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Top Up TV targets ex-ITV Digital customers with ad drive.(Advertising)(Brief Article)

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The 'pay-lite' TV platform Top Up TV has launched its first ad campaign targeting former ITV Digital customers.

The campaign, created by Branded, introduces a TV-addicted garden gnome called Little Top Up, voiced by Richard Briers.

The gnome is intent on watching Top Up TV from the garden through the patio window, until the man of the house sits in front of the TV and blocks his view. In response the gnome runs to the front of the house to ring the doorbell to get the man up and then dashes back. Just as the gnome is settled the man's wife draws the curtains leaving the gnome's view of the TV completely obscured. The ad ends with the line: 'Because you never know in life what's going to happen.'

The ads will run on the Freeview channels ITV2, UK History, UK Bright Ideas, FTN, The Hits and the ITV News Channel, targeting viewers who are watching via an ex-ITV ...

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