Vudoo, a global commerce media technology company, has partnered with PubMatic, the AI-powered ad tech company delivering digital advertising performance, to enable shoppable ad experiences across PubMatic’s premium, verified inventory. This partnership reflects the accelerating convergence of content, advertising, and commerce, offering advertisers and publishers a new way to connect engagement with conversion at scale. […]

Reinforcing Connected TV’s growing role within total video strategies, nearly seven in 10 CTV advertisers (70 per cent) expect to increase their CTV spending, with an average rise of 17 per cent, according to the 2026 CTV/OTT Advertiser Survey released by Advertiser Perceptions and Premion, the CTV/OTT advertising solution for regional and local advertisers in […]

Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, is helping Samsung Electronics to bring entertainment experiences enabled by AI to Samsung smart TV users worldwide. Grounded by Gracenote metadata, Samsung will deliver advanced search capabilities enabling users to find precisely the TV shows, movies and sports programmes they want through more intuitive, conversational interactions. In […]

Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics’ media division, has launched an Immersive Carousel ad unit which enables advertisers on Samsung TV home screens to run ads with up to five separate tiles. The ad unit is available on Samsung Smart TVs across Europe. The format auto-rotates every five seconds, or manually via the […]

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) has announced its strategic priorities for 2026, which it says reinforces its commitment to advancing improvements, best practices, innovations and collaboration across the media and advertising industries. To support delivery of CIMM’s agenda, Dana McGraw (Disney) and Ben Hovaness (OMD) have joined Kate Sirkin (Epsilon) and Larry Allen (Comcast […]

TVision, a company measuring TV and CTV viewer engagement, and VideoAmp, the tech-first measurement company, have announced an expanded licensing agreement that delivers TVision’s person-level calibration data for CTV to VideoAmp. The new deal expands an existing agreement between the two companies for Linear data. TVision reports second-by-second attention and co-viewing for all major US […]

Despite the rise of streaming, YouTube and social media, traditional TV viewership in Italy dropped only slightly in 2025 compared to the previous year. Data from the 2025 Italian Television Yearbook reveals that the average daily audience reached 8.73 million viewers (down 1.2 per cent), while the prime-time audience stood at 19.6 million (a 1.4 […]

Teads, the omnichannel outcomes platform, has partnered with Google TV to expand its connected TV (CTV) HomeScreen ad inventory. This strategic partnership gives brands access to high-attention placements on connected television, appearing as the first visual impression on Google TV devices across major global markets, including the UK and US. With Google TV Masthead, advertisers […]

Sky has published independent research by Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates (O&O) which finds that the UK can move fully to internet-delivered TV in the 2030s, with only around 330,000 (2.2 per cent) households left to help over the line – if Government sets a clear timetable and invests in targeted help for those most at […]

tvScientific, the advertising platform for Performance TV, has released its 2026 State of Performance TV Report, revealing that it has become the number one channel for advertising investment as marketers face growing pressure to capture attention, control costs, and prove outcomes in a rapidly changing industry. According to the report, Performance TV (i.e. insights-driven streaming […]