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  • Inside the Stream Podcast: More Sports Coming to Streaming; NBCU Picks First Nielsen Alternative

    Welcome to this week’s edition of Inside the Stream, the podcast where nScreenMedia’s Chief Analyst Colin Dixon and I take listeners inside the world of streaming video.

    This week Colin has been following various reports of NBA, MLB and Premier League potentially coming to streaming, courtesy of Sinclair, Apple and DAZN. Colin explains more about what this might mean for the industry, as consumers seek out new alternatives.

    Then we discuss NBCUniversal’s move that it has selected iSpot.tv as its first cross-platform video certified measurement partner. NBCU’s move is the latest by the industry to find a new currency alternative to Nielsen, the long-time standard and to better compete with digital options. NBCU said more measurement partners will be announced.

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  • Over 25 Speakers at CTV Advertising PREVIEW: 2022 (virtual) on Jan. 26th and 27th; Complimentary Sign Up

    VideoNuze’s Connected TV Advertising PREVIEW: 2022 (virtual) will feature over 25 speakers representing all vantage points in the CTV industry. PREVIEW is coming up on January 26th and 27th afternoons, with complimentary sign up!

    The program is also posted and we’ll have 9 sessions across the 2 afternoons, with speakers sharing insights about what they see coming in CTV in the year ahead. Day 1 will start with Brian Wieser, Global President, Business Intelligence at GroupM. Day 2 will start with Ross Benes, senior analyst at eMarketer. Each will be sharing their forecast for CTV revenues for the next 4-5 years and the key drivers.

    Their sessions will be followed by deep dive sessions on the big picture outlook for CTV, programmatic CTV, innovation, the buy-side perspective and publisher perspective on CTV, what’s ahead for TV and digital media and lots more.

    If you’re focused on CTV success in 2022, PREVIEW will be a must-attend virtual event.

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  • Inside the Stream Podcast: Smart TVs at CES, Peacock Olympics, HBO Max’s Success

    Welcome to this week’s edition of Inside the Stream, the podcast where nScreenMedia’s Chief Analyst Colin Dixon and I take listeners inside the world of streaming video.

    This week Colin leads off with highlights of smart TV innovations announced at CES. Then we discuss why Peacock streaming every moment of every event of the upcoming Winter Olympics is a big win for the service and also a milestone decision for parent NBCUniversal.

    Finally, HBO and HBO Max ended the year with nearly 74 million subscribers, which we both shows clear momentum and how they’re moving past the decision to withdraw from Amazon’s Channels programs earlier this year. HBO Max is one of few subscription services that doesn’t need Amazon’s distribution strength.

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  • Peacock Makes Smart Move Live Streaming Full Winter Olympics

    Yesterday Peacock and NBCUniversal announced that every minute of every live event at the upcoming Winter Olympics from Beijing will be streamed on Peacock. In addition, full replays of all competition will be available on Peacock immediately upon conclusion. Peacock viewers will also have access to the Opening and Closing ceremonies, the studio shows and medal ceremonies.

    The announcements are smart moves and allow Peacock to clearly communicate and promote that all events will be available on the service. It’s a big improvement from last summer’s Olympics, which had incomplete coverage on Peacock and where replays and clips of concluded events sometimes were delayed and/or showed up on YouTube prior to being posted on Peacock itself. The execution fell short of many Peacock viewers’ expectations.

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  • Understanding the Intersection of Addressable TV and CTV

    The rise of streaming represents a generational shift in consumer behaviors. The pandemic radically accelerated what had been a persistent, long-simmering trend, and now the entire industry is transfixed by the challenge and the opportunity that is advertising on a connected TV (CTV) device.

    The problem is, CTV and streaming are not exactly synonymous. Streaming is content delivered over an internet connection to any device, often via a direct relationship with the streaming service. The concept of CTV refers to the device itself, such as a smart TV, and the concept of CTV advertising covers the full range of opportunities made possible by having a screen that big connected to the digital advertising ecosystem.  Linear TV programming, when run across an internet-connected CTV device, can in theory present media buyers with addressable advertising opportunities on the big screen.

    Marketers can be forgiven for conflating the two, because the fact is, Linear TV inventory has become addressable and programmatic at a slower rate than many expected, at least relative to the meteoric rise of streaming. A crisis of trust in common measurement standards has only slowed progress further. Folks today see CTV and assume streaming.

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  • First Six Sponsors for CTV Advertising PREVIEW: 2022; Complimentary Sign Up

    I’m excited to share the first six sponsors for VideoNuze’s Connected TV Advertising PREVIEW: 2022 (virtual) on the afternoons of January 26th and 27th: Beachfront Media, DeepIntent, Innovid, Mediaocean, PubMatic and Roku. Their solutions are powering a significant part of the multibillion-dollar CTV advertising industry. I am extremely grateful for their commitment to the event.

    Please visit the event web site for complimentary sign up and to learn more. I'll be posting the program and specific sessions in the coming days.

    PREVIEW is the first industry event that is dedicated to understanding the year ahead for CTV advertising. Over the two afternoons, we'll be doing a deep dive into all of the big opportunities in CTV advertising in 2022 and also examine the key challenges. The program will feature a compelling mix of forecasts/presentations, fireside chat interviews and panel discussions.

    I'm confident that PREVIEW will be a high-impact learning opportunity, helping everyone succeed in CTV in 2022 and beyond!

    If you would like to learn more about the event or sponsorship opportunities, please contact me.

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  • Inside the Stream Podcast: Top 10 Streaming Video Stories of 2021

    Welcome to this week’s edition of Inside the Stream, the podcast where nScreenMedia’s Chief Analyst Colin Dixon and I take listeners inside the world of streaming video.

    It’s been another incredibly busy year in streaming video, with more than enough to write and talk about each week. As is our tradition for the last podcast of the year, today Colin and I parse through the year’s activity and identify what we believe were the top 10 most important stories of the 2021 and why. Please let us know if you agree or disagree with any of our choices, and if we missed something huge that should have been on the list.

    We wish you all happy holidays!

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  • Inside the Stream Podcast: Four Data Points That Illustrate the Year in Streaming

    Welcome to this week’s edition of Inside the Stream, the podcast where nScreenMedia’s Chief Analyst Colin Dixon and I take listeners inside the world of streaming video.

    This year people used more streaming services and more of them were free and ad-supported. Many more of us did without pay-TV. And discovery+ is one example of a streaming service that thrived since broadly launching. On this week’s podcast Colin shares four data points that illustrate each of these trends.

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