EASTER MARKETING IDEAS THAT WORK

14. 4. 2022 | 15 min read This list of unusual Easter marketing ideas will get you inspired for the season. Easter eggs make up 10% of annual chocolate spending in the UK. That’s a delicious chunk of revenue for food brands. We’ll go through what you can take from these examples to create a brilliant Easter marketing campaign. Younger generations are getting in on the action this time of year. We’ve explained how brands need to adapt to win at the Easter promotion game.

HOW TO RESOLVE THE ATTENTION PARADOX

12. 4. 2022 | 4 min read Can attention be both the “North Star to effectiveness” but also “really not how advertising works”?

IN DEFENCE OF BRAND STORYTELLING

11. 4. 2022 | 5 min read Storytelling increasingly feels like a dirty word in marketing circles, connoting a flippant, regressive or trivial approach to the business of selling things. But marketers abandon it at their peril.

ADS MOST POWERFUL WITH EXISTING CUSTOMERS

8. 4. 2022 | 2 min read ATTITUDES TO ADVERTISING CONSUMER SENTIMENT NORTH AMERICA (GENERAL REGION)

USA STUDY: SMART TV OWNERSHIP RISES TO 76% OF TV HOUSEHOLDS

7. 4. 2022 | 2 min read Rapid growth in ownership means that the majority of TV sets (57%) are now smart sets according to new data from Hub Entertainment Research.

OLDER, WEALTHIER VIEWERS VALUE TV NEWS AND SPORTS MORE, LRG SAYS

6. 4. 2022 | 2 min read Live programming will continue to keep pay-TV relevant, researcher says. Despite the increase in cordcutting, drawing viewers away from pay-TV, interest in live news and sports—a staple of traditional linear TV—remains high among older, wealthier viewers, according to a recent study from Leichtman Research Group.

GOLDBACH: 70% OF 16 TO 49-YEAR-OLDS IN DACH USE CONNECTED TV

4. 4. 2022 | 3 min read Connected TV has become an integral part of the living room in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH).

EUROPE’S TV BUSINESS MODEL GETS SHAKEN UP BY STREAMERS

2. 4. 2022 | 8 min read With U.S. streamers still driving local market growth, TV producers in continental Europe are juggling between the Hollywood studio business model — under which Netflix and the likes get all rights in return for full-financing plus a fee — and the pre-existing European model based on co-productions that leave indie producers with backend and give them more creative control.

FOR CTV ADS TO SUCCEED, THINK NEW, NOT OLD

1. 4. 2022 | 5 min read The television industry is in the midst of a slow-yet-inevitable migration from linear delivery to digital… one that will dramatically change the current landscape for advertisers, programmers and viewers alike. For advertisers, this shift to digital is opening up new and better ways of targeting audiences, delivering ads to them and measuring the results. But taking advantage of this new environment also requires a new way of thinking.

STUDY USA: CAN STREAMING VIDEO KEEP UP WITH THE METAVERSE?

29. 3. 2022 | 7 min read New Deloitte survey finds that the U.S. SVOD churn rate is 37% and that younger generations are increasingly embracing gaming, social media and user generated content

CONSUMERS EXPECT BRANDS TO RESPOND TO THE UKRAINE CONFLICT

24. 3. 2022 | 2 min read A majority of consumers around the world believe that brands should take some form of action in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. What can they do? According to research by GWI among 20,428 internet users aged 16-64 in 21 markets, 84% want brands to take action. While 32% accept that it may depend on the circumstances involved, there’s a hard core of 24% who think brands should always take action and make their views known.

BRING ON THE TECHNICOLOUR!

23. 3. 2022 | 6 min read There’s a scene in Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-worthy Belfast where the film’s young hero Buddy is taken to the cinema to see the 1968 musical fantasy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Branagh’s movie is beautifully, brutally monochrome but the CCBB clip appears in its original glorious Technicolour, flooding the screen with warmth and transporting the Belfast audience - and the audience watching Belfast - to a happier, sunnier place.

IAB: DIGITAL VIDEO ADVERTISING INCREASES THE REACH OF LINEAR TV CAMPAIGNS

22. 3. 2022 | 3 min read The European digital video advertising market is currently growing rapidly and the volume of advertising investment for linear TV and non-linear TV is converging in Europe, an IAB and PubMatic report has found.

THE TV SET IS THE COMPETITIVE ARENA FOR HIGH QUALITY AV CONTENT

21. 3. 2022 | 1 min read TV set viewing continues to dominate the majority of people’s video consumption.

WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL, IT’S THE SAME AS THE OLD ONE

21. 3. 2022 | 10 min read Despite dire predictions of Covid-driven decline for some sectors and exponential growth for others, we’re largely where we would have been if it had never happened.

STUDY CANADA: TV REACHES THE LARGEST AUDIENCES

21. 3. 2022 | 3 min read Despite the growth in streaming, TV continues to draw in the largest audience. Based on our access to the latest data, along with evidence from other industry experts, TV is still strong today and the best place for marketers to invest their advertising dollars.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MARKETING TO THE HYPER-STRESSED

15. 3. 2022 | 4 min read Many consumers no longer have the same cognitive resources for decision-making. For two years, consumers in the U.S. have been struggling to adapt to a new normal, whatever that may mean. The result has been massive stress.

THE CTV/OTT ADVERTISING INDUSTRY: WHAT LIES AHEAD IN 2022

15. 3. 2022 | 7 min read The explosive growth of Connected TV or CTV adspend is attracting new players and Unruly’s Lee Smith looks at how this will impact the issues of content, services and technology for the platform.