Month: January 2021

Acquiring rights to Quibi’s content library would advance Roku’s push into content via its ad-supported Roku Channel app.

With 2020 finally in the rearview mirror, Americans are now faced with the yearly tradition of struggling to understand the country’s endlessly complex tax code and what it means for each of us. For tax filing service TurboTax, the arrival of 2021 also signals the start of its annual three-and-a-half month sprint to win the…

In the series, titled “Coyote,” Chiklis plays a veteran border patrol officer in southern California who is on the cusp of retirement.

When SXSW was cancelled in March, no one had any idea what was going to happen. Soon after, the pandemic became a reality and everything changed completely. Freelancers found themselves without work, campaigns and internships cancelled, agencies reducing their teams and those lucky enough to have work, had to adapt to a new routine full…

2021 is just a few days old, but Discovery Inc. is starting off the new year with a bang. The company is shaking up the streaming space with its new platform, Discovery+, which launches today. Discovery+ is debuting in the U.S. at two price points: an ad-supported tier for $4.99 a month, with five minutes…

Selecting our agency of the year is always a rigorous process. Selecting the same agency two years in a row — especially when one of them is 2020 — is a remarkably higher bar.

Growth will be driven primarily by traditional broadcasters’ turning to streaming services to compete with online video giants, and 70% of streamed video sessions during the five-year period will
occur on smartphones says Juniper Research.

During a year in which norms were challenged on almost every front, the most-read “RTBlog” columns focused mostly on normal programmatic and real-time media-buying issues, not the bigger existential
threats surrounding them.

Advertising remains a minority-interest for New York’s journal of record, but The Times still wants to take greater control over its digital offering. All this comes at a time when automated ad trading is preparing for a seismic overhaul as the publisher evaluates ad-tech vendors for privacy credentials. Like many, publishers had a rough 2020….

A number of much-loved, long-running shows signed off last year, including Modern Family, Arrow, Empire and Schitt’s Creek. And 2021 already has its share of high-profile series finales Here are 16 series that have already announced they will be taking their final bows this year–including one show that has been airing since 2007. Better Call…