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WARC: online video ad spend to reach US$30bn this year
Advertisers are expected to spend almost US$30bn on online video advertising this year, driven by…
Twitch drops ad-free viewing from Prime membership
Amazon-owned video game streaming platform, Twitch, has announced plans to drop ad-free viewing as one…
CuriosityStream moves to hybrid ad-and-subscription model
CuriosityStream, the SVOD service launched by Discovery founder John Hendricks, has relaunched its service by…
Roku introduces OTT ad marketplace in the US
Roku has launched an over-the-top advertising marketplace for its streaming platform in the US called…
eMarketer: Spanish TV ad market set to dip
TV’s share of total media ad spend in Spain will decrease from 39.3% to 38.5%…
WARC: TV ad revenue in the UK to rebound this year
TV adverting revenue is expected to rebound this year after dropping in 2017, in part…
IAB Tech Lab releases targeted OTT ad guidelines
The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) research lab has released guidelines designed to improve targeted video…
eMarketer: social ad spend in the UK to exceed TV by 2020
Social networks’ share of advertising spend in the UK will overtake television ad spend by…
WARC: TV ad spend six times that of online video
TV ad spend outweighs online video by a ratio of six to one, but its…
Channel 4 launches digital ad sales service with BT Sport
Channel 4 has launched a digital ad sales service aimed at third party content publishers,…
ProSiebenSat.1 strengthens ad tech play with Kairon acquisition
German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has strengthened its move into the ad tech market by acquiring e-commerce…
Ampere: Online advertising now almost twice as valuable as TV ads
Globally online advertising now generates almost twice as much money per-viewer, per-month than TV advertising,…
Markíza taps Hybrid for HbbTV interactive ads
Slovakian commercial broadcaster Markíza Group has launched interactive commercial advertising based on the HbbTV platform….
ProSiebenSat.1 reorganises, brings digital and TV together
ProSiebenSat.1 is to reorganise its business into three pillars encompassing entertainment, content production and global…
ProSiebenSat.1 acquires majority stake in social advertising outfit Esome
ProSiebenSat.1 Media is acquiring a majority in Esome advertising technologies, a social-advertising provider in German-speaking…
GroupM: Global TV ad spend to grow this year and next
Global TV advertising investment will grow this year and next but will lose overall market…
GroupM: generations Y and X will ‘erode TV viewing’ as they age
Growing older no longer increases television viewing time, according to GroupM’s new ‘The State of…
RTL to combine SpotX and Smartclip into single ad-tech outfit
RTL Group is to combine SpotX and Smartclip into a single integrated ad-tech company by…
WARC: TV accounts for 35% of global ad spend
TV accounts for 24% of daily media consumption but 35% of global advertising spend, according…
Beenius teams with iPROM for programmatic advertising
TV technology provider Beenius has teamed up with south-eastern Europe digital advertising technology specialist iPROM…
eMarketer: UK digital ad spend to reach £10.9bn this year
UK digital ad spend will reach £10.89 billion (€12.36 billion) by the end of 2017,…
European connected TV ad market set for growth with UK leading
The European connected TV advertising market could be worth €825 million by 2020, according to…
WARC: TV ad expenditure in the UK to fall 1.9% this year
Total TV ad expenditure in the UK is forecast to fall 1.9% this year, according…
Sky Deutschland taps Yospace for dynamic ad insertion on Sky Go
Sky Deutschland has chosen Yospace’s dynamic ad insertion platform to make money from live channels…
TVPlayer agrees ad partnership with SpotX
UK-based TV streaming service, TVPlayer, has partnered with video ad serving platform SpotX, allowing advertisers…
STV taps SpotX for programmatic advertising
Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has chosen video ad serving platform SpotX to support programmatic selling…
Meetrics and SpotX team up for ad inventory and audience data
Ad verification technology specialist Meetrics and video ad serving platform SpotX have teamed up to…
GroupM downgrades UK TV advertising forecast
Advertising giant GroupM has downgraded its expectations for growth in the UK advertising market this…
Sky and Virgin Media strike targeted ad partnership
Sky and Virgin Media have struck a deal to let businesses offer targeted ads across both…
YouTube takes tougher stance on hateful, inappropriate content
YouTube has introduced new guidelines to take a tougher stance on hateful, demeaning and inappropriate…