TELEVISION ADS OUTPERFORM YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK ADS

6. 2. 2018 This is the result of a research that focused on the interconnection between the attention that people pay to advertisements and the influence it has on the sales of goods. According to the research conducted by Australian professor Karen Nelson-Field, television ads command more attention than YouTube or Facebook ads. The professor introduced her research at a meeting organized by the Association of Commercial Television (AKTV) in Prague. The research showed that 58% of people actively watched an average ad second on the television screen, while only 31% of people did so on YouTube and only 4% on Facebook. "Facebook is a rather passive platform, the primary focus being on friends, not advertising. But passive consumers of ads are also somehow significant," she said. Karen Nelson-Field also mentioned that attention is a key factor influencing product selection and that it directly impacts sales. "There is a strong interdependence between the attention paid to advertising and the volume of sales. The probability of people making a purchase when exposed to a certain ad increased by 17% when compared to people who have not seen the ad," she said. Therefore, each video has a positive effect on the sale of goods. The comparison of the above-mentioned platforms (TV, YouTube and Facebook) yet again demonstrates that advertising on the television screen achieved the best results. Based on the research, the attention paid to ads is highly correlated to screen coverage (the percentage of a screen occupied by an ad) on any platform. Television advertisements, at 100% screen coverage, provide three times more screen coverage than YouTube and ten times more screen coverage than Facebook. Ad visibility is thus directly proportional to attention that people pay to ads, which in turn impacts sales. The research claims that ad visibility is more important than the time people spend watching a particular ad.

WHY TV REMAINS THE WORLD’S MOST EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

20. 11. 2017 On the occasion of World Television Day, TV broadcasters and trade bodies from around the world have joined together for the first time to release global figures demonstrating TV’s resilience and strength as an advertising medium, with the recently formed Global TV Group a new unified voice for TV.