Tag: ads
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Soon Ads on Many Popular Video Services Will Be Coming from Facebook
Facebook has been aggressively looking at ways to branch out into new markets, and one of them is ads. To grow its ad market, Facebook is teaming up with ESPN, A&E Networks, Scripps, Tubi, and others to launch this new ad platform. Now when services want to offer ads, Facebook will be the marketplace to…
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Hulu Has a New Plan to Improve Its Ads
Hulu has been busy not only working on its live TV service but working to make its ads better. This week it was announced that Tremor Video, a leader in digital ads, has partnered with Hulu to start supplying ads for Hulu. Currently Tremor Video with Hulu’s on demand service but ads for the new…
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The Ads on Roku Players Are About to Get a Lot Better
Sick of seeing the same ad over and over on your Roku player? We have good news for you! MAGNA, an ad agency with over 60 years’ experience buying ad space on traditional pay-TV providers, has its sights on Roku players. “Last year, we made a concerted effort to provide marketers with viable sight, sound…
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Roku Reaffirms That the Home Screen Will Never Have More Ads
In a age of more companies and sites cramming more ads on to their service Roku today reconfirmed their dedication to never having more ads on their home screen. In a message to their advertisers Roku today announced that “There will only ever be one ad shown at a time, so you’ll never be competing…
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Amazon Makes More Shows 100% Free with Ads…
It was only about a month ago that Amazon made their first show 100% free even if you did not have a Prime membership. You could watch every episode of “The Fashion Fund,” a realty show, for free. Now even more shows are being added to the “Free with Ads” plan that Amazon seems suddenly…
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Ads on Pay TV Are Sky Rocketing! Over 5 Hours of Ads Per Season…
We are all busy. I run a busy site and have a beautiful wife and daughter I want to spend time with. So the question is how can I get more time to spend with my family? The answer for my family was cord cutting! Commercials really add up epically over a full season. Better…
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Amazon Video Starts Testing Ad-Supported Streaming
Amazon has long been an ad-free streaming service, but hints of an ad-supported version have been around for some time. Now we may have an idea of what Amazon is thinking with their ad-supported shows with the addition of The Fashion Fund, a reality show about fashion design. This is Amazon’s first fully ad-supported show—even…
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A Big Change Is Coming to Hulu
Love Hulu but hate ads? Hulu and Fox will now reduce the number of ads from two minutes to just 30 seconds for Fox shows. Fox and Hulu are teaming up with Fox-owned true[X] to bring engagement ads to viewers. You can chose one 30-second ad or two minutes’ worth of ads. “It’s always great…
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YouTube’s New Ad-Free Option Expected This Month
Love YouTube but hate the ads? Google is about to let you pay to never see ads on YouTube if you live in the United States. Google emailed content owners yesterday asking them to agree to new content deals by October 22 or their videos would no longer be available in the United States. It…
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Some Cable Networks Now Only Air 18 Minutes of a 30-Minute Episode
Well cable networks seem to be at it again. Cord Cutters News is hearing from disgruntled cable subscribers that some networks are only airing 18 minutes worth of shows during a 30-minute episode block. We did some digging to confirm this and found a post on Reddit also saying they are finding episodes running just…