Thinkbox, the marketing trade body for UK TV advertising, is back on TV with a new advertising campaign from creative agency Mother London, directed by Jonny & Will from Blinkink. ‘Happily Ever After’ will be on linear and on-demand TV in the UK from December 26th. Thinkbox’s new TV campaign – its seventh – tells […]
It’s been a decade since UK commercial TV marketing body Thinkbox’s first Ad Nation study exploring the differences in media consumption and perception between those who work in media and the average person in the UK. Back then – and again in an update in 2016 – Thinkbox discovered a chasm between the media consumption […]
Broadcast data company 7th Minute is inviting brands, agencies and broadcasters to trial the free preview of its TV insights platform 7M Discovery to experience first-hand the benefits that TV data insights offer their business. TV content, whether ads or programme material, strongly influences consumer behaviour; it can be directly linked to increases in online […]
TV advertising investment in the UK increased by over £1 billion (€1.2bn) in 2021 to reach a total of £5.46 billion, an increase of 24 per cent on 2020 (and 11 per cent up on pre-pandemic 2019). This represents a record level of investment in TV advertising. The previous high of £5.28 billion was in […]
Advertising spend was decimated by the pandemic, with the UK’s ad market down by 7.2 per cent in 2020. However, although many businesses were forced to cut their advertising budgets, figures show that many significantly increased their investment in TV advertising in 2020 – and have continued in 2021. According to data from Nielsen, a […]
Sky has announced the Grand Prix winner of its Sky Zero Footprint Fund initiative – a £2m advertising fund which supports and inspire others to join the journey to Net Zero Carbon. The fund was established to help accelerate and amplify initiatives that drive positive behavioural change and tangible impact towards creating a more sustainable […]
Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, in all its forms, has appointed Anthony Jones as its new Head of Research. He will start the role in early October. Previously, Jones was Head of Insight at the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), where his successes included delivering the ‘Context Matters’ study, which […]
Thinkbox has announced the launch of TV Masters, a free and fully accredited online training course in TV advertising, which is set to train over 2,000 people in its first year. It has been designed in collaboration with broadcasters, agencies and advertisers to help boost critical skills and knowledge across the industry. The course draws […]
A study finds that TV is the medium most likely to help brands appear high-quality, successful and popular in the eyes of consumers. The study, Signalling Success, was conducted by research agency house51, commissioned by Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK. Its findings are based on a quantitative study of 3,600 […]
Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, has revealed that Tess Alps, its founding CEO and current non-executive Chair, has decided to retire at the end of the year. Alps set up and became Thinkbox’s first CEO in 2006 and has been a guiding light ever since. In 2018, she received the […]