GET RID OF THE 11 THINGS HOLDING YOUR CREATIVITY BACK NOW

12. 6. 2023 | 2 min read At the end of last week, Thinkbox unveiled the results of an investigation by Laurence Green, one of the UK's most respected advertising strategists and creative leaders. He conducted a total of 34 in-depth interviews with agency and client executives. The interviews took place in April and May this year and involved companies such as adam&eveDDB, AMV BBDO, Boots, Channel 4, Creature, Havas Creative, ITV, Leo Burnett, Lloyds Banking Group, McDonald's, Mother, Publicis Groupe, Saatchi&Saatchi, Sainsburys, VCCP and others. Respondents included Sir John Hegarty, co-founder and creative director of The Garage, and Tim Lindsay, chairman of D&AD.

EVOLUTION OF THE TV INDUSTRY: AN NEM SPEAKER PERSPECTIVE

10. 6. 2023 | 2 min read Four key speakers at NEM Dubrovnik 2023 have been asked how they see the evolution of the TV industry during the next 10 years.

GWI STUDY: GLOBAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE

9. 6. 2023 | 2 min read GWI has unveiled its new report on global media consumption.

NETFLIX’S ‘WEDNESDAY,’ HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’ ON YOUTUBE’S LIST OF TOP 10 ADS FOR 2023

9. 6. 2023 | 2 min read A Peacock ad starring Kevin Hart also made the cut, as did a star-studded spot for Bulgari featuring Zendaya and Anne Hathaway. What makes for a successful commercial on YouTube? It helps to be a streaming service.

PRIMA NEWS DIRECTOR ŠVEHLÁK, ŠTRUNC LEAVES

8. 6. 2023 | 1 min read Pavel Štrunc is leaving the management of Prima Group and CNN Prima News after less than three years. Martin Švehlák is the new director.

PODCAST: “I KNOW WHAT THE AUDIENCE WILL BE EXCITED ABOUT.” SAYS THE FATHER OF TV HITS MICHAL REITLER

6. 6. 2023 | 3 min read It's easy to miss his name in the headlines. But without him, viewers would miss out on the best TV projects of the last decade-plus. TV producer Michal Reitler, who is also behind the TV series Ulice, Most!, Iveta, Cases of the 1st Department and others, visited the Blesk.cz studio.

MILAN ŠTEINDLER, THE ICON OF CZECH PROVOCATIVE ADVERTISING

6. 6. 2023 | 5 min read The Czech humorist was born in Prague in 1957. He is a well-known comedian who firstly became famous mainly for his acting roles. You may know him for example from the films Kopytem sem, kopytem tam, Vrát se do hrobu, Díky za každé nové ráno or from the series Česká soda. He is also a co-founder of the Sklep Theatre. However, he is also no stranger to the world of advertising - he works as a screenwriter and director. He studied directing at FAMU in Prague. However, during his studies he already worked at the Barrandov Film Studios as an assistant director. He has many successful TV commercials to his credit. For example, he is behind the spots for Fidorka or the campaigns for the CLEVER brand, where he presents effective scientific experiments. He is also the author of the children series Z deníku žáka 3.B aneb Edudant a Francimor. His work is characterized by a humorous touch and tends towards recession and light provocation. FIDORKA AND MISCHIEF Milan Šteindler has directed several spots for the Fidorka brand. Despite the fact that, as usual, they were mainly based on exaggeration and humour, these were not among the most provocative and were accepted by the Czech audience - both laymen and professional - without protest, unlike other films from Šteindler's workshop. This series of spots was created in cooperation with the Havas Prague agency and appeared on television in 2008.

OMDIA RESEARCH: CEE FAST MARKET ON TRACK TO REACH $42M

5. 6. 2023 | 2 min read The Central and Eastern European market is on track to reach $42m in free ad-supported streaming tv (FAST) revenues by 2028 according to new research from Omdia.

THE MARKETING PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

5. 6. 2023 | 6 min read Celebrity endorsements sell products, even when the star outshines the brand. In a new study, Wharton experts use neuroscience to understand consumer decision-making.

TV IN CZECH REPUBLIC IN MAY: ČT LEADS, NOVA, LIST AND ATMEDIA GREW

5. 6. 2023 | 2 min read Czech Television's stations continued to record a market share of over 30% this May and achieved the highest market share in the universal group over 15 years of age.

NEXTV SERIES EUROPE CONFERENCE: NETFLIX AND YOUTUBE’S MARKET SHARES ARE DECLINING DUE TO NEW OTT SERVICES IN EUROPE

4. 6. 2023 | 5 min read In mid-May, a series of international conferences Nextv Ad Europe and Nextv Series Europe were held in Prague, organized by Dataxis, with the Association of Commercial Televisions (AKTV) as a partner.

CHILD-ORIENTED ADVERTISING OR THE BALANCE BETWEEN REGULATIONS AND ETHICS. WHAT ARE THE RULES OF THIS COMPLEX MARKETING DISCIPLINE?

3. 6. 2023 | 15 min read Most of us are probably able to figure out what information the creators of each television spot are trying to convey to us when watching TV. We can tell when they’re using well-intentioned hyperbole and we can equally tell when they’re trying to sell us ideas that aren’t quite our own. But there are those among us who don’t yet have that ability - children, of course. For some businesses, children are the main target group they are trying to reach with their marketing. The very concept of advertising aimed at a group of people with limited capacity for critical thinking and analytical reasoning is also bound by many regulations or unwritten rules. Marketers are entering a thin ice where the main question is - what is still allowed and what is already over the line?

ESG INITIATIVE CME CARES WILL BE LED BY SOŇA SCHWARZOVÁ AND HANA DE GOEIJ

31. 5. 2023 | 2 min read ESG, an initiative of the media company CME, which operates TV Nova and the Voyo video platform in the Czech Republic, will be led by Soňa Schwarzová and Hana de Goeij starting June under the brand CME CARES.

PPF: CME TELEVISION GROUP INCREASED PROFITS LAST YEAR

31. 5. 2023 | 2 min read PPF Group's television business generated higher profits in 2022 than in the previous year, according to financial results.

MOOD MATTERS: REACHING TV VIEWERS AT THE RIGHT MOMENT

30. 5. 2023 | 8 min read Reaching people in positive moods can boost the likelihood that people notice, like and believe our ads. So why do so many marketers ignore its power? Joanna Stanley looks at the behavioural science behind mood, and offers ideas to optimise your next campaign.

IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO SKIP THE AD ON PRIMA AFTER FOUR MINUTES

30. 5. 2023 | 2 min read Skipping of ads in the rewind view of internet operators offering Prima Group channels will be possible from June after four minutes.

EXPERTS STUMPED BY ‘AD TURING TEST’ /

30. 5. 2023 | 4 min read A panel of experienced marketing professionals struggled to tell ads made by students from those generated by AI in a competition pitched as the first ‘ad Turing test’.

NEW EMOTIONAL BRAND METRICS FOR DARK TIMES

29. 5. 2023 | 2 min read Measuring brand metrics that inspire human emotions could sit alongside standard business metrics in future, says a new report from the Wunderman Thompson agency.