THE FUTURE OF RETAIL MEDIA: A COLLABORATIVE MARKETPLACE FOR TARGETED TV ADS

14. 2. 2025 Last autumn, FranceTV Publicité, M6 Publicité, and RMC BFM Ads, collaborated and partnered with Unlimitail, to launched TV Retail Connect, the first collaborative Retail Media Marketplace for Addressable TV (ATV) and HVOD in the country.



LATEST PODCAST FACTS & FIGURES

10. 1. 2025 Podcasts have become more than just a daily habit – they are a powerful performance tool for brands aiming to connect with engaged audiences. With global popularity on the rise, podcasts offer a unique space where advertising drives real impact, earning trust and prompting action like few other channels can.



DPG MEDIA AND GAIA’S UNITED EFFORT TO FIGHT PUPPY MILLS

20. 6. 2024 Puppy mills, where dogs are bred for profit with little regard for their welfare, remain a troubling issue. To combat this, GAIA, a Belgian non-profit organisation dedicated to animal rights, partnered with Integreate by DPG Media to launch an impactful media campaign. This campaign not only raised significant awareness but also earned prestigious awards, including two golden Native Advertising Awards for Best Integrated Program and Best Use of AFP Broadcast, the Grand Prix Content Marketing Award for Best Content Strategy (Distribution) and the BOCA Award for Best Content Strategy (non-profit).



DRIVING CREATIVITY: VOLKSWAGEN AND CANAL+ BRAND SOLUTIONS’ TIGUAN CAMPAIGN

20. 6. 2024 Tiger + Iguana = Tiguan Showcasing creativity and innovation, CANAL+ BRAND SOLUTIONS and Volkswagen launched an outstanding campaign for the new Tiguan, featuring eye-catching 3D animation. The campaign was executed with the help of Re-mind PHD, its creative department Fuse, the DDB agency, and CANAL+ BRAND SOLUTIONS’ creative entity, CANAL BRAND Factory. The primary aim was to create an engaging campaign that highlights the unique origin of Tiguan’s name, derived from “Tigre” (Tiger) and “Iguane” (Iguana).



THE MASKED SINGER: DPG MEDIA AND JBC’S CREATIVE COLLABORATION

15. 2. 2024 While business partnerships and collaborations are key, joining forces in showcasing creativity can prove to be quite challenging, yet equally rewarding. Such was the case with the constructive partnership between DPG Media and Belgian fashion retailer JBC. The companies pulled off a successful collaborative campaign combining the fame of The Masked Singer competition with the launch of an exclusive clothing collection.



RMB’S SLICE: WHERE INNOVATION AND EXPLORATION FUEL THE NEXT-LEVEL BRANDED CONTENT

20. 11. 2023 RMB, the Belgian media sales house, is dedicated to transforming its business to make it more resilient with a focus on innovation, exploration, and sustainability. Nevertheless, they feel under pressure from the new players in the market. As a result, in 2022, as an addition to the creative solutions unit launched in 2018 known as Flash, RMB decided to develop a new brand named Slice. This new department serves as a nexus, bringing together brands and content creators such as streamers streamers, YouTubers, gamers, etc. Jointly, they develop next-level branded content for clients. About Slice Officially inaugurated in March 2023, Slice represents an ecosystem that brings together brands and young Belgian content creators. Equipped studios, strategically placed within RMB’s offices, include a lounge room, an audio room, a beauty room, a green room, and a gaming room, expediting the production process. RMB contributes its client relationships and expertise as a sales house. The objective is to facilitate connections between advertisers and innovative Belgian content creators, fostering exceptional long-term collaborations based on shared values and authenticity.



IMS’S UNILEVER CAMPAIGN BRINGS TV AND RADIO TOGETHER

26. 10. 2023 Background information In this business case study, we discuss IMS’s TV and radio campaign for Unilever that tapped into the complementarity of these two mass media. Following the launch of a radio audience measurement by Kantar Media in Uzbekistan, the interest in radio increased among clients that finally could have reliable radio figures alongside the TV ones. Thanks to this new measurement radio can now be used as an effective tool to help TV campaigns reach the audience that does not watch TV on a regular basis.



DOVE US: WHAT DO YOUR HANDS MEAN TO YOU?

12. 7. 2023 Background Unilever is committed to increasing diversity and promoting more inclusive representation of people through its advertising. Dove’s Advanced Care Hand Wash campaign does just that & is an important step in its #unstereotype commitment. To launch Dove’s new hand wash, Dove wanted to reappraise the importance of their hands. It was the first time Dove’s testimonial was told by the hands themselves, in Sign Language.



EGTABITE 304: RTÉ AND ELECTRIC IRELAND – DARKNESS INTO LIGHT 2020: SUNRISE APPEAL

5. 6. 2020 The spirit of solidarity, especially in times of crisis, is needed more than ever. This week’s egtabite features a generous cross-platform campaign made in partnership with RTÉ and Electric Ireland, an Irish utility company, called “Darkness Into Light 2020: Sunrise Appeal”. Darkness Into Light Pieta, a mental health charity preventing suicide and self-harm and offering face to face therapy and phone service to people in danger, organises an annual flagship walk called “Darkness Into Light”, which was indefinitely postponed due to the world pandemic. Donations were down due to the crisis, yet demand for Pieta’s services continued to rise. Therefore, Pieta invited people to watch the sunrise from their homes and share their photos online while RTÉ’s mission was to promote and support the “Sunrise Appeal”, so that people around the country could come together, while apart. Electric Ireland has supported Darkness into Light since 2013, working with Pieta to bring hope to customers, staff and communities across Ireland that have been affected by suicide. #DIL2020 To raise awareness and funds for Pieta’s initiative on a national level, RTÉ and Spark Foundry, an Irish media agency and part of Core, Ireland’s largest marketing communications company, set out to leverage the scale and reach of their platforms where Electric Ireland and Pieta could spread their message, better reach their audience and bring people together in one very unique, special moment.Following Covid-19, many charities were facing a critical funding situation, therefore the challenge was to cut-through audiences ‘emotional fatigue’ and build a connection which would drive fundraising.



EGTABITE 295: RMB’S CROSS-MEDIA MXTEND STUDY

27. 3. 2020 Media make up a large part of our daily lives, accompanying us everywhere, from the moment we get up until we go to bed, without us even realising it. Like travel, media open the way to discovery, enrich our knowledge and help us relax. While we can live without travelling, it is much harder without media.



EGTABITE 291: ARE UNEXPECTED ADS EFFECTIVE? – CHANNEL 4’S PL4Y-BACK AD RESPONSE STUDY

28. 2. 2020 While creative solutions are often the ideal way for TV companies to attract new advertisers, it sometimes remains challenging to prove to clients and brands that their investments in a channel’s creative formats are paying off.



EGTABITE 289: VIACOMCBS GLOBAL CONSUMER INSIGHTS: WHAT DOES TV MEAN TO PEOPLE WORLDWIDE?

14. 2. 2020 The TV viewing experience has been changing drastically in the last years, especially with the rise of streaming services and all new devices for accessing them. The way audiences consume TV daily is constantly evolving. Therefore, there is a rising need for most recent figures that precisely show people’s viewing behaviour.



EGTABITE 287: GOLDBACH MEDIA & LIBRIO-PROVING THE SHORT-TERM ACTIVATION AND THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF TV

31. 1. 2020 What is TV advertising really good for – offering short-term activation or long-term impact on brands? Any discussion of TV as an advertising medium is likely to involve buzzwords such as branding, image advertisements and long-term advertising impact. But what happens immediately after a TV spot airs? This week’s egtabite features Goldbach Media’s TV campaign for their client Librio that proved to deliver both short-term activation and long-term advertising impact Swiss start up’s debut on TV Librio is a Swiss publishing house specialising in personalised children’s books. The young e-commerce company was founded in Zurich in 2017 and has since sold more than 30,000 books in more than 70 countries. Its previous marketing measures were limited to the most common online channels such as search engine marketing, display advertising, social media campaigns, and influencer marketing.



EGTABITE 279: AI MEETS PREMIUM CONTENT – IP DEUTSCHLAND’S CONTEXTUAL VIDEO TAGGING

22. 11. 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing as we speak, changing the world we live in, making our lives more convenient. In a media landscape where advertisers are seeking maximum visibility for their products, TV advertising is pushing the envelope and constantly developing new forms of advertising. This week’s egtabite puts the spotlight on such an innovative solution developed by IP Deutschland: a contextual video tagging campaign, using the power of AI. AI meets premium content in the premium environment IP Deutschland’s Solutions Department, in close collaboration with Cologne Broadcasting Center, Info Network and RTL Interactive developed an in-house AI tool for TV advertising and successfully tested the delivery of advertising in a contextually appropriate environment. The great advantage of this newly developed AI tool is the ability to analyse content in real-time - finding the most appropriate time to feature an ad.



EGTABITE 256: TV2’S META-STUDY – HOW ADDRESSABLE TV PROVIDES HIGHER ROI THAN YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK

12. 4. 2019 In today’s fast-paced world, where everything happens in the blink of an eye, advertisers are constantly searching for the most effective way to place their brands in the spotlight. While often videos on Facebook and YouTube are opted for as a quick, cheap and easy solution for brands to reach consumers, new research now indicates that in the long run, these do not provide the greatest return on investment (ROI) for advertisers’ marketing campaigns.