Direct-to-consumer brands around the world embrace TV

Booming online-born brands and online giants are placing their trust in TV.

As TV investments surpass pre-pandemic levels around the world, newly released international figures showcase how both direct-to-consumer brands and online giants are increasingly embracing TV to get their message across.

The Global TV Group, the grouping of TV companies and sales houses’ trade bodies in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Latin America, has released a new topical update of its Global TV Deck with figures from 15 markets across the globe.

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17 slides that every marketer should know about TV

Mark Ritson visits Malin Häger, Commercial Director Advertising Nordics at TV4 Media, for an interview in TV4 Growth. Based on world-leading players in insight and analysis, he presents several areas within media consumption, effect and strength in different types of media in a well-formulated and creative way.

UK, Thinkbox: Brand to Bland

The study sought to gain a deeper understanding of what brands mean to us and the role that they play in our lives. By depriving individuals of some of their favourite brands, Thinkbox was able to use behavioural economics to surface how brands operate at a subconscious level, and what happens when we lose them!

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North America & UK, CMO Council: How brands annoy fans

The research confirmed that, unsurprisingly, social media is where consumers encounter a huge percentage of the total ad messages they receive. Indeed, these channels ranked second only to TV for received ad volume in the survey. However, consumers also ranked social media as the least trusted among the top five channels. They cited friends, TV and newspapers among the most trusted sources.

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Worldwide, VIACOM, TV Matters: Life Without TV – Deprivation project

How much do viewers value television? Viacom’s study on media consumption, TV Matters, aimed to answer this question by taking TV away from some participants. To really explore the power of television, they asked people to live without it for 5 days – meaning no pay TV or cable packages, no free-to-air broadcast channels, no TV on demand, no TV Everywhere apps, and no DVR access.

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