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Sky Media to join Planet V trial

ITV and Sky have announced that Sky Media, Sky’s advertising sales arm, will join Planet V, ITV’s Broadcaster VoD advertising platform, for a trial period. Sky Media, the UK’s second largest TV sales house, will use Planet V for its on demand content, with agencies and advertisers expected to be able to plan and buy […]

July 31, 2023

Sky Media scores FIFA+ ad sales deal

Sky Media, the advertising sales house of Sky, has been appointed as the official and exclusive ad sales representatives for the FIFA+ VoD platforms across Europe, the UK and Ireland. This representation agreement with football’s governing body comes ahead of the forthcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, where FIFA+ will provide a range of content, […]

July 7, 2023By Colin Mann

WBD kids’ channels join Sky Media

Warner Bros Discovery UK & Ireland and Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, have announced an expansion of their long-running partnership. From July 1st, kids’ channels Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Cartoonito will be joining the Sky Media advertising portfolio. The partnership means Sky Media enhances its position as the home of children’s TV […]

May 10, 2023

Serious Tissues rolls out first TV campaign

Sky Media has revealed Serious Tissues’ £1 million Grand Prix-winning, Sky Zero Footprint Fund advertising campaign. Serious Tissues wiped out hundreds of competitors to be awarded the top prize for their campaign, showcasing the UK’s first carbon-neutral toilet roll. The resulting advert will run from April 24th – May 22nd using AdSmart to reach audiences […]

April 25, 2023

Sky Atlantic x Volvo’s 10 year partnership

Sky Media’s latest campaign with Volvo, brokered in partnership with Mindshare Invention, sees high-intensity and bold branded content airing on Sky Atlantic, featuring stunt talent from the BAFTA-winning Sky Original series, Gangs of London. Created by Sky Media’s in-house commercial production team and harnessing Sky Original talent, the four-minute branded content creative is titled ‘Inside […]

April 18, 2023

Sky Media announces partnership between Channel 5 and ManyPets

Sky Media has announced that pet insurance provider, ManyPets, will be sponsoring the Channel 5 genre strand known as Animal Tales, for over a year, starting from April 14th. The sponsorship will help bring to air a range of premium animal content across Channel 5, 5 Select and My5, including The Yorkshire Vet and new […]

April 14, 2023

Sky Media launches interactive training portal

Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, has launched a new online learning resource, Sky Media Skills. Sky Media Skills is a new, interactive portal to help aid better understanding of Sky Media’s wide-ranging advertising products and capabilities. Available at launch to existing partners, Sky Media Skills comprises eight bite-sized modules spanning AdSmart, VoD […]

February 23, 2023

Thinkbox TV ad promotes TV advertising

Thinkbox, the marketing trade body for UK TV advertising, is back on TV with a new advertising campaign from creative agency Mother London, directed by Jonny & Will from Blinkink. ‘Happily Ever After’ will be on linear and on-demand TV in the UK from December 26th. Thinkbox’s new TV campaign – its seventh – tells […]

December 15, 2022By Colin Mann

Serious Tissues wins Sky Media Zero Footprint fund

Sky has revealed Serious Tissues as the Grand Prix winner of its 2022 Sky Zero Footprint Fund initiative – a £2 million (€2.3m) advertising fund which supports and aims to inspire others to join the journey to Net Zero Carbon. The fund was established in 2021 to aid the acceleration and amplification of initiatives to […]

December 8, 2022