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They say the third time’s the charm. The owner of Possible — the conference, trade show and event that’s hitting its third year — certainly hopes so and has invested millions into its scaled but careful expansion.

Hyve Group, an event and conference specialist that owns ShopTalk, Fintech Meetup and dozens of other events globally — and bought Possible’s owner Beyond Ordinary Events last year for a rumored $40 million — is bringing a signature feature of ShopTalk to Possible: scheduled meetings.

While ShopTalk schedules something on the level of 50,000 such meetings, the scaled down version for Possible is closer to 3,000 according to Mark Shashoua, CEO of Hyve Group. 

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This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how TV network and streaming service owners like AMC Networks are placing bigger bets on outcome-based measurement heading into this year’s upfront and the potential for outcome-based buying.

• The outlook for outcomes
• Nielsen updates The Gauge’s streaming rankings (again)
• Creators vs. deepfakes, MLB’s and F1’s rights talks and more

The outlook for outcomes

Outcome-based measurement is becoming more commonplace in the TV and streaming ad market. So how long until business outcomes – which range from search and sales lifts to online and in-store visits – become the currency on which TV and streaming ads are bought and sold?

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