CHASM BETWEEN INDUSTRY’S VIEW OF MEDIA HABITS AND REALITY SHRINKING, STUDY FINDS

12. 10. 2022 While the gap is getting smaller, research shows there are still some major gaps between consumers’ media consumption and what the industry thinks is happening, underlining the need for market orientation. GapThe disconnect between how the industry views consumers’ media consumption and the reality is improving, but there are still some major gaps, particularly on… Continue reading CHASM BETWEEN INDUSTRY’S VIEW OF MEDIA HABITS AND REALITY SHRINKING, STUDY FINDS



TV GRP VOLUME WAS SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN Q3 2022

11. 10. 2022 The number of ad GRPs delivered in the TV market in the first three quarters of this year is slightly above the same period last year. The cumulative volume of TV advertising GRPs delivered in the first three quarters of this year is 0.5 per cent higher than the same period last year. This is… Continue reading TV GRP VOLUME WAS SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN Q3 2022



GENDER EQUALITY IN AVERTISING – HOW TO BREAK FREE OF STEREOTYPES

11. 10. 2022 4 strategies that can improve brand relationships and increase ROI When it comes to gender equality in media and advertising, great strides have been made over the last several years. Thanks to effective initiatives from organizations including the Association of National Advertisers and Geena Davis Institute, women are better represented in advertising and portrayed in… Continue reading GENDER EQUALITY IN AVERTISING – HOW TO BREAK FREE OF STEREOTYPES



BACK TO THE FIRST SCREEN: THE RISE OF LOCAL BROADCAST TV ADVERTISING

10. 10. 2022 When the internet started entering large numbers of American homes in the mid-1990s, predictions of the inevitable demise of television began almost immediately. By 2010, when the US pay TV industry recorded its first ever decline in subscribers, those pronouncements became more dire than ever. But time and data have repeatedly shown us that reports… Continue reading BACK TO THE FIRST SCREEN: THE RISE OF LOCAL BROADCAST TV ADVERTISING



GLOBAL AD TRENDS: GEN Z SPENDS MORE THAN TWO THIRDS OF MEDIA TIME ONLINE

9. 10. 2022 A new analysis by WARC has found that Generation Z (16-24-year olds) spends more time online than any other group with 67.7% of their media time spent online – though social is incredibly important, the new report identifies an extremely valuable opportunity in audio. Why it matters While age isn’t the only factor determining consumer… Continue reading GLOBAL AD TRENDS: GEN Z SPENDS MORE THAN TWO THIRDS OF MEDIA TIME ONLINE



WHY TV’S CROSS-PLATFORM INCREMENTAL REACH OFFERS THE MOST BANG FOR YOUR AD BUCKS

6. 10. 2022 How to make TV’s cross-platform incremental reach work for your brand? It has been clear for a while now that television—whether linear or streaming—is still a very effective medium for advertisers to achieve scaled reach. Yes, mobile and the various social platforms that have made a splash with their clickable and shoppable content are a… Continue reading WHY TV’S CROSS-PLATFORM INCREMENTAL REACH OFFERS THE MOST BANG FOR YOUR AD BUCKS



COMBINED CTV VIDEO AD BUYING WITH LINEAR NOW ‘ALMOST UNIVERSAL’

6. 10. 2022 Combining CTV/over-the-top (OTT) video ad buys with either linear TV campaigns or digital video campaigns is almost universal, according to research by ad software vendor PubMatic. Just 2% of advertisers surveyed in the US and 4% surveyed in the UK said they did not make any combined CTV and linear buys in the past year,… Continue reading COMBINED CTV VIDEO AD BUYING WITH LINEAR NOW ‘ALMOST UNIVERSAL’



NICE CONTENT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR EFFECTIVE NATIVE ADVERTISING

5. 10. 2022 The best brand studios of native advertising should definitely not lack marketing experts, says international speaker at this year’s Seznam forum, Jesper Laursen. The international speaker at this year’s Seznam Forum conference is Jesper Laursen, founder of the Native Advertising Institute and CEO of Brand Movers. In an interview with Ondřej Sitta, head of the… Continue reading NICE CONTENT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR EFFECTIVE NATIVE ADVERTISING



HOW TO DO ‘GREEN’ ADVERTISING? AUTHENTICITY AND A PROACTIVE APPROACH WIN WITH CONSUMERS, HYPOCRITES ARE PUNISHED

3. 10. 2022 We are living in a time of climate crisis and brands are therefore giving more and more space to ecology and sustainability in their advertising campaigns. But keep one thing in mind - the "preach the water and drink the wine" approach is becoming fatal in this discipline. Examples of good practice from abroad will show you how to master this difficult task.



PRIMA COOL TURNING TO ENTERTAINMENT AND STARTING A NEW PHASE

3. 10. 2022 Prima TV group plans to profile Prima Cool as a channel building primarily on entertainment. The Prima Cool thematic station is gradually changing the existing shows, trying to place more of its original shows to the programme scheme. Prima TV Group plans to profile Prima Cool as a channel building primarily on entertainment. Therefore, this… Continue reading PRIMA COOL TURNING TO ENTERTAINMENT AND STARTING A NEW PHASE



REPORT: CTV GROWTH SEES IT ACHIEVE SERIOUS REACH AS SPEND GROWS

30. 9. 2022 With some of the biggest advertising stories this year involving major streamers introducing advertising, a new report puts numbers behind that optimism. Why it matters Connected TV is going mainstream – and this report indicates a much larger reach than we last reported. Pixalate’s Ad Supply Chain Trends Report finds 94% US household’s reachable by open programmatic CTV… Continue reading REPORT: CTV GROWTH SEES IT ACHIEVE SERIOUS REACH AS SPEND GROWS



HBBTV SYMPOSIUM 2022 TO FOCUS ON TARGETED ADVERTISING, DVB-I AND NEW HBBTV SERVICES

29. 9. 2022 Tickets are ready to buy. Symposium will focus on Targeted Advertising, DVB-I and new HbbTV services. More about conference programm on the web pages.



WHY AD PODDING WILL STAR IN THE NEXT SEASON OF TV ADVERTISING

29. 9. 2022 With both Netflix and Disney Plus going ad-funded, a new type of media buying is bringing the AVOD experience closer to its linear counterpart. Storytelling on CTV just got simpler… FreeWheel’s Stefanie Briec looks at a new technology that will take TV advertising to the next stage – dynamic ad podding. The article will explain… Continue reading WHY AD PODDING WILL STAR IN THE NEXT SEASON OF TV ADVERTISING



GEN Z WANTS MORE APPS TO INCLUDE INTERACTIVE LIVE VIDEO

28. 9. 2022 Just days after the app platform developer released research showing that the key Gen Z audience is flocking to real-time engagement (RTE) and interactive video, Agora has now published a study showing the key demographic’s platforms of choice in mobile app-based interactive live video. The  study defined interactive live video as including live-streaming video where… Continue reading GEN Z WANTS MORE APPS TO INCLUDE INTERACTIVE LIVE VIDEO



WHY TV’S CROSS-PLATFORM INCREMENTAL REACH OFFERS THE MOST BANG FOR YOUR AD BUCKS

26. 9. 2022 How to make TV’s cross-platform incremental reach work for your brand? It has been clear for a while now that television—whether linear or streaming—is still a very effective medium for advertisers to achieve scaled reach. Yes, mobile and the various social platforms that have made a splash with their clickable and shoppable content are a… Continue reading WHY TV’S CROSS-PLATFORM INCREMENTAL REACH OFFERS THE MOST BANG FOR YOUR AD BUCKS



ADNORMAL BEHAVIOUR: HOW ADLAND’S PERCEPTIONS OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION HAVE CHANGED

24. 9. 2022 New study examines how adland’s perceptions of media consumption have changed.  Adland still isn’t normal, but its understanding of the UK public’s media consumption has improved. Good understanding of the public’s broadcast TV consumption, however TikTok and SVOD massively over-estimated. It’s been a decade since Thinkbox’s first “Ad Nation”, a landmark study exploring the differences… Continue reading ADNORMAL BEHAVIOUR: HOW ADLAND’S PERCEPTIONS OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION HAVE CHANGED



HOW ADVERTISING CREATIVE STRATEGY IMPACTS SALES

24. 9. 2022 Contagious digests the most interesting and relevant research from the world of advertising and beyond, because there’s just too much to read and too little time. The Impact of Advertising Creative Strategy on Advertising Elasticity / By Filippo Dall’Olio (Brock University) and Demetrios Vakratsas (McGill University). Published in the Journal of Marketing. Give it to… Continue reading HOW ADVERTISING CREATIVE STRATEGY IMPACTS SALES



‘WATCHING’ ACCOUNTS FOR THE LARGEST SHARE OF MEDIA TIME

23. 9. 2022 IPA TouchPoints offers great insights into today’s media consumption. The data is drawn from a representative sample of over 6,000 adults aged 15+ living in Great Britain. Each person keeps a diary via their mobile phone, detailing their activities every half an hour for a week. This month’s Chart of the Month uses TouchPoints to… Continue reading ‘WATCHING’ ACCOUNTS FOR THE LARGEST SHARE OF MEDIA TIME