VOYO HAS ADDED USER PROFILES

15. 12. 2023 Voyo - the TV Novas online video library finally offers the possibility to create user profiles since Thursday 14th December. A notification to create one pops up when the app is launched.

HBBTV SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS 2024 IN LONDON

15. 12. 2023 The 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards in Naples, Italy became with more than 220 registered participants from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia one of the most attended events in its 12-year history, reflecting the significance of HbbTV in the connected TV industry.

TV STILL THE MAIN NEWS SOURCE FOR EUROPEAN NEWS, BUT SOCIAL MEDIA GROWING

7. 12. 2023 Television continues to dominate as the primary news source for European citizens, according to a Eurobarometer survey on behalf of the European Parliament.

DIGITAL TV RESEARCH PREDICTS TOP SVOD PLAYERS IN 2029

6. 12. 2023 Netflix will continue to top SVOD competitors in subscribers in six years: In the race to grow the biggest subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) customer base before the start of the next decade, Netflix is the odds-on favorite, according to a newly released forecast from Digital TV Research.

TV VIEWERSHIP IN NOVEMBER: ČT NARROWLY RETURNED TO THE TOP IN NOVEMBER, NOVA IMPROVED THE MOST

5. 12. 2023 Czech Television's stations returned to the position of the TV group with the highest share of viewership in the audience group over 15 years of age by a narrow margin. This is according to the official ATO-Nielsen measurement data for November 2023. The aggregate share of CT stations reached 28.48% throughout the day. However, compared to the same month last year, CT's share was 1.48 percentage points lower.

GRIVET: STREAMERS ABSORBING THE DNA CODE OF BROADCAST TV

1. 12. 2023 The chair of the HbbTV Association has said that every big trend shaping the environment is making HbbTV “super relevant”.

ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISION HAS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT SUCCESS IN THE ANTI-PIRACY FIGHT

1. 12. 2023 The High Court in Olomouc has upheld the preliminary ruling issued by the Regional Court in Brno on a petition by the Association of Commercial Television (AKTV), requiring the operators of the eDisk.cz and Sledujteto.cz repositories not to allow the uploading and downloading of copyright-protected works of Nova and Prima TV Groups. The court thus upheld AKTV’s argument that the repository operator had committed an unfair competition act referred to as “stowaway” or “free riding” (also known as “impermissible parasitism”). Similar decisions have been issued against other repositories in recent months.

16TH NOC FILMOVÝCH NADĚJÍ (NIGHT OF FILM HOPES) HONOURED YOUNG FILMMAKERS

1. 12. 2023 TV Nova presented its sixteenth award to promising young filmmakers as part of the Night of Film Hopes festival. Students and pupils could submit their films in one of five categories. In total, a record 174 entries were submitted this year, which meant 157 films, or 28 hours of material, and 17 scripts were judged by an expert jury of creative producers and dramaturgs. "We are glad that the students, teachers and other film enthusiasts who were part of the festival this year are developing audiovisual creation through their hard work and that we were able to show their work to the general public," says Hynek Lorenc, executive producer of the project.

JOHN LEWIS’ 2023 CHRISTMAS AD: NEW AGENCY, NEW TRADITIONS

1. 12. 2023 The first Christmas campaign for John Lewis created by Saatchi & Saatchi delivers a new message about adapting to change.

WINNERS OF HBBTV AWARDS 2023 ANNOUNCED

29. 11. 2023 The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks to connected TV sets and set-top boxes, has unveiled the winners of the HbbTV Awards 2023, showcasing and celebrating excellence in the HbbTV community. The winners of the HbbTV Awards 2023: Best use of HbbTV for advertising-based solutions Media For Europe (MFE - Mediaset España): Server-Side Targeted Advertising for Linear TV (Spain) Jury quote: “A brilliant use case of the combination of the power of live broadcasting to massive audiences with the efficiency of digital targeted advertising.”

NOVY TEAM BEAT PRIMA IN THE FIRST EVER KNOWLEDGE SHOW WELOVETV, DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE FROM THE INDUSTRY

22. 11. 2023 In the first-ever match between TV Nova and TV Prima teams, consisting of management, celebrities and media agency representatives (see photo), the team of the largest commercial TV station, led by the director of TV Nova, Daniel Grunt (far left, centre, Prima boss Marek Singer), won.

HBBTV ASSOCIATION PUBLISHES OFFICIAL GUIDE TO HBBTV 2023 SYMPOSIUM

16. 11. 2023 The HbbTV Association has published the official guide to the HbbTV Symposium 2023. The brochure contains details of the venue, programme, speakers as well as sponsors and partner organisations.

STUDY UK: RECORD AD SPEND PREDICTED FOR CHRISTMAS SEASON

9. 11. 2023 Advertisers are set to spend a record £9.5bn during the Q4 Christmas season, according to new data released by the Advertising Association (AA) and WARC.

RECORD OTT VIEWING IN CZECH REPUBLIC

8. 11. 2023 The Czech national transmission company CRA saw record-breaking data transfer for watching OTT services at the end of last month. In a statement, it says that on October 30, at around 20:40, the figure reached 1,216 Gbps. In comparison, the record for its network in 2016 was 30 Gbps.

TOOLKIT: HOW MARKETERS WILL USE AI IN 2024

8. 11. 2023 The vast majority of marketers are planning to engage with generative AI tools, according to research in the Marketer’s Toolkit 2024, as artificial intelligence proliferates ever more into day-to-day applications.

PRIMA REMAINED FIRST IN 15+ IN OCTOBER, CZECH TV GREW WITH YOUNGER VIEWERS

7. 11. 2023 The Prima TV group maintained its highest viewership in the broader over-15 audience group in all-day viewing in October.

HBBTV SYMPOSIUM 2023 TO FOCUS ON TARGETED ADVERTISING, DVB-I AND INNOVATIONS

24. 10. 2023 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 unveil the conference programme of the HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2023. The annual key summit of the connected TV industry will take place on November 28-29 in Naples, co-hosted with Italian digital TV association Comunicare Digitale.

CZECH VOD PRIMA+ EXPANDS STREAMING OFFER

24. 10. 2023 The Czech broadcaster Prima has added content from the public broadcaster Ceska Televize (CT) to its steaming service prima+.