TiVo’s Craig Chinn on why connected TV is more than in-stream video. And why the brands figuring that out are gaining an edge at the most important moment in the viewing experience — beginning with the home screen.

Everyone talked about AI at Possible, but for the TV industry, data quality and the operating system are the unavoidable factors changing the ad landscape.

The throng of thousands of undifferentiated ad tech startups at Possible has Alan asking why AI isn’t eliminating all this. Plus WTF is Amazon thinking with the Apprentice reboot?

Local broadcast TV’s real challenge is not how to preserve every part of the linear schedule. It is how to preserve the parts that still matter while shedding the parts that no longer do.

The NFL’s YouTube strategy around the NFL Draft has a long-form creator flavor to it.

Streaming was meant to broaden audiences. But in recent years, core streamers are more concentrated and narrow. What are the implications for Hollywood?

In Episode 7 of In the Vicinity, local media veterans Tim Hanlon and Jim Wilson unpack an industry that knows exactly what needs fixing—and is finally starting to align around how to do it.

PLUS: Alan Wolk on Netflix’s shaky ad business, Tim Hanlon on why USDTV might deserve a second chance, and a episode 6 of In the Vicinity.

Will Reed Hastings decision to roll out ads haunt him or be his crowning achievement? Plus, YouTube’s biggest problem that no one talks about.

TurboTax’s 2026 approach to tax season shows how a brand can use social video to drive significant audience reach and control conversation in the lead-up to a specific event.

Twenty years ago, USDTV was a clever idea ahead of its time — today, it may be exactly what NextGen TV needs to break through.

Following a rough 2025, ‘Zootopia 2’ marked a rebound for theatrical films performing on Disney+. Will ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash,’ ‘Hoppers’ and ‘Star Wars’ extend the streak?

Annie Krukowska draws inspiration from Guy Edri’s keynote at StreamTV Show Lisbon to explain why we need to stop balkanizing what we call “TV.”

In the latest episode of In the Vicinity, local media veterans Tim Hanlon and Jim Wilson unpack the growing imbalance between traditional broadcast and the scale of platforms like streaming giants and digital ad ecosystems.

TriCoast’s Nick Risher on his company’s unlikely journey to becoming a content studio… and an ad tech company.

An open letter to John Ternus on what Apple needs to do to stay on track and regain its former glory.

The NFL’s potential YouTube deal is about more than just money. It’s about the future of TV.

If there was one idea that dominated the inaugural StreamTV Show Europe, it was the massive fragmentation that has come to define the age of Feudal Media. Alan Wolk takes you through how that all plays out.

The old characterization of broadcasting as a “license to print money” feels increasingly anachronistic. What remains is a business in stewardship mode — focused less on building for the future than on managing through a prolonged unwinding.

In this episode of In the Vicinity, local media veterans Tim Hanlon and Jim Wilson unpack the growing tension between broadcast’s DMA-driven reach and streaming’s zip-code-level precision.