In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Warner Bros. claims the top spot in spending with “Ready Player One.”
Ads placed for the sci-fi Steven Spielberg movie had an estimated media value of $9.66 million through Sunday for 70 national ad airings on 13 networks. (Spend figures are based on estimates generated from Feb. 19-25. Estimates may be updated after the chart is posted as new information becomes available.) Warner Bros. prioritized reaching sports fans, with program-specific budget during Winter Olympics telecasts, College Basketball and UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens, and network-specific budget allocated heavily across NBC, NBC Sports and Fox.
Just behind “Ready Player One” in second place: Twentieth Century Fox’s “Red Sparrow,” which saw 1,469 national ad airings across 35 networks, with an estimated media value of $9.4 million.
TV ad placements for Universal Pictures’ “Pacific Rim Uprising” (EMV: $8.19 million), followed by Warner Bros.’ “Tomb Raider” ($5.7 million) and “Game Night” ($5.43 million), round out the chart.
Notably, “Pacific Rim Uprising” had the best iSpot Attention Index (109) in the ranking, getting 9% 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
$9.66M – Ready Player One
$9.4M – Red Sparrow
$8.19M – Pacific Rim Uprising
$5.7M – Tomb Raider
$5.43M – Game Night
1 Movie titles with a minimum spend of $100,000 for airings detected between 02/19/2018 and 02/25/2018.
* 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.
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