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 “Bohemian Rhapsody” 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 Halloween” ($4.59 million) and Twentieth Century Fox’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” ($4.38 million) round out the chart.
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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
Impressions: 254,125,663
Attention Score: 93.73
Attention Index: 112
National Airings: 847
Networks: 33
Most Spend On: NBC, Adult Swim
Creative Versions: 9
Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $9.45M
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Started Airing: 06/03/18
$5.33M – First Man
Impressions: 470,885,400
Attention Score: 90.17
Attention Index: 72
National Airings: 1,063
Networks: 38
Most Spend On: NBC, FOX
Creative Versions: 37
Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $32.38M
Studio: Universal Pictures
Started Airing: 06/08/18
$4.87M – Halloween
Impressions: 275,908,424
Attention Score: 95.19
Attention Index: 132
National Airings: 813
Networks: 35
Most Spend On: NBC, AMC
Creative Versions: 24
Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $13.59M
Studio: Universal Pictures
Started Airing: 06/10/18
$4.59M – Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Impressions: 368,289,957
Attention Score: 91.94
Attention Index: 88
National Airings: 1,042
Networks: 42
Most Spend On: NBC, Nick
Creative Versions: 39
Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $14.6M
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Started Airing: 07/19/18
$4.38M – Bad Times at the El Royale
Impressions: 304,060,779
Attention Score: 89.85
Attention Index: 70
National Airings: 1,331
Networks: 34
Most Spend On: Adult Swim, NBC
Creative Versions: 22
Est. Lifetime TV Spend: $24.46M
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Started Airing: 09/04/18
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.
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