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Vizio, the No. 2 maker of smart TVs in North America and a rising player in streaming distribution and advertising, had its initial public offering this morning. While Covid-19 safety restrictions are limiting the numbers and high-fives, executives from the Irvine, CA-based company are ringing the bell at the New York…

Days after the CW premiered a batch of new episodes and officially kicked off its 2021 season, its streaming app has launched on Vizio SmartCast. Vizio is the No. 2 manufacturer in the growing U.S. smart TV sector, with about 20% of the market. Its SmartCast platform reaches about 14 million viewers. The CW app last…

EXCLUSIVE: Viewing on Vizio smart TVs surged to 1.1 trillion minutes in 2020, up more than 20% from 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the manufacturer said Monday. Vizio is the No. 2 maker of smart TVs sold in the U.S., with about 20% of the market over the past five years. Using data from its automatic content…

EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Group and top TV maker Vizio have reached a deal to bring four channels dedicated to Endemol unscripted programming to Vizio’s ad-supported smart-TV platform. Two of the 24-hour channels, streaming on Vizio’s SmartCast platform, center on individual shows: Deal or No Deal and Wipeout. The DIY…

A&E’s Live PD topped the rankings of TV shows watched both on DVR or on demand, and Friends, a sitcom that keeps finding new life 15 years after its finale aired on NBC, finished among the top 10 shows watched live. The numbers were reported Thursday by Vizio’s smart-TV data and analytics unit Inscape, which tracks…

EXCLUSIVE: A&E’s Live PD is finishing 2018 as the most-viewed show of the year on OTT platforms as well as via VOD and DVR, according to a survey of smart-TV data by Inscape. A subsidiary of smart-TV maker Vizio, Inscape surveys viewing across some nine million households, spanning all demographics and geographic…

Electronics manufacturer Vizio’s $2 billion sale to China’s LeEco Global Group just wasn’t to be. The companies ended months of questions about the deal they reached in July — after two years of negotiations —  by announcing today that they’ve called it off due to “regulatory headwinds.” In its place they unveiled an…

Pongalo, the Latino-focused digital content company formerly known as Latin Everywhere, continues to expand. The company, which owns rights to more than 10,000 hours of Spanish-language film and TV content including more telenovelas that any other digital service, is now putting its newly launched on-demand…