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Wondery launches three podcast FAST channels on Amazon Freevee

Wondery now has over 70 podcast shows on YouTube and has seen “fantastic growth” in viewership on the platform, according to Jeanine Wright, COO of Wondery. While she declined to share specifics on how much viewership has grown, views on Wondery’s podcast videos range from 10s of thousands to just a couple hundred.

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Wondery launches three podcast FAST channels on Amazon Freevee

Wondery now has over 70 podcast shows on YouTube and has seen “fantastic growth” in viewership on the platform, according to Jeanine Wright, COO of Wondery. While she declined to share specifics on how much viewership has grown, views on Wondery’s podcast videos range from 10s of thousands to just a couple hundred. Views on Wondery’s main channel have grown from about 750,000 in September 2022 to 1 million in September 2023, according to Tubular Labs data.

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2023 The Year Cable TV Died? It Is Starting To Look That Way

Even the remaining cable TV subscribers are not spending a lot of time watching cable TV. According to a new report from Inscape, the total cable TV and satellite viewership on VIZIO TVs has dropped to just 37.1%. This is down from 46.9% during the same period in 2021. Streaming now accounts for 53.8% of all TV time. Video games now account for 5.4% of TV time, and OTA TV is 3.7% of all TV viewing.

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NFL app lands on VIZIO Smart TVs

NFL+ offering includes a live stream of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, in addition to access to live preseason games, live local and primetime regular season and postseason games (via phone and tablet only), live local and national audio for every game, NFL Films’ archives and more.

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2023 The Year Cable TV Died? It Is Starting To Look That Way

Even the remaining cable TV subscribers are not spending a lot of time watching cable TV. According to a new report from Inscape, the total cable TV and satellite viewership on VIZIO TVs has dropped to just 37.1%. This is down from 46.9% during the same period in 2021. Streaming now accounts for 53.8% of all TV time. Video games now account for 5.4% of TV time, and OTA TV is 3.7% of all TV viewing.

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Taylor Swift Still Bejeweled With $32M Second Weekend; ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Brings Adults Back To Cinemas With $23M Opening & A- CinemaScore – Sunday Box Office Update

iSpot measured a very robust TV ad spend for the film at $15.4M, which reached 1.12 billion household TV impressions. Spots aired across NFL football, (13.7%), college football (6.9%), MLB (4.6%), Law & Order SVU (3.0%) and House Hunters (2.4%), with top network ad runs on ESPN (9.6%), Fox (9.5%), CBS (8.6%), NBC (6.3%) and ABC (6.2%).

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TECH TOOLS IN THE POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION TOOLBOX

Anyone who owns a dog knows just how sticky—and persistent—burrs can be. But researchers at Polar Bears International, Toronto’s York University and 3M have used burrs as inspiration for a new method to track polar bears.

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Insights and Highlights from Advertising Week New York 2023

In a session with iSpot’s Leslie Wood and Alan Wolk of TVREV, Wolk said, “The measurement evolution is like the fall of the Soviet Union: How we’re approaching a free market at a time when people aren’t used to it and don’t like change.” Replied Wood, “I want to be fair, Alan. Don’t equate Nielsen with Russia.”

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Glossier Talks Sales, Sephora and Beyond

According to CreatorIQ, Glossier’s earned media value grew 52 percent year-over-year between January and September. EMV assigns a unique value to a piece of content brd on engagement that this content receives from users (likes, comments, shares, views), as well as the platform that this content was published on (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.), and attributes that value to brands mentioned in this content.

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Insights and Highlights from Advertising Week New York 2023

In a session with iSpot’s Leslie Wood and Alan Wolk of TVREV, Wolk said, “The measurement evolution is like the fall of the Soviet Union: How we’re approaching a free market at a time when people aren’t used to it and don’t like change.” Replied Wood, “I want to be fair, Alan. Don’t equate Nielsen with Russia.”

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News in brief

Vizio has expanded its sports entertainment and NFL content lineup with the launch of the NFL app on Vizio Smart TVs. Vizio football fans now have access to the NFL app and NFL+, the League’s direct-to-consumer streaming service.

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Protecting polar bears is the aim of new and improved radar technology

Research testing new technology to more effectively locate polar bear dens across the Arctic is showing promising results. Researchers from Simon Fraser University and Brigham Young University (BYU), collaborating with Polar Bears International, hope that improving detection tools to locate dens—which are nearly invisible and buried under snow—will help efforts to protect mother polar bears and their cubs.

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