2026 Agenda


Registration & breakfast

09:00

09:30 - 09:35

Welcome & summit opening remarks

09:35 - 10:15

Headline keynote: The Trust Dividend - Reclaiming Storytelling and Effectiveness in an Algorithmic Age

Key Audience Takeaways:A simple framework for balancing short-form digital ads with the...

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • A simple framework for balancing short-form digital ads with the long-term commercial power of emotional storytelling.
  • Clear insight into how the safety and regulation of TV channels naturally drive higher customer engagement.
  • Data proving how placing your ad near premium, high-quality content directly boosts consumer trust.

This session is about:

  • The Storytelling Crisis: Why we need to restore interesting to advertising, and why premium, long-form environments remain the ultimate canvas for brand building.
  • Trust as a Commercial Driver: How the inherent safety, regulation, and premium nature of broadcast drives deeper engagement and higher ROI than the digital wild west.
  • The Halo Effect of Premium Content: Why aligning your brand with award-winning original dramas and high-impact entertainment elevates brand perception and delivers a measurable uplift in consumer trust.

10:15 - 11:00

Panel Discussion: The total TV measurement blueprint - integrating established panels with first-party precision

Key Audience Takeaways:A clear roadmap to combine traditional panels with first-party data...

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • A clear roadmap to combine traditional panels with first-party data for accurate audience tracking.
  • A practical guide to stop wasting money on duplicate ads across different streaming platforms.
  • The math needed to update your media models so they account for the quality and context of the ad space.
  • Real strategies to link big-screen streaming ads directly to down-funnel sales.

This session is about:

  • The Connected Ecosystem: How established, independent measurement panels and newer, logged-in first-party data signals are working together to give advertisers a complete and accurate view of cross-platform reach.
  • Solving the Cross-Screen Puzzle: A practical look at using Data Clean Rooms to safely match brand data with streamer data, allowing buyers to finally track true frequency and eliminate duplicated reach across walled gardens.
  • Evolving the Media Mix Model: How econometricians and agencies are adjusting their models to assign "contextual weight". How do you mathematically prove that a completed view on a premium global streaming hit drives more incrementaly than a skippable mobile ad?
  • Lower-Funnel TV Attribution: Moving beyond upper-funnel brand tracking. How the integration of Conversion APIs and retail data partnerships allows brands to link a premium CTV impression directly to a physical or digital checkout.

Morning break & networking

11:00

11:30 - 12:15

Panel Discussion: The Standardisation Debate - Uniting a Fractured Market

Key Audience Takeaways:An inside look at the real operational roadblocks stopping a...

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • An inside look at the real operational roadblocks stopping a single, cross-platform trading metric.
  • Insight into how independent TV bodies are changing their rules to measure streaming fairly.
  • Practical fixes for handling the friction of blending automated digital data with traditional TV metrics.

This session is about:

  • Standardising the Unstandardised: Can the industry actually agree on a single, unified currency?
  • Adapting Remits: How established measurement panels are expanding their scope to include streaming and digital video.
  • The Realities of Integration: The practical challenges of merging programmatic digital data with legacy broadcast metrics.

12:15 - 13:00

Panel Discussion: Responsible Advertising - Navigating the Reality of LHF

Key Audience Takeaways:A clear breakdown of the latest compliance and targeting rules...

  • Key Audience Takeaways:

    • A clear breakdown of the latest compliance and targeting rules for TV and streaming channels.
    • Creative problem-solving tools that turn tough legal limits into an active catalyst for better storytelling.
    • Live playbooks showing how top food and drink brands are restructuring their media spend inside restricted spaces.

    This session is about:

    • Compliance Update: A clear, practitioner-level update on current broadcast and streaming restrictions.
    • Creative Innovation: Exploring whether the recent regulatory changes have actually been a positive forcing function for creative innovation.
    • Budget Reallocation: How major food brands are reallocating their ad spends within heavily restricted environments.

Lunch & networking

13:00 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:45

Panel Discussion: Consolidation & Trust - Navigating the New Supply Chain

Key Audience Takeaways:A strategic analysis of how recent major media buyouts are...

  • Key Audience Takeaways:

    • A strategic analysis of how recent major media buyouts are reshaping buying power and market options.
    • A strict checklist to help your team vet third-party video sellers and check the true quality of their spaces.
    • Practical tactics to uncover hidden fees, bypass middlemen, and make sure your budget goes into working media.

    This session is about:

    • Industry Sentiment: Gauging the true industry reaction and sentiment around broadcaster consolidation.
    • CTV Media Resellers: Understanding who these resellers are, what exactly they are selling, and how to verify their inventory.
    • Protecting Transparency: Strategies for preventing hidden fees and ensuring clear supply paths in programmatic video buys.

Panel Discussion: The Attention Economy - Moving Beyond Basic viewability

Key Audience Takeaways:An understanding of why standard viewability metrics fail, and the...

  • Key Audience Takeaways:

    • An understanding of why standard viewability metrics fail, and the value difference when someone actually focuses on your ad.
    • A breakdown of new tech tools like eye-tracking and AI to measure real audience absorption.
    • The exact evidence you need to prove to your CFO that high-attention ads are worth the investment.

    This session is about:

    • Viewability vs. Attention: Deconstructing the critical difference between a basic viewable impression and true active attention in a video environment.
    • New Measurement Horizons: How eye-tracking, predictive AI, and deep "absorption" metrics are fundamentally reshaping the way we value TV inventory.
    • Business Outcomes: Proving the direct mathematical correlation between high-attention environments and actual commercial results.

Afternoon break & networking

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

Headline Keynote: The Blueprint for Cross-Media Mastery

Key Audience Takeaways:A practical playbook for running live campaigns across TV, BVOD,...

  • Key Audience Takeaways:

    • A practical playbook for running live campaigns across TV, BVOD, social video, and streaming at the same time.
    • Clear frameworks to accurately measure performance and ROI across split video platforms.
    • A benchmark template to balance legacy TV costs against modern streaming options.

    This session is about:

    • Theory to Practice: Moving from abstract theory to tangible action using major cross-industry measurement initiatives.
    • Defining Effectiveness: Measuring true Total TV performance and ROI across a completely fractured video market.
    • The Budget Blueprint: A candid, practitioner-level look at their budget allocation for the "old world vs. new world" media mix.

16:30 - 17:15

The Creative Carousel: The Campaigns that Define the Medium

Key Audience Takeaways:Deep strategic insight into the core logic, competitor friction, and...

  • Key Audience Takeaways:

    • Deep strategic insight into the core logic, competitor friction, and cultural cues that power memorable video creative.
    • A lesson in media psychology exploring why specific emotional arcs and comedic setups require a TV screen to work.
    • A data-backed reminder for your planning teams that creative quality remains the single largest driver of financial return.

    This session is about:

    • Deconstructing the Strategy: Breaking down the logic and insight behind their greatest hits, as well as the competitor campaigns they wish they’d made.
    • Resonating on Screen: Exploring why certain creative ideas, comedic beats, or emotional arcs only truly resonate on the TV screen.
    • The Ultimate Currency: Proving that in a world of increasingly complex measurement, the creative idea is still the ultimate driver of commercial success.

Closing remarks

17:55

Summit end

17:20