LESS CHOICE AND MORE ADS: WHY TRADITIONAL TV IS MAKING A COMEBACK

1. 8. 2023 | 6 min read When streaming landed on our screens, it was hailed as television’s promised land. It offered content at our beck and call, drawn from libraries as deep as the internet itself. But as balance sheet economics has caught up to the multi-billion dollar spending sprees, content is vanishing and streaming itself is evolving.

THINKBOX: 30 SECOND ADS DELIVER THE GREATEST IMPACT

31. 7. 2023 | 1 min read Thinkbox’s ‘Creative Drivers of Effectiveness’ study explores the factors most strongly linked to long-term memory encoding (LTME), a proven metric in driving decision making and future behaviour.

TRAVEL SECTOR TV AD COLLECTION

31. 7. 2023 | 1 min read Travel is an industry that is always looking forwards. Yes, towards future bookings, but also towards the next creative idea. With customers returning to holidays in force post-pandemic, competition is high and strong brands are essential. TV advertising has a critical role to play and the travel sector delivers some stand out ad creative that has helped build brands.

HOW WILL ATSC 3.0 TRANSFORM TV ADVERTISING?

31. 7. 2023 | 5 min read The arrival of ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV—and its ability to combine broadcast with IP—has the potential to transform TV commercials from one-way mass-market blasts to two-way personalized interactive experiences.

AI AND THE AVOD VIEWING EXPERIENCE

25. 7. 2023 | 6 min read As AVOD models gain traction, the combination of automation and human intuition will ultimately help deliver the right balance for both viewers and advertisers

TRAVELERS REACT TO AI-GENERATED TRAVEL ADS

25. 7. 2023 | 5 min read AI has dominated the news for this first half of 2023 and using new artificial intelligence tools to help create ads has been all the buzz lately. So much so that NPR recently published an article and released a related podcast episode on how to recognize AI-generated images. The travel marketing space has been no different; AI has begun its integration with travel—including providing recommendations, booking, forecasting, creating itineraries, and now advertisements. Case in point, an AdAge article published in March explored how Lithuania Travel deployed the generative AI software Midjourney to make tourism ads for one of their campaigns.

STUDY: CONSUMERS TURN TO CURATED HUBS TO FIND CONTENT IN CROWDED STREAMING LANDSCAPE

24. 7. 2023 | 3 min read Black streamers are especially engaged, with eight in ten (80%) reporting using Black content collections/hubs at least occasionally according to a new Horowitz study.

HBBTV 2023 SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS INVITES SPONSORS

21. 7. 2023 | 1 min read The 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards will take place 28-29 November 2023 in Naples, Italy. The HbbTV Association, which is organising the Symposium, has put together some attractive sponsorship packages.

PREDICTION: ADDRESSABLE TV ADVERTISING IS SET FOR RAPID GROWTH

14. 7. 2023 | 2 min read The addressable tv advertising market is set for rapid growth, according to a new report. Its volume is expected to increase from the current usd 56 billion to usd 87 billion in 2027.

THE “MAPPING THE IMPACT” STUDY REVEALED A SIGNIFICANT LINK BETWEEN CONTEXT, CREATIVE ELEMENTS AND THE EFFECT OF TV ADVERTISING

14. 7. 2023 | 8 min read German company Screenforce has recently revealed the results of its new study “Mapping the Impact”. The research looked at whether the situation the viewer is currently in and the elements used in an ad spot can have an impact on the effect of a TV ad. The study came to a clear conclusion: there are large differences in the perception of advertising during different phases of the day, which offers advertisers and media agencies the chance to optimally design and plan ads using appropriate creative elements and thus achieve a higher impact and memorability with tv viewers.

BRANDS NEED TO MARRY HUMOUR AND PURPOSE

11. 7. 2023 | 3 min read System1 testing of Cannes Film Lions winners suggests that humour is once again becoming an important element of advertising, partly at the expense of purpose.

NIELSEN: STREAMING OFFERS 7X MORE LGBTQ+ INCLUSIVE PROGRAMMING THAN LINEAR TV

7. 7. 2023 | 3 min read Marketers “continue to miss opportunities to build connections with gender diverse and LGBTQ+ audiences,” new Nielsen report finds

CALL FOR SPEAKERS FOR 11TH HBBTV SYMPOSIUM

3. 7. 2023 | 2 min read The HbbTV Association has issued a call for speakers ahead of the 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards on November 28-29, 2023 in Naples, Italy.

LONG TAGLINES USING ‘RARE’ WORDS ARE MOST MEMORABLE BUT LEAST LIKED, STUDY REVEALS

2. 7. 2023 | 3 min read Brands need to determine whether they want their slogan to be remembered or liked, as new research shows the most memorable brand slogans are often the least liked.

EMOTION IN ADVERTISING AND THE ROLE OF MUSIC

30. 6. 2023 | 7 min read Emotion is at the heart of effective advertising and music is critical to emotional delivery. So, how can you ensure music conveys the right emotions in your advertising?

STUDY USA: STREAMING TV VIEWING VIA MOBILE CASTING RISES AS MEDIA PLAYERS, GAMING BOXES DECLINE

29. 6. 2023 | 2 min read Streaming TV viewing via mobile devices - through "casting" on TV sets - continues to grow, as the viewing of OTT content on older TV-based technology devices sinks, including streaming media players, legacy pay TV, and gaming boxes, partly due to the habits of 18-34 viewers, according to a new study by Aluma Insights.

ADVERTISING TRENDS: HOW TO WIN IN A DIGITAL WORLD

29. 6. 2023 | 5 min read Kantar’s Creative Effectiveness Awards celebrate the world’s most creative and effective ads, and we reveal what makes them so great.

LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATION IN ADS IS SEVERELY LACKING, GLAAD AND KANTAR REPORT FINDS

26. 6. 2023 | 3 min read Just 3% of more than 400 ads from 2022 had LGBTQ+ representation.