MediaDailyNews, Rob Williams - Monday, April 27, 2026
MIAMI BEACH, FL -- Media buying is shifting from a narrow foc ...
- Amazon Wins Content Olympics While Everyone Else Brings Snacks
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Tuesday, April 7, 2026
The e-commerce giant's video platform accounts for roughly 71.8% of all availab ...
- IAB Explores Future Video Outcomes From Agentic
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 30, 2026
The IAB released a whitepaper Monday exploring autonomous AI systems that ha ...
- Samsung, Amazon Ads Form Shoppable CTV Partnership
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 24, 2026
For Samsung TV Plus, Samsung TV's operating system, the company says th ...
- NBCU Ends 'First-Run' Biz: Daytime Talkers Still Want To Talk?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 17, 2026
NBCU is the first major movie/TV company to abandon the business ...
- Nielsen's Tone Deaf 'Upfront Planning Guide'
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 12, 2026
It's tone deaf because it features problematic legacy data its clients ...
- Sports On Streamers Up 52% In Q1, Prime Video Leads
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 19, 2026
As of the first quarter, Amazon remains the top worldwide distributor ...
- Tubi Expands Nielsen Deal, Now Accounts For 6.2% Of Ad-Supported Streaming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 5, 2026
Tubi now has access to Nielsen's Audience Measurement and Streaming Platform Rating ...
- Samsung TV Plus Tops 100M Monthly Active Users
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Samsung TV Plus now has over 4,300 ad-supported streaming channels - a ...
- Local 2026 Advertising: +24% On Big Political Gains
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Core local TV ad spend is expected to slip 1%, mainly d ...
- Too Fast For FAST TV? Buckle Your Seatbelts
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 26, 2025
From a consumer experience perspective, FAST maturity is still a ways of ...
- Slowing TV Set Sales: Don't See What You Want To See?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 28, 2025
For full-year 2025, global shipments are estimated at around 208.7 million unit ...
- Too Fast For FAST TV? Buckle Your Seatbelts
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 26, 2025
From a consumer experience perspective, FAST maturity is still a ways of ...
- AVOD Ad Spend Forecast To Rise 17% This Year
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2025
As rising FAST networks help fuel ad-supported streaming revenue, The Roku Chann ...
- August Nielsens: Streaming Gains, Linear Declines
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The broadcast/cable decline was greater vs. August 2024, when NBC had t ...