On TV & Video

Kim Kardashian and pop star Taylor Swift are the only people with more social followers than Ellen DeGeneres. The popular talk show host’s brand transcends demographics and geographies, which has spurred a deeper shift into digital despite Ellen’s TV ratings strength. In May, Ellen Digital Ventures and Warner Bros. Television launched the Ellen Digital Network […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. The recent acquisition of TiVo by the company Rovi triggered an odd memory for me. There was an off-leash beach near our apartment […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ted Dhanik, CEO at engage:BDR. Publishers, here’s why fill rate is low. Advertisers, this is why viewability is dismal and campaigns aren’t serving effectively. As browsers drop support for Flash, ad servers aren’t keeping […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. You’ve heard it before: Digital and TV are converging. We may talk about it, but many haven’t stopped to examine the hard technical and operational challenges that media companies […]

While still in its infancy, CafeMedia’s three-month-old platform for millennial women, Revelist, is already exploring opportunities for further monetization. Now at 1 million monthly unique visitors and 76 million video views, the publisher, which embeds “body positivity” into all content across multiple verticals like beauty, entertainment, news and politics, has attracted large advertisers like P&G […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Dwight Ringdahl, senior vice president of technology at RhythmOne.   The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposal to open up the set-top cable box is about a lot of things. It’s about reducing costs and […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Nico Neumann, senior research analyst for programmatic marketing strategy and analytics at the University of South Australia. For many years, advertisers and publishers have discussed whether digital media buying should rely on the same measures […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Amihai Ulman, founder and chief operating officer at Mass Exchange. For more than a decade, some of the biggest names in television have been hard at work on achieving household-level addressability across their footprints. […]

At face value, AwesomenessTV looks like your average YouTube multichannel network (MCN). Except it’s not, according to Paul Kelly, AwesomenessTV’s chief partnerships officer. AwesomenessTV has amassed 160 million total subscribers and now boasts nearly a billion monthly video views across platforms. A network of creators helps support its shows, but the company is also a […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rich Astley, UK and Ireland managing director at Videology. I’ve read many articles in the last few months debating whether programmatic technology companies can fairly represent the interests of both buyers and sellers. It’s […]