GOLDEN DRUM: VANIK AND SANTARIUS FROM SAATCHI & SAATCHI TAKE GOLD

15. 10. 2025 This year’s winners at the Portorož Advertising Festival in the Young Drummers category were Czech talents Joanna Santarius and Vojtěch Vaník from Saatchi & Saatchi Prague. TheYoung Drummers Competition 2025, held alongside the 31st edition of the Slovenian International Festival of Creativity Golden Drum, knows its young winners. This year’s Young Drummers winners are Czech… Continue reading GOLDEN DRUM: VANIK AND SANTARIUS FROM SAATCHI & SAATCHI TAKE GOLD

INSIDE FRANCETV PUBLICITÉ’S ADSPACE•IA’S PLANNING LAYER

14. 10. 2025 FranceTV Publicité is transitioning its media buying operations into an AI-assisted mode. ADspace•ia now produces real-time, inventory-aware recommendations for TV-cross-video campaigns. It executes these plans as a managed service on france.tv’s premium offer. For sales houses, this marks a tangible step in AI commercialisation: algorithmic Total Video mixes enriched with attention and carbon reporting. AI… Continue reading INSIDE FRANCETV PUBLICITÉ’S ADSPACE•IA’S PLANNING LAYER

WHY PAY ATTENTION TO ANOTHER ATTENTION STUDY?

10. 10. 2025 Because this study proves the link between high attention media and advertising effectiveness, writes Newsworks’ Heather Dansie. Newsworks’ attention research not only charts the swing away from high-attention media in recent years in favour of shiny new platforms but offers a few simple solutions to boost any campaign’s effectiveness. I, like many others, wanted to… Continue reading WHY PAY ATTENTION TO ANOTHER ATTENTION STUDY?

TV’S AD REACH CONSOLIDATES, AS SPEND AND AD MINUTES GROW

8. 10. 2025 Initial Q3 TV advertising data from iSpot reveals a landscape that’s steadying while consolidating itself around top networks and programming. Over the course of Q3 2025, est. national linear TV ad reach grew by 4.2% year-over-year, to $8.77 billion and ad minutes climbed as well, up 2.4% to 5.3 million. Interestingly, however: Household TV ad… Continue reading TV’S AD REACH CONSOLIDATES, AS SPEND AND AD MINUTES GROW

HOW DO CZECHS PERCEIVE ADVERTISING? RELEVANCE IS KEY FOR THEM

7. 10. 2025 We see thousands of advertisements every day, but only one tenth of Czechs agree that people like them appear in advertisements. New research from WPP Media shows that relevance is the key to engagement, writes Petr Tomáš. Estimates of how many ads a person might see in a day, for example, vary widely, but are… Continue reading HOW DO CZECHS PERCEIVE ADVERTISING? RELEVANCE IS KEY FOR THEM

MARKETERS’ EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS DISCONNECT RISKS ‘DEATH SPIRAL’, LES BINET WARNS

7. 10. 2025 Marketers appear to be misdiagnosing their challenge by optimising for efficiency rather than for profitability, according to a new research collaboration by Les Binet and Will Davis, chief data officer at Medialab. The research gets at a tension in modern marketing: efficiency – typically measured using ROI – versus a longer term investment in brand… Continue reading MARKETERS’ EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS DISCONNECT RISKS ‘DEATH SPIRAL’, LES BINET WARNS

STUDY: ADDRESSABLE TV UNLOCKS GROWTH IN A FRAGMENTED MARKET

7. 10. 2025 Research from Dish Media argues that advertisers are missing millions of consumers by underutilizing addressable TV in their media strategies. As Advertising Week 2025 gets underway, Dish Media has released research that argues advertisers are missing millions of consumers by underutilizing addressable TV in their media strategies. The study, which was done in partnership with… Continue reading STUDY: ADDRESSABLE TV UNLOCKS GROWTH IN A FRAGMENTED MARKET

GEN AI CREATIVE FINDS GROWING ACCEPTANCE

1. 10. 2025 The use of Gen AI in advertising is growing as attitudes shift across clients, creatives and consumers, but greater openness to the tech doesn’t mean there won’t be strings attached. What’s happening “We have seen a shift in client openness to fully AI-developed campaigns,” Christian Pierre, global chief intelligence officer, Gut, told Digiday, as he… Continue reading GEN AI CREATIVE FINDS GROWING ACCEPTANCE

CONTENT-BASED ‘CONTEXTUAL’ ADS SCORE LOW VS. AUDIENCE TARGETING: SURVEY

1. 10. 2025 Content-based “contextual” advertising continues to essentially get a thumbs down from brands — especially when it comes to media buys on connected TV (CTV) platforms, according to a recent Gracenote survey. “Marketers, brands, agencies have evolved their thinking about CTV as a paid media channel — but have not evolved their strategies accordingly,” according to… Continue reading CONTENT-BASED ‘CONTEXTUAL’ ADS SCORE LOW VS. AUDIENCE TARGETING: SURVEY

FLEMA: GRAND PRIX GOES TO THE SLOVAK CAMPAIGN FOR THE REALITY SHOW PIT OF LIONS

1. 10. 2025 The Flema Innovative Media Usage Competition gave away its prizes. This year, it introduced new categories and looked primarily at campaign objectives and their boldness. The Grand Prix of this year’s Flema competition, which recognises innovative achievements in media planning, goes to Slovakia. It was won by Slovenská sporiteľňa and the agency Wavemaker Slovakia for… Continue reading FLEMA: GRAND PRIX GOES TO THE SLOVAK CAMPAIGN FOR THE REALITY SHOW PIT OF LIONS

EFFECTIVENESS IS BUILT ON CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY, EMERGED FROM THE CREATIVE IMPACT DISCUSSION FORUM AT THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

26. 9. 2025 At the Cannes Lions Festival, leading marketers, prominent creatives, and representatives from research agencies come together each year to explore the relationships between creativity, consistency, and effectiveness. This year, as part of the Creative Impact discussion forum, they focused on finding ways to maintain brand consistency in an uncertain and ever-changing environment, leverage creators and… Continue reading EFFECTIVENESS IS BUILT ON CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY, EMERGED FROM THE CREATIVE IMPACT DISCUSSION FORUM AT THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

STUDY USA: SHOPPERS TURN TO AI FIRST FOR RESEARCH

26. 9. 2025 More than half (53%) of US consumers turn to AI for conducting shopping research, per an August Adobe survey. Beyond the chart: One-third of US adults use AI agents for brand discovery regularly (24%) or frequently (9%), per a July Cordial survey. Research and information gathering is one of the tasks consumers are most comfortable… Continue reading STUDY USA: SHOPPERS TURN TO AI FIRST FOR RESEARCH

WOOD AND HEGARTY: ADVERTISING NEEDS A NEW CREATIVE REVOLUTION

25. 9. 2025 Creativity is essential for business growth, and its importance is increasing in the age of AI. Agencies and CMOs have the opportunity to become drivers of creativity and strategic partners to company leadership, as emphasised in a webinar featuring John Hegarty and Orlando Wood. During Wednesday’s Global TV Group webinar hosted in the Czech Republic… Continue reading WOOD AND HEGARTY: ADVERTISING NEEDS A NEW CREATIVE REVOLUTION

ORLANDO WOOD AND SIR JOHN HEGARTY ON HOW CREATIVITY FUELS BRAND GROWTH

24. 9. 2025 This year marks a symbolic anniversary – 150 years since the first documented use of the word creativity in English. Historian Adolphus William Ward used the term in 1875 in reference to William Shakespeare’s “poetic creativity”. Today, the importance of creativity in all sectors, including the media, is unquestionable. According to Sir John Hegarty, who… Continue reading ORLANDO WOOD AND SIR JOHN HEGARTY ON HOW CREATIVITY FUELS BRAND GROWTH

CONSUMERS PREFER TO WATCH ADS ON AMAZON, FINDS KANTAR STUDY

23. 9. 2025 Consumers are more receptive to ads on Amazon than those on other global media platforms, while X is the least trusted platform among marketers, according to a Kantar global study of the media landscape. These are among the top findings from the analytics and consulting firm’s Media Reactions 2025, which canvasses the opinions of both… Continue reading CONSUMERS PREFER TO WATCH ADS ON AMAZON, FINDS KANTAR STUDY

GEN Z HOLIDAY SPENDING TANKS IN 2025

22. 9. 2025 Gen Z’s expected holiday spend in 2025 is $1,357, down 22.5% from 2024, according to July data from PwC. Beyond the chart: Nearly a quarter (24%) of US holiday shoppers ages 18 to 29 will buy gifts earlier to avoid possible price increases due to tariffs this year, according to July CivicScience data. Younger consumers… Continue reading GEN Z HOLIDAY SPENDING TANKS IN 2025

YOUNGER MARKETERS OPEN TO INCREASING RADIO, TV AD BUDGETS

21. 9. 2025 “Younger marketing people may be more inclined to favor nothing but social media,” notes Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy. Yet, while they do favor social media, Sunshine finds they may be interested in their older counterparts in good ol’ traditional, linear media channels. That finding was shared in a “Chart of the Week”… Continue reading YOUNGER MARKETERS OPEN TO INCREASING RADIO, TV AD BUDGETS

THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DIRECT IMPACT CZECH COMPETITION GOES TO B TÝM

19. 9. 2025 The Grand Prix award of the 23rd year of the Direct Impact Czech competition went to the B tým agency for the campaign “To za nás nebylo” for the Educational Institute for Moravia. The Direct Impact Czech competition knows the winner of its 23rd year. A total of 15 agencies and a number of their… Continue reading THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DIRECT IMPACT CZECH COMPETITION GOES TO B TÝM