As SnapChat slowly introduces its first advertisements, the photo-disappearing app is not looking to jump into native advertising, says COO Emily White, according to The Wall Street Journal. “We are different than other traditional social networks,” White said at GroupM’s What’s Next conference. SnapChat will give its users “space” from brands, and only include ads […]
Game 2 of the World Series showdown between the Giants and Royals picked up the pace for FOX, delivering another primetime win and posting a 7.9/14 household rating/share with 12.9 million viewers on FOX, according to Nielsen fast nationals. That was up 8% in rating and 6% in audience over Game 1 and marks the […]
After debuting its new Everybody Up campaign featuring Common, the NBA has now unveiled its Spanish-language counterpart Todos Arriba. The 2014-15 marketing campaign will feature Latin artist Henry Santos in a Roll Call spot. Throughout the season, Spanish-language spots will air nationally on ESPN Deportes, Telemundo, Fox Deportes, EstrellaTV, Discovery en Espanol, nuvoTv, Azteca America, […]
Bully for PBS! Ken Burns’ 14-hour documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History averaged 9.2 million viewers across its run on seven consecutive nights, with 33.3 million viewers watching at least six minutes of the series, according to Nielsen Live+7 numbers. The average viewer tuned in for more than four hours. The week of September 15, […]
Fox isn’t ready to discharge Red Band Society. With the hospital drama delivering soft but steady ratings (1.0 among A18-49 last week) and impressive DVR gains, the net ordered four more scripts.
Netflix ordered a new animated series based on comedy from Bill Burr, called F is for Family. Co-created by Burr and Vince Vaughn, the deal with Gaumont International Television and Wild West Television consists of six half-hour episodes, to debut in 2015. Burr will voice the patriarch of a 1970s family; he’ll be assisted by […]
Multi-channel network Mondo Media struck a deal with Fusion to create a new sketch comedy series – Like, Share, Die – to premiere in December. Fusion ordered 20 15-minute episodes, which will include a mix of comedic pieces, original Mondo programming (such as Dick Figures and Happy Tree Friends) as well as new content from […]
A blowout Game 1 of the World Series was off pace from 2013 numbers on FOX. Still the contest guided the network to an average of 7.7/13 with 12.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen, and is expected to win the night in primetime in the A18-49 demo. The game ranks as the network’s highest-rated and […]
Twitter launched an NFL Fan Map, showcasing followers of all 32 NFL teams across the country. The map offers a variety of options, including: nationally to see where each teams followers are coming from; by team; the ability to compare two teams; and rankings by county. Findings saw @DallasCowboys’ rank as the most national team […]
A carriage dispute left Dish’s 14 million subscribers without Turner channels late Monday. “Despite our best efforts, we were unable to reach an agreement with Dish Network, and they have unilaterally decided to pull CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV, TCM, HLN, CNN en Espanol and Boomerang off the air uponthe expiration of our current […]