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Samsung Ads Releases Streaming Index of Domestic SmartTV Data

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FierceVideo reported that Samsung Ads had released its ‘Streaming Index’ with metrics from the 45 million devices in its US SmartTV installed base. Samsung Ads used data from subscription video on …

Tags:Advertising| AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Amazon And MGM Close $8.5 Billion Merger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon and MGM announced that a deal for the tech giant to buy the studio for $8.5 billion had closed. MGM has a library of 4,000 films and 17,000 TV show …

Tags:Amazon| AVOD| Movies & Content| SVOD

Samsung TV Plus, Tennis Channel team for first FAST tennis offer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from …

Tags:AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums

Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| SVOD| USA| Vizio

The M&E Industry is Stronger, Healthier Together

by Andy Marken

Keeping a home entertainment budget under control today as the marketplace “matures” is a lot like keeping yourself in shape as you mature. Suddenly it’s OMG! “I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, ever met someone …

Tags:AVOD| Broadcast| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Pay TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Vizio Adds On-Demand Content to AVOD Service

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio put out a press release to highlight that it has added a ‘massive’ library of free on demand content to its streaming SmartCast service. This adds to the existing streaming …

Tags:AVOD| USA| Vizio

Behind the Screens: The Emerging Viewership Landscape

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been building a business, run by Samsung Ads, to develop and exploit the huge installed base of Samsung SmartTVs and the firm has published, through DTV Europe, an interesting analysis of how …

Tags:AVOD| Europe| North America| Samsung| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing

TV as an App – With Cloud Support

by Bob Raikes

Back at CES in 2010, I met in a hotel suite with a firm that had a new approach to TV that struck me as significant, useful and important. A friend had gone to …

Tags:AVOD| Cloud TV| Pay TV| STBs| Streaming Video| SVOD

The Uncharted Waters of Streaming Media

by Pete Putman

15 years ago, no one in entertainment had ever heard the term “over the top,” or knew what the acronyms SVOD and AVOD meant. Today, they are an integral part of every conversation about …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA