The ad world reacts: Google has lost some goodwill with advertisers in recent months after a series of scandals involving low quality video ad placements and ad trackers on children’s content. Advertisers watching the trial have said that the rate of ad inflation is much higher than Google is letting on.
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| Sep 25, 2023
The industry activist group—a project run by former doctor Krzysztof Franaszek—gained mainstream notoriety in June when it released a report alleging that 80% of Google video ads were misplaced on sites that did not meet the company’s standards.
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| Dec 21, 2023
In 2022, the company added browsable product imagery below its video ads, which encouraged viewers to visit Nordstrom’s website and make a purchase. This strategy proved to be a huge success, with one brand partner achieving double-digit omnichannel return on ad spend.
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| Aug 18, 2023
Explore AI’s impact on the burgeoning video ad space. Pre-game video, interstitials, and rewarded ads continue to increase, and the pace should quicken as AI permits more personalization and easier production.
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| Jun 12, 2024
YouTube has been in the news for allegedly misleading advertisers on where it places video ads, according to The Wall Street Journal citing a study by Adalytics, which could make advertisers wary of its offerings. Use this chart:. Assess YouTube ad-buying strategy. Evaluate CTV ad budgets. More like this:. Netflix Basic With Ads turns 1 this month.
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| Nov 21, 2023
This may lead to additional mobility-conscious video ads, as well as native display ads on heads-up displays and dashboards. Predictions. The new version of CarPlay will cement its central place. Consumers already prefer to connect their phones to their cars, and the latest version will give them more reasons to do so. Embedded systems will coalesce around Android Automotive.
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| Nov 30, 2023
If Amazon and other competitors burst onto the scene with their own “identity-restricted” ad solutions, the future of digital advertising could look a lot like what’s happened to the video ad landscape.
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| Feb 29, 2024
App ads are currently display-only, but video ads should appear by the end of 2023.
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| Nov 2, 2023
Short-from video ad spending will increase by 10.4% this year to reach $18.3 billion, according to Magna Global. Social video ad budgets will weather the downturn in ad spending better than nonvideo formats, according to our forecast. One reason: consumers, who will spend 56.3% of time spent on social networks this year watching video.
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| Mar 7, 2023
Prime Video needs a hit: Amazon made an aggressive push into the video advertising market early this year when it made ad-supported viewing the default tier for Prime Video. That change gave Prime Video the largest audience for an ad-supported subscription video service in the US, but it will take more than flipping the switch to ensure success.
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| Mar 20, 2024
Key stat: 60% of US agency and marketing professionals consider brand safety and suitability among the most important criteria when buying digital video ads, according to data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Advertiser Perceptions, and Guideline.
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| Aug 23, 2024
Now the IAB might add a third type of video ad called accompanying instream. You'd have primary instream, their viewer initiated with sound is about five to 10% share of video ads you'd have accompanying instream. Primary instream, then you'd have accompanying instream, autoplay without sound. That's about 40% and outstream absent of any editorial video content that's about 50%.
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| Mar 1, 2023
Though retail spending on video ads will grow 19.5% next year, retail’s share of display dollars spend on video trails the other industries we track, per our forecast. That’s because search ads are still the bread and butter of retail advertising.
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| Oct 10, 2023
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| Dec 6, 2024
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Despite audience growth, video ad businesses are off to a bumpy start in 2023. Although ad-supported video businesses added to their viewer ranks in 2022 and are on track for further growth, it has not been smooth sailing for some of the industry’s bellwether companies.
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| Mar 31, 2023
As the company keeps experimenting with new formats and products for YouTube, advertiser and consumer interest is sure to grow, giving YouTube increased power in measurement negotiations with other key video advertising players.
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| Feb 5, 2024
In pilots, Walmart has seen shoppable video ads do well, particularly on social. “Even though we're asking customers to check out in a different browser page or jump to a different app, we're still seeing great performance and reaching customers in the social environment.”.
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| May 13, 2024
FreshDirect partnered with So Yummy to create recipe video ads on digital screens in the subway, which also included QR codes to buy the recipe’s ingredients. Cheetos recently incorporated two real crashed cars in front of a billboard that jokes about the dangers of eating Cheetos while driving. McDonalds launched a scented billboard in the Netherlands.
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| May 1, 2024
Podcasts are about 10 times behind the rest of the US digital display and video ad market in terms of programmatic ad spend share. If podcast publishers want to catch up to the rest of the digital ad industry, they’ll need to provide programmatic ad solutions. Audience data: Podcast ad inventory is largely show specific, rather than audience based, according to the IAB.
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| Oct 31, 2023
The news: Video advertising marketplace Teads has expanded a global partnership with LG Ad Solutions to provide native video and display ad placements on LG's smart TV platforms in over 10 markets across Europe and Asia-Pacific. The partnership initially launched in several European markets last year.
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| Apr 1, 2024
Brand displays on shelves, video ads on TV screens, digital screens at checkout, in-store audio, and displays in parking lots are all budding ad channels for grocery ad buyers. It’s still difficult to attribute in-store purchases to in-store ads. This ad channel won’t explode until retailers can access closed-loop data on who is seeing what ad and how that informs purchases.
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| Jul 24, 2023
Uber is getting video ads in all its apps, running after customers place orders, within search ads, and during rides, as part of Uber’s moves to grow its retail media network. This was originally featured in the eMarketer Daily newsletter. For more marketing insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.
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| Jul 17, 2023
Soon, it will add video ads to its repertoire. But the tech isn’t as good at providing error-free outputs and sticking to a brand identity, said May. Generative AI allows others to easily create believable copycat ads mimicking recognizable brands, creating a brand safety issue. AI has machine speed and efficiency, but humans can’t actually check quality at machine scale. 2.
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| May 22, 2023
Post-loop ads: 4- to 10-second skippable video ads that play once a Reel has ended. Once the ad finishes playing, the original Reel starts playing again. Image carousel ads: Horizontally scrollable ads that include two to 10 images shown at the bottom of a Reel. Meta has introduced four new ad formats for Instagram:. Ads in Explore home: Ads that appear on the homepage of the personalized Explore tab.
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| Jan 12, 2023
They want to get close to the show level,” said Ally Appelbaum, senior director of publisher development, self-serve at video ad platform Nexxen. But show-level transparency is likely not going to happen in the CTV world, especially as advertisers are still willing to buy inventory without it.
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| Oct 24, 2023