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Connected TV Advertising Accounts For Nearly Half of Video Ad Impressions, Study Says
Mobile trails behind, accounting for 25% of video ad impressions
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‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ Game Hits 400,000 Downloads on First Day, But ‘Pokemon Go’ Had 19 Times More
Still, AR game scored 3 million downloads in its first four days and hit No. 1 in Apple’s app store with $1.1 million in grosses
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Facebook Watch Hits 140 Million Daily Active Users, Up 47% From December
Company says it reaches 750 million users monthly that spend at least one minute with the platform
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Inside Gunpowder & Sky’s Growth to 50 Million-Plus Monthly Viewers
“It’s a great time to be an independent premium content provider,” co-founder Van Toffler says
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Why Many Video Publishers Think Roku Beats Amazon’s Fire TV Despite Growth in Active Users
“Amazon is surprisingly green when it comes to selling or swapping OTT promotional opportunities,” one executive says
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First Media Renews Content Partnership With China-Based Streamer iQiyi
iQiyi will stream new episodes from over 10 original series from First Media’s “Baby First” vertical
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Discovery, WWE Lead $47 Million in New Funding for FloSports Video Streamer
The sports-focused streamer has raised $75 million to date
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How Bleacher Report Focuses on ‘Authenticity and Speed’ to Super-Serve Young Sports Fans
5 Questions: “Audiences expect to participate in the conversation,” says chief content officer Sam Toles says
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Overtime Partners With Reach TV to Distribute Content Across US Airports
Reach TV will initially add two of Overtime’s shows to its programming rotation
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NBC Takes ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Vertical With Snapchat Series (Exclusive)
The winners will have a chance to compete in the broadcast television series
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Chrissy Teigen to Star in ‘Judge Judy’-Like Series for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
All rise for the Honorable Chrissy Teigen
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NBC News Taps Former CNN Exec Chris Berend as Head of Digital
He replaces Nick Ascheim who will lead digital and product for NBCU and NBC News Group broadly
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MTV’s ‘The Real World’ Seasons 16, 17, 28 to Stream on Facebook Watch
The three seasons will be available on “MTV’s The Real World” Facebook page today
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Conde Nast Hires Premier Music Group’s Robert Semmer as Vogue’s VP of Video
Semmer will be based in New York and report to Croi McNamara
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How Ad-Supported Streamer Xumo Aims to Quadruple Time Spent on the Platform This Year
“Our goals are aggressive,” Xumo SVP of Marketing and Content Operations Fern Feistel says
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