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In this week’s edition of the Variety/iSpot.tv Movie Commercial Tracker, MGM’s “Hercules” leads in spending with an estimated outlay of $8.4 million for spots that have aired 1,903 times across 37 networks through July 27. (That’s a relatively modest boost from the $7.3 million spent the previous week.) BET scored the most commercial placements for “Hercules,” followed by MTV.
“Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Into the Storm” are effectively tied, each with $8 million in estimated TV commercial spend, with “Guardians” spots appearing most frequently on Disney XD and MTV, while “Storm” placements skewed toward Comedy Central and SyFy. “Lucy,” dipping to $6.7 million in estimated spend (from $8.2 million the previous week), echoed the “Storm” approach, with placements skewing toward SyFy and Comedy Central, in that order.
Finally, “A Most Wanted Man,” the espionage thriller starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, enters our top 5 with, curiously, HGTV and Bravo as the two networks scoring the most commercial placements. “Most Wanted,” with its $5.1 million estimated outlay, knocks Disney/Pixar’s “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” last week’s fourth-place spender, right out of our chart.
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Top Movie Commercials by Weekly TV Spend
1 Hercules – $8.4M
2 Guardians of the Galaxy – $8M
3 Into the Storm – $8M
4 Lucy – $6.7M
5 A Most Wanted Man – $5.1M
1 Movie titles with a minimum spend of $100,000 for airings detected between 07/21/2014 and 07/27/2014.
* Percent of digital activity captured across online video, social media, and search activity that was stimulated by these movie trailers and measured in comparison to all online activity in the movie category.
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