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Roku rolls out Backdrops

Backdrops, Roku’s newest feature first announced in April, aims to transform TVs into a canvas, with paintings and photography from an evolving library of thousands of curated works. In the coming weeks, Backdrops will begin rolling out to Roku TV models with a catalogue that includes famous classics, wide-ranging museum collections, abstract designs, and more. […]

September 5, 2024

LG Streaming Week offers multiple promos

LG Electronics has announced the LG Streaming Week campaign in 44 countries, starting from September 9th and running through October 13th, to celebrate a decade since the initial launch of webOS on the company’s LCD and OLED TVs. For owners of LG TVs above UHD released from 2018 onward (running webOS 4.0 and above), as […]

August 30, 2024

Comscore, FreeWheel next-gen partnership

Proximic by Comscore, a division of Comscore and a provider of audience targeting solutions for programmatic activation, and FreeWheel, a technology platform for the television advertising industry, have announced a partnership to support privacy-resilient ID-free audiences for CTV. The innovation aims to provide publishers with streamlined access to future-proofed audience monetisation tools and provide buyers […]

August 27, 2024

Report: CTV overtakes AI in marketing trends

Mediaocean, the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising, has released the findings from its 2024 H2 Market Report. This sixth edition of Mediaocean’s bi-annual report series presents the largest pool of respondents to date, with responses from over 1,200 marketing professionals. The insights reflect key consumer and technology trends shaping the advertising landscape for the remainder […]

August 22, 2024

Report: CTV enabling brands to connect with Black Americans

LG Ad Solutions, a specialist in connected TV and cross-screen advertising, has released a report titled The Inclusive Screen: Black Americans, based on a survey of nearly 1,500 Black and African American CTV users, the report found that CTV is a pivotal environment for advertisers to connect with Black Americans in personalised and impactful ways. The […]

August 15, 2024

FreeWheel launches Performance Suite

FreeWheel, a technology platform for the TV industry, has announced the availability of the Performance Suite with solutions created for activation on its demand-side platform, Beeswax. The Performance Suite offers off-the-shelf, machine learning-based solutions, in addition to Beeswax’s customisable tools, designed to help buyers reach their CTV performance goals. With ongoing concerns around signal loss […]

August 13, 2024

XITE app launches on Vizio in US

XITE, the music video platform, has announced the launch of its CTV app on Vizio, one of the largest TV brands in the US. Viewers can access XITE’s library of music videos and curated channels, and also build their own personalised playlists directly from their Vizio Smart TVs. “Launching with Vizio represents a significant milestone […]

August 9, 2024

Amagi partners with Anoki to bring contextual CTV advertising to FAST

Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for Connected TV (CTV), has announced a strategic partnership with Anoki, a trailblazer in AI-powered contextual CTV advertising. This dynamic collaboration accelerates the growth of contextual advertising for free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST), supercharging an era of AI transforming the CTV industry. Integrating with Amagi, Anoki’s ContextIQ […]

August 7, 2024

HMPG expands content deal with Samsung TV Plus

Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a producer and distributor of unscripted programming, has announced an expansion of its partnership with Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s FAST and AVoD service. Samsung TV Plus, which currently distributes the HMPG FAST channels Xplore, Rovr Pets and The Jack Hanna Channel, will license more than 500 hours of HMPG original […]

August 7, 2024

Research: Smart TVs continue to shape viewing habits

The days of flipping through TV channels are long gone as smart TV owners embrace the app-centric viewing environments that deliver more than just TV entertainment. Hub’s Evolution of the TV Set study shows that smart TVs significantly impact how viewers are leaning into streaming services and other entertainment apps as traditional linear pay-TV viewing […]

August 5, 2024