Daniel Frankel

1 week ago | streamtvinsider.com | Daniel Frankel

Roku reported a solid 16% YoY increase in total first-quarter net revenue, surpassing $1 billion for a third straight quarter, losses narrowing and time spent on its platform increasing by nearly 17% to 35.8 billion hours. The streaming company reiterated its guidance for 2025, expecting total net revenue of $4.55 billion, a gross profit of $1.97 billion, and adjusted EBITDA of $350 million. Roku also announced the $185 million acquisition of virtual MVPD company Frndly TV.

2 weeks ago | streamtvinsider.com | Daniel Frankel

North Americans spent less on video entertainment last year and used fewer services, TiVo says, with consumers on average allocating $19.37 per month less to video in the fourth quarter versus the same three-month period of 2023. The average spend of $157.47 from October - December represents a 17% decline ($31.91) from the peak period of Q4 2022, when TiVo found that U.S. and Canadian consumers were shelling out an average of $189.39 a month on video entertainment.

2 weeks ago | streamtvinsider.com | Daniel Frankel

U.S. connected TV ad spending is projected to grow by 13% this year to $26.6 billion, and the channel is now the top-ranked “must buy” among advertisers, according to the first of two installments of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s 2025 Digital Video Ad Spend and Strategy Report. Partnering with Advertiser Perceptions and Guideline, IAB surveyed 364 U.S. advertisers from February - March and found that 68% listed CTV as most necessary for a media plan, followed closely by social video.

2 weeks ago | streamtvinsider.com | Daniel Frankel

Advertising sales revenue for Google’s YouTube increased 10.3% YoY to $8.9 billion in Q1, the eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit-percentage growth. Reporting earnings on the day following the 20th anniversary of the first-ever YouTube video upload, the performance of the video platform unit helped drive a 12% overall revenue spike for parent company Alphabet, to $90.23 billion. Net profit for the technology giant was up a whopping 46% to $34.54 billion.

2 weeks ago | streamtvinsider.com | Daniel Frankel

Spanish-language programming giant TelevisaUnivision reported a steep 11% decline in Q1 revenue to $1.02 billion, amid a three-month period that new CEO Daniel Alegre said was made “challenging” not only by “macroeconomic turmoil” spawned out of Washington, D.C., but also tough comparable factors including the February 2024 Super Bowl, which the company had televised on Univision and in Mexico on Canal 5.