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. The episode features Rodrigo Madriz, Co-Founder and CEO of Canadian adtech and tcommerce company, TMT Lab. Among other things, Madriz describes the company’s shoppable TV solution, its deployments in Canada and Mexico, how it leverages ACR technology, how it views such areas as linear OTT, AVOD, Addressable and ATSC...
Oct 06, 2020•39 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present two new episodes of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. The first episode, which was recorded in July 2020, features Devin Fallon, who at the time was VP of Media Insights and Analytics at Tremor Video, discussing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the connected-TV industry. The second episode, which was recorded earlier this month, features Leslie Grandy, CEO of ...
Sep 25, 2020•31 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. “What the HELL is going on in the TV Business?” That is the opening question for this week’s Friday Fireside guest: John Penney, Executive Board Member of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), and respected television industry exec with stints at HBO, Starz, Fox, Viacom and more. Without filters or edits, John ...
Sep 25, 2020•18 min
http://tvotshow.com - In the final scene of Sydney Pollack’s masterful film, “Three Days of the Condor,” Turner, the former CIA analyst, meets up with Higgins, the rogue agent who’s been plaguing him, outside the New York Times building. Turner, played by Robert Redford, has sent all the information about the plot he’s exposed to the Times: Turner: Just look around. They've got it. That's where they ship from. They've got all of it. Higgins: What? What did you do? Turner: I told them a story. I ...
Sep 13, 2020•44 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Today’s Friday Fireside guest is Ishaan Sutaria, Co-Founder and President/COO of Wave.TV. If you’ve watched ESPN’s Plays of the Week, or NFL’s Red Zone, you are a fan. And if you are a fan of other sports categories—niche, amateur, just plain wacky—you get the premise of Wave.TV. Ishaan talks about his recently completed $32 million Series A round (with...
Sep 13, 2020•16 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Tara Maitra, Chief Revenue Officer of BDEX, the fast-growing data exchange platform. We all know Tara from her 11+ years at TiVo, where she was the most public spokesperson for TiVo’s advanced television solutions (some of which were significantly before their time). Tara tells us that, by combining the functionality...
Sep 13, 2020•18 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Stuart Lipson, Executive Director of the eSports Ad Bureau, an organization that provides education and guidance about the eSports advertising ecosystem to agencies and brands, and also promotes best practices and consistent ad metrics.
Sep 13, 2020•37 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Avigail Gutman, VP of Intelligence and Security Operations at Synamedia, discussing her work preventing hacking and piracy. Among other things, she explains how hackers and pirates monetize the content they steal and attempt to evade discovery, and how Synamedia goes about tracking them down and pro...
Sep 13, 2020•52 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Mark Simpson, President and CEO of Triveni Digital, a provider of program guide and metadata management, data-broadcasting and video-quality assurance solutions for broadcasters. The company has been closely involved in the development of ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV), and in the ongoing trials and deployme...
Aug 18, 2020•39 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside is a special treat! Industry vet, Dan Sweeney, in addition to his work with Strategic Labs Advisory Consultants, is just having WAAAY too much fun with “Dan Sweeney’s One Hit Wonders,” the only weekly radio show that showcases the forgotten “one and done” USA Top 40 hits. Dan’s timing is auspicious, with the pandemic-driven i...
Aug 18, 2020•24 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Ed Haslam, Chief Marketing Officer of ZypTV (formerly known as ZypMedia), a company that provides a programmatic advertising platform for OTT and connected TV, which it positions as enabling local media companies, media buying agencies and brands to target local audiences at scale. Among other thing...
Aug 18, 2020•39 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry.Let it not be said that TV isn't fun! This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Amy Bobchek, cable advertising veteran and Chief Revenue Officer of Advocado. Mixed with our chat about consumer trends, hot categories and Advocado Stress Balls (available if you ping Amy), Amy describes Advocado’s fast-growing capability to connect advertisers’ digital campaigns...
Aug 18, 2020•17 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Chris Maccaro, CEO of Beachfront Media, a company which has evolved from being a supply-side platform to a technology provider for connected-TV advertising, and which recently launched a Pod-Bidding solution for CTV. Among other things, Maccaro describes the new solution; explains why the Covid-19 p...
Aug 18, 2020•20 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Todd Achilles, President and CEO of Edge Networks, a company that will be launching an ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV)-powered pay-TV service, called Evoca, in Boise, Idaho, later this summer. The service is slated to offer over 80 live channels for less than $50 per month, and to feature HD and 4K picture qu...
Aug 02, 2020•26 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s HIGHLY enjoyable Friday Fireside features Adriana Waterston, SVP of Insights and Strategy for Green Horizons Insights, a division of Horowitz Research. Adriana will share highlights from their study, “Cultivating the Cannabis Market,” which reveals that 39% of US adults--82 million people—are regular cannabis users! And, as promised in the i...
Aug 02, 2020•22 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Stefan Lederer, Co-Founder and CEO of online video infrastructure provider, Bitmovin, discussing the company’s platform, the rapidly evolving market in which it operates, how to build an effective, engaging and reliable livestreaming experience, emerging opportunities, and the company’s roadmap goin...
Aug 02, 2020•32 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Azita Manson, President of OpenZNet, and Art Botterell, a member of that company’s board of advisors, discussing OpenZNet’s work developing an ATSC 3.0 and ATSC 1.0-compatible communication platform for crisis management. (Note: We will be producing our first virtual TVOT show, September 9th and 10t...
Aug 02, 2020•38 min
VIDEO EXAMPLES included ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Tom Shelburne, Director of Sales and Business Strategy at Pixotope, a mixed-reality company that has generated quite a bit of buzz in recent days, due to the digitally rendered crowds it has created for Fox Sports’ broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Among other things, he e...
Aug 02, 2020•31 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Pay attention: this is good stuff. This week's Friday Fireside features Jo Kinsella, President of TVSquared, the global omni-channel attribution and measurement firm. Jo discusses their recent deal with Sky, her belief that Covid-19 has focused the television industry on ROI, and the possibility that the retreat from bricks-and-mortar retail (in favor o...
Aug 02, 2020•20 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside takes us on a frank, funny and borderline tasteless tour of 50 years of the World's Most Subversive Media Company, guided by National Lampoon President Evan Shapiro. Evan describes a content model designed to lampoon America's mainstream culture with a serrated knife, and a business thesis to make programs with television DNA...
Jul 20, 2020•24 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Himesh Bhise, CEO of Synacor, a cloud-based software and services company that serves video, Internet and communications providers, discussing among other things the company’s software offerings and how they can be used to drive awareness of and engagement with video content, as well as help monetiz...
Jul 20, 2020•30 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Randa Minkarah, Co-Founder and COO of Resonance AI, a company that offers an AI-powered platform which is designed to provide insights into why video content (including, for example, TV series, network news broadcasts and films) works or doesn’t. Among other things, she discusses the company’s recen...
Jul 20, 2020•35 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Claire McHugh, Co-Founder and CEO of Axonista, an Irish company that powers interactive video streaming apps for Sinclair Broadcast, QVC and a range of other companies and organizations. Among other things, McHugh discusses Axonista’s recent work on Sinclair’s Ohio 24/7 streaming news app, as well a...
Jul 20, 2020•31 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Ashley Fauset, COO of Stardust, a company which offers a social app that allows TV and movie fans to rate and review content and record and share videos of their reviews and reactions. Among other things, Fauset gives us a rundown of the app’s functionality; and discusses the role that user-generate...
Jul 07, 2020•24 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside welcomes Rose Adkins Hulse, Founder and CEO of ScreenHits TV, which is launching in the US in July, 2020. ScreenHits TV is leveraging their impressive relationships with the industry’s largest content players and streaming platforms to launch a full-blown aggregator for frustrated and overwhelmed consumers who, in spite of us...
Jul 05, 2020•15 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Sean Doherty, Jr., Co-Founder and SVP of Operations at Wurl, a company that provides streaming-video distribution and advertising services for connected TV. Among other things, he explains Wurl’s products and services; and discusses the company’s recent rapid growth and the reasons behind it. (Note:...
Jul 05, 2020•28 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Gerrit Niemeijer, CTO of Ampersand (formerly NCC Media), a data-driven TV ad sales and technology company, co-owned by Comcast, Charter and Cox. Among other things, he discusses Ampersand’s goal of connecting streaming and traditional linear TV, in order to bring greater scale and coherence to TV ad...
Jul 05, 2020•30 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week's Friday Fireside features John Canning, Executive Producer for Digital Domain (the VFX shop that generates just every VERY COOL effect you’ve ever seen on the screen!). John describes his work in finding new and innovative paths and products for the Digital Domain team, and discusses how Digital Domain has become somewhat of a “darling” of th...
Jul 05, 2020•18 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present another episode of “Televisionation,” our new video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era. This episode features Neal Baer, a prominent pediatrician and television writer/producer, known both for his work in medicine and on such shows as “ER,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and “Designated Survivor.” Among other things, he discusses his television work, which includes an uncannily prescient “Designat...
Jun 23, 2020•43 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation : Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week the Friday Fireside welcomes Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia. Speaking from his office in Manhattan, Dave tells us about Simulmedia's year thus far, including exceeding their first half 2020 plan, which is extraordinary given that their entire pipeline had melted away at the end of Q1! Dave then shares his forecasts for Q3 ...
Jun 21, 2020•14 min
