The IAB sent an email refunding their registration fee, and rebuffed an email attempt to clarify why they were no longer on the list of paying guests. "Weird, unbelievable and ridiculous," says Adblock Plus.

NBC research guru Alan Wurtzel gave TV critics a calming glimpse at network research, and real numbers, about how many people are watching Netflix and Amazon series.

Though the FTC has new guidelines, nobody really expects there will be less native advertising in 2016, and the same must be true overseas, too. So this is not the time to stop wondering who is pitching, nor is it time to stop looking around to find out. Sometimes in small type in an obscure corner of your screen, you may find the “proud” sponsor. It's so obvious! In London, the Advertising Standards Authority has just come down against BuzzFeed, which had been running “14 Laundry Fails We’ve All Experienced” with what the watchdog group concluded was scant …

Bloomberg reports CBS and Time Warner are considering making its little CW network its own pay service online. Why not?

On the heels of its Golden Globe award for "Mozart in the Jungle" came news Amazon will live stream President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and then make it available for viewing on-demand. The White House says it recognizes "the massive shift" to digital.

I assume some of fiscally-smart consumers are adding up all the online services they're now paying to get. Someday, they'll stop.

Pop culture is the universal language, except, for now, in China.

This new data has nothing much to do with page views or quarter hours. It is simpler than that, reporting just how many adults are perched on platforms, for how many days out of the week, and for how long.

Ooyala's new State of the Broadcast Industry 2016 also says "broadcasters and operators have accepted OTT as a fait accompli.

Amid a market falling fast on the first day of trading in 2016, three stocks with big video profiles are among the most damaged.