Diane Nelson, the former president of DC Entertainment who joined Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi as head of content operations less than a year ago, is leaving the mobile subscription video startup. Nelson is the latest high-profile Quibi exec to leave the company recently — with her departure coming less than six months before the company is scheduled to launch its ambitious SVOD service in April 2020.
Cameras will show her delivering her podcast and SiriusXM radio show, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, five days a week. The program is modeled after her popular television series that ran on the HLN network for many years.
Premium subscription video platform Hulu pulled in $670 million in advertising — and $1.27 billion in subscription fees — according to a recent analysis of Walt Disney’s yearly 10K filing for 2019.
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Disney+ bets on a seven-day rollout, Netflix sticks to all-at-once drops and Apple TV+ experiments with both as the strategies spark a data debate and “a gut-level conversation … about what shows are better suited to which rollout.”
StackAdapt, a programmatic advertising technology company, and SpotX, a global video advertising and monetization platform, have formed a partnership focused on connected TV (CTV) inventory and audiences, enabling advertisers to […]
Two weeks after its glitch-filled launch, Disney+ is averaging nearly a million new subscribers a day, new data shows. The $6.99-per-month streaming service’s mobile app has been downloaded 15.5 million times, according to numbers from research firm Apptopia.
Veteran broadcaster Tom Rogers (above) and Frankly CEO Lou Schwartz are behind a new streaming platform looking to amalgamate elements of news, live sports, esports and gaming elements, including betting, in a play to draw young cord-cutters.
Greg Anderson is chosen to lead the company’s privacy and data protection programs.
Political ads have become a flashpoint ahead of the 2020 election, in part because new technologies make it nearly impossible to apply a universal definition of them to all advertising channels.
The product of a year’s work by the World Wide Web Foundation where WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee is a founding director, the Contract for the Web seeks commitments from governments and industry to make and keep knowledge freely available — a digital policy agenda true to the design vision of the 30-year-old web.
Researchers are creating tools to find AI-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing battle. Above, actors were filmed in a variety of scenes. The top picture is their actual image, with a deepfake altered image below it.
Editors say their print and digital editions are completely different products. The online edition is built with business, not necessarily news, top of mind.
Liberty Media chairman John Malone believes that consolidation, which has swept through the traditional cable distribution business largely at his own hand, will come to streaming video as well, and that could be good news for traditional pay TV companies.
How WKRC Hopes To Lure Younger Viewers
YouTube is not a new platform, but young reporters like WKRC Cincinnati’s Clancy Burke are part of a growing phenomenon that reflects its popularity. Millennial and Gen-Z hires in local TV newsrooms are increasingly likely to have established YouTube “brands” of their own — creating both a challenge and an opportunity for their bosses.
Roku, Amazon Fire, Google Chromecast and other digital TV devices are becoming the new middlemen between apps and consumers — what happens when there is conflict?
When Google said it would limit the ability of political advertisers to target voters, campaigns said they did not want Facebook to follow.
DC Universe’s next live-action series Stargirl will get a second run on The CW broadcast network, it was announced on Thursday. Stargirl, which stars Brec Bassinger as the title character, will air new episodes on The CW, one day after they premiere on DC Universe. The series will premiere sometime during the second quarter of 2020. Episodes will also be available on The CW’s digital platforms, including CW Seed.
Applicaster today announced it has partnered with Nexstar-owned WGN America to build the media organization’s first mobile experience. WGN America is the flagship entertainment network of Nexstar Media Group and […]
MOBITV, a global provider of app-based TV video delivery solutions, will use Telia Carrier’s global IP backbone to provide scalable capacity and connectivity for MOBITV’s pay TV operator customers across […]
With CPB’s backing, a push to transition NPR station sites to a new content management system has expanded to include TV stations and joint licensees.
For all the buzz surrounding shorter-length formats — especially the six-second unit — :30s dominate the share of digital video ad impressions served and appear to be trending upward.
Streaming services are starting to consider whether, and how, to apply content standards as more viewers shift from traditional TV.
A broad mix of media companies are selected for a Facebook Journalism Project-funded program to test and expand branded content programs.
Scripps-owned Newsy, a next-generation video news network available via a cable channel, over-the-top, connected TV services and digital platforms, has added two journalists. Sasha Ingber joins Newsy as a reporter on the […]
