Televisionation

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 Hank Frecon, CEO of contextual video advertising and commerce company, Source Digital. Among other things, he explains the company’s core offerings, describes its work in enabling monetization of video content via interactivity, and outlines its future plans.

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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 Jacob Vaus and Eli Weiss, the Chapman University students behind Calamity AI, a YouTube channel devoted to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Among other things, Vaus and Weiss explain how the channel actually employs AI in the generation of its content, describe some of the videos that have been created in this way, discuss their reasons for launching the channel, and outline their plans for it going forward.

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 Howard Blumenthal, who among other things created and produced the famous PBS children’s show, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego.” Blumenthal, who is currently a Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his work at QUBE, the legendary interactive TV service launched in Columbus, Ohio by Warner Cable in 1977, as well as his work on “Carmen Sandiego,” on MTV’s “Remote Control” and on other seminal shows. He also tells us about his father, Norm Blumenthal, who produced the famous NBC game show, “Concentration,” and was involved in the 1950’s proto-interactive TV show, “Winky Dink and You.” And he shares his thoughts on how to create and produce programming that’s relevant and valuable to 21st century children.

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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 Michael Collette, former CEO of Deductive (now Corporate SVP of Data Science at MarketCast), and Tom Weiss, former CTO and Chief Data Scientist at Deductive (now Chief Data Scientist at MarketCast), discussing Deductive’s recent acquisition by MasterCast. Deductive (previously known as Dativa) specialized in data science services designed to enable clients to interpret and understand the complex granula datasets that are captured by media platforms and connected devices. http://tvotshow.com/televisionation

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

If you’re in the television business, or anywhere in the world for that matter, you know Julie Simon and her “relatively” famous aunt Carly. In a funny and charming 30-minute Friday Fireside, Julie shares family memories, including how her grandfather Richard Simon (of Simon and Schuster) introduced paperback books and sheet music to America, and the Broadway musicals by her mother Lucy. And along the way we learn about Julie’s time at HBO, Time Warner Cable (including a winter stuck in a head-end in Green Bay, Wisconsin), Lifetime/A&E Networks, Fox Networks and Spencer Stuart. Plus her more recent time making astonishing cakes for the Jenner family and others in the “rich and famous” world, and providing advisory services to media executives, both budding and experienced. And, of course, the session was briefly interrupted by the “Ghost” of John Lennon.

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 Vikrant Mathur, Co-Founder of Future Today, a prominent player in the kids-and-family AVOD and FAST space. The company, which operates over 700 channels and holds rights to over 200,000 titles, is best known for its HappyKids OTT network, which it says has seen year-over-year user and watch-time growth of over 150% during 2020. Last September, it launched HappyKids, as well as its iFood.tv and The LEGO channels, on Roku.

http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - 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 Jon Niermann, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop Media, and Chris Thun, VP of Product at TiVo, discussing their companies’ new partnership. The partnership sees Loop, a streaming company that specializes in premium short-form video, delivering 18 of its music video channels on the TiVo+ content network.

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

Our Friday Fireside guest this week is Clint Stinchcomb, President and CEO of CuriositySteam, “the premium destination for true, pure factual entertainment.” Clint clears up the mystery of the recent SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation) investment in CuriosityStream with an enterprise value of $312 million (and an equity value of $512 million). CuriosityStream was, of course, founded by John Hendricks (founder of Discovery, Inc.), who in Clint’s words “has always been a guy who can see around corners” in the media and entertainment space. Doctor's note: I was one of more than a few people who wondered what in the world Clint was doing joining CuriosityStream five years ago. But I can honestly say that he has built an extremely attractive, valuable and growing company and organization with CuriosityStream. Watch the Friday Fireside to learn more.

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 Max Kalehoff, VP of Marketing and Growth at Realeyes (http://realeyesit.com), a company that uses emotion AI and facial coding to measure consumers’ response to and engagement with video content. Kalehoff discusses new research from Realeyes into the efficacy of video advertising for the 2020 presidential election. Among other things, the company has found that the Biden campaign’s ads are more effective at “luring and sustaining” audiences, but that both that campaign’s ads and those of the Trump campaign are struggling to engage audiences; that negative advertising and longer ad durations are causing viewers to tune out earlier; and that political advertising in general needs to “balance rigid talking points with richer storytelling, in order to drive greater emotional impact.”

Blog post: https://blog.realeyesit.com/

http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - 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 Field Garthwaite, Co-Founder and CEO of video intelligence platform provider, Iris.tv. Among other things, he discusses the growth of connected TV advertising, explains why that medium offers advertisers better ROI than traditional television, and identifies growth drivers for contextual targeting on CTV/premium video.