Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Misinfo Sitch Brands may have said they’re all about brand safety during the pandemic, but the reality of where their ads are actually appearing tells a different story. According to a new report from NewsGuard, 4,315 brands ran more than 42,000 different ads on […]
Video streaming giant Roku experienced its strongest quarter ever as the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed viewing behaviors in 2020 and fueled the shift to streaming. In its Q4 2020 earnings call Thursday, Roku’s YoY revenue soared 58% to $650 million, while its platform segment – which includes advertising and content distribution revenue – grew 81% […]
Disney may have wowed investors in December when it unveiled a slew of new movie titles and an original content pipeline as part of a major shift to streaming, but the company is still feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. During its Q1 earnings call Thursday, the company said that its Disney Parks, Experiences […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hold, Please The former Trump administration’s plan to force the sale of TikTok’s US operations to Oracle and Walmart has been put on ice – again. President Biden is reevaluating his predecessor’s efforts to address potential security risks from Chinese tech companies, The Wall […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. #Winning Netflix is outshining the competition. Last year, the streaming giant added subscribers even as it cut spending on advertising, The Information reports. By contrast, most of the older entertainment companies entering the streaming wars shelled out beaucoup bucks on marketing. A recent securities […]
Fox Corporation is aggressively pushing to make Tubi, the streaming ad-supported platform it picked up for $440 million last year, a billion-dollar AVOD business in just a few years. On the company’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Lachlan Murdoch laid out a bold agenda for the streaming platform, saying that Fox would continue to invest heavily […]
Ad verification company DoubleVerify has uncovered a massive CTV ad fraud scheme that was on track to bilk advertisers and publishers out of $30 million to $50 million in ad spend. The scam, dubbed “ParrotTerra,” used server-side ad insertion to generate fake CTV inventory across a large number of apps, IPs and devices, spoofing 3.7 […]
Six months after its nationwide launch, Comcast NBCUniveral’s premium ad supported streaming service Peacock has 33 million subscribers in the United States – up from 22 million in Q3 2020 – exceeding the company’s targets following a reorganization of its TV and streaming businesses last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. During Comcast’s Q4 earnings on […]
AT&T’s WarnerMedia saw the number of activations on its HBO Max streaming platform double in Q4 to 17.2 million from the third-quarter of 2020, thanks in large part to the success of “Wonder Woman 1984.” During its earnings call on Wednesday, AT&T said that the total number of domestic HBO Max and HBO subscribers topped 41 […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. The rapid shift to streaming TV last year significantly disrupted the advertising industry, and was nothing short of transformational amidst the pandemic, social unrest and a divisive presidential election. But despite its vast potential as an emerging advertising platform for brands and marketers, streaming ad […]
