Televisionation

We're pleased to present another episode of "T Time," a regular podcast featuring news and analysis of the latest developments in advanced TV and video. A joint project between ITVT and nScreenMedia, "T Time" is hosted by ITVT's Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, and nScreenMedia's Founder and Chief Analyst, Colin Dixon.

In this week's episode, we talk about Colin's trip to Videoscape in London on October 10th, where he interviewed John Armah, COO of Marquee TV. Tracy and Colin break down what he had to say and discuss the opportunity for this performing arts SVOD service. Occasionally, listeners hear Armah give his opinions.

In this, the second of a series of interviews with the winners of the Awards for Leadership in Interactive Television (which were presented last June at TVOT SF 2018), Harold Geller, Executive Director of Ad-iD, the organization behind the eponymous industry standard for identifying advertising assets across all media platforms, discusses the organization's work, explains its importance, and outlines its roadmap for the future.

(Note: Harold Geller will be one of 100+ leading TV, video and advertising industry figures speaking  at TVOT NYC 2018, on December 6th at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Click here to purchase your tickets at the special Fall Discount price.)

In this, the first of a series of interviews with the winners of the Awards for Leadership in Interactive Television (which were presented last June at TVOT SF 2018), Jarred Wilichinsky, VP of Video Monetization and Operations at CBS Interactive, discusses his work implementing advance advertising at the network, outlines his work on standards and best practices at the IAB, where, he serves as Co-Chair of the Digital Video Committee and as a member of the Leadership Board, and shares his views on the current state and the future of the industry.

(Note: TVOT NYC 2018 will take place December 6th at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Click here to purchase your tickets at the special Fall Discount price.)

We're pleased to present another episode of "T Time," a regular podcast featuring news and analysis of the latest developments in advanced TV and video. A joint project between ITVT and nScreenMedia, "T Time" is hosted by ITVT's Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, and nScreenMedia's Founder and Chief Analyst, Colin Dixon.

In this week's episode, we talk about interactive storytelling from Netflix, direct-to-consumer AVOD and Connekt-Powered T-commerce on Sony Smart TV's and Blu-ray disc players. In addition, Innovid CTO, Tal Chalozin, joins us to discuss how the company is enabling interactive ads across many connected TV devices.

 

Today we're pleased to present the first episode of "T Time," a regular podcast featuring news and analysis of the latest developments in advanced TV and video. A joint project between ITVT and nScreenMedia, "T Time" is hosted by ITVT's Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, and nScreenMedia's Founder and Chief Analyst, Colin Dixon.

This episode covers such topics as Comcast's acquisition of Sky; Facebook's new Portal smart display; Amazon's new Fire TV Recast OTA DVR; the newly announced commerce partnership between Amazon and Snapchat; the ongoing Senate hearing on federal privacy legislation; and more.

(Note: Our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC 2018, will take place December 6th. Purchase your tickets here before midnight September 30th to receive the Early-Bird Discount--a $300 savings on the regular price!)

 

Thanks to the generosity of Lotame, ITVT is pleased to make available free of charge an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2018 session, "Is Bigger Always Better? A Discussion about TV, Data and Social Networks." The session was described in the show brochure as follows:

"In biology, size determines many things--metabolism, acceptable shapes of bodies, volume-to-height ratios. They call this the 3/4 power-scaling rule, and it's manifest throughout the natural world. In social systems, similar laws pervade that order everything from the ratios of the sizes of cities, the frequency of words, the popularity of content, and the return on movies. These patterns beg the question as to whether such orderings are the result of our nature or our social order. 

How does this matter to TV and advertising? Many of the same questions persist? Why are big shows more valuable? Why do shows scale the way they do? What are the implications as more and more content appears on closed systems? And what of advertising? 

This panel will attempt to ask some of these fundamental questions in an era when share viewing means something very different than it was years ago." Panelists included:

• Colin Dixon, Chief Analyst, nScreenMedia

• Ethan Dreilinger, Senior Client Solutions Engineer, IBM Watson Media

• Seth Haberman, President, Sense Education (Moderator)

• Ryan Reed, Director of Innovation, TV/Video, Lotame

• Anne Schelle, Managing Director, Pearl TV

• Shereta Williams, President, Videa

(Note: Our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC 2018, will take place December 6th. Purchase your tickets here before midnight September 30th to receive the Early-Bird Discount--a $300 savings on the regular price!)

STAGE, a premium streaming network devoted to the world of theatre, is set to launch next month. The network, which recently began offering previews of its offerings and which will continue to offer non-members a limited selection of programming on its preview platform, will be priced at $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. It can currently be accessed at http://www.watchstage.com, as well as via apps for AppleTV, iOS and Android (a Roku app is slated to launch soon).

In this recorded interview with ITVT Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, STAGE's co-founder and CEO, Rich Affannato, a Tony and Drama Desk-nominated Broadway producer, discusses how the new service came into being and how he expects it to evolve going forward.

Thanks to the generosity of Kantar Media, ITVT is pleased to make available free of charge an audio recording of the TVOT SF 2018 session, "TV Data of Today." The session was described in the show brochure as follows:

"Smart TVs are predicted to be in 75% of all American homes within the next three years and the Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data from those smart TVs is changing the way the industry looks at measurement. ACR data, which measures viewing from any and every device, is being used to power everything from multitouch attribution to dynamic ad insertion on linear TV. This panel will look at how ACR data is shaking up the industry, who the major players are, how the industry is dealing with privacy concerns and what the future of measurement will look like." Panelists included:
Jonathan Bokor, 2018 AdMonsters Power List HonoreeJason Bolles, Managing Director, Video Personalization, GracenoteCathy Hetzel, Executive Vice President, comScoreSean Muller, CEO, iSpot.tvZeev Neumeier, Founder, InscapeVik Sharma, SVP of Client Leadership, Kantar MediaAlan Wolk, Co-Founder/Lead Analyst, TV[R]EV (Moderator)
 

(Note: Our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC 2018, will take place December 6th. Purchase your tickets herebefore midnight this Friday to receive the Super-Early-Bird Discount--a 40% savings on the regular price!)

ITVT is pleased to make available free of charge an audio recording of a TVOT SF 2018 keynote, featuring Alan Beard, Chief Brand Officer of Otter Media (of which AT&T just became the sole owner). The session was described in the show brochure as follows:

"Fragmentation is the best thing that ever happened to TV--endless choices mean viewers only engage with the content and creators they love. As they shift from passive audiences to empowered fandoms, viewers take on a greater sense of ownership and deeper emotional intensity that manifests itself in ways traditional TV never imagined. 

Otter Media gets to see these thriving fandoms up close every day at Rooster Teeth, Crunchyroll, VRV, Hello Sunshine, and Fullscreen. Brand partners come on board to be sponsors--alongside the fan sponsors who were there first--thus fueling the fandom and being embraced as welcomed contributors to the community instead of interrupters of content. 

Alan Beard, Chief Brand Officer of Otter Media (a joint-venture between The Chernin Group and AT&T), will dig into these insights and more, including the uniqueness of identity media economies, the end of generational marketing, and the seemingly irresolvable tension between passion and scale."

Please note that audio recordings of all 37 sessions (including panels, keynotes and firesides) from TVOT SF 2018 are now available for purchase.

The recordings are priced at $100 per session. However, we are offering substantial discounts for bulk purchases, as well as to TVOT SF 2018 speakers, sponsors and attendees. To inquire about discounts, please email us at [email protected].

To purchase an audio recording of a TVOT SF 2018 session, just click on its listing below.

(We will be announcing the date and location of our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC, shortly. Stay tuned!)

Jack Jerry is a prominent creator on the social-video platform, Like. In this short interview with ITVT Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, and ITVT Gen-Z Correspondent, Hannah Swedlow-Washbourne, which was recorded at VidCon last month, Jerry discusses his background, why he started using Like, what he considers to be the strengths of the platform, how he builds his follower base, and more.