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.