Author Archives: Michael Collette

For those that own a Sony TV or are thinking of buying one and would like to be sure that Yahoo! TV’s Broadcast Interactivity will be available, below please find a listing of models by year that can be upgraded … Continue reading →

INDUSTRY: Yahoo Moves First – ACR TV on Sony Last week, I had a chance to catch up with Russ Schafer, Senior Director of Global Product Marketing for Yahoo! Connected TV. As I mentioned in my CES roundup, Yahoo Connected … Continue reading →

It feels like the ACR business is starting to shift gears. Whereas last year, I think the market was working to grock the scope and importance of ACR and it’s ability to connect devices and cloud services to traditional TV, … Continue reading →

ACR TV CES 2012: News, Rumbles and Outlook There were a lot of ACR announcements at CES. Most, though, were about companion app plays of various types. Civolution and Audible Magic both showed up with really their first market moves … Continue reading →

ACR Intensive: Automatic Content Recognition on Companion Devices and Connected TV from Tracy Swedlow on Vimeo. The presentation we reviewed during this panel is available at no cost. Just send me a note if you’d like a copy.

For this edition of Industry, we spoke with Eric Schmitt, EVP of Allant’s cable and media business. Allant is a company to watch. An established player in the Market Services (database marketing, direct marketing, etc…) business, Allant has traditionally helped … Continue reading →

Is it a rumor? Or is it now a foregone conclusion? Seems the bandwagon has started to roll on Apple’s entry into the Smart TV market. The question is, what are they going to do? I guess we all expect … Continue reading →

Recently, Ensequence and Zeitera announced a new partnership for Companion App publishing using Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). I found this quite intriguing. I couldn’t recall any other ACR companies doing deals with ITV publishing companies. Something was different. Before proceeding, … Continue reading →

INdustry Profile: Brightline ITV’s Ad-Centric Alchemy Interactive TV Advertising has been welling and swelling quite a bit these days, but for most industry observers, it’s still kinda nascent. It’s certainly not yet mainstream and we don’t really have iTV ads … Continue reading →

In this latest installment of INdustry, we delve into some of the more interesting insider issues around the emergence of automatic content recognition (ACR) on Smart TVs. Link to video: Our guest is Dan Eakins, CEO of ACR vendor Zeitera. … Continue reading →