Month: April 2021

The company posted big gains in just about every division, barreling past expectations.

The company’s flagship Hallmark Channel made headlines in December 2019 when it pulled ads from wedding planning firm Zola that depicted same-sex wedding celebrations.

President Joe Biden’s televised address to the joint session of Congress Wednesday night was viewed by 26.9 million people, making it the lowest-rated presidential address in modern history, according
to data released today by Nielsen.

Florida’s Senate voted 29-11 Thursday in favor a privacy bill that would require companies to allow consumers to opt out of the sale or sharing of data.

Social video juggernaut TikTok named Shouzi Chew, the financial chief of its Chinese parent company ByteDance, as its new CEO. Chew will retain his role at ByteDance in addition to leading its most popular Western app. Vanessa Pappas, who has been in charge of the company since August on an interim basis, will stay on…

Roku and Google’s standoff has come to a tipping point. The connected TV platform removed the YouTube TV app from its channel store Friday morning when the carriage agreement between the two companies expired. The app is currently not available to new subscribers. However, existing subscribers will still have access to YouTube TV as the…

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As they enter next week’s NewFronts, connected and smart TV companies are eager to show the marketplace just how much the television landscape has changed since the pandemic upended last year’s upfront season–and altered viewing habits forever. And several of those companies will get their chance as NewFronts kicks off on Monday, with Roku, Amazon,…

Magnite’s purchase of SpotX has gotten the green light from the U.S. Department of Justice, permitting a move that will establish what Magnite calls the largest independent connected TV and video advertising platform in the industry. The deal was first announced in February when pan-European broadcaster RTL Group agreed to sell SpotX to Magnite for…