The Mediapost Publishing Insider Summit featuring a panel called, “You're All Streamers Now: Competing For Post-TV Dollars” featuring Alia J. Daniels, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Revry, Inc. Chris Fehrmann, Vice President, Digital Products, TEGNA Inc. Mike Richter, Vice President, Global Revenue Operations, CTV & Digital, Trusted Media Brands, Inc. and moderated by Trish Mikita, VP of Content, AccuWeather.

"Diversity" and "representation" aren’t just buzzwords, nor should efforts to achieve them stop in the boardroom and HR department. If you’re not reaching as diverse an audience as possible, you’re leaving money on the table; the LGBTQ market alone is estimated to represent $1.1 trillion in spending power in the U.S. alone. On this panel, representatives from niche video services join their wider-reaching counterparts to talk about the importance of diversity in OTT and how to achieve it.

Revry, the LGBTQ-first streaming media company, released new viewership data on the increase in LGBTQ+ consumers streaming across its distribution partners, showing the growth in audiences in LGBTQ-first programming. The latest data from Revry’s distribution, including FAST partners Samsung TV, Roku and Vizio TV, reveals a 5x growth in monthly active viewers to over 20M viewers in 2021. The growth is fueled by a 6x growth in Samsung TV Plus viewers.

Whether they’re defined by the type of content—science fiction, horror, romance—or the type of audience, niche services are the long tail of the OTT universe. But just because their audiences are limited doesn’t mean their revenue opportunities are. Partnerships with aggregators and “mainstream” services offer pathways to bigger viewership numbers, and innovative marketing approaches can turn small services into big successes. Join us as we talk about how.

In this Brightcove and Parks Associate webinar, industry experts discuss the opportunities and challenges in today’s OTT marketplace, including best strategies to identify, acquire, and engage their customers and increase market share in this ultra-competitive and fragmented space.

You never know what's going to be controversial. We've had panels focusing on niche video services at the last few Streaming Media events, both in-person and virtual, but it wasn't until Streaming Media East Connect 2021 that people started pushing back against the term "niche." We saw a shift coming when we named a panel "Premium Niche Services—New Content Frontiers," but it seems as if it might be time to stop using the term entirely.

FAST, SVOD and AVOD are all different ways to bring programming to viewers with different costs to the viewer. All delivered over the internet, FAST is a service that unites live, linear TV with a VOD service whereas AVOD only has video on demand. Both FAST and AVOD are free to watch thanks to adverts whereas SVOD is usually advert-free as this is subscriber VOD where you pay monthly. This video from Streaming Media discusses the rise of FAST and its importance in the market.