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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has announced the launch of TRA Cross Media Measurement, which enables advertisers, agencies and television networks to measure household-level exposure across TV and online advertising campaigns and content for more than 100,000 households – the industry’s largest single-source, naturally occurring data set of its kind by […]
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 […]
Dish Network’s president Charlie Ergen said he is hopeful that despite ongoing ‘AutoHop’ litigation with some network broadcasters, the upcoming Disney contract negotiations would go smoothly. “Obviously we’re a very large customer of Disney, and our checks are pretty big. We have negotiations every year with major programmers. Some that we’re in litigation with, while […]
France’s top two private broadcasters, TF1 and M6, posted lower profits for 2012 as major advertisers cut their spending. TF1 said it expected revenue to fall 3 per cent this year in a “deeply troubled economic environment” and vowed to put stricter controls on programming costs in place. It posted a 26 per cent decline […]