TV’S RENAISSANCE

28. 4. 2021 | 5 min read With a highly anticipated Enders report into TV advertising out this week, Bobi Carley looks at a linear medium firmly back on planning agendas

WHY TV ADS ARE STILL KING

27. 4. 2021 | 6 min read Continued strong levels of consumption and an audience preference for its advertising means that diversifying media habits aren’t killing broadcast TV, says GWI’s Jason Mander.

HOW THE PANDEMIC ACCELERATED A TRANSFORMATION ACROSS CONNECTED TV

15. 4. 2021 | 5 min read Ad spend increased as brands gravitated to the space. While linear TV got pummeled by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, connected TV and direct-to-consumer players have been thriving over the past year.

WHAT AVOD’S GROWTH MEANS FOR MARKETERS IN SEARCH OF EVOLVING CONSUMERS

13. 4. 2021 | 7 min read As viewer interest in ad-supported video on demand accelerates, marketers are trying to determine how to navigate the channel and avoid new walled gardens.

WHAT MARKETERS MUST CONSIDER BEFORE DIVING INTO ADVANCED TV

12. 4. 2021 | 5 min read With the deprecation of third-party cookies and its implications on media targeting, advertisers are increasingly looking for opportunities to leverage both their first-party data and third-party data to effectively reach audiences. Advanced TV (ATV) offers the opportunity to do just that, providing marketers a brand-safe, person-targeted medium that is more measurable than traditional linear TV buys.

THE PIVOT TO PURPOSE: ALIGNING GOOD AND GROWTH

5. 4. 2021 | 6 min read It’s tempting to see 2020 as a year where the world was stuck on pause. Yet in many ways it has been a story of radical transformation. Faced with unprecedented problems, businesses evolve as never before, and open up to new possibilities.

ARE BIDDABLE AD BUYS IN CTV’S FUTURE? THE EXPERTS WEIGH IN

22. 3. 2021 | 6 min read It’s unclear what the future of TV ad buys will look like in connected TV. Since much of TV inventory — including much of CTV — is reserved in the upfronts each year, will programmatic auction-based buying eventually be used in CTV as it is for online digital?

LINEAR TELEVISION IS HERE TO STAY. WHERE IS ANOTHER STORY.

8. 3. 2021 | 4 min read When we talk about the potential demise of traditional linear TV, we’re talking about the potential demise of cable and broadcast delivery of linear TV, not linear TV itself.

AVOD PLATFORMS FORECAST TO GROW TO $18 BILLION BY 2025

8. 3. 2021 | 2 min read Advertising video-on-demand platforms (AVOD)-- a subset of all connected TV -- are expected to see skyrocketing growth over the next four years, rising to $17.8 billion, according to MoffettNathanson Research.

TV RATING WAS GROWING IN ALL CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES LAST YEAR

25. 2. 2021 | 3 min read Hungarians spend most of their time before the TV screen out of all viewers in Central Europe, the highest increase in the rating was seen in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

ESTIMATE: AVOD REVENUE WILL DOUBLE BY 2025

22. 2. 2021 | 2 min read Advertising revenue of ad-supported online video services is expected to double by 2025. But the market is dominated by linear TV.

2021 WILL BE A ‘BUILD YEAR’ FOR ADDRESSABLE TV

18. 2. 2021 | 6 min read Much has been made about the shift to streaming over the past year, particularly with the launch of Disney Plus, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, NBCU’s Peacock and a slew of other services.

SERIES ON TV: INVESTMENTS IN TV ADVERTISING AND IMPORTANCE OF TV IN BRAND BUILDING

15. 2. 2021 | 5 min read In the third and last issue of the series on TV market development, we will focus on how companies including e-commerce businesses use TV advertising for long-term brand building. In the following years, TV will face a number of issues - its VOD services and the introduction of addressable advertising.

DON’T STOP ME NOW: WHY BRANDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD

2. 2. 2021 | 4 min read It’s as tough a time as it’s ever been for businesses, and marketing budgets are under extreme pressure, but going dark is a false economy, says Kantar’s Mark Inskip.

WOLDE: TOTAL VIDEO WINS, LIVE TV HAS THE LARGEST SHARE

19. 1. 2021 | 3 min read There is no division between online and broadcast TV video; platforms support each other and the so-called total video wins today, says Štěpán Wolde.

WHY GETTING ON TV IS YOUR BEST MARKETING BET FOR 2021

17. 1. 2021 | 5 min read How’s your TV watch time been? Don’t sugarcoat it - you know it’s been more than usual. With nothing to go out and do and all the reasons in the world to stay home, our TVs have kept us more engaged than ever. As entrepreneurs are constantly looking for opportunities in the midst of confusion and crazy times, some have been taking full advantage of the surge in TV watch hours.

WHY GETTING ON TV IS YOUR BEST MARKETING BET FOR 2021

17. 1. 2021 | 5 min read How’s your TV watch time been? Don’t sugarcoat it - you know it’s been more than usual. With nothing to go out and do and all the reasons in the world to stay home, our TVs have kept us more engaged than ever. As entrepreneurs are constantly looking for opportunities in the midst of confusion and crazy times, some have been taking full advantage of the surge in TV watch hours.

VIDEO ADVERTISING 2021-2024

14. 1. 2021 | 4 min read The video ad world will change more in the next three years than it has in the past 60. What was built originally as a brand-building channel is quickly evolving into one of the most important customer acquisition and performance channels available to marketers.