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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The State of Streaming CTV · Streaming · Advertising

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Smart TVs, FAST channels, Roku/Amazon/Apple/Google TV platforms, bundling.

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The Roku-TCL Class Action Puts Auto-Update Stewardship on Trial

Else v. Roku is the first federal class action to frame an over-the-air software push as the defect itself — testing whether smart-TV OS providers can ship update contracts that survive a bricked device.
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The Cord-Cutting Cliff Stalled in Q1 2026. The Consensus Hasn't Caught Up.

Q3 2025 was the first pay-TV net add since 2017, and Comcast and Charter just narrowed Q1 video losses — but the consensus is still working off Q1 2025's record vMVPD bleed.
Editorial line-chart illustration on warm ivory paper inside a deep editorial-navy frame: a steep downward curve in warm amber flattens out on the right end and lifts slightly, with a faint dotted continuation marking the still-pending next datapoint, against minimal Q1-through-Q1 quarterly tick marks.
Devices & Distribution

The Cord-Cutting Cliff Stalled in Q1 2026. The Consensus Hasn't Caught Up.

Q3 2025 was the first pay-TV net add since 2017, and Comcast and Charter just narrowed Q1 video losses — but the consensus is still working off Q1 2025's record vMVPD bleed.
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V Set to Overtake LG webOS in Europe, Omdia Forecasts

Hisense's renamed smart-TV OS is on pace to pass webOS in European shipments — and the ad-supply path that comes with it routes through Nexxen, Trade Desk, and Teads, not LG.
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Editorial letterpress illustration: a tall sans-serif capital V in deep editorial navy ink eclipses the lowercase webOS wordmark behind it, with only the trailing 'os' visible from beneath the V's lower-right serif, on warm ivory paper stock with a single warm-amber registration mark in the upper-right margin.
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V Set to Overtake LG webOS in Europe, Omdia Forecasts