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Sky Go to use Yospace ad insertion

Sky Media has chosen Yospace to provide a dynamic advertisement replacement solution for Sky Go, its ‘TV everywhere’ service in Europe.  In addition to enabling dynamic ad serving on Sky Go Linear for the first time, Sky is now also able to reproduce the key targeting benefits of its successful Sky AdSmart technology across connected […]

March 14, 2016

OTT ad revenues up 76% in 2015

FreeWheel has released its Q4 2015 Video Monetization Report that examines the state of the video market. The research highlighted some key findings from the quarter – and 2015 as a whole. For example, European broadcasters monetised the majority of their dynamically served content across long-form on-demand, now accounting for 88 per cent of total […]

March 10, 2016

Digital ad spend to surpass TV in 2017

Next year will mark a major milestone for ad spending, as total digital surpasses TV for the first time, according to eMarketer’s latest quarterly ad spending forecast. In 2017, TV ad spending will total $72.01 billion, or 35.8 per cent of total media ad spending in the US. Meanwhile, total digital ad spending in 2017 […]

March 9, 2016

Mediaset and Atresmedia profit from ad rebound

The two largest TV groups in Spain, Mediaset and Atresmedia, have managed to multiply by three and two, respectively, their profits in 2015 with the ad revenues significantly increasing. Mediaset, operator of Tele 5 and Cuatro among others, had a profit of €166.2 million, almost 3 times the €59.5 million profit the previous year, with […]

February 25, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid

UK TV ad spend tops £5bn

TV advertising revenue in the UK totalled £5.27 billion (€6.76bn) in 2015, up 7.4 per cent on 2014, according to full year revenue figures provided to Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – by the UK commercial TV broadcasters. This is the sixth consecutive year that TV advertising revenue has […]

February 23, 2016

IAB: TV-centric living room in decline

The degree to which the rise of Internet-connected devices has impacted the traditional TV watching living room dynamic is revealed today by an in-depth study from the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IAB) exposing two key myths about this traditional routine. The Real_Living study – carried out by research agency, Sparkler – involved nearly 1,050 people […]

February 11, 2016

Sky unveils Sky Q ad campaign

Sky says it will “break new ground with a visually spectacular advertising campaign” for the launch of Sky Q, its next generation home entertainment system.  The campaign is the biggest and most ambitious in Sky’s 27 year history and will roll out in the UK and Ireland from 12 February 2016. An arresting campaign, produced […]

February 11, 2016

TiVo ranks most-watched Super Bowl ads and moments

TiVo has ranked this year’s most engaging Super Bowl commercials, promotions and game moments. From a variety of takes on patriotic messages, quirky humour, and a bit of the odd, commercials tended to lack the usual sizzle of the biggest TV event of the year, says the advanced television technology and insight specialist. Unlike in […]

February 8, 2016

35% of Millennials watching Super Bowl on Smart TV

With more than one in three consumers watching live sports on a device other than a traditional television set, Super Bowl 50 is likely to see some major shifts in how consumers watch the big game, according to new analysis by Adobe Digital Index (ADI). ADI’s survey of more than 400 US consumers found Millennials […]

February 8, 2016

Spain: TV advertising to grow 6.1% this year

TV ad revenues in Spain are likely to increase by 6.1 per cent this year to €2.060 billion, with the two largest TV groups Atresmedia and Mediaset taking 85 per cent of the ad market, according to a report from the firm Arce Media. As a whole, the advertising market is expected to grow by […]

February 3, 2016From David Del Valle in Madrid