Tegna announced the launch of The Officer’s Wife, a six-episode podcast series by Tegna’s Vault Studios. The podcast tells the story of the 2016 shooting of Jessica Boynton in a small town in Georgia. Produced in partnership with 11Alive (WXIA), Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Atlanta which originally investigated the case, The Officer’s Wife tells what […]
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Microsoft Introducing New Platforms for Onsite Search and Commerce
Microsoft will introduce commerce platform Microsoft PromoteIQ and onsite search product Microsoft Bing for Commerce at this week’s National Retail Federation conference. “Using Microsoft PromoteIQ, retailers can now dramatically increase revenue from their digital vendor marketing programs, while remaining fully in control of monetization and engaging brand partners,” said the company in a blog post. […]
Season 4 of Handmaid’s Tale to Premiere in Fall 2020
Season 4 of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale won’t arrive until over a year after August’s season 3 finale , it was announced at TCA. “We’ll start principal photography March 2 and we’ll be on in the fall,” said exec producer Warren Littlefield. The dystopian drama was renewed for a fourth run last July.
Verizon Launches Customized Pricing for Fios TV
Verizon chose CES week to launch a more customized pricing model for Fios TV. The new structure enables customers to select channels and services they want in their TV package, and eliminates expenses including regional sports fees and video franchise fees. All packages in the new Mix & Match plan, which evolves the service closer […]
Group Nine Media Launches Advertising Solution for Mobile Shopping
Group Nine Media has launched its new e-commerce advertising solution, “Sparkle Ads,” featuring a suite of mini apps to help marketers engage mobile shoppers. Sparkle allows brands to facilitate commerce across multiple retailers and allows retailers to create customized pages featuring multiple product SKUs while collecting purchase intent data. Campbell’s and a global cleaning company […]
Geopath Enhances OOH Inventory Tool
Geopath, the not-for-profit organization that provides the industry-standard currency for out-of-home advertising, announced the relaunch of its enhanced Inventory Explorer platform, a tool enables users to map and explore the locations of all of Geopath’s audited roadside and place-based inventory . Originally launched in 2017, the Inventory Explorer updates reflect the improvements made in Geopath’s […]
Ready, Set, Stream: The Week of January 13
January 13 Acorn TV: Ackley Bridge Facebook Watch: Returning the Favor Netflix: The Healing Powers of Dude January 14 Netflix: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts January 15 Netflix: Grace and Frankie, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez January 16 Netflix: Ni No Kuni January 17 Amazon: Just Add Magic: […]
October Faction Drops on Netflix January 23
Dark family secrets collide with teen angst in October Faction, debuting on Netflix January 23. The show follows Fred (J.C. MacKenzie) and Deloris Allen (Tamara Taylor) who, after the death of Fred’s father, return to their hometown in New York with their 17-year-old twins Geoff (Gabriel Darku) and Viv (Aurora Burghart). Subsequently, Geoff and Viv’s […]
Love Is Blind on Netflix
Netflix gave a 10-episode order to Love Is Blind, a dating show hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey. Unscripted series from Kinetic Content (Married at First Sight), following singles who want to meet the person they’ll spend the rest of their lives with without having seen them, premieres February 13. Kinetic Content’s Chris Coelen, Sam […]
The Dead Lands Debuts January 23
Shudder’s supernatural fantasy adventure series The Dead vLands premieres January 23. Set in a mythical Aotearoa, the series focuses on a dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau, who dies, is sent back to the world by his ancestors to find redemption and honor. In the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined […]
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