‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
By iSpot.tv
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – In this week’s edition of the
Variety
Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company
iSpot.tv
, Twentieth Century Fox claims the top spot in spending with “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $6.19 million through Sunday for 847 national ad airings on 33 networks. (Spend figures are based on estimates generated from Oct. 8-14. Estimates may be updated after the chart is posted as new information becomes available.) Twentieth Century Fox prioritized spend across networks including NBC, Adult Swim and ABC, and during specific programming such as NFL Football,
This Is Us
and College Football.
Just behind “” in second place: Universal Pictures’ “First Man,” which saw 1,063 national ad airings across 38 networks, with an estimated media value of $5.33 million.
TV ad placements for Universal Pictures’ “Halloween” (EMV: $4.87 million), Columbia Pictures’ “Goosebumps 2: Haunted ” ($4.59 million) and Twentieth Century Fox’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” ($4.38 million) round out the chart.
Notably, “Halloween” has the best iSpot Attention Index (132) in the ranking, getting 32% fewer interruptions than the average movie ad (interruptions include changing the channel, pulling up the guide, fast-forwarding or turning off the TV).
Top Movie Commercials by Weekly TV Spend
$6.19M – Bohemian Rhapsody
$5.33M –
$4.87M – Halloween
$4.59M –
$4.38M –
1 Movie titles with a minimum spend of $100,000 for airings detected between 10/08/2018 and 10/14/2018.
* TV Impressions – Total TV ad impressions delivered for the brand or spot.
* Attention Score – Measures the propensity of consumers to interrupt an ad play on TV. The higher the score, the more complete views. Actions that interrupt an ad play include changing the channel, pulling up the guide, fast-forwarding or turning off the TV.
* Attention Index – Represents the Attention of a specific creative or program placement vs the average. The average is represented by a score of 100, and the total index range is from 0 through 200. For example, an attention index of 125 means that there are 25% fewer interrupted ad plays compared to the average.
Variety has partnered with iSpot.tv , the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention analytics from more than eight million smart TVs, to bring you this weekly look at what studios are spending to market their movies on TV. Learn more about the iSpot.tv platform and methodology .
