Automakers that increased TV ad spending in the fourth quarter of 2017 saw a statistically significant boost in digital key performance indicators (KPIs), including unique visitors and search. According to a new report from the Video Advertising Bureau that examined 25 domestic and foreign automotive brands, 19 brands had a ...
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CALL IT JEFFREY Katzenberg’s unicorn newborn. An operating company has come into being, ex nihilo, with the blandest of names—NewTV—and a valuation north of $1 billion. That’s something that has never happened before. Another thing that hasn’t happened before: the very first funding round for the company managed to reach ...
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If you read the trades regularly, there’s a good chance you’ve read that TV is dying. It’s less likely you read that Google, Netflix, and Amazon collectively spent more than $1B on TV advertising in 2017.1 Can both of those things be true? Why would tech giants spend so much ...
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egta – the association of television and radio sales houses – commends EU policymakers for reaching an agreement on a new Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Two years of challenging negotiations have delivered some welcome flexibility in commercial communications which should contribute to a more competitive environment for European broadcasters. We ...
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Facebook has been spending heavily to back a TV ad campaign designed to win back its users' trust following disclosures about users' data being used to retarget them, its role in disseminating fake news, and other negative issues. The campaign (see below) promises to get back to “what made Facebook ...
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Figures from around the world show the extent to which online businesses are now investing in TV advertising, in some countries becoming the biggest investors in TV. The figures compiled by The Global TV Group – the informal grouping of TV broadcasters’ and sales houses’ trade bodies in Europe, the ...
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For the past two decades, Spain’s state-run RTVE and private rivals Mediaset España and Atresmediahave been fighting for viewers’ hearts with slates of game shows, sports, comedies, and glossy morning news. Now, in a plot twist worthy of the steamiest soap opera, they’ve decided to hook up: This summer the ...
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EP negotiators and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU agreed on substantial rules for audiovisual media services, including digital platforms, on Thursday evening. The revised legislation will apply to broadcasters, but also to video-on-demand and video-sharing platforms, such as Netflix, YouTube or Facebook, as well as to ...
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In the first year of its existence, the Association of Commercial Television (AKTV) set two main goals: to spread awareness among advertisers about television being a key advertising mediatype and to do so through marketing activities as well as to engage in law-making processes with a direct impact on commercial ...
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Even though children mostly moved from the television screen to a computer monitor or smartphone, television is still number one for them. Research shows that even today’s children still prefer TV over other types of media. Lifestyle Survey of Children conducted by the Association of Television Organisations (ATO) shows that ...
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