Connected TV (CTV) is taking the world by storm.
We’ve seen an annual increase of nearly 100 million CTV sets per year over the past five years globally, and the market is growing rapidly in the UK.
Advertising on the channel is expected to grow to £220m by 2020, surpassing countries like France (£215m), Germany (£112m), and Spain (£94m).
In a market with Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video and plenty of other over-the-top and pay-TV services, Now TV obviously has its work cut out to compete.
Owners Sky have backed the service with a range of advertising and product innovation, leading to impressive recent growth figures; adding nearly 50% to its subscriber numbers in the 12 months to Q4 2017 (1.5m total).
The UK’s biggest supermarkets are constantly vying for consumer attention.
The supermarkets spend millions on large-scale ad campaigns each year (and never more so than at Christmas time).
Welcome to the third part of our programmatic ‘ask the experts’ series.
Previously we’ve looked at tracking the offline impact of programmatic spend and what data is needed for proper targeting. In this article we tackle the challenge of integrating programmatic and TV, as well as asking how programmatic creative interplays with other channels.
Sarah Rose is Director of Consumer Insights at Channel 4. I caught up with her to discuss all things personalisation.
It’s an incredibly exciting time to be working in TV, and Rose gave me some insight into emerging trends amongst audiences, as well as the work the company is doing to curate its content for users.
Marketing is full of fallacious commentary, opinion and vendor sales speak.
Earlier this year I rounded up some digital fallacies, but now I want to focus on marketing more broadly and some of its flawed reasoning.
Video ad tech company Unruly has revealed the most shared ads of 2016.
Here are the top 10…
(Tip: a particular favourite of mine is the terrible Europop on the Cadbury advert.)
My overwhelming feeling after watching a whole bunch of Christmas adverts is that brands aren’t really sure what approach to take.
Have they misjudged the consumer of 2016? Let’s start with John Lewis…
For the past two weeks nothing has occupied my mind as fixedly as the McDonald’s Monopoly TV adverts.
The burger giant has generated an incredible amount of word-of-mouth in the UK simply by creating a rather confused, social TV campaign.
Why? And what, if anything, can we learn from it?
How do we consume media in 2014? And what media? And on which devices?
Ofcom released The Communications Market Report in August 2014 and it’s chock full of interesting data and charts on the UK market.
I’ve previously looked at mobile and tablet usage. Now I’m turning by attention to the broader topic of media uptake, in its various forms.
For more statistical goodness, download our Internet Statistics Compendium…
Ofcom today published The Communications Market Report 2014 in the UK.
There are lots of interesting stats within, across telecoms, audio-visual industries, post and of course the internet.
No doubt we’ll be covering the report fairly heavily, but I thought I’d start by rounding up the bits that caught my eye.
How is device use changing? How are people accessing media? How much are advertisers spending and on what?
A New York City doctor with a Witherspoon personality, Nicki Minaj body, Sinatra eyes and love of fried donuts might be your perfect match.
She’s 34, single and looking to meet other local singles in the city. She may seem too good to be true, and that’s because she is.
This New York City bachelorette’s main motivation is to prompt you to tune in for the season premiere of her primetime TV show, The Mindy Project, on Fox Primetime.