LG RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS GROWING ROLE OF TV HOME SCREENS IN FILM DISCOVERY

4. 6. 2026 The smart TV home screen is becoming an increasingly important tool for film marketers, influencing both cinema attendance and at-home viewing decisions, according to new research from LG Ad Solutions.

STUDY: NEARLY HALF OF U.S. VIEWERS WATCH VIDEO WITH CAPTIONS

23. 5. 2026 Survey results from U.S., U.K., France, Spain and Germany show captions have become a mainstream viewing behavior in every market.

PRIMA’S NEW ADVERTISING FORMAT, PAUSE AD, PROMISES 100% VISIBILITY

11. 5. 2026 The advert is only displayed to the viewer when they actively interact with the remote control and pause the content they are watching.

GLOBO CREATES HOME SCREEN PROMINENCE FOR FREE-TO-AIR TV ON SMART TVS

26. 2. 2026 Globo, Brazil’s largest commercial TV group, is rolling out DTV+, a next-generation free-to-air TV standard designed for connected TVs. It brings broadcast channels into the TV operating system, with app-like navigation, login and interactive layers placed directly on top of live programming.

TURNING ONE TRAVEL OFFER INTO TWO TV STORIES FOR TWO TYPES OF FAMILIES

22. 2. 2026 Attraction Tickets sells Florida attraction tickets and theme-park hotel packages to UK customers. It has served more than five million customers since 2002 and offers access to destinations including Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, SeaWorld and Disneyland Paris. In a competitive travel market, people compare options quickly, and marketing is judged by its ability to turn interest into bookings.

HOW TO USE UNSOLD INVENTORY TO PROVE TV’S EFFECTIVENESS

28. 11. 2025 Transfer Media, Belgium’s sales house for premium thematic and kids channels, worked with DSTRSD media to turn unsold linear TV minutes into measurable single product commerce tests. The goal was to show how unused airtime can support a low effort conversion pilot that brings incremental revenue and gives sales teams concrete evidence on audience response, placement, and frequency.

TIVO VIDEO TRENDS REPORT: VIEWERS WATCHING MORE LOCAL CONTENT

2. 10. 2025 Consumer spending on video content grew year-over-year in the second quarter according to report.

UNBOXING THE FUTURE: TURNING SWEEPSTAKES INTO AN IMMERSIVE AR EXPERIENCE

11. 9. 2025 In summer 2025, RTL AdAlliance in Austria reimagined the traditional sweepstakes by transforming it into an interactive Augmented Reality experience. Instead of waiting for a prize in a physical package sent to be to the winners, participants could place a virtual gift box in their own living room via smartphone and unbox it themselves. What had long been a static object suddenly became playful and memorable, blending digital advertising with real-world interaction.

“STREAM’S GRAY ZONE” LIVES ON, AFFECTING ONEPLAY AND PRIMA+

24. 7. 2025 It has been exactly three months since the Stream Cinema Community add-on, which plagued not only the official streaming service, ended for unknown reasons. Its "successor" continues to operate.

SPOTDELI: A UNIFIED PLATFORM FOR COMMERCIAL DELIVERY IN DUTCH TELEVISION

17. 7. 2025 In a major step toward modernization and efficiency, Screenforce has collaborated with TV broadcasters in the Netherlands and have launched SpotDeli, a centralized platform for submitting TV commercials. Developed by Screenforce and MediaLab, SpotDeli has become the exclusive gateway for delivering commercials to major Dutch sales houses, including Ster, Talpa Network, and Ad Alliance. This development simplifies and standardizes the commercial submission process across the industry, addressing longstanding logistical and technical challenges faced by advertisers, media agencies, and producers. Market Challenge Before the introduction of SpotDeli, producers and agencies were required to deliver their TV commercials separately to each broadcaster. This decentralized system introduced complexity, consumed time, and increased the risk of technical errors and inconsistencies. With each sales house using its own submission workflows and technical guidelines, advertisers had to navigate multiple systems to ensure their commercials were accepted and aired correctly. The need for a uniform, streamlined solution became more urgent with the growing volume of commercial content and evolving compliance standards such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA).

STUDY PARKS ASSOCIATES: SHOPPABLE TV GROWING IN POPULARITY

27. 6. 2025 While digital goods and services remain the dominant transactions on CTV, consumers are growing comfortable purchasing physical goods through streaming channels and apps, too.

STUDY USA: YOUNG/OLD TV CONSUMERS’ DIVERGENCE: AVOD VS. FAST

25. 6. 2025 Young and older U.S. consumers continue to show diverging preferences when it comes to legacy and new TV-video platforms, according to ARF’s DASH, a syndicated study conducted in partnership with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

ITV EMBRACES YOUTUBE AS A STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION AND COMMERCIAL CHANNEL

24. 6. 2025 In a decisive shift away from legacy broadcast-only models, ITV fully integrated YouTube into its content and commercial strategy throughout late 2024 and early 2025. Rather than using YouTube purely as a promotional channel, ITV transitioned to treating the platform as a core pillar of its distribution architecture, publishing full-length episodes, launching thematic channels, and creating dedicated sales and production teams to support its commercial goals.

ADS & DATA X SPA REINE ECO-PACK: UNLOCKING INCREMENTAL REACH THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN TV TARGETING

22. 5. 2025 SPA Reine’s Eco-Pack campaign with Ads & Data sets a new benchmark in media innovation by combining linear TV with Addressable TV (Smart AD) to deliver incremental reach and optimize frequency. In a still water category under growing pressure from tap water and price-driven private labels, SPA Reine worked with Ads&Data to reaffirm its leadership by using data to reach more consumers, and to reach them in a smarter way. The campaign built on learnings from the award-winning Cristal case (read more here), and introduced a new layer of sophistication, frequency optimization for light TV viewers, now made possible for the first time in Belgium. The result: a powerful demonstration of how data-driven targeting can amplify both media efficiency and brand impact.

TV SALES UP SIX PERCENT LAST YEAR, DEMAND DRIVEN BY STREAMING

11. 3. 2025 Television continues to maintain its firm place in Czech households. According to market data, TV sales rose 6% year-on-year to 606,000 units last year. A key driver of the TV market is the boom in streaming platforms, which is accelerating the need to replace outdated TVs with new smart TVs with internet connectivity.

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CTV ADVERTISING PLATFORMS

24. 2. 2025 Connected TV (CTV) has emerged as the fastest-growing ad channel tracked by EMARKETER. Its ad spend outpaced other digital ads, search, social media, and retail media in 2024.

SMART TV VIEWING TIME SOARS BY OVER A QUARTER IN THE US AND EUROPE

24. 2. 2025 Smart TVs have emerged as the main viewing device for US internet users, but in Europe broadcast TV still reigns, according to new research by Ampere Analysis.

AD ALLIANCE’S TV FREQUENCY CAPPING FOR REWE

9. 12. 2024 Challenge: Overcoming the “Wearout Effect” Advertising often loses its impact after multiple exposures, a phenomenon known as the “wearout effect,” which reduces effectiveness. To address this, Ad Alliance developed a solution to control TV campaign contact frequency per household using Smart TVs. The goal was to maintain the impact of REWE’s image ads while promoting the REWE app. The Solution: TV Frequency Capping Studies show that seeing ads multiple times helps cement a brand’s message in people’s minds after a certain number of views. However, any more than this number of views contributes to wear-out. To combat wear-out, Ad Alliance introduced the world’s first automatic TV frequency capping.