Televisionation

Radio [itvt]: Showrunner Panel at TVOT SF 2017: Ronald D. Moore, William N. Fordes, John Cabrera [itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2017 panel session, "World-Building Showrunners: Creating and Promoting Genre Content in the Multiplatform Age." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "The present era of multiplatform television, widely considered to b...

Connected Cars, Smart Cities, Self-Driving Vehicles and Mobility-On-Demand at TVOT SF 2017 [itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2017 panel session, "Moving Pictures"--Speeding to the Intersection of Future Mobility and Video." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "Connected cars, smart cities, autonomous self-driving vehicles, mobility-on-demand....T...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2017 keynote fireside which featured Chris Ripley, President and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, in conversation with Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "Under Chris Ripley's leadership, Sinclair Broadcast Group has been at the forefront of driving advanced-TV innovation, particularly...

Keynote Fireside with Sam Matheny, CTO of the NAB, at TVOT SF 2017 [itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2017 keynote fireside, "I Didn't Know Broadcast Could Do That!," which featured Sam Matheny, EVP and CTO of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), in conversation with Colin Dixon, Founder and Chief Analyst of nScreenMedia The session, which covered the new ATS...

Last year, Time, Inc. launched INSTANT, billed as a "mobile-first, all-video platform featuring...fresh news, features and exclusives about and by 'the new famous,' the digital artists of YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, YouNow, Vine and other platforms to come." In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, INSTANT's Editorial Director, Kirstin Benson, discusses the new plat...

Carrie Sheffield is founder of digital news service, Bold, and also (together with singer and activist, Clay Aiken) co-hosts the service's flagship program, "Bold TV," which is produced by Roker Labs. Steve Oh is Chief Business Officer of The Young Turks Network, the number-one news service for Millennials according to data from comScore, Tubular Labs and OpenSlate.  In this lively, recorded conve...

TV data company, Alphonso, on Monday launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, dubbed Alphonso Insights, which is designed to enable agencies and brands to carry out real-time analysis of the consumption of TV content and advertising, and obtain closed-loop attribution on TV media spend. Metrics provided by the "always-on" Alphonso Insights dashboard include total airings, share of voice,...

[itvt] is pleased to present audio of the TVOT NYC 2016 session, " The New Linear TV: Live Scheduled Programming on Social Media." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "The past few months have seen the emergence of a new category of linear TV: live, scheduled, professionally produced programming delivered and (co-)viewed via Twitter, Facebook and other social-media platforms...

Ashley Swartz, a high-profile figure in advanced-TV advertising circles, is founder and CEO of advertising technology company, Furious Corp. In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Swartz discusses, among other things, the company's flagship offering, PROPHET, billed as a "a horizontal SaaS platform, which automates the ingestion and normalization of your data, provi...

[itvt] is pleased to present video of the TVOT NYC 2016 session, "The Rise of Branded Content and Influencer Marketing." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "It's no secret that branded content and influencer marketing are playing an increasingly important role in the social-video economy--and the past year has also seen several established television players--including, amo...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2016 session, "New Ways of Viewing, New Kinds of Content: Programming in the Era of Social Media and OTT." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session will explore the new social and interactive programming formats, the new kinds of viewing experiences, and the changing relationships between creators and t...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2016 session, "OTT Technology Question Time." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This highly interactive session will enable attendees to pose their questions about the present state--and the future--of the OTT/multiplatform TV delivery and monetization infrastructure to a "brain trust," drawn from the compani...

"My Brother's Keeper"--a nine-minute virtual reality film that tells the story of two brothers, fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War, who reunite at Antietam, the bloodiest battle in US history--will debut at the Sundance Film Festival today (January 20th). The film, which was produced for PBS Digital Studios by StoryTech Immersive and Perception Squared in collaboration with the Technicolo...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT NYC 2016 session, "What the 2016 Presidential Election Teaches Us about the Future of Advertising." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session will bring together a panel of experts from multiple areas of the advanced-TV and video advertising industry to explore the future of advertising through the prism of...

In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Jay Prasad, Chief Business Officer at advanced-advertising specialist, VideoAmp, discusses recent developments from the company--including the launch of its Advanced Television (ATV) software-as-a-service (SaaS) ad-buying platform--and casts light on its plans for the future. (Note: Our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2016 session, "Engaging the Distracted Viewer: New Advertising Formats." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "In an era of adblocking, adskipping, timeshifting and multitasking (according to recent research from TiVo, 56% of viewers multitask every time, or nearly every time, a commercial break airs, with an addi...

[itvt] is pleased to present the fourth in a series of excerpts from Seth Shapiro's new book, TELEVISION: Innovation, Disruption, and the World's Most Powerful Medium (Volume 1: The Broadcast Age and the Rise of the Network), read by Shapiro himself. To listen to the excerpt--from Chapter 29: Nixon and Ailes--click here. Shapiro, a high-profile figure in advanced-TV and new media circles, is a two...

"The Future of Linear Channels and Apps in an OTT World" at The TV of Tomorrow Show 2016 [itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2016 session, "The Future of Linear Channels and Apps in an OTT World." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "Online video consumption is exploding as audiences gravitate toward mobile viewing via Facebook or Snapchat. While m...

In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Ashwin Navin, Co-Founder and CEO of cross-platform media and analytics company, Samba TV, and Dan Ackerman, who recently joined the company from AOL as its Chief Revenue Officer, discuss the company's technology and its multiple applications. The technology, which is embedded in 180 million smart TV's, set-top boxes and other d...

In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Brendan Condon, President ofAdMore, a programmatic TV advertising company that boasts over 1,200 local station and national network affiliates, discusses the company's platform, its partnerships, and its role in the programmatic ecosystem. http://www.admore.tv http://www.itvt.com http://www.thetvoftomorrowshow.com

Jared Feldman is founder and CEO of Canvs, a data and analytics company that scours conversations on social media in order to understand viewer emotions and their implications for the programming, marketing and monetization of television.  In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Feldman casts light on the company's natural-language processing and semantic analysis te...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2016 session, "TV and Video Innovation in the 2016 Presidential Election." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session--falling the day after the California primary--will explore the role that advanced-TV/video advertising, new data and analytics technologies and methodologies, and new video-engagement solu...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2016 session, "Reinventing Programming for a New Generation." The session was described in the show brochure as follows: "This session will explore the new forms of storytelling and the new programming formats that are emerging on mobile and social-video platforms (such as YouTube, Periscope, YouNow, Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, and beyo...

Jonathan Farb is Chief Product Officer of ListenFirst Media, a company that aggregates and analyzes a range of data streams (including digital and social metrics, sales figures, business intelligence, CRM data, mobile metrics and more) with the aim of providing advertisers and content providers with a 360-degree understanding of their brands' performance. In this recorded interview with [itvt] Edi...

[itvt] is pleased to present an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2016 keynote fireside featuring Tony Goncalves, SVP of Strategy and Business Development at AT&T's Entertainment Group. The fireside was described in the show brochure as follows: "A business this complex sometimes forgets the viewer at its core. Consumers win no matter what, and they're voting with time and money to watch content not...