Tag: social video

Omdia’s latest forecast shows the global TV and online video market growing to $1.03 trillion by 2030, but the real story’s advertising overtaking subscriptions as the industry’s primary revenue driver. That shift’s happening without a unified measurement system, creating inefficiencies,…

Bent Pixels has acquired Sunny State Agency for more than $23 million, giving it direct control over how creator content is distributed, reformatted, and monetized across platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, and MSN. The deal pushes Bent Pixels beyond creator…

TikTok is expanding its monetization strategy by turning core app surfaces into premium ad inventory, led by Logo Takeover, which places brand messaging at launch and guarantees immediate, high-impact reach. The company is pairing this with formats like Prime Time,…

Amazon Web Services is moving deeper into live sports production with Elemental Inference, an AI system that automatically reframes live and on-demand broadcasts into vertical video and generates highlight clips within six to 10 seconds of latency. Fox Sports and…

From the Archives revisits the Ellen Digital Network as a pioneering example of a creator-first broadcast model long before the TikTok and YouTube Shorts era. Ellen DeGeneres turned viral daytime TV clips into a full-fledged digital media network that blended…

New data from Parks Associates shows that social video now accounts for 20% of all TV viewing in U.S. internet households, surpassing both pay TV and broadcast. It’s a shift that backs up what we’ve been saying: creators aren’t just…

Lucas Shaw and Katty Kay discuss how YouTube’s dominance in U.S. TV viewership and its projected revenue growth, expected to surpass Disney, signals a major shift in the entertainment industry. With creators like MrBeast and Cocomelon landing high-budget deals and…

YouTube Shorts is rolling out upgraded creation tools—an enhanced video editor, AI-generated stickers, beat-synced clips, and smarter templates—in a direct swipe at TikTok. The update drops just ahead of the April 5 TikTok ban (which will get delayed), positioning YouTube…

A Hub Entertainment Research survey shows households now use an average of 13 entertainment sources, the highest since the survey began, with younger audiences under 35 using 16 sources and families averaging 17. Despite the variety, only half of these…

Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) forecasts a 16% increase in digital video advertising spending, reaching $62.9 billion in 2024. Digital video will surpass linear TV for the first time, capturing 52% of ad spending. Connected TV advertising will grow 12%, online…