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Walmart moves deeper into CTV ads | AMTC News

Walmart moves deeper into CTV ads | AMTC News

In this briefing

CTV advertising

Walmart moves for Vibe.co

Our top story: Walmart plans to acquire Vibe.co, a self-service connected TV advertising platform for smaller and mid-market brands.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
TV advertising

Comcast Universal Ads launches in the UK

Comcast’s Universal Ads platform has launched in the UK with Channel 4, ITV and Sky as its first broadcaster partners.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
Sports streaming

BBC Sport app sets a traffic record

BBC Sport says June seventeenth became its biggest app day since the Alcaraz-Djokovic and England-Spain double-header in July twenty twenty four.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
Production technology

Netflix tests AI editing models

Netflix technologists have published research on two AI editing models, Vera and Void, aimed at accelerating post-production decisions.

Source: tvbeurope.com ↗
Live graphics

Rally.TV adds immersive overlays

Rally.TV is rolling out Ease Live immersive graphics on mobile, with smart TV overlays planned as the next step.

Source: tvbeurope.com ↗
News workflows

EBU adds Moments Lab to news workflows

The EBU is integrating Moments Lab tools to help member newsrooms find and reuse relevant editorial content faster.

Source: tvbeurope.com ↗
AI news

RTVE airs an AI-made newscast

Spain’s RTVE aired a special AI-produced evening newscast, explicitly framing the broadcast as a public test of risks and opportunities.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
Streaming advertising

Ad-supported streaming becomes the norm

Samsung Ads reports ad-supported streaming is now mainstream, while ghost viewers make platform loyalty harder to measure.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
Public media

EBU challenges Czech licence-fee plan

The EBU says Czech plans to replace licence fees with state funding risk real-terms cuts and weaker public-media independence.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
FAST channels

GALLI Lucha Libre expands on FAST

Finally, GALLI Lucha Libre is expanding through FAST Channels TV, adding bilingual wrestling programming for US and international audiences.

Source: advanced-television.com ↗
Full transcript
Our top story, Walmart plans to acquire Vibe.co, a self-service connected TV advertising platform for smaller and mid-market brands.