Samsung Ads Launches Immersive Carousel Home Screen Ad Unit for High‑Impact Storytelling

Dynamic ad unit turns the home screen into a revolving brand showcase, with early campaigns delivering considerable uplift in app usage for entertainment partners and brand awareness for brands. 

Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics’ media division, has launched an Immersive Carousel ad unit which enables advertisers on Samsung TV home screens to run ads with up to five separate tiles. The ad unit is available on the 70 million-plus Samsung Smart TVs in Europe – one in every three Smart TVs overall.

The format auto-rotates every five seconds, or manually via the remote control, and can be used to promote multiple products or content items within a single ad placement for a variety of calls to action.

The Samsung home screen has already emerged as a major space for content, services and advertising. Across the EU5 markets, Samsung Smart TV users visit the home screen five times a day, from the moment they first switch on the TV and throughout their viewing experience as they search for what to watch next –  making it one of the few places in the fragmented streaming environment where the mainstream audience can reliably be found.

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Alex Hole, SVP and General Manager, Samsung Europe and MENA, said: “We know the home screen is where viewers’ content discovery journey begins on connected TVs. The home screen Immersive Carousel delivers the rich storytelling capabilities that advertisers are looking for, while also enabling them to promote multiple products, or multiple aspects of the same product, in a single ad unit. More importantly, the results from early campaigns show the genuinely dramatic effect of the Immersive Carousel on ad brand awareness and app usage.”

The Immersive Carousel works equally well for entertainment and gaming brands looking to drive users directly to their apps on Samsung TV, and for non-endemic brands seeking to boost awareness and consideration.

ITVx has already used the Immersive Carousel to boost visibility and engagement for shows including Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends, The Princess Diaries and The Only Way is Essex. Samsung ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) data reveals that those exposed to the ad spent 90 minutes longer in the ITVx app during the week of the campaign compared to unexposed viewers. Those who viewed all five tiles spent 40% more time in the app than unexposed viewers, leading to stronger conversion performance.

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A luxury menswear brand deployed the Immersive Carousel unit to deepen brand resonance and awareness among affluent and luxury shoppers. Ad awareness was 41% higher for high-income earners exposed to the ad than for those not exposed, while brand awareness among frequent luxury shoppers was 36% higher when the ad was shown.

These early campaigns serve as strong proof points for the Immersive Carousel format, with more campaigns from big-name brands in the pipeline.

Samsung Ads, a division of Samsung’s media & services business, harnesses the power of data, technology and scale to create a seamless advertising experience that amplifies brand stories across an ecosystem of devices. Leveraging its unique position with nearly 70 Million devices in Europe, Samsung Ads delivers high-impact, targeted advertising solutions across multiple screens, enabling brands to reach audiences in the moments that matter. Samsung Ads – where technology meets creativity to deliver advertising experiences that captivate and inspire. Launched in 2015, Samsung Ads has offices in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil & Mexico and South Korea.