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Bigdatr adds connected TV ad monitoring in Australia

Streaming budgets are becoming easier to track as marketers gain visibility into rival campaigns across Australia's fast-growing connected TV market.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 1st Jul 2026

Smart Home

Amazon launches smaller Fire TV Stick HD in Australia

The cheaper streamer is aimed at older televisions and travellers, with USB-powered setup and faster performance than the previous HD stick.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Apr 2026

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SVOD stories

Marketing Technologies

Amazon Ads expands Prime Video formats in Australia

More than 5.5 million monthly viewers in Australia now face new interactive Prime Video adverts as Amazon broadens its ad buying tools.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Personalisation

TiVo launches Agent TiVo for AI entertainment discovery

Viewers could spend less time searching and more time watching as TiVo adds conversational AI search across fragmented TV and streaming catalogues.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

YouTube

NZ audiences settle into more stable media habits in 2026

Cost pressures have helped slow New Zealand's media shift, with television narrowly beating global video-sharing platforms and streaming use easing.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • This month

Social Media

MovieMe launches pay-per-minute streaming platform

Subscription-fatigued viewers in more than 90 countries can now pay only for time watched as MovieMe shares 70% of viewing revenue with creators.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last month

Marketing Technologies

MiQ launches unified screens planner in Australia & NZ

Fragmented viewing habits are forcing agencies to juggle budgets across television and streaming as MiQ rolls out a single planning tool.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Large Language Models

YouTube ad revenue hits USD $40.4 billion as growth slows

Slower growth in the world's biggest video platform's ad business suggests its shift to TV screens and Shorts has yet to lift marketer spend further.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Mon, 20th Jul 2026

Digital Transformation

Asia-Pacific short drama apps surge as sessions jump 452%

User spending and engagement are accelerating in Asia-Pacific, where short drama apps now deliver the world's highest revenue per monthly active user.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Wed, 15th Jul 2026

Partner Programmes

Glance launches interactive global TV viewing report

Global TV viewing slipped slightly last year as Glance put data from more than 100 territories into a new interactive dashboard.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Wed, 1st Jul 2026

Digital Transformation

Audiences are cycling, not stacking: The new retention equation in media and entertainment

Rising prices and content overload are pushing viewers to treat subscriptions as temporary, forcing brands to rethink retention around re-entry.

By Braze • 6 min read • Thu, 11th Jun 2026

Streaming

Nexxen launches Smart TV home screen ads in Asia-Pacific

Advertisers can now buy prominent TV home screen slots programmatically in four Asia-Pacific markets as streaming shifts viewing habits and ad budgets.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 28th May 2026

Marketing Technologies

OpenX expands News Australia deal for Tubi CTV ads

Australian advertisers will gain wider programmatic access to Tubi’s ad-supported TV audience as connected TV spending climbs towards AUD $2 billion by 2029.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Fri, 17th Apr 2026