A fresh take on TV digital services and a new on-demand app offering have debuted today from Foxtel and Network 10 as the pair look to shore up their consumer streaming pitches.

The Covid-19 crisis has led to a steady rise in TV and catch-up viewing each week in March, according to the latest figures from ThinkTV.

The first tranche of VOZ insights have arrived, highlighting the incremental reach BVOD delivers and the combined linear and on-demand TV viewing behaviour of Australian consumers.

The latest total TV viewing measurement from OzTAM, Virtual Australia, is about to arrive. Here, we explain how this new marketing measurement has been created and what it promises

Nine’s half year results are out, the media conglomerate reporting revenue of just under $1.2 billion, group EBITDA of $251 million, and a net profit after tax of $114 million. Post specific items, the statutory net profit was $102 million, down 41 per cent. Net profit after tax and minority interests was $115 million, down 9 per cent.

​As the half year results roll in, the news isn’t great for Seven West Media, which reported a loss of $67 million. Total revenue was down 3.2 per cent to $773.3 million.

In just weeks, Australian advertisers will get what many in the industry see as a game-changing capability for gauging what modern television consumption, reach and frequency truly looks like.

9Galaxy will become the technology underpinning a common demand-side buying platform (DSP) for the television industry after Australian broadcasters joined forces to agree to a unified platform for advertising.

The makers behind a new addressable TV solution bringing owned and third-party data to TVC media buying say the tool will finally give marketers the ability to target broadcast audiences as granularly as they do in other digital channels.

B2C marketers have skewed too far towards activation-based advertising in the face of digital and should reset the balance firmly towards brand building if they want to build growth.

The ACCC has launched legal proceedings against Trivago, alleging the travel comparisons site has spent more than four years misleading consumers via advertising about the best deals available to them and has potentially harmed competition as a result.

Network Ten and Multi Channel Network (MCN) have confirmed they will cease their advertising sales representation arrangement, effective 1 January 2019, as the broadcast network takes its sales in-house.

Industry broadcasting behemoths have welcomed news of OzTAM and Nielsen’s new integrated database aimed at providing a more complete picture of TV viewing in Australia.

The majority of advertising, marketing and media professionals are “uninformed” about the media consumption habits and attitudes of ‘normal’ Australians, according to findings in ThinkTV’s first AdNation 2017 study.

Nine’s former revenue chief and group sales and marketing director, Peter Wiltshire, has re-emerged with a new business representing media clients that want a presence in Australia.

Telstra’s CMO says a shake-up of the commercial model for TV is vital if free-to-air providers hope to stay relevant to marketers being lured away by more fashionable digital options.

CMOs are mistakenly being judged on their ability to invest in “fashionable” new digital media channels instead of the demonstrable commercial returns that TV delivers, Channel 7’s CEO claims.

The first results of ThinkTV’s $1 million study into TV advertising are in and suggest the broadcast channel provides the best return on investment for FMCG brands in Australia.

ThinkTV has joined forces with noted media academic, Professor Karen Nelson-Field, on a new Smart Lab that will tap artificial intelligence technologies to help improve the way TV advertising performance is gauged.

Telstra-owned Ooyala has made its second acquisition in nine months, picking up cloud-based media logistics and workflow software vendor, Nativ, for an undisclosed sum.

The arrival of programmatic TV with MCN’s new platform offering will give the industry the shift it needs from traditional channel-based thinking to data-driven audience engagement, several media agencies claim.