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Sky, Channel 4 and ITV announce joint intent to launch groundbreaking premium video advertising marketplace

16/06/2025

Monday 16 June 2025

For the first time, small to medium sized businesses will be able to run a single campaign across Sky, Channel 4 and ITV

New self-service TV ad buying marketplace aims to encourage new brands to TV

Powered by industry-leading ad technology from Comcast Advertising, and its Universal Ads platform, which launched earlier this year in the US

Channel 4, ITV and Sky, in collaboration with Comcast Advertising, have today announced their intent to launch a groundbreaking advertising marketplace, that will allow easy access to a premium on demand and streaming inventory through a single campaign for the very first time.

This landmark move, designed to super charge the breadth of brands advertising on TV, will bring together addressable inventory from all three sales houses into a single marketplace. This will enable new-to-TV advertisers a direct, simple way to access premium video content.

For the first time, small to medium sized businesses will be empowered to access and purchase addressable inventory to run a single campaign across the three broadcaster sales houses - with biddable pricing and more tools - leveraging the scale and quality of programming and audiences across Channel 4 Sales, ITV Media and Sky Media. Providing simplified access across the three portfolios will make addressable TV inventory accessible for businesses that are used to buying their own media in social and digital environments.

Building on the rich heritage of collaboration between the broadcasters, the marketplace, which is set to launch in 2026, will be powered by Comcast's Universal Ads platform and FreeWheel's technology. To drive continued innovation for all categories of advertisers and buyers, the broadcasters are also in discussions to simplify the purchase of addressable inventory for media agencies. This includes exploring the potential of a joint agency-facin solution, based on ITV's Planet V technology.

Priya Dogra, Chief Advertising, Group Data and New Revenue Officer, Sky, said: "In today's fast-evolving media landscape, we strongly believe success will require collaboration, simplification, and innovation. In partnership with ITV and Channel 4, and following the successful US launch of Comcast's Universal Ads platform, we are excited to bring this to the UK and with it, the opportunity to open up TV advertising to new brands. Building on this innovation, we also want to simplify TV trading for established brands and agencies and look forward to exploring potential opportunities with ITV and Channel 4 to use Planet V.

Kelly Williams, Managing Director, Commercial, ITV said: As a TV industry, it is important that we collaborate to make television easy to plan, buy and measure for our established customers as well as the huge potential of new to TV brands. Both of these initiatives, this new marketplace for SMEs and Planet V for agencies, represent a very exciting future.

Rak Patel, Chief Commercial Officer, Channel 4, said: This marketplace underlines what sets TV apart from all other media: its ability to collaborate at scale. By uniting the power of Channel 4, ITV and Sky through a single marketplace, we're creating a new home for premium video while accelerating our Fast Forward strategy to become the first public service streamer.

Thomas Bremond, Managing Director, Comcast Advertising, International, commented: We are excited to work with the UK's premier broadcasters to offer advertisers a simplified way to access premium video, powered by Comcast's Universal Ads platform. The collaborations across ITV, Channel 4 and Sky showcases the industry's commitment to bringing together tech, media and data to offer greater efficiency and effectiveness to TV advertising.

The collaboration between ITV, Channel 4 and Sky represents a major development in television advertising, offering SMEs a self-serve, powerful tool to enhance their marketing efforts.

Key features will include:

One campaign, multiple broadcasters: For the first time advertisers can buy, measure, and report a single campaign across all the sales houses.

TV unlocked: A user-friendly interface made specifically for SMEs and digital-native advertisers that makes buying addressable advertising straightforward and efficient, meaning the for the first time, new-to-TV brands Focus on Outcomes: Tools and analytics to help brands measure and optimise their advertising performance.

Transparency and Quality: Commitment to high standards of TV advertising, providing clear metrics and reliable results.

Contacts:

Sky: Ellen Stirling, Senior Corporate Communications Manager - ellen.stirling@sky.uk / 07593 601943

Channel 4: Tristan O'Carroll, Head of Corporate Communications Commercial, Streaming & Technology, tocarroll@channel4.co.uk / 07930 104644

ITV: Laura Wootton, Head of Corporate Communications - laura.wootton@itv.com / 07917862293

Comcast: Sophie Eeles, Senior Communications Manager- Sophie_eeles@comcast.com / 07733058050

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