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ARD Media and DAZN Pool Their Bundesliga Ad Inventory
ARD Media and DAZN are jointly selling the Saturday Bundesliga conference across radio and streaming — a first-of-its-kind public-private ad tie-up.
Aug 313 min read


France's Most-Watched Twitch Creators, Ranked — and Why Brands Should Care
New Kolsquare data crowns Byilhann France's most-watched Twitch creator with 18 million viewing hours — and signals Twitch is now a general-entertainment channel, not just gaming.
Aug 273 min read


Cupra and Rabanne Back Netflix's 'Nouvelle École' Season 5
Car brand Cupra and fragrance house Rabanne are sponsoring season 5 of Netflix's French rap show 'Nouvelle École' with bespoke activations — a first for the format.
Aug 273 min read


'Unskippable' Isn't 'Unmissable': Most Brits Tune Out Forced Ads
A new Attest study finds only 35% of Brits actually watch a non-skippable ad as intended — a warning for advertisers paying a premium for forced inventory.
Aug 273 min read


France's 2026–27 TV and Radio Mercato: Léa Salamé Exits the 8pm News
France's back-to-school 'mercato' reshapes on-air talent across its biggest news and entertainment brands, led by Léa Salamé leaving France 2's flagship 8pm news.
Aug 253 min read


YouTube Turns Creator Playlists Into TV-Style 'Shows' — and Doubles Down on Connected TV
YouTube has rolled out a suite of Connected TV upgrades — most notably a Playlist-to-Shows feature that turns creator playlists into episodic TV-style Shows — as the platform tightens its grip on the living room.
Aug 243 min read


RTL Rebuilds Its Football Offer After Swallowing Sky
After acquiring Sky Deutschland, RTL is restructuring its football portfolio across pay and free-to-air — reshaping Germany’s sports-media landscape and its ad and subscription inventory.
Aug 203 min read


Ligue1+ Overhauls Its Offer to Win Back Subscribers for 2026-27
LFP Media has relaunched Ligue1+ as ‘the French football platform’ with more matches, a free Sunday magazine and YouTube clip rights — rebuilding a paying audience after the DAZN collapse.
Aug 203 min read


Roku Launches the First All-AI FAST Channel — Ads Included
Roku has added ‘Fairground AI Creator TV’, a 24/7 free channel of entirely AI-generated shows interrupted only by AI-generated commercials — and it drew instant ‘AI slop’ pushback.
Aug 203 min read


Twitch names ex-Google exec Christine Cassis as its global CMO
Twitch has appointed former Google executive Christine Cassis as its global chief marketing officer — a hire that signals a harder push for advertisers and mainstream reach.
Aug 143 min read


La Liga leaves beIN for DAZN and Disney+ in France
From the 2026/27 season, DAZN and Disney+ will broadcast Spain's La Liga in France, ending beIN Sports' 14-year hold — and marking Disney+'s arrival in French live sport.
Aug 132 min read


Urban Outfitters' first CTV ad heads back to campus
Urban Outfitters has debuted 'All Together Now', its first-ever back-to-campus brand commercial and first connected-TV spot, featuring a real HBCU marching band.
Aug 132 min read


Disney sells out Super Bowl LXI ads six months early
Disney has sold out every Super Bowl LXI ad six months early, closing its 2026-27 upfront with 58 brands across 34 categories, nine of them first-time Super Bowl advertisers.
Aug 123 min read


TF1's digital surge offsets a linear ad decline in H1 2026
TF1's H1 2026 results show its streaming platform TF1+ doing the heavy lifting: ad revenue up 19% and 44 million monthly streamers, offsetting soft linear TV. Here's the European broadcaster blueprint.
Aug 103 min read


Roku's Q2 revenue climbs 22% to $1.35bn as its ad platform beats Wall Street
Roku's Q2 2026 revenue jumped 22% to $1.35bn and net income hit $164m, powered by its advertising-led Platform segment. Here's what the CTV leader's numbers mean for marketers.
Aug 103 min read


ProSiebenSat.1's H1: revenue down 9%, but cost cuts and Joyn spark a profit rebound
ProSiebenSat.1's H1 2026 revenue fell ~9% as Germany's TV ad market weakened and World Cup rivals drew viewers away — yet cost cuts and Joyn's growth lifted profit and the shares.
Aug 73 min read


Hearst buys out Disney's A+E stake for $1.2bn
Disney sells its A+E Global Media stake — History, A&E, Lifetime — to Hearst for $1.2bn, another sign the majors are cashing out of linear cable to fund streaming.
Aug 63 min read


Walmart closes its Vibe streaming-ad acquisition
Walmart completes its billion-dollar acquisition of self-serve streaming-ad platform Vibe.co, pushing Walmart Connect into connected TV and straight at Amazon.
Aug 63 min read


Paramount leans on streaming ads amid the WBD fight
In its first full quarter as Paramount Skydance, the company leaned on streaming growth and argued its pending Warner Bros. Discovery deal will be good for advertisers.
Aug 53 min read


Netto rewards app shoppers with free RTL+ streaming
Edeka-owned discounter Netto is giving app users free RTL+ streaming above a spending threshold, in a permanent tie-up with broadcaster RTL — grocery loyalty meets entertainment.
Aug 42 min read
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