Cinema Advertising

More than 65 percent of global media spend is digital and the share is growing year on year. Cinema’s share of digital media budgets has until today been relatively small, but by making digital profiled cinema inventory accessible to the programmatic ecosystem, this is now changing. Late last year, what the Danish media company Cinemataztic says is the first addressable cinema campaign was launched at Nordisk Film cinemas in Denmark for the Nordic telco brand, Telia.

Seedooh has launched what it says is the world’s first independent cinema-based ad verification technology, bringing a new level of transparency to cinema advertising in Australia and New Zealand. This comes at a time when cinema advertising across Australia and New Zealand is experiencing the strongest post-COVID ad spend resurgence of all media. The integration, available from today across Hoyts Cinema locations in Australia and New Zealand, will further extend across Val Morgan’s exhibitor network in the coming months.

Virgin Mobile is sponsoring a new, interactive, and immersive brand experience called CineGame that is launching exclusively at Odeon cinemas across Ireland. CineGame is a custom branded game played on the big screen by the cinema audience, through their mobile phone as part of the pre-show.

Digital Cinema Media and Universal Pictures have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind partnership, curating a bespoke LGBTQ+ ad reel to run ahead of Universal Pictures’ new film, Bros, the first romantic comedy from a major studio that features an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast.