How much does TV advertising cost? Price overview for linear TV and streaming 2026

July 13, 2026 · 6 min read

How much does TV advertising cost? The complete price guide 2026

What does TV advertising cost in 2026? CPM benchmarks for linear TV and streaming, worked examples and budgets from €1,000. The price guide for SMEs.

Finding your audience? AI now takes care of that

July 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Finding your audience? AI now takes care of that

Find the audience for TV and streaming advertising, entirely without marketing knowledge. With onescreen's AI audience matching, your website URL is enough.

Germany's streaming boom: why agencies and marketers should get into the biggest screen now

July 6, 2026 · 5 min read

Germany's streaming boom: why agencies and marketers should get into the biggest screen now

Germany is Europe's fastest growing TV streaming market. Why agencies and marketers should get into Connected TV now.

Linear TV meets streaming: RTL+

July 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Linear TV meets streaming: RTL+

RTL+ is the streaming service of RTL Deutschland, the German arm of the Bertelsmann subsidiary RTL Group. Unlike Netflix or Amazon, RTL+ is not an international service with a global content budget, but a genuine German platform: rooted in the strongest reach brands of German commercial television.

Co-Viewing: Why every Smart TV ad reaches more people than are billed

June 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Co-Viewing: Why every Smart TV ad reaches more people than are billed

On average around 1.5 people sit in front of the TV set: advertising on the television structurally reaches more people than a single household contact, a systematically underestimated reach advantage.

Consistently ad-free as a strategy: Apple TV+

June 6, 2026 · 2 min read

Consistently ad-free as a strategy: Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is Apple's streaming service, launched in 2019, exclusively with in-house productions. There is no license catalog, no library, no film rights from third parties. Everything on the platform is an Apple Original. The offering is smaller than Netflix or Amazon, but qualitatively homogeneous.

The most trusted advertising medium: why TV comes out ahead with consumers

May 23, 2026 · 3 min read

The most trusted advertising medium: why TV comes out ahead with consumers

46% of consumers trust TV advertising, more than any other paid advertising format. Social media reaches 27%, online advertising 31%.

DAZN vs. WOW: sport streaming in direct comparison

May 9, 2026 · 3 min read

DAZN vs. WOW: sport streaming in direct comparison

Sport as core business, two opposing models: DAZN and WOW are the two most important sport streaming platforms in Germany. Both fight for the same audience, sports-minded households with high willingness to pay. The strategy behind them could hardly be more different.

MagentaTV: infrastructure beats content, everything about the platform

April 25, 2026 · 3 min read

MagentaTV: infrastructure beats content, everything about the platform

Platform instead of service: MagentaTV bundles up to 180 TV channels, media libraries, streaming services and MagentaSport on one interface, for Telekom customers as part of the plan, bookable standalone for everyone else.

Quality beats quantity: why Connected TV is the superior advertising environment

April 11, 2026 · 5 min read

Quality beats quantity: why Connected TV is the superior advertising environment

In hardly any other area of marketing does the gap between aspiration and reality open up as wide as in the media quality of digital advertising. Billions of euros flow into campaigns on social platforms every year, and an alarmingly large share of it is never seen, never heard and never truly noticed.

Waipu.tv vs. Zattoo: the two big IPTV platforms in comparison

March 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Waipu.tv vs. Zattoo: the two big IPTV platforms in comparison

Live TV without cable, two routes, the same promise: Waipu.tv and Zattoo are not streaming services in the sense of this article series, they are IPTV platforms. No Netflix catalog, no originals, no VOD-first approach. Both deliver linear television over the internet, both address households that want to do without cable or satellite.

YouTube: largest reach, creator model

March 14, 2026 · 1 min read

YouTube: largest reach, creator model

YouTube is not a streaming platform in the sense of this article series, but an infrastructure. With over 67 million users in Germany and a fifth consecutive year of CTV growth, YouTube is, measured by usage time, the most used video platform of all, ahead of Netflix, ahead of Amazon, ahead of everything else.

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