WHERE ARE YOU GOING? HOW TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE WHEN THEY’RE PROBABLY NOT PAYING ATTENTION

7. 2. 2025 People’s attention spans have shrunk and marketers are literally fighting for seconds. What should creatives reach for and what should they try to engage with to make an ad have any impact at all? In 2015, the news swept the internet that our ability to concentrate was about equal to that of maximum goldfish. While… Continue reading WHERE ARE YOU GOING? HOW TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE WHEN THEY’RE PROBABLY NOT PAYING ATTENTION

5 WAYS BRANDS CAN TAP INTO SUPER BOWL HYPE WITHOUT BUYING A TV SPOT

6. 2. 2025 The Super Bowl remains the most expensive and high-profile advertising event of the year, with national TV spots commanding upwards of $8 million—before production costs. But in an era of fragmented attention spans and evolving viewing habits, brands don’t need a seven-figure ad buy to capitalize on Super Bowl buzz. Below, five industry experts shared their… Continue reading 5 WAYS BRANDS CAN TAP INTO SUPER BOWL HYPE WITHOUT BUYING A TV SPOT

WHY CELEBRITIES AND THE SUPER BOWL AREN’T LIKELY TO PART WAYS

4. 2. 2025 There was a time when most Super Bowl commercials didn’t feature a celebrity. No Serena Williams. No Payton Manning. No Martha Stewart. In 2010, only about one-third of Big Game spots included a well-known actor, athlete, or musician, according to television analytics firm iSpot.tv. This changed in 2018, when famous faces appeared in the majority of Super… Continue reading WHY CELEBRITIES AND THE SUPER BOWL AREN’T LIKELY TO PART WAYS

THINKING ABOUT LAUNCHING A NEW PRODUCT DURING THE BIG GAME?

1. 2. 2025 For marketers with a new product to promote, few media destinations are as appetizing as the Super Bowl, which offers a unique opportunity to reach the biggest TV audience of the year. But is launching a new product on one of the biggest game days of the year really worth the $7 million-plus price tag… Continue reading THINKING ABOUT LAUNCHING A NEW PRODUCT DURING THE BIG GAME?

STUDY USA: STREAMING VIEWERS MORE ACCEPTING OF TV ADS

12. 1. 2025 Annual survey finds two-thirds of viewers find advertising more tolerable than in on-demand programming. With a greater number of lower-cost ad-supported programming sources available, TV viewers’ resistance to ads continues to wane, according to a new report from Hub Research. Hub’s semiannual “TV Advertising: Fact vs. Fiction” survey indicates most consumers prefer to watch TV ads… Continue reading STUDY USA: STREAMING VIEWERS MORE ACCEPTING OF TV ADS

MARKETERS PLAN TO INVEST MORE IN BRAND AMBASSADORS IN 2025

4. 1. 2025 Nearly three-quarters of US and UK marketers (73%) are planning to increase their investment in brand ambassadors next year, according to new research. Creator agency Billion Dollar Boy commissioned a Censuswide study of more than 4,000 consumers and over 500 senior marketers and brand managers in the US and UK. The reasons for investing more… Continue reading MARKETERS PLAN TO INVEST MORE IN BRAND AMBASSADORS IN 2025

TALKING TV TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE

19. 12. 2024 Despite the frequent obituaries of linear TV, research consistently demonstrates its effectiveness – and financial analysts ought to be asking questions based on those findings, suggests Haleon’s head of global media. At the recent Future of TV Advertising Global conference, Simon Peel observed how digital platforms have been very successful in promoting themselves to CMOs… Continue reading TALKING TV TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE

ATTENTION DRIVES INCREMENTAL PROFIT

4. 11. 2024 There is a linear relationship between the amount of attention an advertising channel receives and the incremental profit it delivers, according to a new study from Ebiquity and Lumen Research. Maximising Profit through Attention brings together Lumen’s benchmarks for its APM attention metric (attentive seconds per 1000 impressions) with the Full Profit ROI channel benchmarks… Continue reading ATTENTION DRIVES INCREMENTAL PROFIT

PETER FIELD ON HOW TV CAN OUTPERFORM DIGITAL

30. 10. 2024 TV generates 13.8 seconds of attention for a 30-second ad. That’s compared to just 5.2 seconds for YouTube and 1.5 seconds for Facebook and Instagram ads. This finding from Lumenunderscores TV’s ability to capture and hold consumer attention. Challenge your marketing assumptions. Peter Field’s evidence-based approach, rooted in decades of case study analysis, offers a… Continue reading PETER FIELD ON HOW TV CAN OUTPERFORM DIGITAL

OMG COMES WITH A BRAND NEWS VIDEO AD SCHEDULER

30. 9. 2024 Omnicom Media Group introduces a new way of measuring video advertising and translates it into an approach to planning. Measurement based on attention prediction, visual exposure of the brand in the spot, along with the involvement of local data from the entire Czech video inventory (including YouTube, Meta, etc.) is at the heart of the… Continue reading OMG COMES WITH A BRAND NEWS VIDEO AD SCHEDULER

STUDY USA: CTV VIEWING IS RETURNING TO PANDEMIC HIGHS

28. 9. 2024 A new study of CTV viewing finds that viewing levels are approaching record levels and average viewing sessions are increasing, according to Wurl. A new study of viewing on connected TVs finds a number of encouraging trends, including the fact that viewing levels are approaching the record levels seen during the pandemic and that the average viewing… Continue reading STUDY USA: CTV VIEWING IS RETURNING TO PANDEMIC HIGHS

THE MARVEL PHENOMENON: COMICS AND TV ADVERTISING IS A GREAT DUO

16. 9. 2024 The popularity of comic book characters makes it possible to create attractive and visually powerful ads, and brands and creative agencies are well aware of this. Which ones are successfully riding the Marvel wave with a comic book theme?

TV VIEWERS. WHO ARE THEY AND HOW DO THEY SPEND THEIR TIME WITH AND WITHOUT TV?

3. 9. 2024 Watching TV means something different to everyone, and mostly, it doesn’t mean just one thing.

2024 MOVING IMAGE STUDY: STABLE HIGH LEVEL OF BROADCASTER CONTENT USAGE

23. 8. 2024 According to a recent study conducted by RTR Medien in cooperation with the TELETEST working group, broadcasters account for 77 per cent of the use of moving images. Companies offering streaming services and video services are not increasing their reach. The trend highlighted in the previous year’s study continues. For the ninth year in a… Continue reading 2024 MOVING IMAGE STUDY: STABLE HIGH LEVEL OF BROADCASTER CONTENT USAGE

CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT ADS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE

22. 8. 2024 Contextual advertising can significantly impact campaign metrics across the purchase funnel. This is the finding of research conducted by VAB. There is no question that content influences brand perception. 72% of consumers say their perception of advertising is influenced by surrounding content. 73% of consumers find contextually relevant advertising more appealing. Ad recall doubles Contextual… Continue reading CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT ADS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE

STUDY USA: CTV COMMERCIALS DELIVER MORE ATTENTION THAN OTHER DIGITAL VIDEO FORMATS

10. 8. 2024 Yahoo, Omnicom, Amplified Intelligence team up for study. Commercials on connected TV deliver more attention and better business outcomes than other forms of digital video advertising, according to new research. The research comes as advertisers pour money formerly earmarked for broadcast and cable TV into CTV. The IAB this week forecast that spending on CTV… Continue reading STUDY USA: CTV COMMERCIALS DELIVER MORE ATTENTION THAN OTHER DIGITAL VIDEO FORMATS

TELEVISION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHANNEL IN THE VIDEO UNIVERSE

9. 8. 2024 At the Screenforce Day conference in Zurich earlier this summer, Screenforce Switzerland presented a new study Die Welt der Screens, which focused on the analysis of the devices and channels that viewers in Switzerland use to consume video content. The conclusions of the study are clear. The most used device for watching all TV content… Continue reading TELEVISION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHANNEL IN THE VIDEO UNIVERSE

DOES THE FUTURE BELONG TO SHORT VIDEOS?

5. 8. 2024 According to Hubspot research, 62 percent of consumers have viewed video content to gain information about a brand or product. But what’s the difference between short and long videos, and what are their benefits? We wrote about this in the last issue of MAM – a double issue 32-33/2024. The length of a video plays… Continue reading DOES THE FUTURE BELONG TO SHORT VIDEOS?