THE YEAR THAT TV SAVED US

8. 5. 2021 As life outside our homes shut down, the small screen became our treasured path to safe escape

I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED A SILLY SEASON, SAYS PAVEL ŠTRUNC, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF CNN PRIMA NEWS

3. 5. 2021 It has been a year since the new CNN Prima News brand was presented in the Czech TV market. “We must always be prepared for everything,” says Pavel Štrunc, Editor-in-Chief of CNN Prima News.

PRIMA’S CEO MAREK SINGER: WE ARE NOT JUST TELLING YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR

2. 5. 2021 We have done anything to spice up the launch of CNN Prima NEWS with adrenaline, says Marek Singer, the Prima group’s CEO, in an interview, remembering the launch of the news channel that celebrates its first birthday on 3 May. “We established the brand as a multiplatform. Thanks to TV and online channels our reach is up to 7.7 million people now,” he says.

TV DRIVES BUSINESS OUTCOMES

30. 4. 2021 Global TV Group arms advertisers with latest TV effectiveness evidence from around the world. Research collection demonstrates how TV works in every market, for all customer objectives.

CNN PRIMA NEWS REACHES OVER 7.7 MILLION PEOPLE PER MONTH

28. 4. 2021 A year has passed since the start of CNN Prima NEWS on 3 May 2020. This year, the news multiplatform is growing in all key indicators: number of real users of the new website, TV ratings and the total reach.

TV’S RENAISSANCE

28. 4. 2021 With a highly anticipated Enders report into TV advertising out this week, Bobi Carley looks at a linear medium firmly back on planning agendas

CONSUMERS REVEAL A PREFERENCE FOR TV ADVERTISING OVER SOCIAL MEDIA

27. 4. 2021 Around a third of consumers say TV advertising is ‘entertaining’ (34%) and ‘informative’ (30%) – far more than the equivalent figures for social media advertising (17% and 19% respectively).

WHY TV ADS ARE STILL KING

27. 4. 2021 Continued strong levels of consumption and an audience preference for its advertising means that diversifying media habits aren’t killing broadcast TV, says GWI’s Jason Mander.

VOYO WANTS TO PULL EVEN WITH NETFLIX AND DISNEY+

26. 4. 2021 Voyo wants to create space for its services in the prepaid video market. “In order to make progress, we will have to double the number of subscribers every year,” says the Director of Digital Media of CME, Daniel Grunt.

PAID VIDEO MARKET IN EUROPE IS EXPECTED TO GROW BY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION

22. 4. 2021 The SVOD market is expected to attract more than 100 million subscribers in Europe by 2026. Number one is Netflix but the growth will be driven by Disney+ or HBO Max.

HOW THE PANDEMIC ACCELERATED A TRANSFORMATION ACROSS CONNECTED TV

15. 4. 2021 Ad spend increased as brands gravitated to the space. While linear TV got pummeled by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, connected TV and direct-to-consumer players have been thriving over the past year.

CME INVESTING IN DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT WITH VOYO IN THE FOCUS

13. 4. 2021 The Voyo video portal should become the centre of a new strategy of CME. The owner of the TV Nova group invests in the development of digital media.

CME’S CEO: VOYO WILL HAVE MORE AND MORE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. ITS PRODUCTION HAS STARTED

13. 4. 2021 The Nova group plans to make significant investments in the production of new content for its Voyo platform. There should be from 15 to 20 new formats produced every year. Voyo should become a dominant player on the local market that wants to compete using its exclusive original and acquired content. Its ambition is that the platform will have about a million subscribers in Czechia and Slovakia within five years. Didier Stoessel, the new head of the CME group, said that at a meeting with media journalists today.

WHAT AVOD’S GROWTH MEANS FOR MARKETERS IN SEARCH OF EVOLVING CONSUMERS

13. 4. 2021 As viewer interest in ad-supported video on demand accelerates, marketers are trying to determine how to navigate the channel and avoid new walled gardens.

WHAT MARKETERS MUST CONSIDER BEFORE DIVING INTO ADVANCED TV

12. 4. 2021 With the deprecation of third-party cookies and its implications on media targeting, advertisers are increasingly looking for opportunities to leverage both their first-party data and third-party data to effectively reach audiences. Advanced TV (ATV) offers the opportunity to do just that, providing marketers a brand-safe, person-targeted medium that is more measurable than traditional linear TV buys.

TV IS MARKETERS’ BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY – AND THREAT

8. 4. 2021 As ISBA pushes ahead with its plans for a cross-media measurement system – despite the TV broadcasters' hesitancy – the head of its AV Steering Group encourages marketers to evolve how they see TV.

TV MARKET AVOIDED FLUCTUATIONS IN GRPS IN THE FIRST QUARTER

7. 4. 2021 The ongoing coronavirus pandemic did not bring any significant fluctuations in the number of delivered GRPs to the advertising TV market.

THE PIVOT TO PURPOSE: ALIGNING GOOD AND GROWTH

5. 4. 2021 It’s tempting to see 2020 as a year where the world was stuck on pause. Yet in many ways it has been a story of radical transformation. Faced with unprecedented problems, businesses evolve as never before, and open up to new possibilities.