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Let’s Get Shoppable

By E.B. Moss Shoppable will be a hot topic at ScreenShift, coming up on October 14. We asked Julie Haleluk, Global Head of Growth, Amazon Shopping Videos, for a preview of the insights likely to emerge from her panel, Watch. Want.  Buy: The Promise of Shoppable TV. What do you think are the biggest […]

The Messy Reality of AI Video Today—and What to Do in the Meantime

By Hope Horner, founder & CEO of Lemonlight Lights, camera…glitch? Everywhere you turn, AI video is being pitched as the future. The problem? The future isn’t here yet. For all the dazzling demos and breathless headlines, the reality is far less cinematic: the tools are clunky, the outputs uneven, and very few brands are actually […]

Retail Media Is CPG’s Quiet Revolution

By Alexandra Theriault, Chief Growth Officer, Lotame Retail media gets framed as a win for retailers. Which it is. But it’s also quietly rewriting the playbook for consumer packaged goods. For brands that never had direct relationships with customers, never owned the transaction, never got real-time data, this is the closest thing to a reset. […]

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Winning the Brand: What it Takes to Attract Advertising Dollars

While she may not wear it for her panel appearance, Jen Kavanagh may be the only speaker at ScreenShift who has a Super Bowl™ ring. The SVP of Media and Marketing for the champion Philadelphia Eagles shared some advance hints about what it takes to attract their ad dollars in advance of her session […]

From Creation to Distribution: How GenAI Is Transforming the Video Advertising Playbook

By Jonathan Gudai, Founder & CEO, AdOmni The Shift that Matters AI has cracked the code on video creation, but delivering those videos across a fractured media landscape remains the real bottleneck.  Amazon’s Wondery reorganization is just the latest signal platforms are doubling down on video-centric, creator-driven models. For marketers and creators alike, the […]

The Key to Measurement? Think Differently

With candor and his trademark specificity, Albert Thompson, Director, Digital Innovation at Walton Isaacson, offered an entrée size portion of takeaways in advance of his ScreenShift panel: “Rethinking Measurement for the AI Era”, taking place October 14th at City Winery. With Tameka Kee, SVP, Programming & Operations at CIMM joining the conversation, this will be […]

The Reinvention of Transactional TV: From Infomercials to Shoppable Streaming

By Gary Mittman, Co-Founder & CEO, KERV.ai Let’s be real, TV has always been trying to sell us something. From the days of black-and-white soap operas (sponsored by actual soap) to late-night infomercials selling miracle knives that could cut through shoes, television has been laying the groundwork for transactional entertainment for decades. But now? Now […]

Streaming Meets Shopping

What isn’t “shoppable” these days? At the Cynopsis ScreenShift conference October 14 in NYC, panelists will discuss the promise – and ways to fulfill that promise – of “shoppable TV.” Among them, Sal Candela, VP, Global Agency Partnerships at Roku, shared some initial thoughts he shared in advance: What do brand marketers need to […]

Cracking the Streaming Code for Local News

Having been the Vice President of Journalism at the Knight Foundation, Jim Brady knows something about “The Daily Habit Gap: Why Streamers Need Local News.” That will be the panel topic he’ll join at Cynopsis ScreenShift in New York on October 14th. In the meantime, he shared his candid perspectives about the state of […]

The Sports Connection

Driving revenue with live content will be one of the hot topics at Cynopsis’ ScreenShift event, taking place October 14 in NYC. Jon Giegengack, Founder and Principal, Hub Entertainment Research, will be on hand to address that topic and more – here’s a peek at his take.  The name of your panel is “Winning […]

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