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Let’s Get Shoppable
By E.B. Moss Shoppable will be a hot topic at ScreenShift, coming up on October 14. We asked Julie Haleluk, Global Head of Growth, Amazon Shopping Videos, for a preview of the insights likely to emerge from her panel, Watch. Want. Buy: The Promise of Shoppable TV. What do you think are the biggest questions […]
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The Messy Reality of AI Video Today—and What to Do in the Meantime
By Hope Horner, founder & CEO of Lemonlight Lights, camera…glitch? Everywhere you turn, AI video is being pitched as the future. The problem? The future isn’t here yet. For all the dazzling demos and breathless headlines, the reality is far less cinematic: the tools are clunky, the outputs uneven, and very few brands are actually […]
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Retail Media Is CPG’s Quiet Revolution
By Alexandra Theriault, Chief Growth Officer, Lotame Retail media gets framed as a win for retailers. Which it is. But it’s also quietly rewriting the playbook for consumer packaged goods. For brands that never had direct relationships with customers, never owned the transaction, never got real-time data, this is the closest thing to a reset. […]
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Winning the Brand: What it Takes to Attract Advertising Dollars
While she may not wear it for her panel appearance, Jen Kavanagh may be the only speaker at ScreenShift who has a Super Bowl™ ring. The SVP of Media and Marketing for the champion Philadelphia Eagles shared some advance hints about what it takes to attract their ad dollars in advance of her session October […]
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 8/26/25: ESPN, Fox Take a Direct-to-Consumer Leap; NFL’s Latest Plays and the Latest on MLB Media Rumors
Tuesday August 26, 2025 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. While summer may be coming to an imminent close, football season is kicking off across all levels. One area that continues to evolve is how fans are able to tune in and cheer for their favorite teams. […]
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From Creation to Distribution: How GenAI Is Transforming the Video Advertising Playbook
By Jonathan Gudai, Founder & CEO, AdOmni The Shift that Matters AI has cracked the code on video creation, but delivering those videos across a fractured media landscape remains the real bottleneck. Amazon’s Wondery reorganization is just the latest signal platforms are doubling down on video-centric, creator-driven models. For marketers and creators alike, the challenge […]
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The Key to Measurement? Think Differently
With candor and his trademark specificity, Albert Thompson, Director, Digital Innovation at Walton Isaacson, offered an entrée size portion of takeaways in advance of his ScreenShift panel: “Rethinking Measurement for the AI Era”, taking place October 14th at City Winery. With Tameka Kee, SVP, Programming & Operations at CIMM joining the conversation, this will be a […]
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The Reinvention of Transactional TV: From Infomercials to Shoppable Streaming
By Gary Mittman, Co-Founder & CEO, KERV.ai Let’s be real, TV has always been trying to sell us something. From the days of black-and-white soap operas (sponsored by actual soap) to late-night infomercials selling miracle knives that could cut through shoes, television has been laying the groundwork for transactional entertainment for decades. But now? Now […]
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Streaming Meets Shopping
What isn’t “shoppable” these days? At the Cynopsis ScreenShift conference October 14 in NYC, panelists will discuss the promise – and ways to fulfill that promise – of “shoppable TV.” Among them, Sal Candela, VP, Global Agency Partnerships at Roku, shared some initial thoughts he shared in advance: What do brand marketers need to consider […]
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Cracking the Streaming Code for Local News
Having been the Vice President of Journalism at the Knight Foundation, Jim Brady knows something about “The Daily Habit Gap: Why Streamers Need Local News.” That will be the panel topic he’ll join at Cynopsis ScreenShift in New York on October 14th. In the meantime, he shared his candid perspectives about the state of TV […]