Portals are Coming for Our Video

April 03, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in Video

We seem to be entering a new era of online video content consumption. Last week, Apple announced an overhaul to its Apple TV app. The service will be available across multiple platforms, not just Apple devices, and users will be able to integrate multiple services (or as Apple refers to them as “channels”) into this single app. Apple TV will become a one-stop shop for all of the content services users subscribe to (except for a few holdouts like Netflix). In addition, it will have some exclusive content of its own from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Anniston, Steve Carrell and others.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 348

January 28, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 348 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here, and there’s oh so much to talk about!

This week’s headlines: NBC Announces New Streaming Service, Facebook Working on Meme App for Teens, Facebook Launches Community Actions and Facebook Launching Cross-Messaging Across Platforms.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Tests Feature to Share Events as Stories, Snap CFO Departing Company, Alex Jones Gets a Roku Channel That Gets Taken Away, Facebook Users Unaware their Interests are Collected, YouTube Limits Challenge Videos, FTC May Levy Record Fine on Facebook, Google Receives GDPR Fine, Netflix Lets Users Share to Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding, Twitter Updates Website, Viacom Acquires Pluto TV, YouTube TV Goes National, Twitter Tests “Original Tweeter” Tag, Amazon Launches Autonomous Delivery Bot and Facebook Shutting Down Moments.

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of January 14)

January 27, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This Week in Social is a weekly digest of some of the biggest stories in social media marketing news. These stories are the show notes for the Brave Ad World Podcast. Each story is discussed at a deeper level on the podcast.

This week’s headlines: NBC Announces New Streaming Service, Facebook Working on Meme App for Teens, Facebook Launches Community Actions and Facebook Launching Cross-Messaging Across Platforms.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 346

January 07, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 346 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here.

This week it’s just a few quick hits.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Inadvertently Rolls Out Update Changing the Feed, Netflix’ Interactive Episode Launches and Roku Updates Roku Channel.

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Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 307

January 22, 2018 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Here it is... Episode 307 of the Brave Ad World Podcast!

This week’s headlines: YouTube Implements Tighter Requirements for Ads Program and Facebook Makes Plans to Simplify Messenger.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Hire Signals Additional Focus on AR, Roku Launches Ad Insights Platform, Instagram Testing New Features and Snapchat Makes Moves to Court Publishers in Wake of Facebook Updates.

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