AVoD service Pluto TV and LG Electronics are expanding their partnership to offer Pluto TV channels on all 2016 to 2021 LG TVs running webOS in select European markets. With LG TV owners in Germany and the UK being the first to enjoy the Pluto TV app on LG TVs as of early this year, […]
Independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform Magnite has confirmed that advertising technology and consumer insights specialist Rakuten Advertising will leverage the Magnite CTV platform across Europe to broaden advertiser and agency access to inventory on Rakuten TV AVoD service. Magnite’s CTV platform further expands Rakuten Advertising’s access to technology built properly to handle the nuances of […]
Last year, the media industry was strongly hit by the economic crisis following the outbreak of the pandemic. Revenues from TV advertising in Europe, which were already reaching a stagnation point in most advanced markets, decreased significantly due to advertisers retracting their campaigns and to reluctance in investing in marketing during lockdown measures and following […]
Findings from the Video Benchmarks Report from TV and video advertising asset management solution provider Extreme Reach (ER) indicate that broken out by platform, CTV far and away takes the lead among aggregator and premium publisher impressions in Q1. The report, covering data from Q1 2021, includes ad performance data for impressions served from its […]
In Q1 2021, 6 per cent more linear TV minutes were watched overnight in the UK compared to Q4 2020, according to data from Samba TV. The number of minutes of daytime TV watched in the UK remained stable between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. Samba TV’s State of Viewership Q1 2021 report shows the […]
The Media Quality Report for H2 2020 from digital ad verification specialist Integral Ad Science (IAS), which provides global benchmarks for viewability, brand safety and ad fraud across digital environments and channels, suggests that amid turbulent times, UK brand risk increased across all media environments in H2 2020. Brand risk on desktop display rose 3.2 […]
A study conducted by cybersecurity and IP protection specialist White Bullet has revealed that 20 per cent of ads on pirate websites globally present a threat for consumers, with a high volume of ‘malvertising’ and fraud (13 per cent) and adult content (7 per cent) found within them. The latest stats from its Intellectual Property […]
TV has looked vastly different during these past 12 months. Networks and brands have had to adjust to the changing environment around them as production delays created programming gaps and live events disappeared, reports TV ad measurement and attribution specialist iSpot. With audiences stuck at home – especially in those early months – dayparts also […]
Digital advertising brand safety programme The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) has revealed that the number of certification seals held by companies rose by 87 per cent over the same points in 2020, as companies worldwide required their supply chain partners to comply with TAG’s Certified Against Fraud, Certified Against Piracy, Certified Against Malware, and Brand […]
Multichannel broadcster UKTV – owned by BBC Studios – has invested in luxury watch comparison website start-up TIME-TO-FIND, using its multi-million pound investment fund, UKTV Ventures. The partnership comprises an ‘airtime-for-equity’ agreement which will see TIME-TO-FIND launch its first ever TV advertising campaign on UKTV’s seven channels – Alibi, Dave, Drama, Eden, Gold, W, and […]