THE FENIX AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 2. OCTOBER

15. 9. 2025 The 12th annual Fenix Awards gala will be held on October 2.

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

15. 9. 2025 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.

SURVEY: GEN Z, MILLENNIALS PREFER AI TOOLS FOR PRODUCT RESEARCH

15. 9. 2025 A sizable amount of younger consumers are gravitating towards artificial intelligence tools for product research.

ADVERTISING SPENDING IN LINEAR TV DECLINES DUE TO STREAMING

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

STUDY: MORE VIEWERS START THEIR TV VIEWING WITH A SVOD SERVICE THAN LIVE TV

15. 9. 2025 Less than one third of viewers start watching TV with a live TV service; 40% begin with an SVOD service like Netflix.

WHAT MARKETERS CAN LEARN FROM BRANDS CONNECTING WITH GEN Z

12. 9. 2025 Following the publication of Collage Group’s “2025 State of Brand Cultural Fluency” report, the cultural intelligence data company also looked at which brands are most resonant with Gen Z, and which brands are more differentiated in appealing to the generation (compared to consumers overall).

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

12. 9. 2025 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.

ZLATÝ STŘEDNÍK: THE PROJECT OF THE YEAR IS SVOBODA NÁS SPOJUJE

11. 9. 2025 The project of the year of the 23rd Zlatý středník competition is "Svoboda nás spojuje", the best agency is MSL Czech Republic.

KAMIL HOUSKA: ONEPLAY HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED OUR APPROACH TO TN LIVE

11. 9. 2025 The launch of TN Live on Oneplay marked a turning point for the platform. Following the modernisation of the studio and the professionalisation of the broadcast, work is now underway on further developments, which Nova will unveil in the coming months.

STUDY UK: SVOD SUBSCRIBERS MOVING TO AD TIERS

11. 9. 2025 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.

FORUM MEDIA CONFERENCE HAS PUBLISHED ITS PROGRAMME

10. 9. 2025 Forum Media is the largest event on marketing, communication and business in the Czech Republic. This year it takes place on 25 November at the O2 universum.

HALLOWEEN ARRIVES EARLY AS RETAILERS LOOK TO SCARE UP SEASONAL SALES

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

HBBTV AWARDS 2025 OPEN FOR ENTRIES

9. 9. 2025 The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, is pleased to invite entries for this year’s HbbTV Awards.

THE GENERATION OF CZECHS 45+ IS NOT OFFLINE ANYMORE. HOW TO REACH THEM?

9. 9. 2025 Czechs aged 45+ remain loyal to TV and radio, but are also increasingly spending time online and on social networks. For marketers, this means reaching a target group that is not as fragmented as the younger generation, but gaining their attention is more challenging. Petr Tomáš describes how to do it in the final part of the series on the target group of Czechs over 45.

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

8. 9. 2025 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.

GEN Z EXPECTS TO MAKE STEEP CUTS TO THEIR HOLIDAY BUDGETS THIS YEAR

5. 9. 2025 US consumers overall will slash their holiday spending about 5% this year, while Gen Zers expect to cut it 23%, per Inkl.

DIMINISHED “AURA” WORRIES AMERICAN BRANDS TRADING AROUND THE WORLD

5. 9. 2025 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.