EFFECTIVENESS IS BUILT ON CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY, EMERGED FROM THE CREATIVE IMPACT DISCUSSION FORUM AT THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

26. 9. 2025 | 11 min read At the Cannes Lions Festival, leading marketers, prominent creatives, and representatives from research agencies come together each year to explore the relationships between creativity, consistency, and effectiveness. This year, as part of the Creative Impact discussion forum, they focused on finding ways to maintain brand consistency in an uncertain and ever-changing environment, leverage creators and new technologies, and improve customer experience. The takeaway? Consistency is a creative superpower that can protect brand value and increase brand strength over the long term.

STUDY USA: SHOPPERS TURN TO AI FIRST FOR RESEARCH

26. 9. 2025 | 1 min read More than half (53%) of US consumers turn to AI for conducting shopping research, per an August Adobe survey.

WOOD AND HEGARTY: ADVERTISING NEEDS A NEW CREATIVE REVOLUTION

25. 9. 2025 | 5 min read Creativity is essential for business growth, and its importance is increasing in the age of AI. Agencies and CMOs have the opportunity to become drivers of creativity and strategic partners to company leadership, as emphasised in a webinar featuring John Hegarty and Orlando Wood.

ORLANDO WOOD AND SIR JOHN HEGARTY ON HOW CREATIVITY FUELS BRAND GROWTH

24. 9. 2025 | 2 min read This year marks a symbolic anniversary - 150 years since the first documented use of the word creativity in English. Historian Adolphus William Ward used the term in 1875 in reference to William Shakespeare's "poetic creativity".

CONSUMERS PREFER TO WATCH ADS ON AMAZON, FINDS KANTAR STUDY

23. 9. 2025 | 3 min read Consumers are more receptive to ads on Amazon than those on other global media platforms, while X is the least trusted platform among marketers, according to a Kantar global study of the media landscape.

GEN Z HOLIDAY SPENDING TANKS IN 2025

22. 9. 2025 | 1 min read Gen Z’s expected holiday spend in 2025 is $1,357, down 22.5% from 2024, according to July data from PwC.

YOUNGER MARKETERS OPEN TO INCREASING RADIO, TV AD BUDGETS

21. 9. 2025 | 1 min read “Younger marketing people may be more inclined to favor nothing but social media,” notes Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy. Yet, while they do favor social media, Sunshine finds they may be interested in their older counterparts in good ol’ traditional, linear media channels.

THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DIRECT IMPACT CZECH COMPETITION GOES TO B TÝM

19. 9. 2025 | 2 min read The Grand Prix award of the 23rd year of the Direct Impact Czech competition went to the B tým agency for the campaign "To za nás nebylo" for the Educational Institute for Moravia.

ADVERTISING IN PREMIUM MEDIA STRENGTHENS TRUST IN BRANDS

16. 9. 2025 | 2 min read Consumers trust brands more when their advertising appears in premium media, according to international research.

WATCH ROBERT REDFORD’S MOST MEMORABLE ADS

16. 9. 2025 | 2 min read ADWEEK remembers the Hollywood icon's best commercials.

MEDIA CLUB INCREASED REVENUES FROM TV, RADIO AND ONLINE LAST YEAR

15. 9. 2025 | 3 min read Media Club's total revenues last year reached CZK 6 billion. Internet advertising is growing the fastest, but TV advertising is still the dominant position.

ADVERTISING SPENDING IN LINEAR TV DECLINES DUE TO STREAMING

15. 9. 2025 | 2 min read As TV viewers shift to VOD services, global investment in advertising on linear TV is declining.

FROM BRANDING TO ACTION: BEST PRACTICES FOR USING QR CODES IN PERFORMANCE CTV

12. 9. 2025 | 5 min read At the most recent NewFronts, TV manufacturers Samsung and LG and Fox-owned streaming service Tubi all talked about integrating QR codes into their ad offerings.

STUDY UK: SVOD SUBSCRIBERS MOVING TO AD TIERS

11. 9. 2025 | 2 min read The UK showed an increase of 500,000 homes in the number who had access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in Q2 2025.

HALLOWEEN ARRIVES EARLY AS RETAILERS LOOK TO SCARE UP SEASONAL SALES

9. 9. 2025 | 3 min read Retailers are wasting no time filling shelves with Halloween goods to entice cost-conscious shoppers to treat themselves with seasonal items.

WEALTHIER SHOPPERS DRIVE HIGHER RETURN RATES FOR RETAILERS

9. 9. 2025 | 2 min read Higher-income shoppers are more likely to make returns, according to an analysis of credit and debit card data from Bank of America.

PERSONAL FINANCE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE BORING. TV ADS REPEATEDLY DEBUNK THIS MYTH

8. 9. 2025 | 10 min read Who says financial literacy is boring? It may seem like an unexciting topic – numbers, savings, budgets – but despite that, it has become one of the liveliest genres in television advertising. Sometimes it takes a serious tone, other times it relies on humour or emotion, but it always aims at one thing: to show that money isn’t a distant world of experts but an everyday reality for all of us. These stories demonstrate that advertising can do more than sell – it can teach us to reflect on values, responsibility, and the future. And the marketing of global financial institutions has been proving this for decades.

DIMINISHED “AURA” WORRIES AMERICAN BRANDS TRADING AROUND THE WORLD

5. 9. 2025 | 2 min read American brands are accustomed to the glow of their native country around the world, but in a newly contentious international situation, brands are having to adapt to a more problematic political and cultural context. Why Brand USA matters US soft power remains, as it continues to top Brand Finance’s Global Soft Power Index, but there are signs of movement: in June a Morning Consult poll found that international opinions of the US were in retreat while China’s favourability is in the ascendant.