Campaign Monitor offers powerful beginner-friendly tools to help optimize email campaigns. However, it didn’t make our shortlist because it offers no real-time options for customer support, either online or over the phone, so you may face a problematic wait for a response.

Other participants in the placement include existing stakeholder Paul Wiltshire (the founder and CEO of Songtradr) as well as longtime backer and non-executive director Ken Gaunt. Additionally, Wiltshire told us that his music licensing and distribution platform had itself invested a total of AU$4.42 million in Jaxsta – AU$1.42 million in 2020, and the remaining AU$3 million in 2022.

It marks the second time this year that Frndly TV has launched on a native smart TV platform. In April, the service became available to users of Vizio’s smart TVs powered by its Platform Plus operating system.

​​Starting this week, VIZIO WatchFree+ viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of a number of AMC’s best series. Users can watch the first two episodes of “Lucky Hank” “Dark Winds,” “Mayfair Witches,” and “Interview of a Vampire” in the WatchFree+ app through the end of the month without having to signup for an AMC+ subscription.

Frndly has not limited its expansion efforts to Samsung Smart TVs, either. In April, the service launched on VIZIO Smartcast TVs, which also widened its reach by millions of homes. There’s something for the whole family to enjoy on Frndly TV, and now users can find its app on Samsung Smart TVs manufactured in 2018 or later.

Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new commercials tracked by TV measurement company iSpot.tv.

VIZIO Ads recently released a new case study with Subway, detailing the potential of incorporating CTV Video with high-impact Home Screen TV placements to build incremental reach beyond Linear TV campaigns.

Also, Heklina's 50th birthday roast at the Castro Theatre, which happened in 2017, was turned into a film, and the film was just screened over this past weekend at a "birthday memorial" event in Palm Springs. You all can still find it on Revry, the LGBTQ streaming service, as part of their "Drag Roast" series.

According to Tubular Labs, 4.9 million accounts have uploaded 53.6 million videos to YouTube in the last 30 days. But only 58,100 of these videos got a minimum of 1 million views and 36,000 engagements.

He has built an empire around his We the Best brand, scores six-figure fees for use of his songs, and over the years has had branding or endorsement deals with Mentos, Champs Sports, Apple Music, and others. He has appeared in spots for Geico, Doritos and TurboTax, among others. Per iSpot.TV, commercials featuring DJ Khaled have had 63,537 airings in the past 30 or so days.

As a result of Magnite’s extensive relationships with streaming TV media owners, agencies can utilize ClearLine to buy inventory from suppliers, including A&E Networks, AMC Networks, DIRECTV Advertising, DISH Media, Disney Advertising, FOX Digital, and Warner Bros. Discovery, in addition to launch partners LG Ad Solutions and VIZIO. Magnite’s supply footprint spans 80+ million CTV households in the US, accounting for 90% of ad-supported CTV viewers in the country.

After weeks of dominating Inscape's ranking of the most-watch TV programs, the NBA finals has been dethroned. In its place? The 2023 U.S. Open Golf Championship, which accounted for 4.28% of all live, linear minutes watched June 12-18.

Welcome to our weekly snapshot of TV by the numbers, highlighting the most-watched shows and networks for June 12-18, with insights from Inscape, the currency-grade smart TV ACR data provider and data technology division of Vizio. Data is linear, live TV only and includes all episode types (new and reruns). Rankings are by percent share duration (i.e., time spent watching).

Allen Media Group has attracted a broad swath of advertisers, with more than 500 brands having aired ads on The Weather Channel alone last year, per iSpot.tv. As more advertisers commit to spending on Black-owned media, The Weather Channel’s estimated revenue was up 11% last year per data from Vivvix; and a person familiar with the business said it was up even more than that.

The growth of free, ad-supported television (FAST) in recent years offers new audience reach for advertisers, marketers, and publishers alike. It’s time for broadcasters and content developers, i.e. “publishers” to jump onboard “the new cable” if they’re not already: a recent report from TVREV says that by 2025, ad spend on FAST will surpass that of cable, broadcast, and subscription video on-demand (SVOD).

Madhive, a Leading CTV Advertising Software Platform, Announces a $300 Million Investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management

According to what it was told by Tubular Labs, a media analytics firm, about 26 million people watched Carlson’s first Twitter video.

Yahoo Advertising is starting up Yahoo Backstage, providing advertisers with a direct connection to inventory for over 100 premium publishers.

Those publishers include TV-video based companies such as A+E Networks and Vizio, as well as Dotdash Meredith, Newsweek, Raptive, and The Arena Group.

Fubo and Maximum Effort have secured multiple streaming distribution deals to launch the channel, which drops on Fubo tomorrow (June 20). The US partners that have picked up the channel are Amazon Freevee, LG Channels, Plex, Sling Freestream, VIDAA, VIZIO WatchFree+ and Xumo Play.

To get the word out, Warners spent big on trailers. iSpot, which monitors what studios shell out on U.S. TV spots (and again, this is just one facet of the The Flash‘s overall marketing campaign expense), shows Warners shelling out $31.3M on spots for the Miller movie, which pulled in 1.07 billion impressions.