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The biggest Christmas 2011 games TV ad campaigns

Games and consoles TV advertising focused heavily on the broader family market in the week leading up to Christmas, as demonstrated by these Top Ten campaigns. Sony’s PlayStation 3 was the most viewed campaign. However, Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus achieved the most views per spot, highlighting a more harder hitting …

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Games TV ad lengths: 2010 vs 2011

Generation Media takes a look at why more games TV advertisements are longer than ever, with a year-on-year comparison. The chart below demonstrates how advertisers of games and consoles have changed the length of their communications from 2010 into 2011.The most obvious change has been in the use of longer …

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3DS vs DS: Battle of the TV ads

Generation Media asks how much TV marketing Nintendo has used to promote the 3DS compared to the original DS – and has it been effective? With the Nintendo 3DS having sold more worldwide in its first year of release than the original DS, we look at how TV advertising has …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending October 30th)

We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and reveal which titles had the most exposure on TV in October. This is provided by specialist communication firm Generation Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Games and consoles advertising peaked for the year-to-date with 994 individual TVRs during …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending October 16th)

We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and the leading campaigns for the week ending October 16th year-on-year. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Further week-on-week growth (62 per cent) saw games and consoles ads produce 732 individual TVRs. …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending Sept 25th)

We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and the leading campaigns from September. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Another week of year-on-year decline has resulted in the year-to-date growth figure being revised downwards again to 13 per cent. …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (week ending Sept 30th)

With the busy autumn/winter period up and running, five titles launched TV campaigns earlier this month. We reveal the most effective. This information is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. The influx of new game releases produced a 125 per cent year-on-year increase …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (week ending Sept 23rd)

This week we take a look at recent TV advertising activity for games and find out which campaigns have been most successful. This information is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Games and consoles TV advertising saw a week-on-week decline for the first …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (week ending Sept 16th)

This week we take a look at which reality TV shows advertisers have been targeting, as well as the campaign for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This information is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Games and consoles TV advertising continues to recover with …

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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (week ending Sept 9th)

We look at the year-on-year change in overall advertising activity for video games on TV from March 27th to August 21st. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we also explain whether there has been a year-on-year change in the …

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