Sky clinches Carlsberg deal for Anytime ad trial

by Gareth Jones, Marketing 21-Feb-07

Sky has signed up Carlsberg as a trial advertiser on its on-demand service, Sky Anytime TV.

Carlsberg will run commercials around TV shows, which are downloaded
overnight to Sky+ personal video recorders (PVRs).

Viewers downloading programmes from channels such as Sky One, Sky

Movies, Artsworld and Disney will be required to sit through a 10-second

TV ad before their show begins.

They will be given the option of watching up to four minutes of
Carlsberg-branded footage - an extended version of its recent World Cup
campaign - at the end of each programme.

The execution, created by Saatchi & Saatchi, features former England
manager Bobby Robson bossing a pub football team boasting England
legends such as Bobby Charlton, Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle.

Sky is in the process of signing a range of advertisers to run campaigns
during the trial, which launches to a small number of Sky+ subscribers
next month ahead of a full roll-out in April. It is believed that
several Media-Com clients have agreed to take part in the initiative.

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