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Tubetime, Civolution integration

Civolution, the provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content, has confirmed its integration by Tubetime, the entertainment technology company that brings TV viewers a fun, simple and rich viewing experience with an all-in-one television-companion app. Civolution will provide Tubetime with access to its SyncNow real-time Ad Identification service, which will allow […]

April 3, 2013

Ad men: TV ads should be 5 secs

Trevor Beattie, one of the UK’s most celebrated advertising men has claimed that modern technology has killed the 30-second TV commercial. Beattie told the  Advertising Week Europe conference in London that the only really long-form content that should exist these days is “Attenborough and movies” in a world where we snack on content and live […]

March 18, 2013

Innovid advertising raises $11m

Innovid, the technology platform delivering immersive video advertising anywhere, announced that it raised $11 million in Series C funding. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Genesis Partners, and T-Venture (Deutsche Telecom) participated in the round, with a new investment from Vintage Investment Partners. This announcement comes on the heels of a global leadership position in the agency […]

March 7, 2013

Spain’s TV ad market down 19%

The Spanish TV ad market dropped by 19 per cent in 2012 to €1.8 billion against €2.2 billion the previous year, according to the latest report from the consultancy firm Infoadex. Advertising investments of free-to-air nationwide TV channels, which represent 90.6 per cent of all the TV ad expenditure, amounted to €1,643.9 million, down 16.8 […]

March 1, 2013From David Del Valle in Madrid

FilmOn.TV opens $100m TV ad campaign

An irreverent commercial featuring Alki David, the controversial billionaire and founder of FilmOn.TV, has started airing in New York offering consumers five hundred live TV Channels as well as DVR storage space for free. The offering includes all the local Major Networks NBC CBS Fox and ABC as well as a wide range of premium […]

March 1, 2013

CBS ‘censors’ Big Bang Hopper tweet

Dish has accused CBS of telling one of the network’s stars, Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory, to delete a Twitter message promoting the Hopper to her 1.2 million followers. Dish’s chief executive, Joe Clayton, a chance to say on Twitter: “It’s disappointing that CBS – once the exemplar of editorial independence and innovation […]

March 1, 2013

Second screen ad format engages ITV audiences

ITV Commercial has revealed its findings following the trial of a new interactive advertising format, Ad Sync, which found that dual-screen advertising drives stronger engagement and post-advertising actions. Last year, during The X Factor finals, ITV created a new interactive ad format which allowed viewers to explore more about the advertiser’s products or services using […]

February 28, 2013

KPMG: UK Product Placement set for rapid growth

Product Placement could significantly alter the way UK TV programming is produced, financed and consumed over the next few years, according to a KPMG report published ahead of the two year anniversary of an Ofcom ruling which allowed product placement for the first time on UK TV. The report – Taking a subtle approach: How […]

February 28, 2013

Broadcast and online advertising converging

Eighty-six per cent of UK advertising agencies purchased digital video inventory in 2012, with 62 per cent listing brand awareness as a primary goal, according to a research report by Adap.tv and Admonsters. “This is a pivotal point as the worlds of TV and online advertising begin to really merge for the first time,” says […]

February 27, 2013

Dish drives around network ad-ban

Some major US broadcast networks will not carry Dish’s advertisements for its ‘Dish Hopper’ ad-skipping technology. On Sunday, Dish managed cleverly to circumvent Fox’s apparent ban by sponsoring a racing car at the all-important Daytona 500 NASCAR race. Car 95 was the Leavine Family Racing’s Ford Fusion driven by Scott Speed, and it was neatly […]

February 25, 2013By Chris Forrester