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C4 Diversity In Advertising prize for Starbucks & Iris

Channel 4 has named Starbucks and its creative agency, Iris, as the winner of its annual £1 million Diversity in Advertising Award, which this year tasked entrants to focus on the lack of representation and stereotyping of the LGBT+ community in advertising. The brand will receive £1 million worth of commercial advertising for its winning […]

September 24, 2019

Simulmedia, Kochava ad partnership

Simulmedia, the preeminent provider of audience-based, data-optimised TV advertising, and Kochava, the mobile attribution platform and host a mobile data marketplace, have announced a partnership that enables brands to activate TV media plans that are based on the networks, dayparts and programmes their mobile consumers are actually watching. “As a result of this partnership, marketers […]

September 24, 2019

Mobile ad clicks up, but conversions way behind desktop

Research unveiled at the Mobile Growth Summit 2019 in Berlin raised important questions for both advertisers and mobile app developers when it was revealed that although 60 per cent of ad clicks over the past 12 months have come from a mobile device, desktop converts almost 60 per cent more than mobile, with desktop conversions […]

September 19, 2019

Report: Animated ads most effective for automotive brands

TVSquared, a global player in linear and digital TV attribution, has released its report, Taking Back the Wheel: TV Ad Performance Insights for Automotive Brands. The analysis uncovers the TV buy elements that are driving response – spanning KPIs, creative lengths, programming genres, days and dayparts – for the auto industry. TVSquared analysed more than […]

September 19, 2019

Report: APAC online video to reach $50bn

The Asia Pacific online video industry will generate $27 billion (€24.4bn) in advertising and subscription revenue this year, up 24 per cent Y/Y from 2018, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution 2020, from research, advisory and consulting firm Media Partners Asia (MPA). This pie is forecast to expand at […]

September 18, 2019

FranceTV Publicité launches ad solution with Mirriad

Computer vision and AI-powered platform company Mirriad, is partnering with FranceTV Publicité who announced this week it has launched three tailored offers of next generation product placement using the Mirriad in-video advertising solution. Mirriad’s technology seamlessly inserts brands in France Télévisions popular scripted dramas after the content is produced. Brands are inserted in the content […]

September 18, 2019

Forecast: Online viewing to reach 100 mins a day

The average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, up from 84 minutes this year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019 report. That’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. The amount of time people spend viewing online video has grown rapidly across the world, […]

September 17, 2019

Sky, C4 expand partnership; AdSmart deal

Sky and Channel 4 have announced a strategic partnership spanning content, technology and innovation. The multi-year deal builds on the partnership announced by the two broadcasters last year and will further benefit both consumers and the broader industry. For the first time, Channel 4 will use Sky’s AdSmart technology to deliver fully-targeted, addressable ads across […]

September 17, 2019

PitPat launches commercial targeting dogs on UKTV

PitPat, an activity tracker app for dogs, is launching its first TV advertising campaign designed specifically to capture the attention of canines. The ad will debut exclusively on all UKTV channels today (September 16th) as part of the broadcaster’s airtime-for-equity deal with the pet fitness brand. The ad will run on all UKTV channels – […]

September 16, 2019By Nik Roseveare

Imagine enhances ITV’s ad management

Media and entertainment technologist Imagine Communications, has confirmed that a new generation of its Landmark Sales solution will improve advertising management for the UK’s largest commercial television network ITV. In an extension of Imagine’s longstanding relationship with the network, earlier this summer, ITV completed an upgrade to the more modern, efficient and technically-advanced Landmark II […]

September 13, 2019Colin Mann @ IBC