Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with Keith Bedford, GM of EMEA at Wurl, to map the infrastructure gaps standing between live sports and FAST monetization — and what Wurl is building to close them. Recorded ahead of Sportel and Mipcom, with a Part Two already locked in. Live sports on FAST went from less than 3% of viewing to an entire content category in <12 months. A year ago, live sports made up less than 3% of all FAST viewing compared to nearly 20% on traditional televis...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim Rowe sits down with David Nyurenberg, SVP of Digital at InterMedia Advertising, days before the Ad Exchanger Awards Gala at Programmatic I/O — where three of InterMedia's projects landed five finalist nominations. The episode unpacks all three: closing the conversion loop on direct publisher buys, privacy-safe show-level targeting at scale, and what happens to performance when you separate good news from bad news using AI. Direct publisher buys in CTV have...

Have a question? Send us a text! 📊 Read the MRI-Simmons Video Podcast Report: mrisimmons.com Tim sits down with Emily Williams, Consumer Expert at MRI-Simmons, for a return visit built around fresh data from their annual podcast study — 10,000 US podcast consumers surveyed, weighted and projected to the total US audience. The topic: why the definition of a podcast is breaking down, why that's actually good news, and what the numbers say about where streaming, podcasting, and creator content a...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with Pat Taggart, filmmaker and founder of Sky Blue Creative, to discuss his new documentary No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story — the 26-year history of Philadelphia's most chaotic winter tradition, and what self-distributing an independent film in today's streaming market actually looks like when the major players come calling with contracts designed to take everything. A radio joke in 1993. 30,000 people in an arena by the end. Al Morganti ...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with Shawne Merriman, three-time Pro Bowler and CEO of Lights Out Sports TV, to trace the journey from defensive end to streaming architect — and unpack the 5G broadcast technology he's been quietly building for a year that could fundamentally change the economics of live sports delivery. From the field to the production truck to the boardroom — how Shawne was taking notes the whole time. Shawne Merriman started asking camera operators ques...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with Mark Stenberg, Senior Media Reporter at Adweek, to unpack the real ripple effects of Meta's $17 billion teen settlement — what it actually means for media buyers, whether YouTube gets dragged into the same restrictions, where youth advertising budgets go if mobile supply shrinks, and why the microdrama format might be the most interesting disruption nobody is talking about yet. $18 billion sounds like a reckoning but it's only $1.2 billion a...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with David Dembowski, Streaming TV Architect, to break down the business of live sports streaming through the lens of the Five D's — Digital, Data, Distribution, Discovery, and Delight — and why a 62-second streaming delay during the Super Bowl is more than an engineering inconvenience. It's a business problem that touches every one of them. Why a 62-second delay isn't a tech problem but a failure in customer delight. During Super Bowl 60,...

Have a question? Send us a text! Tim sits down with Giovanni Galvez, from SyncWords, for a special webinar replay recorded live — including a real-time demo where SyncWords translated the State of Streaming broadcast into Spanish, French, and German simultaneously while the conversation was happening. The topic: how platforms are using live localization to reach the 80% of the world that doesn't speak English — and how much audience they're leaving on the table by not doing it. Did you know t...

Have a question? Send us a text! Read Josh's most recent piece on State of Streaming here 👈 Tim sits down with Josh Stein, Founder of Attention Capital, to unpack why capital markets keep mispricing attention, what makes an audience durable enough to finance, and why the creator economy is the next private credit boom — whether Wall Street knows it yet or not. Some attention compounds. Some decays. The difference is what's financeable. Josh spent the first decade of his career in invest...