Observed Signal · Nov 25, 2025 · Digest / Industry Overview · Source: VideoWeek · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
Criteo CEO on Agentic Commerce and TV Trust
VideoWeek’s Week in Charts surveys the ad-tech and media landscape, highlighting agentic commerce, trust in TV news, and cross-platform monetization. A Comcast Advertising and Longterm Colab study finds streaming TV ad-spend is driven by different factors across regions: the UK, Germany, and Italy prioritize ad experience quality, France emphasizes interactive formats, and Spain focuses on reach. The IPA Digital Media Owners survey names Mail Metro Media, Reach, and Channel Four as best cross-over owners to work with, while Reddit, TikTok and Pinterest lead online pure-play owners with strong positive ratings. Ipsos, in partnership with JOE, reports 75% of UK consumers trust TV for news, with 62% distrust in social media as a news source. Omdia projects the US accounts for 39% of global M&E consumer revenues in 2025, led by FAST and CTV, and public market moves include S4 Capital down on guidance, Canal+ rights renewals, and Reach stock gains. The piece also touches AI and programmatic developments across the ecosystem.
Industry-wide digest of multiple AdTech and TV/trust trends; moderate impact across the sector.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Comcast Advertising and Longterm Colab: UK, Germany and Italy driven by ad experience quality; France by interactive formats; Spain by reach for streaming TV ad spend.
- IPA Digital Media Owners survey: Mail Metro Media, Reach and Channel Four named best cross-over media owners to work with; Reddit, TikTok and Pinterest top online pure-play owners with 75%+ positive ratings.
- Ipsos/JOE UK: 75% of respondents trust TV for news; 62% distrust social media as a news source.
- Omdia: US accounts for 39% of global M&E consumer revenues in 2025; FAST revenues 80%, CTV ad revenues 70%, SVOD 53%, cinema 24%, gaming 20%.
- Week in Stocks: S4 Capital lowers full-year guidance; Canal+ renews UEFA club rights in France; Reach stock up ~9%.
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CTV Growth Soars as UK Trust in TV Ads Rises
VideoWeek’s 'Week in Charts' roundup highlights multiple industry data points: Netflix’s UK ad-tier households grew 13.11% quarter-on-quarter in Q4 2025 (Barb’s Establishment Survey), driven by the Stranger Things finale; Disney+’s ad tier grew ~13% while Amazon Prime’s was largely flat. UK research shows rising trust in advertising across channels — TV trust rose from 33% in 2021 to 46% in 2025 (Credos) — while influencers remain the least trusted (25%). CTV viewers value convenience features such as starting a show from the beginning (77%), resuming where they left off (76%) and instant 'watch next' episode playback (76%) per Oliver & Ohlbaum. A study from the IPPR found BBC News is notably absent from ChatGPT answers. The roundup also notes broad downward pressure on agency and ad-tech stocks, Comcast’s relative resilience after Q4 results, Thomson Reuters’ 5% YoY Q4 revenue growth, Apple overtaking Google in market cap, and Amazon’s 14% stock fall after a large capex forecast.
Week in Charts: CTV Shares, Retail Media Shift, AI Ads
VideoWeek’s 'Week in Charts' highlights industry data and market moves: Pixalate data shows Samsung held the largest share of open programmatic CTV impressions in the UK (31%) in Q1 2026 while Roku led the US (36%), with Amazon Fire TV second in both markets. eMarketer forecasts China’s share of global retail media ad spend to fall from 44% (2026) to 42% by 2029 while the rest of the world rises from 20% to 22%; the US is expected to remain at ~36%. An IAB UK/MTM survey found half of UK consumers comfortable with AI-generated background images, but a majority uncomfortable with fully AI-generated people in ads. TiVo research shows in-car video is most commonly used to entertain children and is watched more often when parked (41.8%) than moving (31.7%). The piece also summarises recent stock movements affecting adtech and media companies.
CTV & AI Growth; Video to Counter AI Threat
Week in Charts flags CTV and AI as the main growth areas in IAB Europe’s Attitudes to Digital Advertising, with agencies (76%), publishers (54%), and ad tech (81%) naming CTV and 60% of advertisers citing AI as growth drivers. Reuters Institute notes publishers will focus more on video in the AI era, citing declines in traffic referrals from AI search results. Ampere Analysis forecasts global content investment reaching $255 billion in 2026, up 2% from 2025, led by streaming with spend rising 6% to $101 billion while broadcasters stagnate or decline. CoComelon tops end-of-year video streams, led by The Wheels on the Bus, with Bruno Mars songs in second and third and Golden from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters in fourth. The Week in Stocks section highlights movements in Roku, The New York Times, and Adobe, and the piece weaves in signals around AI, M&A, pricing, and measurement shaping the ad tech and video ecosystem.
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