CZECH PAY-TV STILL LAGGING BEHIND SLOVAKIA

23. 3. 2023 There are a third fewer viewers with pay-TV in the Czech Republic than in neighbouring Slovakia.

MORE THAN A QUARTER OF STREAMING SERVICES ARE SHARED

22. 3. 2023 12% of direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming services in the United States are being paid for by someone outside of the immediate household.

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WATCHING PAY VIDEO AND SMART TV IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IS GROWING

22. 3. 2023 New data from the Czech Statistical Office (CSÚ) for 2022 confirms the rapid growth of pay-per-view videos and the proliferation of smart TVs in Czech households.

PRIMA GROUP JOINS THE ASSOCIATION OF ONLINE PUBLISHERS

20. 3. 2023 The Association of Online Publishers is expanding with four new members. In March, the Prima Group, Investigace.cz, ABC Media and Inregion.cz joined the industry organisation. The number of members of the association has thus risen to twenty-five.

PRIMA: SKIPPING COMMERCIALS WAS A BIG DRAMA, BUT THE EMOTIONS HAVE SUBSIDED

20. 3. 2023 For three quarters of a year now there has been a ban on skipping ads in the back view of IPTV operators in the broadcasts of Prima group TV stations. What the measure has brought and what the next steps will be, representatives of the Prima group explain.

TV DRIVES THE MOST ATTENTION

5. 3. 2023 What is attention these days and why is it important for TV advertisers? These questions are answered by a compilation of facts gathered from research conducted globally by The Global TV Group.

HOT TAKES: WHY IS AD-SUPPORTED TV HOT AGAIN?

15. 2. 2023 Remember when the conventional wisdom was that the future of television was ad-free, that subscription alone would suffice and that The People just wanted to binge. That was so 2021. The last two years have seen a rapid rise in ad-supported TV. Everything from the FASTs to ad-supported versions of all nine major SVOD services. Consumers don’t seem to mind it either, which is the real surprise. In fact, many seem to prefer it.

PRIMA+ RUNS ON ITS OWN PLATFORM, IT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE 600,000 USERS, BUT IT CAN HANDLE EVEN MORE

13. 2. 2023 The video service launched on Wednesday last week, the “first impression” came out last Friday and now it's time for a few questions about the implementation and other plans. In addition, the streaming service is the first one to come up with a so-called hybrid subscription offer combining a certain amount of advertising and a cheaper subscription. With this tariff, the Prima group is here earlier than the multinational streaming services, and it additionally begins literally at zero!

TV BECOMES INCREASINGLY RELEVANT AS GEN Z VIEWERS MATURE

8. 2. 2023 Age demographic differences in the TV market are nothing new but a study from Horowitz Research, tracking the media lifestyles of Gen Z, has uncovered notable differences in a single group, that is the media lifestyles of 18-24 year-old Gen Zers compared with younger counterparts.

PRIMA+ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED, PRESENTED BY THE PLUSÁK FAMILY

25. 1. 2023 The Prima Group has launched the advertising campaign for its new streaming service Prima+.

NEW VOD SERVICE FOR CZECH REPUBLIC

6. 1. 2023 The Czech Republic’s FTV Prima has confirmed that it is preparing to launch a new VOD service.

PETS WIN FOR BRANDS IN 2022’S MOST LIKEABLE TV ADS

4. 1. 2023 Among the many insights included in iSpot’s upcoming 2022 TV advertising report is a look at the most likeable ads of the year.

CZECH MEDIA 2022: VOD BOOM, COST PRESSURE AND LEGISLATIVE FIGHT

30. 12. 2022 No sooner had the media market shaken off the covid downturn than the effects of economic development and rising costs began to show. Several print media outlets closed down, while VOD services developed as expected. 2022 brought that to the media as well.

MEDIA IN CR AT CHRISTMAS: MAINLY TV, THEN READING BOOKS AND VIDEOS

22. 12. 2022 Watching TV is by far the most popular Christmas media activity among Czechs. Czech fairy tales and czech films are the most frequently watched, with the most popular title being the fairy tale Three Nuts for Cinderella.

MOST SUBSCRIBERS WOULDN’T LEAVE THE SVOD BECAUSE OF THE ADVERTISING

23. 11. 2022 56% of users of paid VOD services would not stop using them even if they newly included advertising, research by Atmedia has shown.

BVOD ADVERTISING: MORE REACH, LESS RISK

15. 11. 2022 BVOD advertising adds reach to a linear TV campaign and is the least risky of all video advertising channels – including linear TV – in terms of predicting a return, according to a new Thinkbox study*.

SYMPOSIUM HBBTV: NOVA AND PRIMA HAVE SHOWN WHAT THEY ARE ATTRACTING VIEWERS WITH UNDER THE RED BUTTON

9. 11. 2022 The tenth anniversary edition of the international conference HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2022 started on Wednesday 9th November in Prague. The morning session was dedicated to the partners of the event from the Czech Republic under the banner of the AKTV. HbbTV has already become an absolutely common part of the distribution mix for media groups Nova and Prima, enabling them to connect linear broadcasting and the online world.

67% OF CONSUMERS PREFER AD-SUPPORTED STREAMING OPTIONS TO AD-FREE ONES?

8. 11. 2022 While subscription video on demand (SVOD) has become a streaming mainstay, ad-supported video (AVOD) is the hot new trend. But challenges abound in the rapidly evolving streaming landscape, with disjointed, uncurated and impersonal ad experiences.