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Target, Disney Team Up on Media Offering for Advertisers (AdAge)

Bullseye and Mickey are teaming up again. Target’s in-house media company Roundel is partnering with Disney Advertising Sales on a new offering designed to arm Disney’s TV adve... More

AR is Big – 5G Will Make it Huge (VentureBeat)

On mobile devices, 5G is set to bring faster speeds, hyper-capacity, new viewing experiences like 8K resolution streaming, and 360-degree video — which is important for the devel... More

Verizon Media’s Lucas: Brand Safety, Customer Trust Are Key to Good Advertising (Beet.TV)

Verizon Media’s data strategy is built on customer trust. The company, which owns media titles including Yahoo News, TechCrunch and Engadget, has content at scale second only to ... More

Survey: Online Holiday Shopping to Overtake In-Store for First Time (Bloomberg)

For the first time, consumers in the U.S. plan to do more of their holiday shopping online than in physical stores, according to a new survey.... More

‘Sesame Street’ Moves to HBO Max in 5-Season Deal (Variety)

HBO Max and “Sesame Street” producer Sesame Workshop have announced a new partnership which will bring the show’s 50-year library, as well as five new seasons of the show, to... More

PlayStation Doubles Down on Cloud Gaming Starting … Now (Wired)

"I typically prefer doing to talking," says Jim Ryan, "but I think we've been guilty of not talking enough about what we've done." Ryan, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, ... More

San Francisco Giants to Boost Fan Engagement With Veritone’s AI-Powered Solutions (MESA)

Veritone announced that the San Francisco Giants have selected Veritone’s AI solutions to bring its 60-year media archive to life and drive an advanced fan engagement strategy. V... More

NFL Embracing Multicast Approach to Live Game Coverage (FOS)

The NFL’s television partners have broadcast games the same way for decades. TV viewers saw one play-by-play announcer, one color analyst and maybe a sideline reporter. If you di... More

Disney Inks Expanded Distribution Deal With PlayStation Vue (THR)

The Walt Disney Company will keep offering content to PlayStation Vue — Sony's OTT streaming service that launched in 2014 — and its customers as the company unveiled a compreh... More

How TikTok Holds Our Attention (New Yorker)

On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.... More

Sony’s Immersive 360 Reality Audio is Coming to Amazon Music (Engadget)

Amazon's newest addition to its smart speaker lineup, the Echo Studio, doesn't only offer higher quality audio than its brethren. It also supports new audio technologies like Dolby... More

Streaming Eclipses Traditional TV Among Adult Online Video Viewers (Rapid TV News)

A new study has found that after exponential growth in adoption of streaming between 2010 to 2016, the share of adult TV viewers who stream at least some of their TV content has pl... More

FandangoNOW Launches Movie, TV Store on Oculus (MESA)

FandangoNOW announced that it will launch the premier movie and TV store on Oculus Go and Quest. The new store provides Oculus users with access to FandangoNOW’s collection of ov... More

NAGRA’S Ivan Verbesselt Talks Scalable Service Protection for Pay TV Operators (Digital TV Europe)

"In a world where the demand for high-quality content – delivered anytime, anywhere, and on any device – is higher than ever, service providers increasingly have their work cut... More

Adobe Fresco is a New iPad App for People Who Can’t Draw (FastCompany)

You used to draw more, and Adobe knows it. Surveying more than 2,500 people in the U.S., the company learned that while half of us reported painting and drawing every week as child... More

What’s Next for the Digital Living Room? (Knowledge@Wharton)

Fueled by a leap in broadband adoption in households and the advent of smartphones, tablets and other devices, the digital living room is no longer a TV-centric area in the home. B... More

Sports TV Viewers Tend to be ‘Sticky’ With Pay-TV (TVB Europe)

Fans of sport on TV are not cord-cutters but tend to stick with their pay-TV subscriptions according to a new report.... More

ESPN Inks Facebook Deal to Bring Exclusive Shows, Content to Watch Service (Variety)

Disney’s ESPN is looking to expand digital reach across Facebook, under a new deal to distribute exclusive digital shows and content on the social giant’s Facebook Watch video ... More

Explosion of Streaming Services Points to Price Wars on the Horizon (Variety)

With its $800 iPhones and $1,400 Hermès smart watches, Apple’s not exactly in the business of bargain-bin pricing. But the surprisingly low-priced debut of Apple TV Plus, at $4.... More

All of These Super Long Movies Should Just be TV Miniseries (Quartzy)

It must be asked: Instead of painstakingly converting bloated, overstuffed three-hour films into episodic television, why not just make TV shows in the first place? After all, that... More

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