Boasting 80 million active monthly users and 2.1% of total TV time in the US, David Salmon, EVP and MD of International at AVOD Tubi explains how the company has found success through an extensive, yet diverse library. George Jarrett reports.
David Salmon was with Endeavour as CTO focussing mainly on live sports, and then the video shopping specialist Bambuser as Chief Product and Technology Officer, so did he carry over his technical operational knowledge of streaming into his role at the Fox-owned, ad-supported free streaming service (AVOD) Tubi?
“I did run the engineering sides previously, and I think it is extremely applicable to the work I do at Tubi because we are talking about launching free streaming services and grappling with the way that streaming is fundamentally disrupting traditional distribution,” he says...
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