Revry with LGBTQ+ centered content across movies, series, news, and music and wedding channel Love Stories TV also joins the platform.

Welcome to our weekly snapshot of TV by the numbers, highlighting the most-watched shows and networks for April 10-16, 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).

No wonder the Newfronts presentations beginning in May have so many original-equipment manufacturers participating, including Vizio and LG. Even pay TV operators want a piece of this market, as Comcast is doing in Europe with Sky Glass.

Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company.

According to Campaign Monitor, recipients are 26% more likely to open an e-mail if the subject line has been pesonalized.

Three-quarters of advertising execs expect to spend as much as last year or more during the 2023 TV Upfront, according to a survey from iSpot to determine how ad-buying plans will change this year, while also revealing more about the growing role of streaming and other key trends.

Also, it has opened the door to competitors. NBCUniversal, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have all announced they are working with other data providers, including Comscore Inc. and startups such as VideoAmp, iSpot.tv and EDO. More competition means better service.

Last year, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery both announced they would offer ad buyers measurements from Nielsen alternatives VideoAmp, Comscore, and iSpot.tv.

The MRC suspended Nielsen’s national Television Audience Measurement service in September 2021 following a series of what the organization termed “non-compliance issues” stemming from panel degradation and problems servicing panelist homes during the pandemic.

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (NASDAQ: CSSE) today announced it will add Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels from Fremantle, Revry, and Love Stories TV to its Redbox Free Live TV service.

“Sea ice is to the Arctic ecosystem what soil is for the forest,” says Flavio Lehner, a climate scientist at Cornell University and Polar Bears International.

“Rapid changes like these will affect all sea ice-dependent fauna and flora, from tiny under-ice algae to top predators like polar bears.”

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment signed deals that will bring FAST channels from Fremantle, Revry and Love Stories TV to the Redbox Free Live TV service. The eight new channels will arrive on the service soon.

Revry is the only LGBTQ-first media network dedicated to the authentic representation of the queer community. Revry’s free ad-supported TV service and on-demand LGBTQ+ movies, series, news, and music, inspire the exploration of original and classic queer programming for audiences worldwide.

Revry is the only LGBTQ-first media network dedicated to the authentic representation of the queer community. Revry’s free ad-supported TV service and on-demand LGBTQ+ movies, series, news, and music, inspire the exploration of original and classic queer programming for audiences worldwide

Another way to earn money on TikTok is by partnering with brands. If you have a sizable following, you can reach out to brands in your niche and offer to promote their products or services in your videos. You can also join influencer marketing platforms like CreatorIQ, TRIBE, and AspireIQ to find paid sponsorships.

IRIS.TV announced a partnership with VIZIO Ads. Intended to support the delivery of ad experiences in the market, VIZIO Ads will work to provide advertisers with transparency at the video level.

TRAVIS HOCKERSMITH: For media and entertainment advertisers, it's really interesting because the product that they are advertising, you consume on the same screen that they’re advertising that product - their content.

Real-time TV measurement firm, iSpot.tv, has released its ‘2023 TV Upfronts’ study, revealing new findings around brands’ and agencies’ plans for 2023 upfronts, the period when agencies book TV advertising space months ahead of time, traditionally in the spring.

Many of the companies have also struck partnerships with a new phalanx of measurement vendors including iSpot, VideoAmp and Comscore. Warner Bros Discovery said in March that it intended to use the two latter companies in helping it determine currencies in the 2023 upfront.

Other companies that measure traditional and streaming TV viewership include Comscore Inc. and startups such as VideoAmp, iSpot.tv and EDO.