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Roku surpasses 70m active accounts

Roku has announced that the number of global active accounts now exceeds 70 million. Active accounts as of Q4 2021 was 60.1 million. Globally, streaming hours were 23.9 billion in Q4 and 87.4 billion for full year 2022, a 19 per cent increase year-over-year. Roku remains the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, Canada, […]

January 5, 2023

Report: 2022’s TV ad rankings

TV measurement company iSpot has released its 2022 TV Advertising Report, containing exclusive insights from currency initiatives with US TV Networks, findings from CTV verification studies and tallies from measuring every second of advertising on linear, time shifted and VoD on TV. The report contains rankings by ad impressions and spend for top networks, shows, […]

January 5, 2023

TiVo OS on Amlogic TVs

TiVo, a subsidiary of Xperi, and Amlogic, the fabless semiconductor company, have pre-integrated TiVo OS on Amlogic T962D4 and T950D4 chipsets for the US and European markets. TiVo OS is a media platform that gives TV OEMs significantly more control over the user experience, access to critical content service providers, and a profitable partnership model. TV OEMs participate […]

January 5, 2023

Videoamp, WBD audience measurement deal

Advertising measurement, planning and optimisation platform VideoAmp has struck a deal with Warner Bros Discovery to measure cross-screen campaigns across the global media and entertainment company’s iconic portfolio of sports, news, lifestyle, and premium entertainment brands. Following the completion of a test-and-learn for alternative measures of video ad performance, Warner Bros Discovery will use VideoAmp’s […]

January 4, 2023

Blockboard, FreeWheel premium video access partnership

Ad tech company Blockboard is partnering with Comcast-owned television advertising technology platform FreeWheel. As a result of this collaboration, FreeWheel’s premium CTV inventory will now be available to all of Blockboard’s advertising clients. “The rise and interest in CTV and all the great content that is available on this platform also comes with an additional […]

January 4, 2023

Ampersand automates addressable TV functionality

Advertising sales company Ampersand is introducing an automated addressable TV functionality to streamline workflow between buyers and sellers within its footprint. Fuelled by aggregated data, and with a commitment to protecting personal information, this enhancement automates the planning of addressable campaigns across Ampersand’s supply partners, including Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox, Altice and Verizon, which represent […]

January 4, 2023

DoubleVerify earns MRC accreditation

Digital media measurement, data and analytics software platform DoubleVerify (DV) has received Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for its DV Authentic Attention metrics, DV’s attention-based analytics and performance solution. “Earning MRC accreditation for DV Authentic Attention, in an environment where ad dollars are increasingly scrutinised for accountability, advances our commitment to develop independent media quality […]

January 4, 2023

Hallmark Movies Now launches on Vizio Smart TVs

Hallmark Media has confirmed that its SVoD service, Hallmark Movies Now, is now available on VIZIO Smart TVs. The launch comes as the service closes out its annual holiday programming stunt Movies & Mistletoe, which features beloved Hallmark holiday programming, and gears up for a strong January line-up of offerings, including hit films such as […]

December 23, 2022

Italy: OTT and mobile TV see growth in 2022

Over half of the Italian population (52.8 per cent) watched TV over the internet in 2022, a growth of 10.9 per cent on the previous year, according to the annual report from the research institute Censis. The number of smart TVs reached 16.7 million, in comparison to 15.3 million a year earlier. Mobile TV is […]

December 21, 2022From Branislav Pekic in Rome

IPO, Meta: ‘SVoD password-sharing illegal’

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Meta have worked together to create guidance on avoiding piracy and counterfeit goods online. “Piracy is a major issue for the entertainment and creative industries,” says the IPO. “Pasting Internet images into your social media, password sharing on streaming services and accessing the latest films, TV series or […]

December 20, 2022By Colin Mann