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Televisionation
by Tracy Swedlow
Welcome to our Televisionation podcast show, which showcases executives, innovators, creatives, and invited analysts, in dialog with ITVT founder and editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow. These podcasts also offer audio of sessions from our TV of Tomorrow Show (TVOT) conferences (produced twice a year in San Francisco and New York); video interviews, as well as other types of updates and content. Our readership is mostly made up of thousands of listeners in over 150 countries. Founded in 1998 by Tracy Swedlow, InteractiveTV Today ITVT is the most widely read and trusted news source online on the rapidly emerging medium of multiplatform, networked, broadband interactive television. We provide concise, original coverage of industry developments, technologies, content projects, and the people building the business through our Web site (itvt.com). Contact [email protected] to find out more or to pitch yourself to
Episodes
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TVOT NYC 2024: Overcoming Fragmentation
AUDIO: The audio is a bit quiet at the beginning and elsewhere, but it is audible. This is usually due to the fact that some speakers don't hold their mic close enough to their mouth! SUMMARY The discussion at TVOT NYC 2024 focused on overcoming fragmentation in TV advertising. Key points…
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TVOT NYC 2024: But What Can AI Do for Me Now
SUMMARY This discussion at TVOT NYC 2024 focused on practical AI applications in the media and entertainment industry. Key points included using AI to enhance video content creation, such as increasing video production speed by 10 times and automating closed captioning, which boosted efficiency.…
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TVOT NYC 2024: Branded Entertainment
SUMMARY The panel discussed the evolution of branded entertainment, emphasizing the need for a balance between creative content and brand messaging. Key ingredients for success include a compelling idea, a producer, funding, distribution, marketing, publicity, and a brand partner. Examples...
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TVOT NYC 2024: The AI_TV Content Connection
TOPICS The key topics discussed in the conversation include: AI, TV content, interactive content, generative AI, AI-powered filmmaking, democratizing content creation, AI as a tool in the creative process, controlling AI in content creation, and the future of AI in television and media. PANEL...
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TVOT NYC 2024: Monetizing Connected TV - Chris Pfaff
TOPICS The key topics discussed in the conversation include: monetizing connected TV, innovations in CTV advertising, challenges and opportunities in CTV, live sports and personal shopping on CTV, and the future of CTV and advertising. SESSION DESCRIPTION With Connected TV (CTV) advertising...
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Talk Back to Television: Cognizant’s Gabriel Berger on What’s Wrong in Media and Entertainment
December 15, 2022 Talk Back to Television welcomes our friend Gabriel Berger, Head of Media and Entertainment Industry Solutions for Cognizant. As we all know, Cognizant helps companies modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they stay ahead in a fast-changing…
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Televisionation: Director and Writer, Sheldon Epps, on His New Book and His New Project for BET+
November 29, 2022 ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.This episode features writer and director, Sheldon Epps (directing credits include episodes of Netflix’s “The Upshaws,” “Frasier,”…
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Talk Back to Television: Next Media Partners’ Gerard Kunkel on the Metaverse
December 1, 2022 Talk Back To Television welcomes Gerard Kunkel, Founder and Managing Partner of Next Media Partners, LLC. Gerard appears IRL (In Real Life) to continue the conversation we started with Chris Falkner (also of Next Media Partners) to replace the Mystery of the Metaverse with the...
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Talk Back to Television: Next Media Partners’ Patrick Donoghue on the Reality of the Metaverse
December 8, 2022 Sometimes you just can’t take yourself too seriously. And that’s why we welcome Patrick Donoghue from Next Media Partners to this week’s episode of Talk Back to Television. It’s all about the Reality of the Metaverse (which is an oxymoron if we’ve ever heard one), getting “a Ph.D...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jamie Parker, Chief Product Officer at Gamestar+
December 9, 2022 Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Like many of you, I have an old WebTV box somewhere in the attic. 25 years ago, it felt like the...
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Televisionation: Television and Video Artist, Josh Ellingson
July 5, 2022 ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.This episode features Josh Ellingson, a San Francisco-based artist whose work employs and explores television and video in multiple ways. Among...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: ATSC President, Madeleine Noland
August 12, 2022 The Friday Fireside welcomes Madeleine Noland, President at Advanced Television Systems Committee. In a very personal conversation, Madeleine shares how she first came to the television industry, then to advanced television, to LG Electronics and finally to ATSC. We discuss the...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics
August 26, 2022 Today’s guest on The Friday Fireside is Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. Provalytics unifies all media, including walled gardens, CTV, TV, OOH, radio, direct mail, and print, providing deduplicated, privacy-compliant reporting which includes synergies, carryover, ad stock and...
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Talk Back to Television: Jon Giegengack, Principal of Hub Entertainment Research
August 11, 2022 Today’s episode of Talk Back to Television, sponsored by Mediaocean, welcomes Jon Giegengack, Principal at Hub Entertainment Research. Jon addresses a comment from Lisa in Los Angeles: “I have all these channels AND I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING!”
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Talk Back to Television: Matthew Durgin, Smart TV Business Team Leader at LG Electronics
August 18, 2022 Today’s guest on Mediaocean’s Talk Back to Television is Matthew Durgin, Senior Director/Smart TV Business Team Leader for LG Electronics North America. Matthew picks up on the conversation started last week with Jon Giegengack, answering the concerns of Lisa in Los Angeles, who…
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Talk Back to Television: 2014 TVOT Hackathon Winner, Serena Xu
November 3, 2022 Talk Back to Television welcomes Serena Xu, product designer (and one of the winners of the 2014 TVOT Hackathon). Serena gives us pointed CONSUMER feedback on the state of the streaming business: Who’s doing it wrong, and who’s doing it right—with specific recommendations for how...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Industry Veteran, Larry Samuels
November 18, 2022 The Friday Fireside welcomes popular media veteran, Larry Samuels, who after a career in advanced advertising for Kenzan, GroupM, DISH Network and Cablevision, is venturing into the world of podcasting. It’s actually a return to “radio” with a group of friends which whom he had...
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Talk Back to Television—This Week Featuring Scott Ehrlich, Chief Innovation Officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group
Welcome to the August 4th edition of “Talk Back to Television,” sponsored by Mediaocean. Our guest is Scott Ehrlich, Chief Innovation Officer for Sinclair Broadcast Group. The format is simple: One question from a TV viewer. One answer from an industry expert. About 5 minutes in length. Published...
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Televisionation: Co-Producer, Gisla, and Director, Walsh, on the ABBA Voyage Concert and its “ABBAtars”
LOTS OF VISUALS! This episode features Svana Gisla, Co-Producer, and Baillie Walsh, Director of ABBA Voyage, a hybrid virtual/IRL concert series centered on “ABBAtars,” digital avatars of the Swedish super-group, ABBA, which portray its members as they appeared in 1977, the group’s heyday. The...
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Televisionation: Jason Kyle, Co-Founder of the Creators Writing Room, on Pitching Content to the Networks
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Jason Kyle, co-founder of the Creators Writing Room (the other co-founder is Lee Aronsohn, co-creator of the sitcom, “Two and a Half…
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Talk Back to Television: Jesse Redniss, Co-Founder and CEO of Qonsent
Talk Back to Television welcomes Jesse Redniss, Co-Founder and CEO of Qonsent. Jesse answers a question from Bob in Buffalo about streaming services: “They know what I watch. What else do they know, and what do they DO with that information?”
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Marc DeBevoise, CEO of Brightcove
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The Friday Fireside is pleased to welcome Marc DeBevoise, CEO and Board Director for Brightcove. In a…
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Televisionation: Hope Juber on Her Father, “Brady Bunch” Creator, Sherwood Schwartz
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. ITVTs episode features producer/writer/actress and Hollywood royalty, Hope Juber. She discusses “Created By,” a new series she’s producing about the life and...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Tony Goncalves, Former CRO of WarnerMedia
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The Friday Fireside welcomes Tony Goncalves, former Chief Revenue Officer of WarnerMedia and lead executive behind...
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Televisionation: Pip Brignall, Co-Founder of Web3 Live Entertainment Platform, The Round
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Pip Brignall, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Round, a company that describes itself as “the world’s first Web 3.0…
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Talk Back to Television: Chris Falkner, Partner at Next Media Partners
Chris Falkner, Partner at Next Media Partners, LLC, joins Talk Back to Television to answer a question that is on everybody’s lips: “What the F&*K is the Metaverse?”
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Orlando Wood, Chief Innovation Officer for System1 Group
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The Friday Fireside is pleased to welcome Orlando Wood, Chief Innovation Officer for the UK-based System1 Group....
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Talk Back to Television: Tim Hanlon, Founder and CEO of The Vertere Group
Tim Hanlon, Founder and CEO of The Vertere Group, joins Talk Back to Television to address a question that we hear for EVERY CONSUMER: “How can I manage my streaming services to get what I want without paying a fortune?”
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Tim Mulligan, Research Director for MIDiA Research
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Today’s Friday Fireside welcomes Tim Mulligan, EVP and Research Director for UK-based MIDiA Research. Tim tells us...
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Talk Back to Television: Adam Gaynor, Interim President of Gamut
Adam Gaynor, newly named interim President of Gamut, joins Talk Back to Television to answer one of the MOST ANNOYING questions about advertising on streaming services. Megan from Memphis says, “When I’m streaming, I keep seeing the same ads OVER and OVER!!”
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: ViewLift Co-Founder, Manik Bambha
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The Friday Fireside is pleased to welcome Manik Bambha, President and Co-Founder of ViewLift, the global...
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Talk Back to Television: GM of Streaming, Gannett USA Today
Today’s Talk Back to Television welcomes Mike Nagle, General Manager of Streaming for Gannett USA Today. Mike provides his perspective to help our friend Lisa from Los Angeles find factual and relevant news information without cable or satellite. With an astonishing wealth of news outlets in 46...
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Talk Back to Television: NMRPP’s Evan Tracey on Advertising’s Impact on the 2022 Mid-Terms
This week’s Talk Back to Television welcomes Evan Tracey from National Media Research Planning and Placement—one of the largest Republican advertising agencies. Evan answers a question we are ALL asking this week: “Did all the money (some $10B) spent on the mid-term elections in 2022 make any...
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Televisionation: Albert Thompson, Managing Director of Digital at Walton Isaacson
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Albert Thompson, Managing Director of Digital at full-service agency, Walton Isaacson. Among other things, he discusses Walton…
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Televisionation: Philip Gilpin, Jr. CEO/Executive Director, Catalyst Story Institute
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry. This episode features Philip Gilpin, Jr., CEO and Executive Director of the Catalyst Story Institute, a Duluth, Minnesota-based organization that aims to...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Industry Veteran, Marshall Cohen
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The good doctor is thrilled beyond belief to welcome the inimitable Marshall Cohen to the Friday Fireside. We’ve...
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Talk Back to Television: Perianne Grignon, VP of Strategy at Mediaocean
Today’s guest on Talk Back to Television is Perianne Grignon, VP Strategy at Mediaocean (a Talk Back Sponsor!!!). Her question comes from Alan in New York: “I get so many ads thrown at me, it’s like sticking my head in a hornets’ nest. I wish someone would talk to ME about what I’m interested in.”
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Comcast Technology Solutions’ Stuart Kurkowski on Metadata
Televisionation: Friday Fireside, the #1 television industry Webcast, features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Be honest: most conversations about metadata are stratospherically over the heads of most of us! But Stuart...
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Talk Back to Television: Industry Veteran, Mick Darling
Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing THE TELEVISION HEAVY USER! Industry tech and business veteran, Mick Darling (who also happens to be another of the winners of the 2014 TVOT Hackathon), joins this week’s Talk Back to Television. He turns out to be a streamer’s FAVORITE CUSTOMER: Lots of services…
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Televisionation: Disney Advertising’s Dana McGraw and InfoSum’s Lauren Wetzel on Clean Rooms and More
This episode features Dana McGraw, SVP of Audience Modeling and Data Science at Disney Advertising, and Lauren Wetzel, COO of data-collaboration platform, InfoSum. Among other things, they discuss the demise of cookies; the Disney Audience Graph; Disney Select (a suite of audience segments that...
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Televisionation: Treatment Studio’s Williams and Pocock on Creating a Virtual Queen Elizabeth II
This episode features Willie Williams, Co-Founder of, and Lizzie Pocock, Producer at Treatment Studio, the London-based creative agency behind one of the most talked-about elements of Queen Elizabeth II’s recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations: the illusion of the Queen’s younger self riding in her...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Mike Nagle, GM of Streaming at Gannett USA Today
This week’s Friday Fireside welcomes Mike Nagle, newly appointed General Manager of Streaming for Gannett USA Today. With an astonishing wealth of news outlets in 46 states, plus one of the top news brands in the county with USA Today, Gannett’s streaming services are currently well-distributed…
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Chicken Soup for the Soul CSO, Elana Sofko, on Redbox and More
Today’s Friday Fireside guest is Elana Sofko, Chief Strategy Officer for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. We go through the company’s various business sectors (which are more varied and complex than the good doctor realized), and then into a DETAILED discussion of their acquisition of...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Bill Mobley, Founder and CEO of FreeCast
Today’s Friday Fireside welcomes industry firebrand, Bill Mobley, Founder and CEO of FreeCast. Bill has been “fighting the good fight” to aggregate streaming services for over a decade, and he shares (actually leaks) a major strategic announcement about FreeCast’s SelectTV service. Watch and learn.
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: NABSHOW 2022, with NAB’s Chris Brown and Jonathan Toomey
If you attended the NABSHOW 2022 (or if you decided NOT to attend), you MUST WATCH this week’s episode of the Friday Fireside with the folks who made it happen! Chris Brown, EVP of Business Operations , and Jonathan Toomey, VP of Content Design and Development for The National Association of...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Shelley Stansfield, Founder and Director of Special Ops at Centriply
Today’s Friday Fireside welcomes Shelley Stansfield, Founder and Director of Special Ops at Centriply, an independent media agency that specializes in advanced, audience-driven TV campaigns. Shelley explains that the #1 benefit for brands is the ability to get their message on TV to the same...
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: Mike Kelley, President of Americas at Grabyo
The Friday Fireside welcomes Mike Kelley, President of Americas for Grabyo, the cloud video platform for live clipping, live production and editing. We discuss how Grabyo customers worldwide can share their best moments in real time, with live clipping from broadcast and video feeds and then…
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Televisionation Friday Fireside: DeepIntent CMO, Marcella Milliet Sciorra
For many of us, our health is one of the first things we think about in the morning, and the one of the last things we think about at night. That is the strength of DeepIntent, the rapidly growing healthcare advertising program. Our guest on this week’s Friday Fireside is DeepIntent Chief…
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Televisionation: Bill Daddi on Brand Platforms and More
This episode features Bill Daddi, President of Daddi Brand, a firm that specializes in brand platform development and public relations for data, analytics and consulting companies, as well as for associations in the television and advertising industries (its clients include CIMM, MRC, Magid,...
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Televisionation: 605 President, Tom Keaveney, on Measurement
This episode features Tom Keaveney, President of TV measurement and analytics company, 605. Among other things, he outlines the biggest challenges facing the measurement industry; discusses 605’s services and explains how he believes the company is differentiated in the market; casts light on the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to our Televisionation podcast show, which showcases executives, innovators, creatives, and invited analysts, in dialog with ITVT founder and editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow. These podcasts also offer audio of sessions from our TV of Tomorrow Show (TVOT) conferences (produced twice a year in San Francisco and New York); video interviews, as well as other types of updates and content.
Our readership is mostly made up of thousands of listeners in over 150 countries.
Founded in 1998 by Tracy Swedlow, InteractiveTV Today ITVT is the most widely read and trusted news source online on the rapidly emerging medium of multiplatform, networked, broadband interactive television. We provide concise, original coverage of industry developments, technologies, content projects, and the people building the business through our Web site (itvt.com).
Contact [email protected] to find out more or to pitch yourself to
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