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April 10, 2023

How the Big Measurement Companies Actually Measure Up

Samba TV pioneered the development of ACR technology, enabling currency-grade, cross-screen measurement across more than 48 million opted-in televisions from two dozen different brands sold in more than 100 countries today. We are the global leader in first-party ACR TV measurement and targeting,” said Ashwin Navin, CEO and co-founder, Samba TV.

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March 30, 2023

Samba TV CEO Ashwin Navin: For Netflix’s new co-CEOs, customer retention is paramount to success

All told, in the drive to survive in OTT, Netflix is in the pole position to shape the future of entertainment. If Sarandos and Peters can truly nail customer retention, they can focus on other key areas that will define streaming, such as sharpening their ad-supported strategy and finding new, innovative approaches to extend the lifetime value of their content portfolio.

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March 29, 2023

Samba TV CEO Ashwin Navin: Re-imagining Streaming Through Ad & Content Models

Netflix has the opportunity to completely transform the ad market forever by embracing new ways in which advertisers are hankering to use the incredible data and targeting capabilities of these connected platforms – but are finding increasingly difficult in the largest digital ad platforms due to policy changes.

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March 21, 2023

‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 Premiere Scores 870K U.S. Households, Up 59% From Season 2 Premiere, Samba TV Says

About 870,000 Samba TV-measured U.S. households tuned in to the first episode in the first four days since it debuted on the streaming service, according to the audience analytics company. That’s up about 59% from the 546,000 households Samba measured for the Season 2 premiere.

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March 9, 2023

Oscar Halo Effect: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Most Viewed In Streaming Post-Noms, ‘Elvis’ Most Watched Overall

Samba TV’s analysis is pulled from a nationally weighted household panel that measures more than 25 million connected TVs in the U.S. in both linear and streaming TV consumption. The data firm also drills down into local metro viewership, and also surveyed the Oscar-voter-rich Los Angeles market.

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February 23, 2023

Half of Population Barely Reached by Linear TV Ads in Samba TV Report

The proportion of ads reaching light viewers on linear TV in the UK fell to just 8 percent in H2 2022, according to Samba TV’s latest State of Viewership report. A similar trend emerged in Germany, with the light TV viewership seeing an average nine ads per day. That means 91 percent of linear TV ads reached the same 55 percent of audiences. “The need to drive incrementality and reach unique audiences, while also managing frequency to avoid consumer burnout, has never been more urgent,” added Samba TV.

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