ADS GRABBING AND SUSTAINING ATTENTION ARE THE KEY TO BUSINESS SUCCESS

20. 7. 2025 | 6 min read 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 | 4 min read 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 | 8 min read 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 | 3 min read 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 | 2 min read 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 | 4 min read 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 | 7 min read 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 | 2 min read 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 | 4 min read 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 | 3 min read 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 | 4 min read 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 | 2 min read 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 | 4 min read 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 | 2 min read 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.

YOUTUBE, GAMES AND NETFLIX ON TV? IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, PEOPLE SPEND 33 MINUTES A DAY ON THESE

24. 6. 2025 | 3 min read Televisions are increasingly being used for activities other than watching TV, but traditional broadcasting remains the main use. Other activities on TV screens take up an average of 33 minutes a day for viewers.

THERE’S A FORMULA FOR CALCULATING VALUE OF ATTENTION, RESEARCH FINDS

23. 6. 2025 | 4 min read There’s a secret to calculating the value of attention, new research suggests, with the winning formula not simply about the amount of time spent but how valuable that time is – and it’s driven by focus and intent.

ČT AND ČRO ARE THE MOST TRUSTED MEDIA OUTLETS, FOLLOWED BY CNN AND PRIMA NEWS

17. 6. 2025 | 5 min read A new report has been published from the regular Digital News Report survey on news consumption in various countries around the world.

COMING UP LATER: THE EYEWATERING COST OF DULL MEDIA

13. 6. 2025 | 2 min read Dull ads cost companies millions of dollars to achieve the same effect – now, new research to be presented today at Cannes Lions by eatbigfish’s Adam Morgan and Dr. Karen Nelson-Field examines and quantifies the silent drain on our budgets caused by dull media formats. Why dull matters As Adam Morgan explained at last year’s festival, most ads are dull. The whole lot of nothing that they make people feel costs real money – an average of £10m, according to a 2023 piece of work by Peter Field.