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.
Our readership is mostly made up of thousands of listeners in over 150 countries.
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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Episodes
Televisionation: Republican Advertising Guru, Evan Tracey, in Conversation with the iTV Doctor
December 04, 2020 02:44 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. No matter how you voted in the 2020 presidential election, you need to watch this week’s Fireside featuring Evan Tracey, SVP of National Media Research Planning & Placement (one of the primary media organizations for the Trump campaign). In a frank and far-reaching conversation, Evan opines on media effectiveness on both sides of the 2020 president...
Televisionation: Source Digital CEO, Hank Frecon, on Interactive, Contextual Video Advertising
December 04, 2020 02:44 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBITVT/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. This episode features Hank Frecon, CEO of contextual video advertising and commerce company, Source Digital. Among other things, he explains the company’s core offerings, describes its work in enabling monetization of video content via interactivity, and outlines its future plans. http://tvotshow.com/televisi...
Televisionation: Calamity AI Co-Founders on Using AI to Generate Content on YouTube
December 04, 2020 02:43 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBITVT/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. This episode features Jacob Vaus and Eli Weiss, the Chapman University students behind Calamity AI, a YouTube channel devoted to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Among other things, Vaus and Weiss explain how the channel actually employs AI in the generation of its content, describe some of the ...
Televisionation: “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego” Creator, Howard Blumenthal
November 18, 2020 04:02 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBITVT/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. This episode features Howard Blumenthal, who among other things created and produced the famous PBS children’s show, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego.” Blumenthal, who is currently a Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his work at QUBE, the legendary interactive TV service launched ...
Televisionation: Collette and Weiss on Deductive’s (Dativa’s) Acquisition by MarketCast
November 18, 2020 04:01 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBITVT/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. This episode features Michael Collette, former CEO of Deductive (now Corporate SVP of Data Science at MarketCast), and Tom Weiss, former CTO and Chief Data Scientist at Deductive (now Chief Data Scientist at MarketCast), discussing Deductive’s recent acquisition by MasterCast. Deductive (previously known as Dativ...
Televisionation: Julie Simon on Television, her “Relatively Famous” Aunt, and Making Cakes for the Jenners
November 09, 2020 00:35 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBhttp://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. If you’re in the television business, or anywhere in the world for that matter, you know Julie Simon and her “relatively” famous aunt Carly. In a funny and charming 30-minute Friday Fireside, Julie shares family memories, including how her grandfather Richard Simon (of Simon and Schuster) introduced paperback bo...
Televisionation: Future Today’s Vikrant Mathur on Kids-and-Family AVOD and FAST
November 09, 2020 00:35 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBITVT/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. This episode features Vikrant Mathur, Co-Founder of Future Today, a prominent player in the kids-and-family AVOD and FAST space. The company, which operates over 700 channels and holds rights to over 200,000 titles, is best known for its HappyKids OTT network, which it says has seen year-over-year user and watch...
Televisionation: Loop Media’s Streaming Partnership with TiVo
November 09, 2020 00:35 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBhttp://tvotshow.com/televisionation - 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. This episode features Jon Niermann, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop Media, and Chris Thun, VP of Product at TiVo, discussing their companies’ new partnership. The partnership sees Loop, a streaming company that specializes in premium short-form video, delivering 18 of its music v...
Televisionation: CuriosityStream President & CEO, Clint Stinchcomb, in Conversation with the iTV Doctor
November 09, 2020 00:35 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our Friday Fireside guest this week is Clint Stinchcomb, President and CEO of CuriositySteam, “the premium destination for true, pure factual entertainment.” Clint clears up the mystery of the recent SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation) investment in CuriosityStream with an enterprise value of $312 million (and an equity value of $512 mil...
Televisionation: Realeyes’ Kalehoff on Why 2020 Presidential Election Ads Are Struggling to Engage Viewers
November 09, 2020 00:34 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBITVT/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. This episode features Max Kalehoff, VP of Marketing and Growth at Realeyes (http://realeyesit.com), a company that uses emotion AI and facial coding to measure consumers’ response to and engagement with video content. Kalehoff discusses new research from Realeyes into the efficacy of video advertising for the 2...
Televisionation: Iris.tv’s Field Garthwaite on Contextual Targeting on CTV
November 09, 2020 00:34 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBhttp://tvotshow.com/televisionation - 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. This episode features Field Garthwaite, Co-Founder and CEO of video intelligence platform provider, Iris.tv. Among other things, he discusses the growth of connected TV advertising, explains why that medium offers advertisers better ROI than traditional television, and ide...
Televisionation: Freetouch Founder and CEO, Darren David, in Conversation with the iTV Doctor
November 09, 2020 00:33 - 16 minutes - 14.6 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 guest is Freetouch Founder and CEO, Darren David, who responded to the Covid-19 Pandemic by developing and launching an exceptionally simple solution to help museums, public venues, retail stores, malls, airports and others safely reopen, by turning any smartphone into a navigation device for public and shared touchscreen...
Televisionation: Cadent’s Jamie Power in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
October 20, 2020 01:57 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBITVT/TVOT - 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 Jamie Power, Chief Data Officer and COO of Advanced TV at Cadent. In a very interesting conversation, Jamie explains Cadent’s work in identity resolution (which, frankly, sounds like something involving superheroes and their secret identities), cross-platform and multi-device advertising strategies, a...
Televisionation: Portal A’s Nate Houghteling on Producing Digital Content in the Age of Covid-19
October 20, 2020 01:56 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBITVT/TVOT (http://tvotshow.com/televisionation) 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. This episode features Nate Houghteling, Co-Founder and Executive Producer at digital content studio, Portal A, discussing producing in the aged of Covid-19, working with celebrities and athletes to build media properties, the evolution of the YouTube creator, and more. (Not...
Televisionation: Susan C. Bennett, the Original Voice of SIRI
October 20, 2020 01:56 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBITVT/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. This episode features Susan C. Bennett, the original voice of SIRI. Among other things, she recounts her life before SIRI (which included stints as a backup singer for Roy Orbison and Burt Bacharach), relates how she ended up becoming SIRI’s voice, describes the process of recording that voice, shares her thoug...
Televisionation: Greg Jarvis Explains How Italy’s Fincons Group Is Targeting the US ATSC 3.0 Space
October 20, 2020 01:55 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBITVT/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. This episode features Greg Jarvis, EVP and GM of Fincons Group, an Italian company which offers consulting and engineering services to support technological and digital transition, and which expanded its operations to the US in 2017. Among other things, Jarvis discusses how the company is applying its extensive...
Televisionation: NAGRA’s Anti-Piracy Chief, Pascal Metral, on Countering Pirate Subscription IPTV Services
October 20, 2020 01:54 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBITVT/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. This episode features Pascal Metral, VP of Legal Affairs and Head of Anti-Piracy Intelligence, Investigations and Litigation at NAGRA. Among other things, he explains what pirate subscription IPTV services are, enumerates the key components of the pirate subscription IPTV ecosystem, outlines the risks these ser...
Televisionation: Virginia Juliano, Founder and CEO of Cobblecord, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
October 10, 2020 18:31 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBTelevisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our guest this week on the Friday Fireside is Virginia Juliano, Founder and CEO of Cobblecord—a free website and app that helps consumers “cobble together” their perfect combination of online streaming services to get the most out of streaming and cut the cable cord. Using its patented process, CobbleCord easily guides individuals through the ever-...
Televisionation: Simon Applebaum of “Tomorrow Will Be Televised”
October 10, 2020 18:31 - 34 minutes - 32 MBITVT/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 a wide-ranging discussion with advanced-TV industry expert, Simon Applebaum—host of the long-running podcast, “Tomorrow Will Be Televised”—in which he shares his thoughts on such topics as Amazon’s Luna gaming service, the 2020 Emmy Awards, the future of movie theaters, recent announcements...
Televisionation: VDX.tv’s Danielle Cravatt on How Brands Can Build Loyalty During a Pandemic
October 06, 2020 23:11 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBITVT/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 Danielle Cravatt, SVP of Client Partnerships at adtech company, VDX.tv, arguing among other things that brands can build long-term loyalty and trust during a global pandemic by localizing their messaging and acting in the interest of the public as a whole. (Note: Our first virtual show, T...
Televisionation: Cathy Jamison, VP of Sales Marketing at Sinclair, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
October 06, 2020 23:10 - 16 minutes - 14.7 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 guest is Cathy Jamison, Corporate VP of Sales Marketing at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Reporting to Sinclair’s President of Broadcast, Rob Weisbord, Cathy launched a new department responsible for strategy and execution of industry-leading omnichannel marketing materials for over 1,000 sales reps. Emphasis on NFL, Collegia...
Televisionation: TMT Lab’s Rodrigo Madriz on Shoppable TV
October 06, 2020 23:10 - 39 minutes - 36 MBITVT/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...
Televisionation: Tremor Video and EVRGRN (Double Bill)
September 25, 2020 19:22 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBITVT/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, C...
Televisionation: Veteran TV Executive, John Penney, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
September 25, 2020 19:20 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBhttp://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, ...
TVOT LIVE! 2020 Session - How Do You Know They’ll Print (or Screen) It?
September 13, 2020 19:53 - 43 minutes - 40 MBhttp://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...
Televisionation: Ishaan Sutaria, President and COO of Wave.TV, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
September 13, 2020 19:44 - 15 minutes - 14.4 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 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 (...
Televisionation: Tara Maitra, CRO of BDEX, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
September 13, 2020 19:42 - 18 minutes - 16.7 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 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 functio...
Televisionation: Stuart Lipson on Advertising Opportunities in eSports
September 13, 2020 19:40 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBITVT/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.
Televisionation: Synamedia’s Avigail Gutman on Preventing Hacking and Piracy
September 13, 2020 19:37 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBITVT/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...
Televisionation: Triveni’s Mark Simpson on ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV)
August 18, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBITVT/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 depl...
Televisionation: Dan Sweeney of “One Hit Wonders” in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
August 18, 2020 15:59 - 24 minutes - 22.4 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 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-dri...
Televisionation: ZypTV’s Ed Haslam on Enabling Programmatic, Local Advertising via OTT and CTV
August 18, 2020 15:58 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBITVT/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 t...
Televisionation: Amy Bobchek of Advocado in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
August 18, 2020 15:57 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBTelevisionation: 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 campai...
Televisionation: Chris Maccaro on Beachfront Media’s New Pod-Bidding Solution for CTV
August 18, 2020 15:55 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBITVT/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-...
Televisionation: Edge Networks’ Todd Achilles on Launching ATSC 3.0-Based Pay-TV
August 02, 2020 15:23 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBITVT/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 pictur...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: Adriana Waterston of Horowitz Research in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
August 02, 2020 15:22 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBTelevisionation: 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 t...
Televisionation: Bitmovin’s Stefan Lederer on Building Effective Online Video Infrastructure
August 02, 2020 15:21 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBITVT/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 roadma...
Televisionation: OpenZNet’s ATSC 3.0-Enabled Communication Platform for Crisis Management
August 02, 2020 15:20 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBITVT/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 an...
Televisionation: Pixotope’s Tom Shelburne on Creating Virtual Fans for Fox Sports’ MLB Broadcasts
August 02, 2020 15:19 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBVIDEO 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 thing...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: Jo Kinsella, President of TVSquared, Chats with The iTV Doctor
August 02, 2020 15:17 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBTelevisionation: 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 fav...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: National Lampoon President, Evan Shapiro, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
July 20, 2020 15:50 - 23 minutes - 21.9 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 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 televisi...
Televisionation: Synacor’s Himesh Bhise on Driving Awareness of and Engagement with Video
July 20, 2020 15:49 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBITVT/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 mon...
Televisionation: Randa Minkarah, Co-Founder and COO of Resonance AI
July 20, 2020 15:48 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBITVT/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 r...
Televisionation: Axonista’s Claire McHugh on Powering Interactive Video for Sinclair, Oxfam Ireland and More
July 20, 2020 15:47 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBITVT/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 w...
Televisionation: Ashley Fauset, COO of Stardust
July 07, 2020 15:31 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBITVT/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-gen...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: ScreenHits TV CEO, Rose Adkins Hulse, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
July 05, 2020 20:09 - 15 minutes - 13.8 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 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 ...
Televisionation: Sean Doherty, Jr., Co-Founder and SVP of Operations, Wurl
July 05, 2020 20:08 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBITVT/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. ...
Televisionation: Gerrit Niemeijer, CTO of Ampersand
July 05, 2020 20:01 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBITVT/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 ...
Televisionation: Friday Fireside: John Canning, Executive Producer, Digital Domain, in Conversation with The iTV Doctor
July 05, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 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 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” o...
Televisionation: TV Writer/Producer and Pediatrician, Neal Baer
June 23, 2020 16:09 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBITVT/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 “Designa...