ARE QR CODES THE KEY TO SHOPPABLE TV?

7. 3. 2022 | 2 min read Connecting the dots between TV ad impressions and sales is a mix of art and science that has long defined the ad-tech industry. But the recent Coinbase Super Bowl spot displayed the potential for QR codes to effectively bridge the cause-and-effect divide.

UNLOCKING THE POWER OF THE MIDDLE FUNNEL TO DRIVE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

21. 1. 2022 | 6 min read Christian Polman, Managing Director UK, Looping Group, looks at the growing importance of the ‘middle funnel’ in bridging both brand building and performance marketing using community engagement.

THE PANDEMIC AND CONNECTED TV MEAN THE POOL OF TV ADVERTISERS IS MORE DIVERSE

6. 1. 2022 | 6 min read TV is not only for big advertisers and now has a more diverse advertiser set – and that transition accelerated because of the pandemic, Katie Coteman, Vice President, Advertising and Partnerships at Discovery told The Future of TV Advertising Global in London last month.

TV ADVERTISING DRIVES CHEAPER ONLINE JOURNEYS

16. 11. 2021 | 2 min read The pandemic has boosted online shopping and retail media but TV advertising retains a vital role for advertisers, according to new research.

HOW DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER BRANDS ARE SHAPING TV’S FUTURE

23. 9. 2021 | 4 min read Today’s television ad industry owes a lot to digital natives, particularly direct-to-consumer (D-to-C) brands. This growing group of upstarts and disruptors has not only changed the way we as consumers buy everything, but it has also revolutionized the use of converged TV (linear, CTV/OTT, and addressable) for both data-driven performance and strategic reach.

IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA OF TV, ALL BRANDS ARE DTC

23. 8. 2021 | 4 min read Australia’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are capitalising on Australia and New Zealand’s ecommerce growth – the highest across the globe at +107% in Q3 2020 – to expand their market presence. And they’re using TV to do it.

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.

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.

RESEARCH: TV HELPS LEGITIMISE YOUNGER BRANDS

20. 11. 2020 | 3 min read Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, in partnership with industry body VAB, has released a new report, The Halo Effect: TV as a Growth Engine, which analyses TV’s influence on businesses’ ability to drive financial outcomes and growth by life stage. The analysis found that both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and non-DTC brands across all life stages see measurable results from TV advertising across the board.

HOW SCALE-UP DIGITAL BRANDS CAN USE TV ADVERTISING

6. 11. 2020 | 8 min read During the first coronavirus lockdown, the consumption of television and online streaming content soared.

WILL D2C BRANDS CHANGE HOW TV ADS ARE BOUGHT, SOLD, MEASURED?

8. 8. 2019 | 3 min read The emergence of digital-first, direct-to-consumer brands as a significant, growing pool of new TV advertisers was a big theme this past spring during the upfront. I believe that D2C brands will become such an important part of the TV ad industry over the next few years that they will end up reshaping in their own image much of how TV advertising operates.

DTC BRANDS ARE USHERING IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT TV BUYING

15. 1. 2019 | 5 min read Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands that grew up on Facebook are spending as much as 75% of their media budget on the social media platform — an all-in type of customer acquisition strategy for the young and ambitious. The chance to target precise slivers of largely millennial consumers would assumedly optimize DTC companies’ limited budgets while giving them traction with the influencers and those people who were most likely to buy.