TVREV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk joins Tim Hanlon on episode 12 of In the Vicinity.

Local media veteran Tim Hanlon is joined by Madhive CEO Jim Wilson on episode 11 of In the Vicinity.

Premion’s Blake Hebert reflects on what shifting mindsets on the way TV advertising is bought, sold and planned mean for the future.

At Upfronts, YouTube made the case that it IS TV. It’s hard to deny the platform has a hold on audience attention at this point.

AI can automate the media analytics stack—but as Nick Cicero warns, one bad data point can cascade through an entire agentic pipeline, turning a simple glitch into a very confident (and very wrong) strategic insight.

Everyone’s debating synergies, churn, and the “ticking fee.” They’re missing the real story. This isn’t about streaming scale. It’s about training data dominance.

X users have turned against AI this month in the long-predicted backlash. There are multiple camps, Alan Wolk explains, though their rationales are frequently interlinked.

Why “Who Buys Warner Bros?” is only at the beginning of its first season and why you are not someone who should be losing it over AI.

Justin Lebbon joins with UK industry legend Ian Whittaker to discuss the day’s hot topics, everything from AI panic to Barb taking on YouTube.

As AI-fueled video floods YouTube, brands chasing efficiency risk alienating consumers — and undermining YouTube’s push to win TV ad dollars.

PLUS: TikTok is digital North Korea and PBS stations going independent

In the brave new world of Feudal Media, users have no idea they’re trapped inside a bubble. And how to fix it.

PLUS: Alan Wolk looks at what porn can teach us about the future of AI, Jesse Redniss on Disney’s OpenAI deal, and more

Why the porn industry is such a good barometer of how new media technologies are being adopted. Plus is the era of theatrical-release movies kaput?

Disney's $1 billion OpenAI deal is a game-changer for IP licensing, but by feeding its core characters and stories to a third-party platform, the company risks repeating the "Netflix mistake."

Comscore’s new report on how, where, when and why consumers are using AI offers a raft of surprising insights and discoveries. We unpack.

AI is already helping make TV advertising more efficient and user friendly. LG Ads’ Dave Rudnick looks at what’s next.

PLUS: TVREV’s new report on local, Alan Wolk on polling and the brand conundrum, hear from Premion’s Daniel Spinosa and Comscore’s Melinda Gladnick

TVREV’s new report on local, Alan Wolk on Paramount, AI creators, and more.

Automation and AI together threaten to replace human journalists, hollow out local newsrooms, and erode the trust and civic value audiences rely on.