Charlie Ergen is currently involved in – at least – two bouts of serious litigation. There’s the Cablevision/VOOM case, which restarts on September 24th in New York, and 3,000 miles away in a Los Angeles courtroom Dish Network is defending its ‘Autohop’ ad-skipping service against an application for an injunction from Fox Television. Fox Television […]
A report from investment banker Morgan Stanley says that French TV advertising trends remain downbeat. “TV ad spend continues to be under pressure,” says the bank’s note. “Some campaigns which had originally been frozen are starting to get cancelled, suggesting a soft year-end. [Commercial network] M6 is expected to make its commercial policy much more […]
YouView’s £10 million (€12.4m) launch advertising campaign broke this weekend, as the long-delayed service attempts to convince consumers that it represents the future of TV. The launch campaign will focus heavily on TV advertising. Spots were bought during ITV1’s The X Factor on Saturday with ads running simultaneously on Channel 4 and Channel 5, supported […]
Research by MediaMind, an independent provider of integrated digital advertising solutions, has revealed that the click-through rate (CTR) for online video is 27.4 times that of standard banners and almost 12 times that of rich media ads. In an analysis of over 3 billion ad impressions globally over the first six months of 2012, the […]
Nokia has apologised after it was revealed that an advert featuring video footage which appeared to have been filmed with its new Lumina 920 Windows smartphone had been created using different equipment. The Verge tech site revealed the issue after it noticed a window reflection revealed a cameraman holding what appeared to be an SLR […]
After five years of trying to make the TV world adopt its scheme to trade broadcast ads in the same way as it does online banner ads, Google has given up. In a win for the traditional media establishment Google quietly announced in a blogpost that it would close its TV Ads in Adwords product […]
ASA, the UK advertising watchdog, has ordered BSkyB to stop exaggerating the speed of its film download service, after rival BT complained its claim that it was “instant” was misleading. BSkyB ran a press ad promoting its new film rental service, Sky Store, marketing it as a “movie store in your home – available instantly […]
Media agency Carat has further revised downwards its forecasts. Globally it expects advertising revenues (across all media) to grow, but by less than originally expected. Some of the individual markets are still seeing spectacular y-o-y falls in revenues, with Spain leading the pack with likely y-o-y falls this year now of -8 per cent (originally […]
Dish Network is altering its embedded software on its EchoStar receiver set-top boxes, and this is creating speculation that Dish is modifying how the software works and thus avoid costly – and long-lasting – litigation from the USA’s major network broadcasters. Dish’s ‘Hopper’ technology was designed to allow viewers to skip over the advertising breaks. […]
Virgin Media has been told to stop claiming its fibre broadband lets users “say bye-bye to buffering”, after a complaint from BT. BT complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about an ad featuring sprinter Usain Bolt, in which Virgin suggests its service would eliminate buffering. Virgin said it considered the claim to be puffery […]