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November 25, 2024

Live Sports in the Streaming Era: What’s Changing and Why It Matters

Samba TV’s recently released report, Live Sports on Streaming Platforms, provides five key sets of data points to help advertisers and sports leagues better target their audiences both during and after live sporting events. The report begins with insights into web-only sporting events, revealing audience numbers for the most-watched and least-watched games on platforms like Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video.

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November 22, 2024

‘The Penguin’ Rules the Streaming Roost, Holds Off Taylor Sheridan on Streaming Top 10 | Chart

Last week, the final episode of Max/HBO’s limited series “The Penguin” topped Samba TV’s Weekly Wrap Report streaming chart for the eighth consecutive week, a run that lasted the entirety of the series.

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November 14, 2024

‘The Penguin’ Held No. 1 on Streaming Top 10 for Its Entire Run | Chart

It’s no question that the Max/HBO series “The Penguin” is one of streaming’s breakout hits of the year with the series now earning its eighth straight week at No. 1.

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November 7, 2024

Inside advertising’s identity-based targeting crisis—how marketers and ad tech are responding

Regardless of whether Google ever actually kills cookies in Chrome, reliable identity signals have gotten ever harder to find across digital platforms. Even when marketers have first-party data, applying it to media can be tough thanks to the questionable quality of third-party data needed to match media placements. A growing number of state privacy laws have restricted marketers’ ability to use sensitive personal data, including race and ethnicity. Marketers are increasingly addressing the problem by collecting as much directly permissioned first-party data as they can or ponying up for shopper and purchase data where it’s available from retailers.

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November 7, 2024

35.6 Million U.S. Households Watch 2024 Election Night Results

How Many Election Night Viewers Watched Cable And Broadcast TV? Some 35.6 million households tuned in to election results Tuesday night from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. EST, according to Samba TV, a provider of TV technology for audience data and omniscreen measurement. It found the average household tuned in for 2 hours, 13 minutes.

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November 7, 2024

‘Tracker’ Takes No. 1 on Linear TV Chart for a 2nd Week — A Rare Feat for Scripted Series

For seven consecutive weeks, Max/HBO’s “The Penguin” has ruled the streaming chart, much in the way its titular character hopes to reign over the crime underworld of Gotham City. No one and nothing, ranging from diplomats to lawyers, from Halloween horrors to Martha Stewart, could unseat the show this week on Samba TV’s Weekly Wrap Report.

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