EXPOSING THE BLACK HOLE OF ONLINE VIDEO ADVERTISING

28. 5. 2019 | 3 min read There were lots of interesting things to catch the eye in the Advertising Association/Warc annual adspend figures for 2018 – not least the rapid growth of Broadcaster VOD advertising, up 29% to £390m and forecast to grow at a similar rate for the next two years. Total TV investment was stable year on year at £5.1bn.

WHY IT’S TIME TO RE-EVALUATE TV PLANNING

20. 5. 2019 | 6 min read As BARB releases its latest Viewing Report, Wavemaker's Emma Moorhead discusses how new multiple-screen data is changing the way that agencies plan television.

TV ADS STILL MORE RELEVANT TO CONSUMERS THAN STREAMING VIDEO ADS

15. 5. 2019 | 3 min read Despite marketers’ efforts with advanced programmatic and data targeting for video ads, consumers still find that they are more likely to be served a relevant ad on linear TV. What does this say about programmatic video ads?

UK: ONLINE BUSINESSES ARE BIGGEST TV ADVERTISERS

21. 3. 2019 | 2 min read Collectively, online businesses are the biggest category of advertisers on TV in the UK, accounting for almost 15% of total spending via this channel in 2018 and 40% more than the next biggest category which is food.

FOR TV, MEDIA TRADE GROUPS, GROWTH MEANS EXPANDING INTO COMPETING AREAS

14. 2. 2019 | 3 min read TV/media-based business trade groups need to keep growing in a disruptive world. And that can mean spillover, as they extend into sometimes competing professional disciplines.

IT’S TIME TO LOOK AT TV ADVERTISING IN A NEW LIGHT

4. 2. 2019 | 4 min read While addressable TV has been talked about in certain industry circles for some time, it seems the wider marketing industry has yet to truly appreciate its potential.

COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU: PERSONALIZED ADS

25. 1. 2019 | 4 min read The hottest new trend in TV tech is "addressable" ads, or TV ads that can be targeted to specific households via user data. By the end of this year, almost every major TV network and provider will have rolled out their version of an addressable ad product.

HOW MARKETERS ARE ALTERING THEIR TV ATTRIBUTION STRATEGIES

22. 1. 2019 | 4 min read The slow but steady digitization of TV advertising will place further pressure on ad measurement companies to create more robust cross-platform metrics and attribution models. But for that to happen, several types of companies—including multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) and TV networks—need to update their technologies and strategies.

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.

4 TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE VIDEO ADVERTISING IN 2019

3. 1. 2019 | 4 min read For brand marketers, video continues to be the most important story in media. Audience behavior is evolving rapidly across generations, and consumers now watch more than eight hours of online content every week, according toThe State of Online Video 2018 report by Limelight Networks.

EXPERTS PREDICT HOW TV WILL EVOLVE FOR ADVERTISERS IN 2019

11. 12. 2018 | 8 min read The year 2019 is almost upon us. ExchangeWire have invited hundreds of thought leaders to share their thoughts on what next year will hold, across a range of topics. Following what could be termed as one of the most interesting years in the connected TV space since its inception, thought leaders from across the industry share how they think 2019 will push the opportunities even further for brands to effectively target consumers across TV.

WHY TV AND DIGITAL ARE THE PERFECT COUPLE

10. 12. 2018 | 4 min read What plays together, stays together. As advertisers and media buyers have flocked to digital advertising, something unfortunate happened: Television advertising, the medium that has always delivered a loyal, attentive audience—and has always been a master brand storyteller—began to get pushed aside for younger, “hipper” alternatives.

TV CAN NOW COMPLETE THE ATTRIBUTION PUZZLE

5. 12. 2018 | 5 min read Once confined to brand and awareness metrics, the world of TV attribution has evolved to measure responses and effectiveness in the same way digital media has for years. Critically, the concept of quantifying offline media's contribution to a business outcome, no matter where the consumer is in their purchase journey, has realigned the industry's approach to assigning value across all channels. For television, the availability of smarter data from devices such as set-top boxes and smart TVs, as well as the advanced application of that data by specialist companies, has shone a light on TV's efficacy in pushing the consumer through the purchase funnel. Whether measuring brand metrics or transactional behavior, marketers can now employ reach and precision tactics through advanced TV to drive mass and personalized messaging and attribute value to those media investments. This has led to more robust techniques to not only ensure that TV is getting its fair share of credit for a conversion, but also validate what we have known instinctively for years: TV drives results. There is no question that TV is the king of building brands. Television has been the platform that marketers have turned to for decades due its mass reach, ability to drive awareness, cultural influence and social (in the macro sense) engagement. Advanced TV now expands those capabilities beyond awareness, down through the funnel, enabling solutions and measurement at the consideration, intent and sales stages.

WHAT THE GROWN-UPS THINK ABOUT TV

3. 12. 2018 | 7 min read Ahead of this week's Future TV Advertising Forum, and with a hefty new GroupM report by his side, Dominic Mills outlines the most important issues now facing the television industry

STUDY THE AGE OF TELEVISION: THE NEEDS THAT DRIVE US

21. 11. 2018 | 18 min read Video is firmly entrenched in our lives. Whether we’re snuggling on the sofa for an evening of telly or killing time on our mobiles before the bus arrives, the opportunities to watch have never been greater. Back in 2013, we investigated what viewer motivations underpinned the TV we chose to watch. What drove someone to watch live TV over VOD or vice versa? What needs did these video formats satisfy? That study discovered there were six TV ‘need states’. Since then, the video landscape has changed considerably. We wanted to revisit these need states and broaden the lens to encompass all video formats, including online. Partnering with MTM, we detangled the role that video plays in our lives to determine how the different video formats coexist and why viewers choose to invest their time in a range of video platforms. Key Findings

AUDIENCES ARE LEADING THE LEAN-BACK MEDIA REVOLUTION. WHERE ARE THE ADVERTISERS?

3. 10. 2018 | 4 min read Let's set the scene. The 1950s. A boom in affordable TV sets causes an increase in the number of small screens in homes across the United States. Families flock to their living rooms to watch new programming. With this boom comes the dawn of new advertising, as marketers can now directly reach consumers through TV program sponsorships, commercials and more.

THE NEW LIVING ROOM: TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE BIG SCREEN

3. 10. 2018 | 5 min read Headlines would suggest that TV is dead, or at least is enduring a slow death.

THE FUTURE OF TV IS NOW (OR NEVER)

5. 9. 2018 | 4 min read From cord cutting, shaving and cord nevers to addressability, dynamic ad insertion and increasingly ad free experiences, the ad environment is more dynamic and complex than ever before. And now—right now—we are at a critical inflection point. This can either signal an industry renaissance marked by more relevant ads (fueled by rich data) or it could be the industry's death knell.