Comcast predicts advertising within video-on-demand programming to increase tenfold within the next 12 months, according to Multichannel News. Chip Meehan, Comcast Spotlight’s West regional vice president of integrated media sales said “We have 400 million monthly VOD views on Comcast. I’d love to have a dollar for every view.” Meehan was addressing a panel at the Multichannel News/B&C 4th annual On Demand Summit yesterday in New York City. Meehan predicted a big upswing in VOD advertising revenue as the cable giant completes licensing agreements with programming providers. Referring to Comcast’s sweeping deal with The Walt Disney Co. struck earlier this year, he added “If Comcast and Disney can figure it out you can assume we’ll figure it out with others.” Some 320 million VOD views on Comcast are free TV content. Meehan suggested that if half those were from cable programmers, “that’s 160 million impressions per month. That times 40 bucks starts to be a pretty big business.”


the shakedown begins.
Yup. Thanks, oligarchy.
I foresee them advertising all the advertising opportunities that are available as they disable fast forwarding in their OnDemand offerings. As a KableTown subscriber I can’t wait to see how their increased revenue opportunities are translated into their annual rate increase, because all that additional income is bound to require additional acquisitions and expansions that aren’t going to pay for themselves.
Forget Xfinity. They should call themselves Ferengi-vision.
Yup, now that they have the fast forward disabling process working smoothly, it’ll be ads every three minutes. What they don’t realize is that people will stop watching VOD and revert to their DVRs, where you can still blast by commercials. So, they might actually see a decline in VOD ad revenue if they’re not careful. But, hey, they’re Comcast.
I would watch Comcast VOD more and wouldn’t mind the commercials as much if there were more full seasons of shows.
What works wonderfully is VOD combined with TiVo. I use it when local stations go to ridiculous extremes with storm coverage. Only downside is trying to remember what’s hidden inside each little Now Playing package. The joy is knowing what isn’t in there- Kardashians, Trumps, Hillbillies and Pageant Moms.