GOLDBACH ADVANCED TV STUDY: CTV ADS PROVE INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE

28. 7. 2025 The Goldbach Group, Goldbach Austria, and Goldvertise Media released their eighth Advanced TV study for the DACH region in January 2025. The results once again confirmed the dominance of streaming and the growing use of connected TV. The increasing acceptance and perception of advertising in this medium is particularly noteworthy.

STUDY: TV ADS ARE TOP INFLUENCER OF OLDER ADULTS BUYING RETIREMENT HOMES

27. 7. 2025 Television advertising remains an effective means to market and influence younger baby boomer and Generation X consumers approaching retirement age, according to the findings of a study from the Television Advertising Bureau (TVB). 80% of baby boomers and Gen Xers are reached by TV ads; 94% took some action.

STUDY: 33% OF US INTERNET HOUSEHOLDS SUBSCRIBE TO A DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER SPORTS STREAMING SERVICE

26. 7. 2025 D2C sports service viewers are the heaviest spenders on streaming video services shelling out an average of $111 per month on all streaming subscriptions according to Parks Associates.

STUDY USA: MARKETERS ARE TERRIBLE AT JUDGING THE FAME AND UNIQUENESS OF THEIR BRAND ASSETS SAYS EBI RESEARCH

22. 7. 2025 Marketers risk significant blind spots if they use their intuition to judge their branding, but working as a group and deploying consumer research offers a way forward, according to new research from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute.

ADS GRABBING AND SUSTAINING ATTENTION ARE THE KEY TO BUSINESS SUCCESS

20. 7. 2025 Consumer attention matters more than ever. People are bombarded with thousands of ads and messages daily—and most get ignored. In a world of endless distractions, advertisers’ ability to grab and sustain attention is the key to driving real brand impact. Interesting insights in this regard came from the 2025 Uber Advertising Attention study, which focused on the ability of ads within the Uber app to capture attention.

CZECHS CHANGE STREAMING SERVICES MOST OFTEN IN THE REGION AND DOWNLOAD THE MOST

15. 7. 2025 Czechs often change their streaming service subscriptions and pay less than users in other Central and Eastern European countries, according to a study by WPP Media.

TOTAL TV: THE DIVIDE BETWEEN STREAMING AND LINEAR TV NO LONGER MAKES SENSE—IT’S TIME TO SMASH THE BARRIERS

15. 7. 2025 For several years now, it has been said that the divide between linear and streamed television makes no sense from the viewer’s perspective. After all, when people sit down to watch TV, they don’t think about whether it’s time for linear programming or streaming. They are just watching TV. This issue—along with the inefficiencies of current advertising models and a potential solution in the form of Total TV—was explored in depth in this year’s report by the media analytics company TVREV.

SURVEY: MORE VIEWERS TURN TO STREAMING FOR SPORTS

13. 7. 2025 The latest wave from Hub’s sports tracker shows that in just one year, streaming platforms have made great strides toward becoming the “home base” for sports.

ISIC: ONLY 40% OF STUDENTS CONSIDER CZECH MEDIA TO BE TRUSTWORTHY

12. 7. 2025 Less than half of students over the age of 18 believe that Czech media are trustworthy, while 10% hold the opposite view, according to a survey by GTS Alive, published by ISIC.

CZECHS LIKE BRAND MASCOTS, BUT THEY DON’T CONVINCE THEM TO BUY

11. 7. 2025 Brand mascots are generally liked by Czechs in advertisements, but they don't usually convince them to buy, according to the results of a representative survey by MNForce.

HOW AUTHENTIC PRODUCT PLACEMENT CAPTURES THE STREAMING GENERATION

9. 7. 2025 For many brands, traditional paid media no longer guarantees the results that it used to. Linear TV programming can rack up six-figure invoices, even for start-ups or smaller brands, and more and more consumers are actively avoiding ads on streaming services, no matter the cost.

CZECHS DISLIKE POOR QUALITY AND CONSTANT REPEATS ON TELEVISION

8. 7. 2025 The lack of quality programmes and constant repeats of old ones are among the most pressing problems with television programming.

ČT WAS THE STRONGEST IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR, BUT NOVA GREW THE MOST

8. 7. 2025 Despite a decline, Czech Television maintained its highest share of all-day viewing in the universal 15+ group in the first half of this year. However, Nova recorded the highest growth, winning in the younger viewer categories and in prime time.

CZECH AUDIOVISUAL INDUSTRY SLUMPED LAST YEAR, BUT LOCAL VOD AND ADVERTISING GREW

6. 7. 2025 The Czech audiovisual industry took a break in 2024 amid unfavourable incentives and focused on preparing conditions for new growth, with Czech VOD production and advertising on the rise.

WHY A BRAND’S CSR REPUTATION SHOULD DETERMINE ITS USE OF AI

30. 6. 2025 Researchers test the extent to which a brand’s reputation for social good balances out the negative associations of using AI-generated ads

AMERICANS’ FAVORITE PASTIME IS WATCHING TV

26. 6. 2025 Optimum report finds 90% multitask while watching. A national survey of U.S. consumers shows 66% of us watch TV “all or most of the time” and also multitask while doing it.

45% OF CZECHS HAVE A NEGATIVE PERCEPTION OF AI IN NEWS REPORTING

25. 6. 2025 Most of the Czech population believes that readers should be informed if a news story was written by AI without the involvement of a journalist, according to a survey.

STUDY USA: YOUNG/OLD TV CONSUMERS’ DIVERGENCE: AVOD VS. FAST

25. 6. 2025 Young and older U.S. consumers continue to show diverging preferences when it comes to legacy and new TV-video platforms, according to ARF’s DASH, a syndicated study conducted in partnership with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.