Chip Canter, the former general manager of Verizon’s millennial-focused Go90 video service, has joined Massive Interactive – a platform provider and user-experience specialist for the OTT market. Canter, who left Verizon in 2017, has joined Massive as global chief revenue officer and brings more than 20 years of strategy, business development, and product expertise to […]
Verizon has folded its US video streaming service, Go90, into its Oath division, in a move that see Go90 content distributed through other digital channels. Speaking at the Code Media conference in California, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong said that, “Go90 will be redistributed inside of the super-large distribution that we have overall”. Oath encompasses brands […]
Former CBS alternative programming chief, Chris Castallo, is headed to digital video platform Go90 to lead its development efforts. Castallo was one of a number of CBS execs that left the business earlier this year, with Sharon Vuong promoted to replace him. Youth-focused Go90 has handed him a head of development role, in which he will oversee […]
US OTT TV service Go90 has revamped the way it organises its channels and has introduced ‘algorithmic programming’ to present shows to its target audience on the basis of data gathered by the platform, Ivana Kirkbride, the service’s chief content officer, told a MIPTV audience today. “We saw that our initial eight channel approach to […]
Vice Media is making a major mobile push, expanding its offerings in a bid to reach “hundreds of millions of new mobile subscribers” around the world. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, Vice founder and CEO, Shane Smith, said the deals include a vast rollout in Asia Pacific in partnership with mobile […]
US mobile operator Verizon has reportedly cut 155 employees at its streaming service Go90. According to Variety, which broke the news, the team behind Vessel will rebuild Go90, following Verizon’s acquisition of Vessel in October. “Our focus with Go90 and our Verizon digital media efforts are to fulfill our strategy of leveraging Verizon content investments, enhancing user experience […]
