Five years ago this week… Faultline revealed exclusively to readers that a voice-powered AI advertising start-up called Instreamatic, which we first introduced a year earlier, was planning to expand its offering from audio streaming services like Pandora (its largest customer at the time) to video content. We were early to the case, because it took until mid-2023 before Instreamatic launched its Contextual TV Ads platform, and a year later the company claimed that three-year revenue surged by 1600%. In mid-2024, Instreamatic secured additional funding. Fox’s new D2C play: Fox is planning a direct-to-consumer streaming service for news and sports, but CEO Lachlan Murdoch insists it won’t cannibalize traditional pay TV. The offering will be priced modestly, with no additional rights…