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Videology: “6x increase in Connected TV ad campaigns in 2 years”

Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising, has released its Q1 2017 U.S. TV & Video At-A-Glance report. According to the report, Videology has seen a 6x increase in the number of ad requests for Connected TV since Q1 2015. In fact, today over half (56 per cent) of campaigns are run […]

May 4, 2017

AOL: “Shorter videos = bigger audiences”

The results from a AOL’s latest global research study reveal the consumer behaviours and industry trends driving the evolution of digital video, and point the way for advertisers and publishers looking to make the most of digital video in 2017. There are many challenges, but with consumers making digital video a habit – 92 per […]

May 3, 2017

Report: Mobile operators must embrace ad market

Mobile operators should be doing more to leverage subscriber data in mobile advertising, particularly in the face of stalling service revenue. A Strategy Analytics report concludes that the majority of operators are failing to take advantage of strong demand for transparent, precise and verifiable audience data from media buyers despite being perceived as providing “gold […]

May 3, 2017

YouTube survives ad controversy

Google parent Alphabet posted a 29 per cent rise in quarterly profit, driven by a surge in advertising on mobiles and its popular YouTube video service. Alphabet’s net income rose to $5.43 billion in the first quarter ended March 31st, up from $4.21 billion a year earlier. Google’s ad revenue, which accounts for a lion’s […]

April 28, 2017

Viewers pay more attention to Connected TV ads

YuMe, a provider of digital video brand advertising., has released a report measuring ad attention by comparing the actual time a viewer’s eyes were tracked watching an ad against the total time the ad was viewable for connected TV, desktop and mobile campaigns. The study concludes that viewers pay attention to a higher proportion of ads […]

April 27, 2017

Just Eat £10m a year to sponsor X Factor

Just Eat, the online takeaway food service, has agreed a £10 million-a-year deal (€11.9m) to be the new sponsor of The X Factor and intends to launch a nationwide “Chef Factor” hunt for takeaway cooks to star in its branded clips. Just Eat’s multiyear deal is one of the largest ever for a weekly show […]

April 27, 2017

Digital formats drive record quarter for UK ads

UK advertising expenditure grew 3.7 per cent to reach £21.4 billion (€25.2bn) in 2016, the seventh consecutive year of market growth, according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report. Growth in UK adspend held steady in Q3 after the June referendum, before reaching £5.8 billion in Q4 2016, a rise of 3.9 per cent year-on-year and the […]

April 26, 2017

Report: How advertisers are using Addressable TV

Addressable TV advertising has doubled in the past year, according to various industry sources, thanks in large part to an influx of advertisers that are placing targeted ads for brand awareness as much as for sales promotion – the value most readily ascribed to the medium.  And now they want more. A study by Advertiser […]

April 25, 2017

Keepixo, Yospace teaming up

Keepixo, a provider of software-based head-end solutions for IPTV and OTT, and Yospace, a provider of Dynamic Ad Insertion solutions, have announced their systems have been pre-integrated to offer a full end-to-end monetisation solution for live TV channels when viewed online. “Now that OTT services are becoming widely deployed, broadcasters and operators are looking for […]

April 21, 2017

Kantar: Ad industry at risk without measurement standards

Research released by Kantar Media warns that, if the advertising industry doesn’t find a way to measure performance accurately and consistently, Proctor & Gamble’s threat to pull spend from digital advertising will be just the tip of the iceberg. Dimension, a new international study

April 20, 2017