- Consolidation Coming To Smart TV OS World - Is That What Advertisers Want?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 14, 2022
"I think it's inevitable that there's going to be consolidation around ...
- Lower-Priced, Ad-Supported Tiers Drew 32% Of SVODs' Total Sign-Ups In 2021
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 11, 2022
Premium SVODs saw 42 million-plus sign-ups for lower-cost tiers in 2021, vers ...
- Netflix CFO On Ad-Supported Tier: 'Never Say Never'
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, March 9, 2022
While an ad-supported tier still isn't in Netflix's plans, Spence Neumann acknowledg ...
- Naviga Acquires Abacus, U.K.-Based CDP, Experience Platform
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 9, 2022
The purchase expands Naviga's footprint in Europe, while providing it with softwa ...
- Top Pay TV Providers See Subscriber Decline Of 5.8% In 2021
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Cord-cutting continues to hurt top pay TV providers. The top seven cab ...
- Dish Network Pay TV Business Weakens, Satellite/Pay TV Revenue Down 1.5% in Q4
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 25, 2022
As Dish Network continues to seek mobile-phone business growth, its core satellite/virtu ...
- AMC Networks Streaming Subs Rise, But Profits Fall, Stock Price Down 20%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 16, 2022
In AMC's most recent quarter, ad revenues slipped 1% to $234 millio ...
- ViacomCBS Changing Name To Paramount, Posts 48% Gain In Streaming Revenue
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 15, 2022
ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount, in a dramatic move ...
- Intuit Provides Grants To Small Atlanta Restaurants
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 14, 2022
The chosen small businesses will get $5,000 grants and free subscriptions ...
- Can Movie Theater Business, After 'Severe Injury,' Look To Past Failures For Future Answers?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 14, 2022
Will a new iteration of MoviePass -- the defunct all-you-can-view monthly subscripti ...
- Microsoft Makes 'Cheeky' Discount Offer To Google Legacy G-Suite Customers
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 11, 2022
Microsoft, hoping to snare Google G Suite users who will have ...
- Are Long-Term Contracts Returning To The Pay TV, Communications Industries?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 10, 2022
Future fuboTV subscribers will need to pay a three-month subscription package f ...
- Streaming's Achilles Heel: People Who Sign Up For One Show, Then Bail
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, February 2, 2022
New research about streaming habits finds that many subscribers sign up on ...
- NBCU Sees 2021 Peacock Revenue And Losses Climb, As 2022 Content Spend Grows
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 27, 2022
NBCUniversal's Peacock grew revenue to $778 million for the full-year 2021 ...
- Instagram Tests Paid Subscriptions For Creators
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, January 20, 2022
Creators can set their own monthly prices for content like exclusive Liv ...
- Neeva's Road To A Paid Search Engine Service
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Sridhar Ramaswamy, who ran Google's ad business until 2018, created a freemi ...
- BPA Worldwide Approves A Standard For Text Message-Based Subscription Renewals
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Monday, January 10, 2022
BPA's move is significant because it represents the latest nod to technolo ...
- Consumers Seek To Pare Streaming Costs In Quest For Simplicity
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Monday, January 10, 2022
Consumers tend to care about the content more than the platform th ...
- NPR+ Adds Subscriber-Only Content To Podcast Platform, On-Demand Bundle Planned
Publishers Daily, Fern Siegel - Tuesday, January 4, 2022
NPR+ launched "The Limits with Jay Williams," hosted by the ESPN personali ...
- IBM Appoints Former Yahoo Exec To CRO At Watson Advertising, The Weather Company
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 20, 2021
Former Yahoo exec Julie Saxon joins IBM's media and ad business ...
- Double-Digit Streamer Subscriber Churn? Actual Transactions Tell A Very Different Story
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, December 20, 2021
Are SVOD subscription churn rates at 35% or even 44%? Actual transactio ...
- Netflix Slashes Prices In India To Take On Disney+ Hotstar, Other Competitors
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, December 16, 2021
Moves by Disney and Amazon Prime Video to raise prices a b ...
- Paramount+ Adds A Record 1 Million Subscribers In A Week
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 18, 2021
The boost was thanks to a highly touted new TV show fr ...
- FTC: It's Time To End 'Dirty Tricks' That Make It Hard To Unsubscribe
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The new "enforcement policy statement makes clear that tricking consumers into signi ...
- FuboTV Grows To Nearly 1M Subs As Q3 Revenue More Than Doubles, Stocks Sink
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 9, 2021
FuboTV's revenue rose 156% to $156.7 million. The company trimmed its n ...
- Disney+ Offers A Month For $1.99, Other Promos, Pumps Up Content, Adds IMAX Enhancements
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Disney is also making nice with its box-office partner AMC by sponsori ...
- Discovery Q3: 3 Million More DTC Subscribers, Revenues Climb 23%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Sharply higher company-wide distribution revenues were driven by the growing DTC busines ...
- Neeva Search Engine Turns On NewsGuard Service
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Neeva, an ad-free subscription-based search startup founded by former head of Goog ...
- Politics, Content Quality, And Fits of Pique: Why People Cancel Media Subscriptions
Publishing Insider, Tony Silber - Tuesday, November 2, 2021
The No. 1 reason was money - although that is often co ...
- FTC Warns Companies About Auto-Renewing Subscriptions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 29, 2021
The FTC this week issued a new policy statement that warns compani ...