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Global ad expenditure will grow 4.1% in 2013, reaching US$518 billion by the end of the year according to new data from ZenithOptimedia.

The weekend brought us more of the same juggernaut reality TV shows, although at least one of them had the decency to wrap it up while it still had a prime time audience.

Mark Brandon, Virgin Media’s commercial director, said last week that the company’s targeted advertising trial rollout was imminent. Speaking at last Wednesday’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Brandon said that Virgin’s video on demand advertising had already been an unqualified success.Speaking to Digital TV Europe Brandon said that Virgin Media was taking its move… Continue reading Virgin Media plans launch of targeted advertising

AdSmart will be operating within seven million households from nine million set-top boxes, with the set-top box making advertising decisions based on the information that Sky holds on the household.

After the publication of Leveson’s report yesterday, here is a round-up of what the papers are saying.

Must see TV is now must Tweet TV, so says Dan Biddle, head of broadcast partnerships at Twitter, at yesterday’s Future of TV Advertising conference in London.

Shazam is securing more than two million new fans per week and ten million tags per days, according to Sam Woods, account director at Shazam, speaking at today’s Future of TV Advertising conference in London.

Capablue, specialist in TV Everywhere solutions, has been working with Channel 4 to create a proof of concept that explores the potential of future advertising formats. The interactive advertising application uses the second screen to provide the broadcaster with a more sophisticated and less intrusive way of showing ads and interacting with viewers.

Netflix Inc. and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution has announced a multi-year licensing agreement allowing Netflix members in the UK and Ireland to exclusively enjoy complete previous seasons of key American television series.

The onset of winter saw the UK’s online population jump up to its highest level since UKOM began reporting in January 2010.