Televisionation

ITVT is pleased to present Televisionation: Screen Culture, a new video series exploring the symbiotic relationship between culture and filmed content—television, streaming, and cinema. Each episode features an interview with a leader in content creation (showrunners, directors, and more) discussing a unique aspect of their work and how it has reflected or even altered the culture around us. Screen Culture is hosted by Lisa Crawford (see more below).

In this episode, Lisa is joined by Chris Wagner. Chris is the founder and CEO of White Label Productions, and an executive producer and EIC with 20 years of experience in television across genres and platforms. His recent credits include The Masked Singer, Unicorn Hunters, Savage X Fenty Show (Vol. 1 & 2), and Can’t Cancel Pride.

Chris and Lisa discuss Chris’s early career when, instead of becoming a fireman, he happened into working on classic unscripted hits such as American Idol, and his observations from watching the Idol phenomenon take off.

Chris shares his view that unscripted TV is at its best “aspirational,” giving participants and viewers the opportunity and inspiration to pursue important life projects, from singing to pitching startups on shows such as Shark Tank and one of Chris’s recent productions, Unicorn Hunters.

Lisa discovers that Chris is a lover of musicals. He’d love to produce a musical, having completed event and concert programming projects including Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty (they take a moment to admire Rihanna’s inclusive creative vision).

Finally, Chris shares his take on streamlining production services (without giving away “trade secrets”!) and his excitement for the new technologies that are making television production more efficient and showcasing a more beautiful end product.

ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson.

Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explains how Comscore attempts to overcome those difficulties, and outlines how the company seeks to drive innovation. Livek, meanwhile, explains how he believes Comscore is differentiated in the measurement space, how the the company has adapted to the post-Covid environment, how it is embracing opportunities for greater transparency, innovation and collaboration, how it approaches the issue of attribution, and more. And finally Wilson discusses Comscore’s recently announced deal with Google to provide deduplicated connected-TV measurement for YouTube and YouTube TV.

PART 2 - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson.

Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explains how Comscore attempts to overcome those difficulties, and outlines how the company seeks to drive innovation. Livek, meanwhile, explains how he believes Comscore is differentiated in the measurement space, how the the company has adapted to the post-Covid environment, how it is embracing opportunities for greater transparency, innovation and collaboration, how it approaches the issue of attribution, and more. And finally Wilson discusses Comscore’s recently announced deal with Google to provide deduplicated connected-TV measurement for YouTube and YouTube TV.

PART 1 - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson.

Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explains how Comscore attempts to overcome those difficulties, and outlines how the company seeks to drive innovation. Livek, meanwhile, explains how he believes Comscore is differentiated in the measurement space, how the the company has adapted to the post-Covid environment, how it is embracing opportunities for greater transparency, innovation and collaboration, how it approaches the issue of attribution, and more. And finally Wilson discusses Comscore’s recently announced deal with Google to provide deduplicated connected-TV measurement for YouTube and YouTube TV.

https://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features augmented reality (AR) artist, Camila Magrane*, who is best known for AR collages in which she combines traditional darkroom techniques and digital tools to create surreal imagery and narratives. She discusses her background and influences, the technologies and tools she uses to create her work, how she is embracing NFTs, the directions in which she believes her art will evolve going forward, and more.

Art Exhibit through August 28, 2021: Minnesota Street Project at Themes+Projects Gallery

*Camila will be present at the gallery Saturday, August 21, from 1pm to 4pm

ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond.

This episode features industry veteran, Sherry Brennan (she was previously SVP of Distribution at Fox Networks Group), who earlier this year was named EVP and GM of the Whip Media Exchange at content-licensing company, Whip Media. Among other things, Brennan gives us an overview of the Whip Media Exchange, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of video content, describing its features and capabiltiies, explaining how it works in tandem with TV Time and other Whip Media products, updating us on new partnerships for the platform, and casting light on its likely evolution going forward.

Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry.

This week’s guest on The Friday Fireside is Tom Weiss, Chief Data Scientist for MarketCast. We have a lot of fun diving into the dynamics of “Fandom,” and how fans’ emotional connection to products, services, and television can be a powerful tool for marketing and advertising impact. Along the way we dissect the upcoming “Fast & Furious 9” from Comcast’s Universal Studios, and the appeal of Vin Diesel, John Cena, Charlize Theron and the heart-throbbing coming from a Toyota Supra's tailpipe!

The Friday Fireside will return on June 18.

Archives: https://tvotshow.com/televisionation

Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry.

This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Marco Frazier, SVP of Insight TV Studios US. Our session was recorded immediately after the announcement of the AT&T/Discovery/WarnerMedia deal, which gives a LOT of perspective for independent streaming services like Insight TV. And we might even have forecast the name for the new company! Tune in to learn how Insight TV is using fan-friendly programming and social media influencers to build audiences, and established CTV manufacturers, platforms and streaming aggregators to build distribution.

https://tvotshow.com/televisionation

Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry.

This week's episode of Centriply's Friday Fireside features Patrick Donoghue—TV industry vet and visionary—talking about his move from Cablevision and Time Warner Cable to Virtual Reality games (some would say the legacy cable TV business WAS a virtual game…). Along the way we discuss the Epic Games- Apple lawsuit, Netflix's move into games, and the rather astonishing fact that Apple's single-year App Store revenue would be sufficient to acquire the new WarnerMedia Discovery, Inc. company!

For more: https://tvotshow.com/televisionation

ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features industry insights from Mike Bloxham and Debby Ruth of prominent analyst/business-strategy company, Magid.

Bloxham and Ruth—who, along with their colleagues, have organized and moderated numerous sessions at TVOT—were both recently promoted to EVP & GM of Global Media and Entertainment, having made significant contributions to that business for Magid over the past eight years or so.