North America Digital TV News

CTV ad fraud at 19% according to Pixalate report
Nov 3, 2022 – Pixalate has released its Q2 2022 Invalid Traffic Benchmarks Report, an examination of the global state of ad fraud in the first half of 2022 in the top two CTV (Roku, Amazon Fire TV) and mobile (Apple, Google) app stores.
News categories: Pixalate, Advertising, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, USA, Worldwide

Fox selects FreeWheel to enable OneFOX video inventory
Nov 3, 2022 – Fox (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX) has selected FreeWheel as a partner to enable its OneFOX video inventory. FreeWheel will work with FOX to manage direct sold advertising campaigns across premium content from the company's brands.
News categories: FreeWheel, Fox Corp, Mark McKee, Dan Callahan, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, USA

ARK Multicasting demonstrates ATSC 3.0-based 'OTA-CDN'
Nov 3, 2022 – ARK Multicasting has successfully completed a proof of concept 'OTA-CDN'. The OTA-CDN architecture is developed so any CDN can delegate delivery requests to ARK's ATSC-3.0 system based on business rules and capacity telemetry.
News categories: ARK Multicasting, SiliconDust, Broadpeak, SVTA, Joshua Weiss, Nick Kelsey, Guillaume Bichot, Jason Thibeault, ATSC 3, Content Distribution, Digital TV, TV-over-IP, USA

Charter, Comcast streaming joint venture to take Xumo brand
Nov 2, 2022 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) have announced that their streaming joint venture will now operate as Xumo, evolving the brand from a FAST service to an entire entertainment ecosystem.
News categories: Xumo, Charter Communications, Comcast, Marcien Jenckes, Digital TV, Streaming, USA

Altice USA residential video RGUs down 82,400 in 3Q 2022
Nov 2, 2022 – Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) has reported results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2022. Altice finished with 2,491,800 residential video RGUs, down 82,400 in the quarter, compared to a loss of 67,500 in Q3 2021.
News categories: Altice USA, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

DISH Network pay TV subscribers up 30,000 in 3Q 2022
Nov 2, 2022 – DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ending September 30, 2022. Net pay-TV subscribers increased 30,000 in the quarter, compared to a net decrease of 13,000 in the year-ago quarter.
News categories: DISH Network, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers, USA

Perhaps live sports not so critical for pay-TV subscriber retention?
Oct 31, 2022 – According to Aluma, while 18% of U.S. pay-TV subscribers are moderately likely to cancel service if their favorite sport moved its live games exclusively to subscription streaming services, only 8% would 'definitely' cancel.
News categories: Aluma, Michael Greeson, Digital TV, Market Research, USA

Charter residential video customers down 211,000 in 3Q 2022
Oct 28, 2022 – Charter Communications has reported results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022. Residential video customers decreased by 211,000 in the third quarter of 2022, finishing the period at 14.6 million residential video customers.
News categories: Charter Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Comcast cable video subscribers down 561,000 in 3Q 2022
Oct 27, 2022 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022. In the quarter, Cable video customer net losses were 561,000, whereas at Sky total customer relationships grew by 320,000.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers, USA