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Streaming Was The Star Of This Year’s Upfronts

If the NewFronts is where buyers flirt with newer media channels and streaming services, the upfronts, which wrapped up this week, is where things start to get serious, as legacy broadcasters showcase their new content in the hopes that advertisers will put a ring on it – but this year, pretty much all of the major programmers had streaming on the brain.

by Alyssa Boyle // May 20th, 2022 //
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Disney Consolidates Its Ad Tech Team With Hulu’s And Plans For A Unified Ad Platform

The House of the Mouse has one ad tech team now. Disney has merged all of its ad tech talent and products, including what came along with the Hulu acquisition, into a single, centralized team led by Jeremy Helfand, previously Hulu’s VP and head of advertising platforms. Tuesday was Helfand’s first day at the helm… Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 16th, 2020 //
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Disney Ad Sales President Rita Ferro Showcases Data And Tech During Virtual Upfront

Television upfronts normally showcase sizzle reels of upcoming shows to guide buyers’ investments. But with programming in flux due to the coronavirus pandemic, Disney’s virtual upfronts turned the sizzle to its initiatives around linear addressability, attribution, programmatic and digital platform unification. “We had more time to talk about our investment in data and technology,” said… Continue reading »

by Sarah Sluis // June 5th, 2020 //
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Ad Sales Prez Rita Ferro Talks Disney’s Digital Evolutions – And Ambitions

Disney has been at the center of some of the most important recent shakeups in digital media. It officially closed its $71.3 billion deal for 21st Century Fox in March. And late last year, moved from Comcast’s FreeWheel ad server to the Google Ad Manager platform, a vendor switch with huge implications as TV networks… Continue reading »

by James Hercher // May 16th, 2019 //
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Disney Takes Full Ownership Of Hulu

Hulu now lives in the mouse house. The Walt Disney Company said Tuesday it will gain full operational control of Hulu as part of a “put/call” agreement with Comcast, under which Comcast can require Disney to buy NBCU’s 33% Hulu stake at its fair market value as early as January 2024. The future value of… Continue reading »

by Alison Weissbrot // May 14th, 2019 //
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