HBBTV ASSOCIATION UNVEILS NEW SYMPOSIUM FORMAT: THE “UNCONFERENCE”

15. 9. 2023 The annual key summit of the connected TV industry, targeting platform operators, broadcasters, advertisers and adtechs, standards organisations and technology companies, will be co-hosted with Comunicare Digitale, an Italian association for the development of digital television. For the first time, the HbbTV Symposium conference will be split into a traditional format on the first day while the second day will host an format of unconference.

HBBTV ASSOCIATION OPENS ENTRIES FOR HBBTV 2023 AWARDS

4. 9. 2023 The HbbTV Association is pleased to invite entries for this year's HbbTV Awards. The contest will take place as part of the 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards on November 28-29, 2023 in Naples. The HbbTV Awards will be held for the sixth time, showcasing and celebrating best practice and excellence in the HbbTV community.

MEDIA CLUB LAUNCHES AUTOMATIC HBBTV AD BUYING

15. 8. 2023 The Czech sales agency Media Club has with its technological partner KINET developed a new advertising platform which allows clients to quickly and automatically purchase the Switch-In advertising format on HbbTV.

VOD SERVICE PRIMA+ IS PREPARING NEWS

4. 8. 2023 The online video library prima+ will offer its users three premiere titles in September and October. These include the six-part co-production miniseries Na vlnách Jadranu and the series Malá velká liga (Little Big League) and Banáni (Bananas).

HBBTV 2023 SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS INVITES SPONSORS

21. 7. 2023 The 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards will take place 28-29 November 2023 in Naples, Italy. The HbbTV Association, which is organising the Symposium, has put together some attractive sponsorship packages.

PREDICTION: ADDRESSABLE TV ADVERTISING IS SET FOR RAPID GROWTH

14. 7. 2023 The addressable tv advertising market is set for rapid growth, according to a new report. Its volume is expected to increase from the current usd 56 billion to usd 87 billion in 2027.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS FOR 11TH HBBTV SYMPOSIUM

3. 7. 2023 The HbbTV Association has issued a call for speakers ahead of the 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards on November 28-29, 2023 in Naples, Italy.

PRIMA+ OVER SCHEDULE. VOYO IS NOT CONSIDERING A VERSION WITH ADVERTISING

15. 6. 2023 Both the Prima and Nova TV groups have praised the development of their video-on-demand services. They agree that they are achieving better results than they had planned before their launch.

TV NOVA TO UPGRADE AVOD SERVICE

14. 6. 2023 The Czech national commercial broadcaster TV Nova is working on a new version of its AVOD service nova.cz that will be delivered via HbbTV.

NEXTV AD CONFERENCE: GROWTH OF THE TV MARKET DRIVEN BY ADVERTISING REVENUES FROM VOD SERVICES, DEVELOPMENT OF ADDRESSABLE ADVERTISING AND THE EMERGENCE OF FAST CHANNELS

22. 5. 2023 In mid-May, a series of international conferences Nextv Ad Europe and Nextv Series Europe were held in Prague, organized by Dataxis, with the Association of Commercial Televisions (AKTV) as a media partner. The first day of Nextv Ad Europe focused on the latest developments in TV advertising, innovations in ad formats and their distribution, as well as ways to integrate programmatic advertising strategies into the TV ecosystem in Europe.

LOCAL AND NEW VOD SERVICES CUT THE SHARE OF NETFLIX AND YOUTUBE

16. 5. 2023 Netflix and YouTube still have the highest share on the European video services market, but with the arrival of new and local platforms, it is gradually declining.

ŠKODA AUTO USED HBBTV TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF TV ADVERTISING

15. 5. 2023 Škoda Auto has used HbbTV to measure the impact of TV advertising using a Brand lift solution.

HBBTV SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS 2023 ON NOVEMBER 28-29 IN NAPLES

10. 5. 2023 The 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards will take place on November 28-29, 2023 in Naples, Italy. This was announced today by 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.

NOVA HAS IMPROVED HBBTV RED BUTTON: QUIZ QUESTIONS GO DIRECTLY TO SHOWS

28. 4. 2023 Nova Group's HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) will receive a new, relatively ground-breaking feature arising from the very nature of the 'red button'. For many people, it will not only be interesting, but ultimately less intrusive.

THE FORM OF PRIMA HBBTV CHANGED AFTER THE LAUNCH OF PRIMA+

10. 2. 2023 The Prima Group is changing the look and feel of the Prima+ service and the colour scheme of the red HbbTV button.

11TH HBBTV SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS 2023 IN NAPLES

10. 2. 2023 The 11th HbbTV Symposium and Awards, which takes place on November 29-30, 2023 in Naples, Italy, will provide a unique platform to discuss all relevant topics in the HbbTV universe with high-level industry executives and experts.

TV NOVA HAS BEEN BROADCASTING FOR 29 YEARS. HOW WILL IT CELEBRATE?

3. 2. 2023 TV Nova celebrates its 29th birthday. On Friday, 4 February 1994 at 7pm, the first commercial television in the Czech Republic started broadcasting live from the National Museum.

NOVA REPORTS A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN DIGITALISATION THANKS TO THE SUCCESS OF THE VOYO PLATFORM

9. 1. 2023 The Voyo streaming platform from the CME Group portfolio has had an extremely successful year, exceeding 400,000 subscribers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, according to media reports. On average, they spend almost 12 hours per week on Voyo. CME Group made Voyo a key priority last year, and thanks to a massive advertising campaign and investment in original content, the platform has started to attract new paying viewers in a big way. Voyo has not only an ever-expanding premium offering of films, series, documentaries from domestic and international production, but also, and most importantly, gradually emerging original formats from the Voyo Originals workshop.