For advertisers, the holiday season poses an optimal opportunity to reach a new and broader audience, boost sales and foster brand loyalty with customers. In fact, viewership overall is up 8% year-over-year driven exclusively by streaming.1 Investing more in CTV ads during the holiday season can help you stay ahead of the competition and reach more viewers. This trend unlocks a unique chance to connect with highly engaged audiences and deliver your brand’s message on the largest storytelling canvas in the home — the TV.

1Samsung Proprietary ACR data.

For advertisers, the holiday season poses an optimal opportunity to reach a new and broader audience, boost sales and foster brand loyalty with customers. In fact, viewership overall is up 8% year-over-year driven exclusively by streaming.1 Investing more in CTV ads during the holiday season can help you stay ahead of the competition and reach more viewers. This trend unlocks a unique chance to connect with highly engaged audiences and deliver your brand’s message on the largest storytelling canvas in the home — the TV.

1Samsung Proprietary ACR data.

Here are 5 essential tips to level up your seasonal advertising strategy in 2025:

Here are 5 essential tips to level up your seasonal advertising strategy in 2025:

Capitalize on Peak Holiday Viewing to Find New Customers

1. Capitalize on Peak Holiday Viewing to Find New Customers

Where will you find new customers this holiday season? Getting festive in front of their favorite streaming content. Our research shows that streaming viewership is up 11% during Thanksgiving week and 19% during Christmas week, compared with average non-holiday weeks. Also, viewers spend 8% more time watching streaming programming in Q4, compared with the rest of the year.2

 

Rising holiday viewership means you can maximize your campaign’s reach to a broader audience — including shoppers who may be new to your brand. With 76 million TVs in U.S. households, Samsung has twice as many TVs as its next competitor. That gives you the holiday reach you need for incremental customer acquisition.

2Samsung Proprietary Smart TV Data, United States.

Maximize Your Media Spend and Find Customers You’re Missing

2. Maximize Your Media Spend and Find Customers You’re Missing

It’s no surprise that Q4 ad investments can generate the highest ROI. The key is to avoid investing in ad opportunities that don’t deliver and waste valuable campaign dollars. On that note, if you’re running ads in linear and AVOD, you’re likely missing out on 41% of potential CTV viewers.3 Not only that, but advertisers are missing out on $141 billion of untapped revenue due to the fragmented TV ecosystem.3 That’s a lot of missed chances and dollars left on the table. Connect with those missed audiences with Samsung Ads’ Optimal Reach, which pinpoints duplicated audiences and viewers missed across linear or ad-supported streaming — including “cord-cutters” and “cord-nevers” helping you drive more than 5x ROI.3

3Samsung Ads. (Q2 2025). “Missed Reach, Found Revenue: An updated look at fragmentation, duplication, and using data to drive sales.”

Drive Engagement & Action Across Screens

3. Drive Engagement and Action Across Screens

Capturing attention on CTV requires thoughtful and engaging ad creative that considers how viewers consume content. Knowing that 80% of viewers have a mobile device close by while watching TV, and almost 60% use that device to purchase after seeing a TV ad,4 offers a great opportunity. Enhance your CTV ads with QR codes and mobile-mimicking vertical formats to drive immediate action.

Samsung Ads' Creative Canvas is designed to help you leverage these best practices, upleveling your current assets to create high-performing ads and extend your reach in the CTV space.

⁴Samsung Proprietary Consumer Survey, Q4 2024, US, A18+

Align with Fan-Favorite Content to Make Your Ads More Memorable

4. Align with Fan-Favorite Content to Make Your Ads More Memorable

Where you run your ads during the holiday season is just as important as finding the right audience. Connect with holiday viewers by running your ads within the content they love. Our insights show that the most viewed content during the holiday season is Movies, Drama and Reality TV.2 Running your ads alongside this content increases your opportunity to drive awareness, engagement and conversion.

Samsung TV Plus, the #1 FAST app on Samsung TVs, offers a vast, brand-safe content library spanning these genres plus, a massive collection of holiday-themed shows and movies in one place. Samsung TV Plus is the ideal environment for running ads to reach more than 88 million leaned-in fans at scale while they’re engaging with the content they love.

Ad Creative that Converts

5. Ad Creative that Converts

From early bird shopping to last-minute gift buying, the creative that you run during your holiday campaign makes a big difference. Holiday viewers are emotionally invested, and holiday ad creative can inspire gift-buying ideas — especially when ads emotionally align with the content that viewers are watching.

Combine holiday moments, content and creative design to drive a higher brand lift and stronger conversion. Weave in the colors of the season. Go for contrast to make your ads pop with jewel tones and metallics, not just red and green. Your holiday ads will resonate with consumers on a personal level — capturing their attention, building positive associations, and inspiring them to take action.

If you’re looking for something custom, Samsung Ads Content Studio solution offers the opportunity to build ground-up custom ad creative specifically designed to resonate and engage with the highly-engaged Samsung TV Plus audience.

 

Your Holiday ROI
Opportunity Starts Now

Your Holiday ROI Opportunity Starts Now

Sharpen your holiday ad strategy with the tips above and leverage the unique advantages Samsung Ads offers. Advertisers can effectively attract, engage, and convert their target audience, ensuring a successful and profitable holiday season.  See how Celebrity Cruises drove consideration on Travel Tuesday during the holiday season to increase ROI.

Sharpen your holiday ad strategy with the tips above and leverage the unique advantages Samsung Ads offers. Advertisers can effectively attract, engage, and convert their target audience, ensuring a successful and profitable holiday season.  See how Celebrity Cruises drove consideration on Travel Tuesday during the holiday season to increase ROI.

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