Many of last weekend's Super Bowl commercials are now into the tens of millions of views on YouTube. But only a few of them got significant views in January--among them, Mr. Clean and Budweiser, both of which appear below on Adweek and Google's YouTube Ads Leaderboard for January, ranking the month's most watched ads on...
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TV & Video Daily
February 10, 2017
Insider updates on all things video
Supercell and Apple top the list, Watson visited Sesame Street, and a few Super Bowl ads got early starts
By Tim Nudd
Many of last weekend's Super Bowl commercials are now into the tens of millions of views on YouTube. But only a few of them got significant views in January--among them, Mr. Clean and Budweiser, both of which appear below on Adweek and Google's YouTube Ads Leaderboard for January, ranking the month's most watched ads on...
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Bob Bakish will also rebrand Spike
By Jason Lynch
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Its first show, the unscripted Second Chance, will debut in April
By Jason Lynch
Network’s double entendre slogan titillated viewers
By Jason Lynch
The ads target young professionals who want to stay informed
By Sami Main
Reuters TV wants to deliver the news to people who live in a post-broadcast world. With the release of four new promotional spots, the publisher is trying to reach its core audience of smart, young professionals who want to stay informed. The ads won't air on traditional television, because, Reuters said, that's not where the...
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Networks will present separately at this year's upfront, though
By Jason Lynch
Instead of simply filling ABC's vacant ad sales chief position, Disney-ABC has instead enacted broad changes to its ad sales team, combining sales for its various properties into a single division, much as NBCUniversal, Fox and Turner have done in recent years. The company has created a portfolio-wide ad sales division, which will be led...
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The showrunner talks juggling Legion and Fargo’s third season
By Jason Lynch
Three years ago, Noah Hawley did the impossible: he made a TV adaptation of Fargo that held its own with the classic 1996 Coen Brothers film that inspired it. He then topped himself a year later, turning Fargo's second season into the best TV show of 2015. Now the creator is ready for his biggest...
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Her new documentary explores the complexities of gender
By Jason Lynch
Few broadcast journalists have had a career as varied as Katie Couric's. She's worked for all three broadcast news organizations, presiding over morning news (co-hosting Today from 1991 to 2006), evening news (anchoring CBS Evening News from 2006-2011) and a daytime talk show (Katie, from 2012-2014). Since 2014, she has served as Yahoo's global news...
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Struggling channel will battle Investigation Discovery for viewers
By Jason Lynch
Oxygen, which has struggled to connect with viewers since it launched in 2000, is rebranding as a crime-themed network for women, NBCUniversal announced today. But NBCUniversal will still only have one cable network devoted to crime in its stable: Cloo, which aired crime-themed library content, folded up shop today. With the rebranding, NBCUniversal will target...
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Spot includes an Eggo commercial from 1979
By Jason Lynch
If it seems like the world is turning upside down, Netflix just confirmed it. Continuing its tradition of using big TV moments to announce the premiere dates of its shows, Netflix dropped a surprise ad during the Super Bowl's third quarter for Stranger Things 2, which will debut around Halloween. Stranger Things 2 is the...
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