Every major streaming company—and some not so major ones—is investing in live sports. As they compete for broadcast rights, they’re seeking advertisers. Exclusive inventory is a draw, but benefits like first-party data and the ability to execute on lower-funnel objectives are also helping streamers woo live sports advertisers.
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| Mar 14, 2024
Combined with the rise of episodic content and creator-owned media, such channels will further fragment already divided viewer attention and heighten the competition for audiences, ad dollars, and subscription revenues. There is a potential upside for TV and video providers.
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| Sep 1, 2023
As economic uncertainty lingers, the dust has yet to settle on the TV currency battlefield. We review what’s changed since last year and which networks support which Nielsen alternatives.
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| Apr 11, 2023
The disparity between subscription and video ad revenues will rise over the next few years, and by 2027 digital video ad revenues worldwide will be more than $240 billion higher than subscription revenues, according to Omdia. Last year, Netflix and Disney+ joined the ad world. Those lower-price tiers are the future for streamers looking to attract more users and boost ad revenues. 5.
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| Jan 5, 2023
Time Spent With Connected Devices 2023 (Insider Intelligence subscription required). More Chart of the Day:. 6/29 - Beauty and the bucks. 6/28 - Corner the marketplace. 6/27 - Where Gen Z buys. 6/26 - The CTVerse. 6/23 - Amazon on display.
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| Jun 29, 2023
If you were to come out to a monthly subscription, this would be roughly like $10 a day. The question is, maybe I wouldn't pay for it for what was already a free platform, but others would. And I think it'll be a great test for Meta to see how many people in the EU may adopt this.
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| Sep 8, 2023
Telecom includes point-to-point communications services, including telephone voice and data communications, two-way mobile/cellular communications services, and other nonvoice message communications services (e.g., email, fax); includes multichannel video providers on a subscription fee basis (e.g., broadcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV, telco/fiber operators, etc.).
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That popularity has prompted holdouts like Disney, Netflix, and HBO to launch ad-supported subscription tiers. But unlike those, Tubi’s advantage is that it’s entirely free. Tubi may be one of the smaller streaming services, but it’s growing rapidly. It jumped from 33 million monthly users in 2021 to 51 million in 2022. Our own forecast predicts that Tubi will hit 55 million US viewers in 2023.
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| Feb 14, 2023
And I think this problem has been around longer than we Apache thought as we were to go back to the times of Game of Thrones being released on HBO wanted the original time to people watching the show as is being released than cutting their HBO subscription. It's nothing new coming more to light now they're more subscription platforms and more people watching this content than ever before.
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| May 10, 2024
Attention Metrics 2023 (Insider Intelligence subscription required). Why retail media networks need to start acting like media companies—not retailers. 4 emerging solutions to help standardize retail media. YouTube will use its own co-viewing data for CTV advertising, raising concerns about transparency.
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“We’re shifting into a lot of new paradigms in advertising, which is the underlying theme of all of the 2024 trends,” our analyst Paul Verna said on our “Advertising Trends to Watch for 2024” webinar.
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| Dec 14, 2023
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| Jan 14, 2025
So there's always been a problem with inventory and the amount of inventory on CTV because a lot of the services were subscription. Many of them, like Netflix, are adding ad supported variants. So the inventory is increasing pretty rapidly. You're also seeing the growth of free ad supported streaming TV or FAST, channels like Pluto or Tubi. They have a lot of ads there.
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| Jul 3, 2023
Streaming subscription and licensing revenues also climbed 10%, suggesting growing demand for streaming service ViX. Political ad beneficiary: The contentious US presidential election has seen both major candidates fighting to win the crucial Hispanic community, making TelevisaUnivision’s media properties valuable channels for reaching voters.
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| Oct 23, 2024
The power of TV advertising hasn’t been so prevalent in the UK, thanks to the BBC’s (ad-free) dominance. So digital ad spending in the country was far more proportionally significant and happened earlier than anywhere else. In 2008, for example, digital ad spending accounted for 25.3% of total media ad spend, almost twice the proportion in the US.
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| Feb 3, 2025
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| Jan 16, 2025
A streaming service that underindexes on advertising may be doing so intentionally because it relies most on subscription fees to fund content production and it doesn’t want to increase churn by opening up the advertising firehose too widely. Meanwhile, other services are free and serve ads to all viewers.
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| Oct 25, 2023
The subscription service model is growing in popularity across the payments industry as it provides payment transparency for consumers and a steady stream of revenues for providers
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| Jan 26, 2024
X (formerly Twitter), Snap, and Facebook—along with a handful of other media companies—have all explored ad-free versions of their services. But that trend has had little effect on the growth of mobile ad sales, which should increase by 14.4% YoY in 2024 to top $200 billion for the first time. In-app ad spending continues to add to its share of mobile advertising.
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| Mar 26, 2024
How it may work: One possibility is that Amazon would show more ads to existing Prime subscribers, alongside a promotion for an ad-free subscription tier. Another would involve possibly receiving a cut of revenues from other streamers’ ad-supported subscription tiers. While format and pricing are still uncertain, one thing is clear: Ad breaks will be short.
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| Jun 8, 2023