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Roku: OS, product enhancements

Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has confirmed that Roku OS 10 has started rolling out to Roku devices including streaming players, audio products and Roku TV models. Roku OS 10 introduces a variety of new features getting users to content faster, improving network and input configurations, offering new ways to customise the experience and […]

April 14, 2021

Samba TV hires Roku’s Natividad

Samba TV, a global player in omniscreen advertising and analytics, has announced the appointment of Tim Natividad to Senior Vice President of Agency and Brand Solutions, an executive leadership position to bolster the company’s relationship with marketers around the world. Previously heading up sales teams at Roku, Amazon, and Google, Natividad brings advertising industry experience […]

April 14, 2021

Research: Smart TVs in majority of US homes

Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s third annual Connected Home report suggest that smart TVs are now in a large majority of US TV homes, and account for over half of all TV sets. As more Americans use smart TVs to stream, Hub asks whether the future is limited for the now-popular peripherals many use to […]

April 8, 2021

Scripps making Newsy an OTA network

The E.W. Scripps Company will soon launch its OTT news network Newsy over the air (OTA) as well – serving the free, growing OTA market of cord-cutting self-bundlers in the US. Newsy’s distribution OTA will make it the only American news television network with ubiquitous OTT and OTA distribution. At its launch on October 1st, […]

April 7, 2021

SpotX reports record revenues

SpotX, the global video advertising platform, continued its profitable growth track-record and ended 2020 with what it has described as “outstanding financial results and significantly more access to consumers”. As the pandemic raged across the globe, a record number of viewers tuned in to streaming TV in 2020. Advertisers took notice by diversifying their ad […]

April 7, 2021

Finecast extends TV reach with new supply partners

Finecast, an addressable TV provider, has today announced it has extended TV reach beyond traditional broadcasters on its platform, with the onboarding of four new supply partners; Roku, Rakuten, Pluto and YuppTV. The supply partnership will enable advertisers to reach and measure audiences at scale within the most premium, professionally produced ‘for TV’ content across […]

April 7, 2021

Alchimie launches TVPlayer US

Alchimie, the OTT platform featuring original and exclusive thematic channels published jointly with media groups, has announced the launch of its American TVPlayer service – a new service offering US viewers over 30 linear and on demand channels. TVPlayer US brings together a range of themed and special interest channels populated with a selection of […]

March 30, 2021

Data: 30% of UK use Samsung’s Tizen Smart TV platform

Nearly a third of UK households now connect at least one TV to the internet using Samsung’s Tizen smart TV platform, according to data from Strategy Analytics. According to the report, The Complexities of the Multi-Device Connected TV Household, the Samsung platform holds a clear lead over platforms operated by Amazon, Sony and LG, and […]

March 24, 2021

Report: US programmatic CTV usage rising

According to the findings of the Connected TV (CTV) Ad Supply Trends Report 2020 from ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform Pixalate, 78 per cent of US households are now reachable via programmatic CTV advertising, but ad fraud rates remain high, at 24 per cent in Q420. The report analyses the state of programmatic […]

March 24, 2021

Roku debuts advertising brand studio

Roku has announced the launch of an advertising brand studio to produce new creative ad formats and TV programming tailored for marketers. Roku says the advertising brand studio will help marketers go “beyond the traditional 30-second TV ad spot and amplify big moments in the marketing calendar”, including advertiser-commissioned short-form TV shows, interactive video ads, […]

March 23, 2021