PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PURPOSELY RUNNING AWAY FROM THE NEWS, BUT THEY’LL BE BACK IN THE FALL

1. 8. 2022 More positive topics or tips on how to cope with the rising cost of living. That, too, is a recipe for responding to people's frustration with the overabundance of negative events, according to TV Nova news director Kamil Houska.

STORYTELLING EXPERT FRANK ROSE ON NARRATIVE THINKING IN A DIGITAL AGE

26. 7. 2022 Technology has turned the whole world into storytellers by giving us new means and new motives to share our tales. Journalist and author Frank Rose discusses how stories shape our reality and how to navigate narratives in a digital world.

VOYO IS DOING FUNDAMENTALLY BETTER THAN WE PLANNED. ORDINACE IS STILL THE DRIVING FORCE, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT OF CME

23. 6. 2022 Daniel Grunt returned to CME a year ago as head of digital activities. His task was to secure one million subscribers for Voyo within five years. How's it going?

VOYO NOT PLANNING TO JOIN A PRICE WAR OR INTRODUCE ADS

3. 6. 2022 Paid video service Voyo will not participate in a price war with foreign VOD services, neither does it plan to introduce ads. It was announced at the Digimedia conference.

PRIMA WILL START AUCTIONING OFF PART OF THE SPACE NEXT YEAR

4. 5. 2022 The Prima Group is trying to counter the expected outflow of advertising GRPs in linear TV and will introduce auction sales for part of its advertising space from 2023, following restrictions on rewind advertising in IPTV. And it is already announcing price increases.

VOYO WANTS TO BE PART OF THE BIG THREE. WE ARE ALREADY NUMBER TWO IN THE MARKET, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT

27. 4. 2022 Nova TV has already succeeded in beating HBO Max in the number of subscribers to its video service Voyo. It is the second strongest streaming service in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

EGRP CAMPAIGNS HELP INCREASING AFFINITY AND REACH

26. 4. 2022 eGRP campaigns bring greater reach and improved affinity, especially to clients willing to address a younger target group, describes Petr Hatlapatka from Media Club.

VOYO DOES NOT TARGET YOUNG PEOPLE. WE ARE ALL ABOUT FAMILIES, SAYS DANIEL GRUNT

20. 4. 2022 Nova TV’s Voyo video service experienced an exceptionally successful year. At the beginning of 2021, it announced an ambitious plan to attract a million customers within five years. At that time, Nova only had about 60 thousand customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It surpassed its annual goal in the autumn and now the number of users exceeds 350 thousand. By the way, it is more than the global player HBO Max has in the Czech Republic.

PRIMA BOSS MAREK SINGER: “WE HAVE TO INTRODUCE A BAN ON REWINDING COMMERCIALS, OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO MONEY FOR QUALITY PRODUCTION”

20. 4. 2022 Marek Singer, CEO of the Prima group (not just TV anymore), describes a new competitive framework he calls "total video" in the Médiář podcast.

CRITICS OF CNN PRIMA NEWS SHOULD STEP OUT OF THEIR SOCIAL BUBBLE FROM TIME TO TIME, SAYS THE GROUP’S CEO MAREK SINGER

12. 4. 2022 Marek Singer has been the head of FTV Prima group since 2008. But only after fourteen long years can he be happy that Prima’s channels are catching up with their biggest competitor - the Nova group - in terms of viewership. In certain viewer target groups, they even surpassed Nova in March.

VOYO HAS ALREADY OVERTAKEN HBO AND IS CATCHING UP WITH NETFLIX. WE ARE INVESTING AND GROWING FASTER THAN EXPECTED, SAYS NOVA’S DIGITAL BRAIN

11. 2. 2022 The fairy tale of Cinderella who turns into a princess may have its reflection in the business world. The grimy beauty could be called Voyo. Nova TV established its video library in 2012 but forgot about it for many years. And now? It is the epicentre of digital transformation of the Czech commercial number one. Last year, it attracted hundreds of paying subscribers and is catching up with Netflix. Its head Daniel Grunt would also like to repeat another famous story - the one about Seznam and Google, just in a streaming setting.

TOMORROW’S TV, CREATED TODAY

18. 11. 2021 Introduction - TV industry leaders on how TV drives brands

THE FUTURE OF MEASURING A FRAGMENTED MEDIA LANDSCAPE

14. 11. 2021 Measuring media has never been as precise as stakeholders would like. Adding CTV (connected TV) and ATV (advanced TV) to an already intricate mix compounds the complexities.

PRIMA PREPARING PAID VIDEO LIBRARY TO MAKE NEW SPACE FOR ADVERTISING

2. 11. 2021 Prima, the second largest commercial TV in the Czech Republic, prepares its paid on-line video library through which it will seek to address more viewers and offer more ad space to its advertisers.

MEDIA CLUB BETTING ON TOTAL VIDEO. IT WILL STOP GRPS OUTFLOW IN TIME-SHIFTED VIEWING

1. 11. 2021 Video advertising will be an integral part of TV ad sales of Media Club from 2022. Media Club wants to prevent losing ad GRPs in time-shifted viewing, describes Prima’s COO, Vladimír Pořízek.

NOVA STARTS APPLYING GREEN FILMING PRINCIPLES

27. 10. 2021 The Nova TV group starts applying green filming principles and plans to introduce them into all countries where the CME group operates, describes Hana de Goeij.

GOLDEN DAYS FOR TV. RATINGS ARE GROWING AND CHANNELS WILL NOT ACCOMMODATE MORE ADS, SAYS NOVA’S CEO JAN VLČEK

25. 10. 2021 According to the CEO of the largest local commercial TV, with the pandemic remission the Czechs have returned to shopping, and retail chains, electronics producers or e-shops spend billions on ad spots with unparalleled intensity. “We have not seen such good times for TV ad sales for a long time,” says Nova’s CEO Jan Vlček in an interview for HN.

INTEREST IN TV ADVERTISING EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

23. 9. 2021 Strong demand is coming from advertisers in the e-commerce, retail and food and beverage segments. There is a high demand for TV advertising, confirms the CEO of the Nova TV Group Jan Vlček.