Televisionation
578 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome to our Televisionation podcast show, which showcases executives, innovators, creatives, and invited analysts, in dialog with ITVT founder and editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow. These podcasts also offer audio of sessions from our TV of Tomorrow Show (TVOT) conferences (produced twice a year in San Francisco and New York); video interviews, as well as other types of updates and content.
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Founded in 1998 by Tracy Swedlow, InteractiveTV Today ITVT is the most widely read and trusted news source online on the rapidly emerging medium of multiplatform, networked, broadband interactive television. We provide concise, original coverage of industry developments, technologies, content projects, and the people building the business through our Web site (itvt.com).
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: VideoAmp’s Jonathan Steuer on Measurement, Advertising and More
April 19, 2022 19:46 - 24 minutes - 4.15 MBJonathan Steuer, EVP of TV Strategy and Currency for VideoAmp, one of the ad industry’s most respected and popular execs, joins us in a fast-moving, fact-filled and FUNNY Friday Fireside. In a no-holds-barred discussion, Jonathan disassembles long-held myths about TV advertising, and provides a truly entertaining backdrop for what’s coming next. Watch and Enjoy!
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Broadway Theater VR/AR with Julie Saltman
April 19, 2022 19:44 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBToday’s episode of The Friday Fireside is devoted to "Taking Wing—Legends of Emimencia", an under-development virtual-reality and augmented-reality Broadway show from producer, Julie Saltman, and Broadway star, Richard Blake. It will take you out of your comfort zone into a Broadway theater with an immersive VR/AR experience and Cirque du Soleil acrobats flying from the ceiling. YIKES! It’s a fascinating departure from our usual TV-based Friday Firesides.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Mediaocean’s Berkowitz on the Future of TV Advertising and More
April 19, 2022 19:43 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBThe Friday Fireside welcomes David Berkowitz, SVP of Corporate Marketing and Communications for Mediaocean. Both a media industry veteran and marketing visionary, David opines on the future of advertising on Netflix, the impact of creativity in television advertising and the complex relationship between television content, television platforms and television viewers. "Viewers might be watching 'The Daily Show’ on their phones, their connected TVs or in Madison Square Garden surrounded by 20,0...
Televisionation: Blockgraph CEO, Jason Manningham
April 19, 2022 19:42 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBThis episode features Jason Manningham, Co-Founder and CEO of Blockgraph, an adtech company co-owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal, Charter Communications and Paramount, which offers a peer-to-peer platform designed to enable companies to create and implement privacy-focused targeting and measurement solutions. Among other things, Manningham provides an overview of Blockgraph’s flagship technology, the Identity Operating System (IDoS); outlines the problems that the technology is designed to solve;...
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Documentarian, Clay Tweel, in Conversation with Lisa Crawford
April 19, 2022 19:41 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBA native Virginian living in LA, Clay Tweel is a documentary director/producer/editor with a passion for telling great character-based stories. His works include Make Believe, Print the Legend, Finders Keepers, Out of Omaha, The Innocent Man and Gleason—the last of which was shortlisted for an Academy Award and named one of the 5 best documentaries of 2016 by the National Board of Review. His features have been distributed by Showtime, Netflix, and Amazon Studios while working closely with co...
Televisionation: Evergent Founder and CEO, Vijay Sajja, on Streaming, CRM and Data
April 19, 2022 19:35 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBThis episode features Vijay Sajja, Founder and CEO of Evergent, a provider of customer relationship management tools for streaming media and entertainment companies (customers include BritBox, the BBC, DirecTV, WarnerMedia and others), which currently supports around 600 million end-users on its platform. Sajja describes Evergent’s CRM capabilities (which include managing registration, authentication, transaction gateways and more), and how these capabilities also allow it to generate large ...
Televisionation: Marianne Vita on VAB’s New Streaming-Video Studies
March 07, 2022 22:43 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBThis episode features Marianne Vita, SVP/Director of Integrated Strategy and Marketing at VAB, discussing two reports that that organization recently published: “Reaching ‘Corded’ and ‘Cordless’ Audiences through Video Streaming” and “Stream On: 23 Real-World Case Studies Highlighting How Video Streaming Drives Brand Success.”
Televisionation: PART 1 – Comscore Update with CRO, Michael Vinson
March 07, 2022 22:41 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson. Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explains...
Televisionation: PART 2 – Comscore Update with CEO, Bill Livek and CCO, Chris Wilson
March 07, 2022 22:41 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson. Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explains...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: Outside, Inc.’s Dennis Gillespie
March 07, 2022 22:39 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBThis week’s highly entertaining episode of The Friday Fireside welcomes Dennis Gillespie from Outside, Inc. Dennis talks about the consumer appeal of Adventure Sports along with how attractive those consumers are to Advertisers (think youth, disposable income and time on their hands). And we learn how Dennis participated in some of the earliest televised sports betting (minus the cash) while interning at Qube in #Columbus, Ohio. Dennis was at the time a student at the good doctor’s Alma Mater...
Televisionation: Edgecast’s Darren Lepke on Powering Livestreaming Sports
March 07, 2022 22:38 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThis episode features Darren Lepke, Head of Video Product Management at Edgecast (formerly Verizon Digital Media Services), a provider of CDN, edge computing, serverless computing and streaming-delivery services. The conversation focuses on the work that Edgecast is doing in streaming sports, including enabling livestreaming of the Super Bowl earlier this year. Lepke also discusses how the company overcomes the challenges involved in powering and scaling livestreaming events, outlines its bus...
Televisionation: QTT’s John Piccone on Bridging Digital and Linear Advertising
March 07, 2022 22:37 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThis episode features John Piccone, President of QTT, a division of Viamedia that offers a cloud-based advertising solution which it bills as “request[ing] and receiv[ing] ads from programmatic digital ad exchanges to enable linear cable television ad insertion utilizing existing cable and broadcast TV infrastructure.” He discusses the challenges involved in delivering digital advertising to linear TV; explains how QTT’s solution works, including how it makes use of VAST (Video Ad Serving Tem...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Tsahi Levent-Levi on Enabling Video on Web Pages without Plug-Ins
March 07, 2022 22:36 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBOur guest on this week’s Friday Fireside is Tsahi Levent-Levi, Analyst and Consultant for WebRTC, publisher of BlogGeek.me, and CEO of TestRTC. Tsahi takes us under the hood of this open-source technology that enables audio and video communications inside Web pages WITHOUT plug-ins. And he explains a critical benefit of WebRTC—significantly lower latency for live video. Low enough to permit in-game sports betting on television. That, RIGHT THERE, is reason enough for all of our viewers to pin...
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Tynesha Williams, VP/Executive Creative Director of 3AM
March 07, 2022 22:35 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBIn this episode of Screen Culture, Tynesha shares how screen content—in the form of the sitcom Who’s the Boss—inspired her as a child to pursue a career in advertising. She shares key professional experiences, from creating a successful Super Bowl ad to becoming a leader in developing “worldbuilding’ immersive campaigns to market film and television properties and other products.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Scott Solter on Streaming
March 07, 2022 22:35 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBWe get inside the streaming subscriber’s head in this week’s Friday Fireside with Scott Solter, industry veteran and consultant. After a brief trip down memory lane to the earliest days of “multi-pay marketing” (did you know that when Showtime started competing with HBO they had exactly the same movie line-up?), we dig into the thorny and timely issue of the true value of a streaming subscriber (probably much less than you think). Advertising isn’t the only thing that relies on impressions; t...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Canoe’s Chris Pizzurro on Addressable, Programmatic and More
March 07, 2022 22:34 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBToday’s episode of Centriply’s Friday Fireside welcomes Chris Pizzurro, SVP of Global Sales and Marketing for Canoe Ventures. Chris unwraps the secrets of Canoe’s success, and details their operating strategy to deliver advanced advertising to 38 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS. We discuss the future of Set-Top Boxes, Nielsen, Addressable Advertising, Programmatic, Canoe’s move into streaming, and more. And we have some fun along the way!
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Research Guru, Howard Shimmel, on His New Venture, datafuelX
March 07, 2022 22:34 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBToday’s edition of The Friday Fireside welcomes Howard Shimmel, president of Janus Strategy & Insights. Howard gives us a peak under the hood of his new venture, datafuelX, scheduled to launch in January. And with extensive experience at Turner, Nielsen, MTV Networks and AOL, Howard is uniquely qualified to discuss what’s next for Nielsen and their apparent legion of competitors, as well as the future of multi-platform, multi-device and multi-CURRENCY television advertising.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jesse Redniss on His New Privacy Enablement and Engagement Platform, Qonsent
March 07, 2022 22:33 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week’s guest on the Friday Fireside is media luminary Jesse Redniss, Founder and CEO of privacy enablement and engagement platform, Qonsent. With a long history at NBCUniversal, Turner and WarnerMedia, Jesse has, like many of us, seen the shift in regulatory and consumer attitudes regarding use of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). What was previously accepted and acceptable is no longer, and that spells trouble for media, advertising and commerce. Qonsent has a solution that, in...
Televisionation: Paul Furia of Independent Creative Media Agency, Media by Mother
March 07, 2022 22:33 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis episode features Paul Furia, Head of Content and Creative Packaging at independent media agency, Media by Mother. Among other things, he explains his role at the agency; how he and his team identify the right creators, producers and platforms for their campaigns; how they go about reaching the right audiences for those campaigns; and the metrics they use to determine their success.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Landmark Media Advisors Founder, Adam Gaynor
March 07, 2022 22:32 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week, the Friday Fireside welcomes Landmark Media Advisors founder Adam Gaynor, who tells us in no uncertain terms what’s wrong with television advertising and what to do about it! Adam’s background includes Comcast, AMC Networks, Dish Network and VIZIO. Watch, and learn.
Friday Fireside on Thursday: George Schweitzer, Former CMO of CBS, in Conversation with Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor at TVOT LIVE! 2022
March 07, 2022 22:31 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBRick Howe, The iTV Doctor interviews… George Schweitzer is Television Royalty. If you watched CBS between 1990 and 2020, you saw his work. And more importantly, if you were watching something OTHER than CBS, you saw his work—his job was to get you to WATCH CBS! George has experience and perspective on how to fix the absolute mess we’ve made of television. You need to hear what he has to say.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Quintar Founding Member, Buddy Scott, on AR and Sports
March 06, 2022 21:14 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBGet ready for a truly mind-blowing episode of the Friday Fireside, with Quintar founding member Buddy Scott. With experience at WarnerMedia (working on Turner’s NBA Digital AR/VR projects), and then at Magic Leap, Buddy is taking us all to the next level. Quintar’s Reality platform is going to transform televised sports, and then bring that astonishing technology right back into the stadium experience. Very Cool Stuff!
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Amy E. Duddleston on Editing “My Own Private Idaho,” “High Art,” “Mare of Easttown” and More
March 06, 2022 20:57 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBAmy E. Duddleston, ACE has over 30 years of experience in feature and television picture editing. Starting out as an Apprentice Editor, she made her way up to Assistant Editor, working on films like My Own Private Idaho, Corrina, Corrina, and To Die For. As an editor, she has cut 20 features, including High Art, Laurel Canyon, Elegy and Gus Van Sant’s remake of Psycho, as well as nearly 80 hours of television on series such as Dexter, The Killing, Vida, Hunters and most recently, Mare of East...
Televisionation Friday Fireside 100th Episode: Mike Bloxham of Magid
March 06, 2022 20:57 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBYou will truly enjoy this #100th Episode of The Friday Fireside with the Brilliant and Entertaining Mike Bloxham, EVP of Global Media and Entertainment for Magid. Mike was also at the birth of The iTV Doctor, as a guest on the first The iTV Doctor column in May, 2009. Starting with a history of interactivity in entertainment (going back to the audience throwing cabbages at Bill Shakespeare), Mike provides real recommendations for how advertisers can take advantage of today’s smaller but HIGHL...
Televisionation: Nathalie Bordes, EVP of Measurement for Marketers, ANA
March 06, 2022 20:56 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThis episode features Nathalie Bordes, EVP of Measurement for Marketers at the ANA. Among other things, she explains the goals of the ANA and her own role at that organization; outlines ongoing challenges facing the audience-measurement industry; and describes the ANA’s work on enabling unduplicated reach and frequency, developing a “virtual people ID” methodology, and implementing its Cross-Media Measurement initiative.
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Carri Twigg on Her Journey from the White House to Culture House
March 06, 2022 20:55 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBCarri Twigg is deeply engaged with content that takes on the urgent cultural questions confronting America and the world. After 10 years in politics, including serving as Special Assistant to President Obama and Director of Public Engagement for then-Vice President Biden, she is focused on challenging status quo media narratives. As a founding partner and the head of development for Culture House Media, a women of color-owned, premium documentary production house, Carri brings untold stories ...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Rob Bochicchio, President of Marketsmith
March 06, 2022 20:55 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week’s Friday Fireside welcomes Rob Bochicchio, President of Marketsmith. Rob will share how smart marketing can turn a challenger brand like Shark Ninja into a $3.5 billion market leader. It’s all about outsmarting (not outspending) your competition, and keeping your people connected, motivated and balanced during the pandemic! There is a lot to learn here.
Televisionation: VAB President and CEO, Sean Cunningham, on Audience Measurement
March 06, 2022 20:51 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis episode features VAB President and CEO, Sean Cunningham. He discusses the organization’s criticisms of Nielsen’s audience-measurement methodology and why it believes there is a “crisis in confidence” in panel science; explains why VAB is calling for “an open system, trustworthy partners, transparency, verification, disclosure, competition, [and] innovation;” and outlines the organization’s goals for the coming year, and how it views viewer privacy concerns, new regulatory efforts and more.
Televisionation Friday NPR Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Smith
March 06, 2022 20:50 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBIf you can hear the opening music for “Car Talk”, “Morning Edition” or “All Things Considered,” you gotta know that being the Chief Marketing Officer for NPR like Michael Smith, my guest on the Friday Fireside this week, is the coolest job in the world! And after 20 years at Scripps Networks Interactive (acquired by Discovery Inc), Michael has a LOT to say about where Warner Bros. Discovery is going, along with Paramount Plus, HBOMax and Peacock.
Televisionation: Animation Historian and Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps
March 06, 2022 20:49 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis episode features animation historian and journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps. Among other things, she discusses the difference between US and European attitudes to animation and why the art form receives significantly more public funding in Europe; the impact of Netflix on the animation space; where animation is being produced today and why; the impact of VR on animation festivals and on the art form in general; and more. Nancy Denney-Phelps’ Animation Blog: https://www.awn.com/users/nancy-...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Ben Tatta, President of Standard Media Index
March 06, 2022 20:44 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBBen Tatta, President of Standard Media Index, is Rick’s guest on this edition of The Friday Fireside. Ben explains the movie premiere strategy behind Chevrolet‘s brilliant “Sopranos” Silverado EV Super Bowl ad, Peloton Interactive‘s bone-headed reaction spot to the death of Mr. Big, and how today’s addressable adtech can be used to tell sequential stories with TV ads. Ben is a brilliant guest who demonstrates that The Friday Fireside is “the solution to boring business television.”
Televisionation: Hub’s Jon Giegengack on “Video Redefined,” the Metaverse, NFTs and More
March 06, 2022 20:43 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBThis episode features Jon Giegengack, Founder and Principal of Hub Entertainment Research. Among other things, he discusses Hub’s two most recent reports, “2021 Video Redefined” and the “Metaverse NFT Mini Report” (both published February 2022); outlines the company’s latest research into how new platforms (e.g. VR, games, e-sports, podcasts and more) are competing for TV-consumer eyeballs; casts light on the challenges facing the TV industry and how to address them; and more.
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jo Kinsella on TVSquared’s Acquisition by Innovid
March 06, 2022 20:42 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThis week’s Friday Fireside welcomes TVSquared President, Jo Kinsella, fresh off the acquisition of TVSquared by Innovid. Jo (who was our Friday Fireside guest way back in July, 2020) details the process and timing of that acquisition, and explains in detail how the combination of TVSquared and Innovid has generated industry excitement that includes working agreements with the likes of Simulmedia and iSpotTV, as well as accelerating business growth in the advanced-TV advertising space. TVSqua...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Gabriel Berger, CEO of ThinkAnalytics
October 22, 2021 00:20 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBTelevisionation: 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 Gabriel Berger, CEO of ThinkAnalytics. Gabe is an industry veteran who has literally found his calling, helping all of us find the shows we will enjoy most in this INSANE television content mess we (including Gabe and the good doctor) have all created. This fast-moving episode of The Friday Fireside will have you rea...
Televisionation: Fandom CEO, Perkins Miller
October 21, 2021 23:55 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Perkins Miller, CEO of Fandom, a company that offers a platform for fan wikis and that was co-founded in 2004 by Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. He discusses the company’s origins, offerings and partnerships; outlines the benefits and challenges he sees of working with connected platforms; and casts light on the company’s current an...
Televisionation: Butcher Bird Studios’ Diaz-Przybl and Calcote on Creating Interactive Narratives
October 21, 2021 23:54 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThis episode features Lillian Diaz-Przybyl and Steve Calcote, Producer and Director respectively at Butcher Bird Studios, a full-service creative and production studio specializing in interactive and immersive video experiences. They discuss their work—including producing content in the “liquid” environment of an “open-world show,” where plots change in response to audience choices; outline best practices for creating interactive narratives (including the question, “What is the right amount o...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jonathan Boltax, Co-Founder and CEO of PlayWorks Digital
October 21, 2021 23:54 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week’s guest on The Friday Fireside is Jonathan Boltax Co-Founder and CEO of PlayWorks Digital Limited. After a long career stateside at NBC and Cablevision, Jonathan took his “game” to Israel, and has been building a well-distributed and popular television games platform. He beat Netflix and Amazon to the punch, and unlike virtually everybody else in the interactive television space, PlayWorks is making money! Games is the secret!
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jim Long, CEO of Didja
October 11, 2021 20:11 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s edition of The Friday Fireside gets under the hood with Jim Long’s Didja, Inc; and explores whether his LocalBTV system will survive where Locast failed. The expressed permission of the local station is the key, and local broadcasters are finding that “eyeballs is eyeballs” when it comes to local advertising. To crack the major station g...
Televisionation: Biz Dev Chief, Linda Abrams, on 24i’s End-to-End Streaming Solutions
October 07, 2021 21:25 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBhttps://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Linda Abrams, Head of Business Development for North America at video-streaming infrastructure company, 24i. Among other things, she provides an overview of the company’s end-to-end technology offerings for pay-TV operators, OTT content providers and other industry players (customers include Ga...
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Media Scholar and Producer, David Craig
October 07, 2021 21:23 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBITVT is pleased to present the latest episode of Televisionation: Screen Culture, our new video series exploring the symbiotic relationship between culture and filmed content—television, streaming, and cinema. Hosted by fandom expert Lisa Crawford, Screen Culture was created for thoughtful discussions about the impact of premium filmed content on today’s society. In this episode, Lisa is joined by David Craig, a media scholar, producer, and former network executive. He is Clinical Professor...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Innovid Co-Founder and CTO, Tal Chalozin
October 07, 2021 21:16 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Approaching their Q4 SPAC, Innovid CTO and Co-Founder, Tal Chalozin, joins us for this week’s Friday Fireside. We discuss the upcoming SPAC, with a Pro Forma Valuation of $1.3 Billion; why Tal won’t replace his online interview sign (even with that valuation); whether we can live WITHOUT Nielsen, given the current troubles; Innovid’s success at “poa...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Cinedigm President, Erick Opeka
October 07, 2021 21:15 - 25 minutes - 23 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Find out what’s happening at Cinedigm with this week’s Friday Fireside guest, Cinedigm President, Erick Opeka. Cinedigm yesterday reported net income of $5.0 million: total revenues of $15 million, up 149% year-over-year; streaming revenues up 181% year-over-year; ad-supported streaming channel revenues up 301% year-over-year; subscription streaming...
Televisionation: Bally’s Adi Dhandhania on Interactivity and Sports Betting
October 07, 2021 21:15 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Adi Dhandhania, SVP of Strategy and Interactive at Bally’s, the casino and betting giant that recently purchased pioneering second-screen interactive-TV company, Telescope, as part of a build-out of its sports-betting offerings. Among other things, he explains the strategy behind the acquisition and why interactivity is so important...
Televisionation: Comscore Update with CEO, Bill Livek; CCO, Chris Wilson; and CRO, Michael Vinson
October 07, 2021 21:14 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features interviews with three senior executives from measurement company, Comscore: Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson; CEO and Executive Chairman, Bill Livek; and Chief Commercial Officer, Chris Wilson. Among other things, Vinson discusses the difficulties inherent to audience measurement even with today’s digital technologies, explai...
Televisionation: Julie Saltman on her New VR/AR Project, “Taking Wing”
October 07, 2021 21:11 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis episode Julie Saltman, Lead Producer and Costume Designer of “Taking Wing,” a new VR/AR experience, loosely based on Shel Silverstein’s famous children’s story, “The Giving Tree.” Among other things, she provides an overview of the project and of the team of creators and technologists that have made it possible, and outlines future plans, which include creating a “VRoadway show." URL: https://www.takingwingofficial.com/
Televisionation: IEI’s Erik Langner on Using ATSC 3.0 and Other TV Tech to Enable Digital Learning
October 07, 2021 21:10 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Erik Langner, Co-Founder and CEO of the Information Equity Initiative (IEI), which describes itself as “a non-profit organization that believes everyone, regardless of geography or income, needs access to high quality digital learning resources if they are to compete and thrive.” Langner, who was previously president of the public ...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jim Riley, President of US Operations at Stingray
October 07, 2021 21:09 - 18 minutes - 17 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Some people always get the best gigs! Today’s Friday Fireside welcomes industry visionary, Jim Riley, President of US Operations for Stingray. Moving from his background at TVN, VUBIQUITY, Whip Media and BITMAX, Jim has taken a clue from his Wall of Guitars (he still plays in a band!) and is officially in the Music Business: Audio, Video and everyth...
Televisionation: Screen Culture: Matt Brennan, Senior Editor for Television and Pop Culture at the Los Angeles Times
October 07, 2021 21:09 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBITVT is pleased to present the latest episode of Televisionation: Screen Culture, our new video series exploring the symbiotic relationship between culture and filmed content—television, streaming, and cinema. Hosted by fandom expert Lisa Crawford, Screen Culture was created for thoughtful discussions about the impact of premium filmed content on today’s society. Matt Brennan is Senior Editor for Television and Pop Culture at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the Times as television ed...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: Teresa Phillips, Co-Founder and CEO of Spherex
October 07, 2021 21:08 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Today’s episode of the Friday Fireside is a fascinating discussion with Teresa Phillips, Co-Founder and CEO of Spherex. Teresa has a unique product that informs content owners and distributors about international cultural norms that impact the marketability of their products. If you sell internationally, you need to watch this! Just remember that it...
Televisionation Friday Fireside: “Whither Goest Thou, Nielsen?” with Adam Lowy
October 07, 2021 21:06 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside topic: “Whither Goest Thou, Nielsen?” Answers provided by former Magnite/Telaria/Sling TV/DISH Network exec, Adam Lowy: the future belongs to the Programmatic and Automated advertising pipe for all television advertising, with a vastly diminished fraction coming from the traditional “Hand-to-Hand Combat” sales process. Ca...