Advertisers are expected to spend just shy of $30 billion on online video this year – an increase of nearly 28 percent year-over-year, according to recent research. It is a whopping number that demonstrates the rapidly growing opportunity to reach target audiences through sight, sound and motion. Leading the pack when it comes to where […]
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Facebook announced Thursday it is rolling out Ad Breaks to 14 more markets, bringing the total number of countries with access to the 15-second in-stream ads to 40. It is also launching Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite. The company shared a long list of Watch announcements — from the original programs it is
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Hulu is opening up its sought-after video inventory to programmatic buyers with a new private marketplace that will launch Jan. 1. How will inventory be bought and sold? Hulu is partnering with video management platform Telaria, which has an ad server designed for programmatic and direct-sold video and connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) inventory. Hulu
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YouTube has released the top ten TrueView for Action ads in 2018, with Grammarly’s “Enhance Your Writing” 60-second spot coming in at the top. The year-end ad leaderboard focused only on the direct-response ad format, a shift from YouTube’s usual annual list ranking the top trending video ads overall. Why you should care YouTube’s focus
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Facebook has a history of miscalculating video ad metrics. In 2016, the company admitted it had been overstating the average duration of a video view time. The following year, it acknowledged over-charging advertisers for clicks on link-based mobile video carousel ads. As recently as October, Facebook video ad counts made the news again when a
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YouTube has launched its own version of Stories, giving creators with 10,000 or more subscribers access to the new content feature. First launched by Snapchat, Stories have become a popular form of content across Facebook, Instagram. YouTube’s version will keep Stories accessible in the mobile app for up a period of seven days — lengthening
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How YouTube’s ad pod experience will display on a mobile device. YouTube announced on Wednesday a new “ad pod” delivery experience that will show two skippable pre-roll or mid-roll ads — one right after the other. Currently being tested on desktop only, ad pods will soon roll out on mobile and connected TVs. The units
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Amit Shetty, senior product director of video & audio of the IAB Tech Lab, made the announcement The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab released final specs Thursday for its digital Video Ad Serving Template (VAST ). VAST 4.1 incorporates what the organization says was an “unprecedented” amount of feedback collected during the public comment period, which
Video is a hotter topic than ever in marketing, with users consuming more and options for advertisers multiplying rapidly. With so much development in the industry it can be hard to look at the bigger picture or anticipate what the next big trend might be, but in this article, I’ll share where I anticipate we
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A year since launching native video, Reddit reports it is seeing more than a billion video views per month on average. The platform says it has experienced a 38 percent growth in native videos since the start of the year, with advertisers seeing higher conversion rates and more engagement with video ads. Why you should
