Week in Charts: Dentsu Foresees Retail Media “Horror Stories”, Vivendi Businesses Lose Value After Break-up, and UK Publishers Lean on Subscriptions

Dan Meier 21 January, 2025 

In this week’s Week in Charts: Dentsu foresees retail media “horror stories”, Vivendi businesses lose value after break-up, and UK publishers lean on subscription revenues.

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Subscriptions Offset Display and Video Losses for UK Publishers

UK digital publisher revenues have remained flat across Q3 over the past three years, according to the Digital Publisher Revenue Index from the Association of Online Publishers and Deloitte. Display and video revenues were down in Q3 2024, but were offset by growth in subscription and sponsorship revenues.

 

Younger Viewers Look to Social Media for Sports Content

Younger sports fans spend 28 percent of their sport engagement time with social media content, research from Ampere Analysis has found, versus 44 percent watching live events. This social-skewed consumption marks a contrast to the average sports fan, where live matches account for half their total engagement.

 

Measurement Remains Major Concern for Video Buyers

Buyers expressed concern around cross-platform measurement standards for video in IAB’s 2025 Outlook Study, with 43 percent of respondents citing the area as a main concern. This was followed by ecosystem complexity (41 percent), frequency management (39 percent) and incrementality measurement (39 percent).

 

Ströer Stock Jumps at Sale Discussions

Ströer’s stock price jumped earlier this month after the German advertising business confirmed it was in talks with private equity investors around a potential sale of its OOH advertising and digital content businesses. However, Ströer stock remains below its share price of three months ago.

The Week in Stocks

Agencies

Shares in S4 Capital gained 9 percent last week in signs of recovery from its record low in November.

 

TV

Paramount’s stock has fallen amid concern around regulatory challenges to its $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media.

 

Publishers

Reach’s share price jumped 17 percent on Monday after the publisher said it expects to beat annual profit expectations.

 

Ad Tech

US tech stocks recovered on Friday as core inflation data came in softer than expected.

 

Tech

Nvidia’s stock price rallied last week and has once again overtaken Apple in terms of market cap.

 

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2025-01-21T15:01:30+01:00

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