Did the introduction of Prime Video ads in January make an impact on Amazon’s first quarter? And with big price increases in Peacock and others coming, do SVODs still represent a good deal?

Stingray is a leader in the FAST music streaming market. The company’s CRO explains karaoke’s unexpected success in Teslas and how CTV data settles programmer arguments.

Rather than losing money in Las Vegas, I found it at the conference and on the show floor of NAB. Here are three areas TV content and service companies can leverage now to generate new revenue.

FAST content leader Revry has been in the market for 8 years. In this interview, Its CEO shares how to optimize marketing spend to minimize subscriber acquisition costs and maximize ad revenue.

Telly, the company that gives free TVs to its customers, has been shipping the devices for nine months. How is it doing? In this interview from last month, Telly’s CSO reveals all.

AI can recognize objects, faces, and moods in video. In this interview with the CEO of Moments Lab, he explains how his AI-powered solution can capture the essence of whole scenes!

Advertising Perceptions says CTV ad spending will be $21 billion in 2024; eMarketer says $30 billion. Who’s right? Both could be wrong if Prime Video and political ads have a big impact.

Plex helps its 25 million users manage their media lives. In this interview, the CPO explains how AI and social discovery help them get to press play faster and watch longer.

Cineverse announced the launch of an AI-powered search advisor called Ava. The timely tool will help the industry tame out-of-control churn, boost engagement and grow revenue.

The 2023 results are in, and we know as much about the performance of the top 7 SVODs as the companies will tell us. But which is tops in ad-supported subs?

Ad Week says Amazon will kill Freevee, but Amazon says it won’t. Either way, Amazon’s connected TV ad services are confusing to users and need to be simplified.

As audiences move to connected TV viewing, finding local TV news becomes a challenge. Syncbak’s CEO explains how the new service Zeam helps local TV thrive on CTV.

SVOD dominates home entertainment spending, while rentals and sales are in the doldrums. So, why has Plex decided to open a movie store? TVOD is ripe for resurgence.

Imagine if, just by moving your video library to the cloud, you could search it for faces, logos, songs, and more. Wasabi CEO David Friend and SVP of AI Aaron Edell say that’s why the company bought Curio AI. Listen to the interview to understand the business and technical mojo behind Wasabi's intelligent video storage solution. 

vMVPD subscribers grew by 10% over the last year, while traditional pay TV fell by 13%. But the differences between them are narrowing, and by 2025, they will move as one.

For a minority investment in Diamond Sports, Amazon takes charge of the most valuable part of the business. And the RSNs become another cog in the Amazon flywheel.

Casting entered the limelight at CES 2024 with several big announcements. It looks like a standards war has broken out between Google, Apple, and Amazon. Listen on to find out more and why.

The music industry’s transition from physical media to digital can teach us much about where the TV industry is headed. And it’s clear there is still a long way to go.

Engaging with an individual in a group viewing setting is always a challenge. Atmosphere’s CEO describes how his new solution, Chive Trivia, does it by synchronizing the TV screen with people’s phones.

New viewing data from Netflix shows that it does not conform to the 90:10 rule. Other data shows that ad revenue is already making an impact, despite what executives say.

Barb, the UK’s Nielsen, has tapped MetaBroadcast and Gracenote to optimize TV audience measurement by cleaning up the metadata. Interviews with company execs explain why you should, too!

An analyst group says cord-cutters will outnumber pay TV users in the US by the end of 2023. But a close look at the data shows things are not quite so cut and dried.

Traditional pay TV losses accelerated in Q3 2023, pushed upwards by multiple doom loops. But does the recent Charter/Disney carriage deal hold out hope that the decline can be arrested?

Disney filled out its plan to get its direct-to-consumer services to Netflix scale in its fiscal Q4 earnings call. It will continue to cut content, combine Hulu and Disney+, and launch ESPN Digital.