IRIS.TV, a content data platform, has partnered with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, to leverage the IRIS_ID “as the primary method for accessing video-level data enriched by contextual and brand-suitability data […]
NPAW, a provider of analytics and business intelligence solutions for online video businesses, has introduced a series of new products and features at NAB Show (April 16-19 at the Las […]
U.S. wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time. Researchers from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted more than 650,000 tests in the U.S. and found that from early 2018 to early 2019, AT&T throttled Netflix 70% of the time and Google’s YouTube service 74% of the time. But AT&T didn’t slow down Amazon.com’s Prime Video at all.
Amino Communications, a global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, today said it has purchased the privately-held Amsterdam-headquartered 24i, a provider of online video solutions and services. “The fast-growing 24i […]
The biggest screen in the house is becoming the go-to for watching online video, according to new research from Parks Associates. The firm said that 52% of U.S. broadband households surveyed now watch online video (SVOD, AVOD, etc.) on a connected TV. Not coincidentally, Parks also found that watching TV and movies at home is the most popular leisure activity for U.S. broadband households.
TV’s Death By A Thousand Streaming Apps
Media companies are scrambling to get bigger and create their own online video services, which don’t make much money or even meet consumers’ needs.
Exclusives
Google urges a judge to throw out a lawsuit over restricted videos on YouTube filed by radio talkshow host Dennis Prager, who in October filed a lawsuit against Google alleging censorship of conservatives. Now, Prager demands a preliminary injunction that would prohibit YouTube from restricting viewer access to its videos absent evidence of graphic nudity, violence, profanity, obscene material, hate speech, or anything that would be considered “objectively” offensive.
The decision to block YouTube is retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with Amazon gadgets.
The decision to block YouTube is retaliation for Amazon’s refusal to sell some Google products that compete with Amazon gadgets.
Who Wins, Loses In Media’s Pivot To Video
Digital media’s latest shift away from words reveals the same old obsession: Steal some of TV’s $70 billion ad pot. Can even Facebook succeed amid a tsunami of new content?
Accenture’s R&D division has spent the last year developing breakthrough product placement technology that can seamlessly insert a brand into online video, including the ability to replace existing labeling.
Hearst is out in front of a recent $133 million funding round for SVOD service iflix that is fending off the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in emerging markets. Along with Hearst, Singapore-based EDBI and clients of DBS private bank are new investors in iflix, and are joined by existing investors Evolution Media, Sky PLC, Catcha Group, Liberty Global, Jungle Ventures and PLDT Inc.
YouTube, on an aggressive push to expand its footprint in online video, is said to be offering publishers more control over their own ad inventory in order to win their business. The site is offering major publishers who choose its backend video player the ability to control ad sales both on their sites and on YouTube, according to people familiar with the new offering. Additionally, YouTube is offering the player and its services for free, they said.
One of 12 conference tracks offered at the NAB Show, the Online Video Conference will take place April 24-25 and feature panel discussions and research on evolving online viewership trends and streaming models that are revolutionizing the television and video industries.Keynoting the track will be Jim Lanzone, chief digital officer of CBS Corp./CEO of CBS Interactive, and Michael Paull, BAMTech CEO.
After a bake off that included two other providers, Bob Prather’s budding small-market station group chooses Frankly for web CMS, mobile apps, online video and OTT. Frankly will also supply strategic consulting and support services as part of the four-year deal.
TiVo research from October 2015 shows that 34% of millennials polled like streaming full TV shows more than any other kind of content. Another 18% prefer full-length movies, while music videos take third place with 12%.
YouTube has grown into an online video empire. In his first interview as the site’s engineering chief, Matthew Mengerink discusses virtual reality, making money and stepping into the role during trying times for YouTube’s engineers.
Globally, people are spending as much time watching online video as they spend watching TV, according to a new report from Millward Brown. That should bode well for brands trying to target cord-cutters or “cord-nevers,” but digital promos annoy many viewers.
Tech giants including Amazon, Netflix and Google have joined up as the Alliance for Open Media to create a new open source video format. The new format would make it easier to move away from Adobe Flash, would support copy protection and would be suitable for low-power devices.
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell told analysts on a Wednesday morning conference call that he’d like to see Rentrak and comScore “come together” to devise a solution for what Sorrell described as the “faulty measurement” for media that exists in the U.S. WPP has made investments in both of those companies.
Millennials Barely Watch Regular TV
A new study finds that just 18% of their television time is spent viewing live broadcast or cable. The majority of their viewing is done on digital devices. SmithGeiger’s Seth Geiger talks about the results.
Tribune Content Agency is moving into video syndication, bringing its publishing partners into the fold. The new TCA Video Network “will offer more than 1,000 new videos a day licensed from 150 news and media companies including the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, Scripps Broadcasting and AFP,” along with content from Tribune’s own Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
With all the hype in recent years around social media, online video, mobile marketing, messaging services and so-called “native advertising,” one would be forgiven for thinking that search advertising — the workhorse of digital advertising — had fallen by the wayside. It hasn’t.
The results of a new survey on the use of original digital video challenge the assumptions commonly made by many, typically older, media executives about how young people choose, watch and share this video. Here are the seven things they need to know about this importance audience.
The Huffington Post will launch a 24-hour online video channel, site founder Arianna Huffington told staff on Thursday. The channel will be available via its website, apps, OTT and VOD.
The one constant across some of the most popular platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine — is the growing consumption of video on mobile. So publishers need a new approach to video — one that caters to a mobile, social audience and involves a healthy amount of experimentation around new formats and more efficient workflows.
Another day, another set of announcements that seem to herald the end of cable TV. But Wednesday’s news that the NFL would finally live-stream a game and that Showtime would be available as a streaming service through Apple only highlight that some aspects of the cable TV model are not going to die easily.
Video has become essential to the online experience: We watch. We binge. We share. In the past year, though, something new has happened. Video has moved well beyond dedicated video sites, pervading so many of the other services we use each day.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Wednesday that he is in favor of giving online video distributors some of the same rights as cable and satellite providers. He said the commission has “work to do” to clear obstacles to competition.
The New York Post later this year is rolling out a pair of new video series that can be customized in collaboration with brands that pay money to be attached to the content, as opposed to being produced by Post journalists independently of advertisers. One More Night will feature legendary music venues of yore, while Blockumentaries will focus on iconic New York blocks.
At a Monday NAB Show panel on how — and whether — to regulate online video, there was no consensus. Broadcasters are on different sides of the issue, with affiliates favoring reclassifying some online linear video as MVPDs and network owners opposing the move. And online video services also disagree about what the FCC should do.
A new study shows that watching content online instead of on TV is the new normal for young millennials and even younger Gen Zers. Just how much digital video are they watching? The average survey taker viewed 11.3 hours of free online video (on sites like YouTube) and 10.8 hours of subscription video (on sites like Netflix) for a staggering total of 22 hours a week.
A new study from Divimove, a network with multiple YouTube channels based in Europe, finds there are marked differences in what young and old people watch on YouTube, though the top draw for men and women is surprisingly similar.
“We’re just a month into 2015, and there are already abundant signs of online and mobile video’s momentum, with lots more growth to come as the year unfolds,” writes Will Richmond. “Here’s what’s hit my radar so far.”
The Washington Post‘s newly appointed video director Noah Kotch has left the company after just two weeks, sources told Politico on Monday.
