Brian Hunt Brian Page Mike Braun Shaun Fogarty
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1 2 Your Moderators for Today’s Discussion STEPHANIE SLAGLE JAY SMALL YOUR PANEL 3 BRIAN HUNT BRIAN PAGE MIKE BRAUN SHAUN FOGARTY Head of OTT/CTV Advertising Sales Senior Director, Digital Revenue SVP Digital Media General Manager – Digital Sinclair Broadcast Group Products Gray Television Virginia Media E.W. Scripps 4 What is OTT? Over the Top – refers to the delivery of programming served via the internet without the need for traditional cable or satellite pay services. Simple, right? OTT Devices OTT Apps 5 And thousands more… 6 52% 3+3 of US adults use the average OTT user at least one OTT streams content across service three devices and uses three different OTT services 2+ the average OTT user streams more than 2 hours of content every day 7 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA 8 Where do Local Media Companies Play? OTT App & Content Creation (and monetization) 9 Where do Local Media Companies Play? Selling Geo-Specific Inventory on Connected TV Programmatically 10 vMVPD Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor – Like YouTube TV or Sony Vue – these act as cable systems. Most broadcast stations provide their linear (not VOD) streams here. Connected TV VOCAB A television connected to the internet either via a device (Roku, Apple TV, etc) or via SmartTV connectivity. LESSON TVE TV Everywhere – a term for viewing a television program via an authenticated platform on any device. 11 What does all of this mean for local media companies? YOUR PANEL 12 BRIAN HUNT BRIAN PAGE MIKE BRAUN SHAUN FOGARTY Head of OTT/CTV Advertising Sales Senior Director, Digital Revenue SVP Digital Media General Manager – Digital Sinclair Broadcast Group Products Gray Television Virginia Media E.W. Scripps 13 14 OTT Current State Audience 15 $40B by 2020 is very aggressive, but $10B is a reality OTT Revenue Opportunity 16 • New OTT providers popping up daily – e.g. Disney+, Viacom buys Pluto for $300M and adding free content, etc. • No geographic boundaries for the for OTT providers • vMVPD require a subscription - Sling, Fubo, Philo, YouTube.tv, DIRECTV Now, Spectrum Reach, etc. • Free/ad supported services – Pluto, XUMO, Crackle, Tubi, etc. OTT Current State • Growth is faster than anticipated. I predict cord cutting could exceed 70 million Audience households within 5 years due to better and cheaper access to the Internet • OTT will kill….. .