Spain’s largest private TV groups, Atresmedia and Mediaset, ended 2021 with healthy financial results – mainly due to the rise of ad revenues. Atresmedia’s profit amounted to €118.5 million, five times more than the previous year. Atresmedia’s turnover reached €963.3 million, up 11.2 per cent with its EBITDA growing 132 per cent to €172.5 million. […]
Magnite, the independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, has announced the acquisition of Carbon, a platform that enables publishers to measure, manage and monetise audiences in real-time. Magnite saus the acquisition accelerates its seller-first, privacy-focused identity and audience solutions focused around first-party segments and bolsters the Product and Engineering teams in this critical area. The acquisition […]
Four of the leading national programmers in the US – AMC Networks, Discovery, TelevisaUnivision and WarnerMedia – have teamed up with Canoe Ventures to further enable national addressable television advertising. As a result of these separate, multi-year agreements, Canoe will be providing enablement and ongoing campaign service assurance across its national addressable TV advertising footprint, […]
Samba TV, a global player in television data technology, has announced the launch of its new advertising currency, incremental cost per thousand impressions (iCPM), where marketers only pay for ad impressions served within households previously unexposed to their linear TV campaigns. The new performance-based iCPM metric is designed to help advertisers discover and reach increasingly […]
Magnite, the independent sell side advertising platform, has announced the launch of Live Stream Acceleration (LSA), a technology designed to help CTV publishers optimise their live inventory programmatically. Magnite says that LSA helps publishers more effectively monetise their supply, ensuring that ads are served in a timely manner without burdening their technical infrastructure. By leveraging […]
Research carried out by Sortlist has revealed the TV ads which Brits have complained about the most, as well as the industries taking the majority of these complaints and the type of adverts receiving the most negative feedback. The most complained about ad of all time, with 5,523 complaints is Paddy Power’s 2015 campaign. The […]
January 2022 ad spend in the US surpassed January 2021 by $1.1 billion, growing +19 per cent year-over-year, hitting a new record high for the month. This is according to Standard Media Index (SMI) who captures actual invoicing data from all major holding companies and most major independents, representing 95 per cent of national brand […]
Brands once again poured huge amounts if money into the Super Bowl in search of high-profile boost both during and after the event. According to data from Signal AI — which evaluates more than 5 million news sources daily – the fledgling cryptocurrency industry claimed the top spot in post Super Bowl coverage across top-tier […]
Discovery UK has unveiled plans to introduce an ‘Ad-Lite’ offering for discovery+ customers in the UK and Ireland. Discovery says discovery+ will be the first global SVoD service to launch an ‘Ad-Lite’ offering in the UK, this follows the successful launch of the product in the US, with a further roll-out across EMEA expected this […]
ITV and Veg Power’s health-eating campaign, Eat Them To Defeat Them, returns for 2022 with the aim of one million children receiving activity packs. Since the campaign debuted in January 2019, Eat Them To Defeat Them has led to sales of almost one billion additional children’s portions of vegetables – worth just under £92 million. […]