by Anna Hensel | Sep 18, 2020 | dtcbriefing, plusbriefing, retail
In March, the fundraising environment for direct-to-consumer startups was “downright frozen,” as Michael Duda, managing partner at hybrid accelerator agency and venture capital fund Bullish, put it. Now, March seems like a lifetime ago. Over the past six months, many...
by Tim Peterson | Sep 16, 2020 | fotvbriefing, Future of TV, plusbriefing
Football is back. TV and streaming shows are in production. The annual TV upfront negotiations are winding down. So has the coronavirus crisis’s impact on the TV and streaming industry ended and everything has returned to normal? Yes, but also no. Six months after the...
by Anna Hensel | Sep 11, 2020 | dtcbriefing, plusbriefing, retail
Never say never. The direct-to-consumer brand playbook has one common rule: Never discount. After all, these frequent discounts have proved an albatross for old school retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond and Gap, training people to wait for a deal. But we live in — must...
by Tim Peterson | Sep 9, 2020 | fotvbriefing, Future of TV, plusbriefing
This year did not lead to the seismic shift that the TV upfront market seemed set to undergo in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Yes, there have been changes. Advertisers are receiving more favorable cancelation terms. Streaming is accounting for a larger share of...
by Anna Hensel | Sep 4, 2020 | dtcbriefing, plusbriefing, retail
A number of direct-to-consumer startups have reported huge revenue growth during over the past several months, in some cases acquiring double or triple the amount of new customers that they did during the same period last year. Now, their focus is on keeping those new...
by Tim Peterson | Sep 2, 2020 | fotvbriefing, Future of TV, plusbriefing
Is AT&T on its way out of the media business? The debt-ridden telecom giant is reportedly looking to offload its DirecTV pay-TV business after having kicked the tires on selling it a year ago. And on Sept. 1, The Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T is also...
