Televisionation

ITVT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring how the advanced/interactive-TV industry is responding to the Covid-19/Coronavirus crisis. This episode features Jo Kinsella, President of cross-screen, multi-touch attribution specialist, TVSquared. Among other things, Kinsella shares information on new industry trends that TVSquared is observin...

AUDIO ONLY: ITVT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring how the advanced/interactive-TV industry is responding to the Covid-19 crisis. This episode features Jane Clarke, CEO and Managing Director of CIMM, an organization that was founded in 2009 by television content providers, media agencies and advertisers to promote innovation in audien...

ITVT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring how the advanced/interactive-TV industry is responding to the Covid-19/Coronavirus crisis. This episode features Chris Pizzurro, VP, Global Sales and Marketing at cable industry-owned VOD advertising specialist Canoe, who is himself recovering from a (thankfully relatively mild) bout of Covid-19....

AUDIO ONLY: ITVT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring how the advanced/interactive-TV industry is responding to the Covid-19 crisis. This episode features John Lawson and Anya Shetler of the AWARN Alliance, an organization that is championing the use of ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV to reinvent how we warn people and provide them with news and inf...

AUDIO ONLY: ITVT and TVOT are pleased to present the premier episode of Televisionation, our new video/audio podcast series exploring how the advanced/interactive-TV industry is responding to the Covid-19 crisis! In this episode, three prominent industry analysts—Colin Dixon, Chief Analyst at nScreenMedia; Tim Hanlon, CEO of The Vertere Group; and Alan Wolk, Lead Analyst at TV[R]EV—tell us about t...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “The Economics of OTT TV: New Monetization Models and Their Implications.” The session was described in the show brochure as follows: “This panel will explore the different subscription-based, advertising-based and hybrid business models that are now being employed to monetize OTT TV content, identifying which approaches h...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “From ATSC 3.0 to NEXTGEN TV.” The session was described in the show brochure as follows: “The first phase of the commercial rollout of ATSC 3.0--the new broadcast-TV standard that combines OTA TV with broadband, thus potentially enabling a huge range of new broadcast services (including 4K and UltraHD HDR, enhanced audio,...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “The Research Infrastructure for Direct-to-Consumer Streaming Services.” The session was described in the show brochure as follows: “The move to Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) services is one of the hottest topics impacting the media industry today. These services require far different research, data and analytic support than ar...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “Understanding the Fragmented Audience: New Developments in Measurement and Data Science.” The session was described in the show brochure as follows: “This session will explore the future of audience measurement and the innovations that are emerging in response to the ongoing fragmentation of TV viewership. Panelists will...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “Streaming the News: The Legacy Brands Rebrand.” The session was described in the show brochure as follows: “This session will explore how the digital arms of broadcast networks' legacy news operations are balancing maintaining those networks' brand equity with the need to adapt to an environment that is quickly changing a...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “AI and ML Take Over TV: Monetizing Data in Every Pixel.” The session was described in the show brochure as follow: “As the streaming wars heat up, and as the peak TV era continues to extend its cycle, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the TV industry's audience development, subscriber r...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 session, “The ROI of UX.” The session was described in the show brochure as follow: “Making sure that your UX can bring value to your organization can often be a challenging thing to quantify. If viewers are gravitating to both mobile and connected-TV viewing, are there design principals which will work for both mediums? How do we...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 keynote fireside chat, which featured Marcien Jenckes, President of Comcast Advertising, in conversation with Sean Coar, SVP of Data Strategy at Viacom. The session, entitled “On Addressability: A Programmer’s Perspective,” was described in the show brochure as follow: “Comcast, joined by Charter and Cox, launched On Addressability...

Last fall, video software provider, Synamedia, and program guide, metadata management and data broadcasting company, Triveni Digital, announced a partnership to facilitate broadcasters’, content providers’ and service providers’ transition to the new ATSC 3.0 standard—a transition that will require that ATSC 3.0 solutions support simultaneous broadcasts of both ATSC 3.0 and ATSC 1.0 signals. Accor...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2019 closing plenary session, “Beyond ‘Bandersnatch’: Where Do We Go Next with Interactivity.” Here’s the description of the session from the show brochure: “This fireside chat between two high-profile experts with impressive track records of innovation in interactive production--Eli Stonberg, CEO of Hovercast, and Zane Vella, VP of Pro...

Simon Applebaum is the host and producer of the widely distributed podcast/Internet radio show, “Tomorrow Will Be Televised." He has been covering the interactive/advanced TV industry for over 30 years, and earlier this month was honored as an Agent Provocateur at TVOT NYC 2019 (note: Agent Provocateur is a role unique to The TV of Tomorrow Show; selected because of the significant work they have...

Klarn DePalma leads MNI Targeted Media, the targeted digital and print advertising business that became part of station group, Meredith Local Media, following the acquisition of Time, Inc. In this recorded interview with ITVT Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, DePalma explains how MNI Targeted Media operates within its parent company, outlines how the business sources, analyzes and applies the data t...

Derek Forbes is Founder and CEO of Stardust, a new social-media app for movie and TV fans. The app allows those fans to follow specific movies and shows, create and share video reactions, and discover new programming. It also offers entertainment news, original editorial content and polls. According to the company, the app is used by over 100,000 people, including 2,000 influencers (among them Mad...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 session, "How Pay-TV Operators Are Revamping Their Platforms, Services and Business Models to Respond to the New Migrant Video Subscriber." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "The Migrant Video Subscriber is rapidly changing our industry. We haven't experienced anything like this before. The entire video ecos...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 session, "Disrupting the News." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session will bring together individuals and companies that are disrupting and challenging the traditional ways in which news is gathered, reported and distributed, for a wide-ranging discussion about the future of TV and video news. Pane...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 session, "AVOD, OTT and Incremental Audiences." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "With linear views on the decline, OTT, VOD and social-video advertising are offering advertisers better targeting, more prominent exposures and a less distracted audience. But the fragmented inventory, technical infrastructure...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 session, "Understanding the FAST Ecosystem." You can find all sessions from TVOT SF 2019 available to download HERE: The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "Multichannel, free ad-supported television services (FASTs) have been experiencing rapid growth in recent months, whether as an alternative or as a supplemen...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 fireside session, "Google and the Future of Local TV News." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "Columbia Journalism Review published a paper coining the phrase 'news deserts' for those areas where local newspapers have closed across the country and left no newspaper covering local issues. What this study does...

ITVT is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2019 keynote session, "Distribution Fireside." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session will feature a deep-dive conversation about the content distribution landscape during a time of digital disruption. It will identify challenges and opportunities, explore how programmers and distributors can best work t...

Steve Reynolds is President of Imagine Communications, a provider of multiscreen-video and ad-management solutions to numerous broadcasters, networks, operators and enterprises around the world (the company claims that nearly half of the world's video channels traverse its products). In this recorded interview with ITVT Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Reynolds discusses the company's extensive wor...