TRENDS IN SPORTS SPONSORSHIP
13. 1. 2025 The growing influence of artificial intelligence, the increased visibility of Olympic partners or Nike’s aggressive journey back to relevance. These are some of the trends that are expected to be evident in global sports sponsorship in 2025. In the past year, this area has been impacted by major changes, returns and departures. “Rights holders are… Continue reading TRENDS IN SPORTS SPONSORSHIP
NEWS ORGANISATIONS FEAR A DROP IN REFERRALS, THREATENING A KEY SOURCE OF TRUST FOR BRANDS
10. 1. 2025 Leaders at news organisations are worrying about a drop in referrals from search in the coming year, as social media platforms turn away from news and AI-generated summaries become a mainstream part of search, according to new data from the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford – for marketers, an internet without news is… Continue reading NEWS ORGANISATIONS FEAR A DROP IN REFERRALS, THREATENING A KEY SOURCE OF TRUST FOR BRANDS
MARKETING TRENDS 2025: TRANSPARENCY, AI AND RETAIL MEDIA
8. 1. 2025 What all can make its way into marketing, advertising and communications in the Czech market? Here’s an overview of this year’s trends. At the beginning of the new year, we bring you a overview of the trends that several companies predict will influence marketing, advertising and communication on the Czech market in the coming months.… Continue reading MARKETING TRENDS 2025: TRANSPARENCY, AI AND RETAIL MEDIA
HOW TO CONQUER THE CHALLENGING YEAR 2025? DON’T FORGET CREATIVITY, ORIGINALITY AND WIT!
6. 1. 2025 What will this year be like from a marketing perspective? In the first issue of the twenty-fifth edition of MAM, marketers from brands such as Komerční banka and Notino, as well as representatives of the media sector, reveal their predictions, expectations, plans and tasks. Almost none of the interviewees doubt that this year will be… Continue reading HOW TO CONQUER THE CHALLENGING YEAR 2025? DON’T FORGET CREATIVITY, ORIGINALITY AND WIT!
TRENDS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MARKETING IN THE CZECH MARKET THIS YEAR
30. 12. 2024 We bring you an overview of the most important trends that influenced marketing in the domestic market this year. The Czech Republic continued to struggle with inflation and financial crisis this year, but according to all forecasts and the growing optimism of Czech consumers, the situation is slowly improving. However, the worse economic situation has… Continue reading TRENDS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MARKETING IN THE CZECH MARKET THIS YEAR
WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT OF AI DEVELOPMENT IN THE MEDIA? JOSEF SHLERKA’S PREDICTIONS FOR CIF 2024 WERE DARK
11. 12. 2024 Ironically, according to Josef Šlerka, Google or Seznam are today a great friend of journalism. When they stop penalising AI-generated content, they will raise the floodgates of overproduction, in which it will be even more problematic to distinguish between false and true news. Explore the not-so-favorable scenarios of how the AI boom may affect the… Continue reading WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT OF AI DEVELOPMENT IN THE MEDIA? JOSEF SHLERKA’S PREDICTIONS FOR CIF 2024 WERE DARK
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS HEADING TO CZECH TV SCREENS: PRIMA BROADCASTS AI ADS, NOVA “BETS ON PEOPLE”
5. 12. 2024 These humans look strange, I thought, as I was scrolling through my emails at the TV, my mind half elsewhere, and my eyes fell on the casting trailer for the new series of TV Prima’s reality show Looking for Mom and Dad. Those people really looked weird, because they weren’t human. In prime time of… Continue reading ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS HEADING TO CZECH TV SCREENS: PRIMA BROADCASTS AI ADS, NOVA “BETS ON PEOPLE”
AWARD-WINNING CAMPAIGNS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE QUANTITATIVE PRE-TESTING
3. 12. 2024 More than half of winners in the IPA Effectiveness Awards are now using quantitative pre-testing, a trend that has been growing steadily over the past two decades. What’s happening More than four in ten entrants to the IPA Effectiveness Awards are using quant pre-testing – and 51% of winners. Previous analysis of the IPA Databank… Continue reading AWARD-WINNING CAMPAIGNS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE QUANTITATIVE PRE-TESTING
CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE IN COMPANIES IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW, AI WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUNGER
1. 12. 2024 According to Salesforce research, AI is increasing the demands on brands. People would prefer AI over a human when shopping, especially for faster service. Consumer trust in companies is currently at a record low. Yet the development of AI is increasing demands on brands. According to 60% of consumers, AI is making trust even more… Continue reading CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE IN COMPANIES IS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW, AI WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUNGER
RETAILERS EXPERIMENT WITH SHOPPABLE TV AS CONSUMERS WARM TO THE FORMAT
25. 11. 2024 The insight: Shoppable ads are taking over TV as retailers look for ways to reach consumers and shorten the path between discovery and purchase. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)’s new “Shop with Max” ad solution uses AI to identify items within films and TV shows and find similar products in an advertisers’ catalog. Viewers can navigate to those products by… Continue reading RETAILERS EXPERIMENT WITH SHOPPABLE TV AS CONSUMERS WARM TO THE FORMAT
JOSEF UHER, TV NOVA: AI IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMANS IN NEWS REPORTING YET
7. 11. 2024 While technology simplifies work, the internal rules of the Nova group require that broadcast content is exclusively overseen by humans, says Chief Technical Officer, Josef Uher. The Chief Technical Officer of the Nova group, Josef Uher, speaks in the first part of an interview with MediaGuru.cz about the new news production system and the integration… Continue reading JOSEF UHER, TV NOVA: AI IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMANS IN NEWS REPORTING YET
CIF: CZECH MEDIA WILL NOT ENTRUST FULL CONTENT CREATION TO AI
5. 11. 2024 Artificial intelligence is a good servant but a bad master in the media, representatives of domestic media houses agreed at the Czech Internet Forum conference. Domestic media companies use artificial intelligence (AI) for auxiliary processes, but they rule out the full replacement of human work with generative AI tools. They see compliance with internal rules… Continue reading CIF: CZECH MEDIA WILL NOT ENTRUST FULL CONTENT CREATION TO AI
6 WAYS TECHNOLOGY IS TRANSFORMING TV ADVERTISING
18. 10. 2024 It’s July 1, 1941. A baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies flickers on TV screens in New York City. Suddenly, the game cuts away. A Bulova watch appears, accompanied by a voiceover intoning, “America runs on Bulova time.” In just 10 seconds, the world’s first TV commercial airs, forever changing the advertising… Continue reading 6 WAYS TECHNOLOGY IS TRANSFORMING TV ADVERTISING
ITV’S GEN AI SOLUTION HELPS BOOST TV ADVERTISING AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
18. 10. 2024 In September 2024, ITV launched an innovative solution aimed at making TV advertising more accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By leveraging the power of Generative AI (GenAI), ITV is expanding its commercial creative production services to remove the perceived barriers associated with the cost of making ads for TV. This innovation allows new-to-TV… Continue reading ITV’S GEN AI SOLUTION HELPS BOOST TV ADVERTISING AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
HBBTV SYMPOSIUM 2024 TO FOCUS ON ADDRESSABLE ADVERTISING, IP TRANSITION AND AI IMPACT
16. 10. 2024 The HbbTV Association has given details of the conference programme of the HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2024. The annual key summit of the connected TV industry will take place on 14-15 November in London, co-hosted with UK-based platform operator Everyone TV (backed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5). The conference will open with keynotes by… Continue reading HBBTV SYMPOSIUM 2024 TO FOCUS ON ADDRESSABLE ADVERTISING, IP TRANSITION AND AI IMPACT
CONTENTX: HOW TO FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN AI AND HUMAN CREATIVITY
15. 9. 2024 The ContentX conference will seek answers to the questions of how content marketing will be affected by the advent of artificial intelligence and what lies ahead for content creation, management and evaluation. Imagine a world where every article is tailored to your interests, where every visual and video content is so personalized that you feel… Continue reading CONTENTX: HOW TO FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN AI AND HUMAN CREATIVITY
RESEARCH: THE CZECHS HAVE A CONTRADICTORY ATTITUDE TOWARDS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
8. 9. 2024 The last year has seen great progress in generative artificial intelligence. How does the general public view this revolution? What concerns and hopes does Gen AI bring with it? That’s what Ipsos found out in its AI Monitor survey. Czechs’ knowledge of AI is behind the global average More than half of Czechs (56%) say… Continue reading RESEARCH: THE CZECHS HAVE A CONTRADICTORY ATTITUDE TOWARDS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ANIMATED TV ADVERTISING ADDS A DIFFERENT DIMENSION TO TOURISM
30. 8. 2024 In the tourism industry, animations are truly invaluable. They allow travel agencies, airlines, and online platforms to break free from copycat advertising, transport viewers to a magical world of imagination and emotion, and make them want to sit down at their computer and book a tour or flight immediately. In the early 1930s, advertisements were… Continue reading ANIMATED TV ADVERTISING ADDS A DIFFERENT DIMENSION TO TOURISM
