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DVB plans Targeted Advertising spec

Digital television standards body DVB is working on a specification to enable broadcasters to offer Targeted Advertising, with a view to having it operational in 2020. Speaking at the Future TV Advertising Forum in London, Vincent Grivet, Co-Chair, DVB Targeted Advertising Study Mission Group, said that the DVB was establishing the DVB-CM-TA (Commercial Module – […]

December 8, 2017By Colin Mann

Study: TAG certification cuts ad fraud by 83%

According to the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), an advertising industry initiative to fight criminal activity in the digital advertising supply chain, the use of TAG Certified distribution channels for digital advertising reduced the level of fraud by more than 83 per cent from the broader industry average. Among the findings of the study conducted by […]

December 8, 2017

Research: Emotive ads get better sales

TV advertisements that generate strong emotional reactions deliver a stronger sales impact, a new study by marketing science academic Professor Karen Nelson-Field has found. The study,

December 5, 2017

UK broadcasters launch The Big TV Festival

UK commercial broadcasters Channel 4, ITV and Sky are joining forces to launch The Big TV Festival, an unprecedented collaboration between the broadcasters. Co-produced with Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, The Big TV Festival will take place on February 8-9 2018 in a bespoke set created in Blackwood Forest, Hampshire. […]

November 30, 2017

Research: Mobile 2nd-largest ad medium

Mobile adspend across all formats is expected to reach $98.3 billion (€82.9bn) in 2017, representing almost a quarter (23 per cent) of worldwide advertising expenditure, according to new analysis from marketing intelligence service WARC. The latest Global Ad Trends report also forecasts mobile adspend will record 35.2 per cent year-on-year dollar growth in 2017, with […]

November 30, 2017

Innovid survey: Video marketing expectations for 2018

Innovid, the video marketing platform, has released a report, Where are Brand Marketers Taking Their Video Strategy in 2018?, which presents the results of a survey completed by 140 marketing decision-makers at top brands, conducted during the summer of 2017 by Brand Innovators in partnership with Innovid. The survey queried brand marketers on how they perceive their brands’ […]

November 29, 2017

Study: TV ads 71% of advertising-generated profit

After a decade of change in advertising with the emergence of many new forms of advertising competing for investment, a study has for the first time quantified the total profit generated by different forms of advertising to show what they actually deliver to the bottom line. The study – Profit Ability: the business case for […]

November 16, 2017

C4 joins European digital ad venture

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 has teamed up with three European broadcasters to book pan-European advertising campaigns, allowing it to take on digital ad giants Facebook and Google. The so called European Broadcaster Exchange, which comprises of Channel 4, Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1, France’s FT1 and Spain/Italy’s Mediaset, is set to launch early next year. Each of […]

November 14, 2017

56% OTT viewers talk about products they see

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released The OTT Co-Viewing Experience: 2017, a study revealing that 56 per cent of those co-viewing on OTT say that they regularly talk about the brands or products they see while watching content on TV screens. Moreover, brand-related multitasking behaviours are particularly strong among OTT co-viewers, including chatting on […]

November 14, 2017

Australia: Millennials feel poorly represented in ads

Millennials and baby boomers in Australia feel they are represented better by the media than by advertising, according to YouGov Omnibus research. The online survey comparing the opinions of respondents born between the mid-1940s and mid-1960s (baby boomers) and between the early 1980s and mid-1990s (millennials), asked how well represented they feel by the way […]

November 13, 2017