The UK-based startup seeks to replace banner ads with notifications about musical artists, giving users greater choice and relevance over what they see. After a modest start this year, the new extension and a subsequent marketing campaign will look to accelerate user uptake.

Exclusive: The broadcaster has partnered with Streamr.ai to form the basis of its new AI-driven production service, aimed at making it easier for SMEs to invest in TV.

Amazon now counts 22m UK viewers on its Prime Video ad tier, the streaming giant announced at its annual upfront Wednesday. Notably, brands can also now reach 8 in 10 UK households via Amazon DSP.

Marketers risk “doing less with less” as new research finds budget, not ROI, is a bigger driver of media effectiveness, despite marketers perceiving the opposite to be true.

Year-to-date box office is now running 9% ahead of 2024 and 1% behind the Barbenheimer-fuelled 2023.

At its upfronts Thursday, The Guardian revealed new research evidencing the effectiveness of low-ad environments. It comes as the publisher is seeking strong commercial and reader expansion in the US.

The Daily Mail has launched two dedicated social publishers that it hopes will “shape the future of news and entertainment for young people around the world”.

Ozone has officially launched its Audience Connection Platform in the US amid a wider growth push that includes adding nearly 20 additional US publishers to its alliance and hiring more roles in Chicago, New York and elsewhere.

It follows a successful pilot with the TV JIC last year. The new survey data won’t be fully integrated until 2027.

Measuring the effectiveness of advertising on YouTube lacks local context and is opaque without third-party measurement, Barb argued on a briefing call Tuesday. Its head of insights shared how YouTube data over-indexes dramatically towards young, heavy users on TV sets in the UK.