Facebook is rolling out additional video metrics such as unique video views, the average duration of the video view and audience retention over the coming weeks, the company said Monday. “These new metrics are designed to help you learn what’s resonating with people and determine how to more effectively create and promote your videos on […]
Before traditional, linear television ad buys can be fully automated, a couple of core constituents must align. “The [idea of programmatic] doesn’t entirely make me nervous, but it definitely needs boundaries and guidelines,” said Phil Lalonde, SVP of ad sales operations, MTV Networks, recently at a BrightRoll Video Summit. Rob Holmes, VP of advanced advertising at […]
TubeMogul, whose IPO is expected soon, saw revenue from direct users of its demand-side platform (DSP) ramp up dramatically in the first quarter of the year. According to an updated S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, total revenue for Q1 2014 grew to $22 million, 130% more than it made the first three months […]
Google is walking the walk when it comes to promoting YouTube personalities. After hearing from agencies that it was not acting swiftly enough to tout its own programming, the video platform embarked this month on a “massive” TV, print and out-of-home campaign starring several of its high-profile personalities (YouTube calls them creators) that target Millennial […]
While both programmatic buying and online video are in vogue, the best way for these two to come together—in the opinions of both publishers and brands—is through private marketplace buys. Programmatic video ad platform BrightRoll has seen 50% of the top 50 publishers engage in private marketplace deals, said company founder and CEO Tod Sacerdoti […]
Social platforms like Tumblr and Twitter give content producers tremendous opportunities to engage with audiences. But they also present a tremendous challenge – namely being able to distribute and measure that content cross-platform. As the TV upfront season approaches, Viacom sales chief Jeff Lucas said overcoming this challenge will be a priority. Viacom is working […]
Most know Adobe for the company’s Creative and Marketing Cloud offerings, but it’s the company’s end-to-end, “TV Everywhere” platform Adobe Primetime that steals the show with broadcasters and cable operators like NBC Sports and Time Warner Cable. The year-old platform encompasses technology Adobe acquired when it bought video ads platform Auditude in 2011, as well […]
Despite a surge in mobile video consumption, inventory is still constrained. A number of technology companies are looking to diversify pre- or post-roll inventory by adding contextual layers or new formats altogether. One such player is video advertising technology company Coull. Richard Nunn was recently named chief commercial officer for Coull. He was a digital […]
Industry insiders worry that as digital video and television converge, one will cannibalize the other in terms of media allocation. Not necessarily so, said Scott Ferber, founder and CEO of video ad platform Videology, during a panel the company hosted Wednesday. Ferber shared research commissioned by Videology and conducted by Forrester Research revealing that 70% […]
When the Media Rating Council (MRC) recently lifted its advisory against factoring viewability measurement into display ad transactions, one crucial format did not get the green light. The accreditation vendor has urged advertisers to avoid trading on video viewability metrics – at least until the end of June. Question is, will that be enough time? […]
Comcast AdDelivery on Tuesday struck a deal with digital ad-distribution company Adstream to expand global video ad delivery efforts. The deal essentially fulfills each companies’ geographic delivery needs. While Comcast historically had a strong domestic delivery network, Adstream, an Australian-founded, $65 million-a-year business that’s headquartered in London, gives Comcast pertinent global reach. A trend in […]
Online video player and distributor Brightcove has extended short-form video support for Twitter’s growing slew of video-monetization tools, Twitter Amplify and Twitter Video Cards. Underpinned by tech from its recent acquisition of digital ad-insertion platform Unicorn Media, the Brightcove Once cloud platform is designed to enable publishers and media companies to ease the playback of […]
As the digital video ecosystem gets more crowded, players that plan for cross-device content delivery and who can partner with multiple platforms will win. Both Amazon and Yahoo have been working toward this by mastering their respective delivery methods, increasing audience scale and developing premium inventory. Consider Amazon’s Wednesday launch of its Fire TV set-top […]
Amazon’s rumored development of an ad-supported, free streaming media service, reported first by the Wall Street Journal Thursday, but subsequently denied by a company spokesperson, could solidify its relationship with FreeWheel. FreeWheel is a video ad platform used by Comcast and Amazon among others. When Comcast announced its intent to acquire FreeWheel earlier this month, […]
Television remains the world’s most powerful medium both in terms of time spent and ad investment, but the way people use it has changed. Writing recently in an article for the Atlantic, Derek Thompson noted, “The trouble with the TV business is that even though more people than ever are paying for TV—whether it’s on cable, […]
Shirlene Chandrapal, former director of Yahoo! Connected TV (CTV) in Europe, says connected television will connect advertisers with a highly engaged audience whose medium of choice is the Internet. Chandrapal now works for cross-channel advertising technology company Adconion Direct, where she’s tasked with driving CTV’s US expansion. She’s taking on a market where an estimated […]
Video demand-side platform TubeMogul on Wednesday filed its S-1 registration document with the US Securities Exchange Commission, signaling its intention to raise $75 million in an initial public offering. Read the S-1. In the filing, TubeMogul stated, “For 2011, 2012 and 2013, our total revenue was $15.7 million, $34.2 million and $57.2 million, respectively, representing […]
The general consensus is there’s a long way to go before linear TV buys are fully automated. Despite advancements in pushing programmatic into video-on-demand (VOD) environments, the enablement of programmatic transactions in linear TV is still in its infancy. Part of this has to do with the state of the technology. “All the tools in […]
Although an industrywide video viewability standard has not yet materialized, players in the digital ecosystem are making progress. As a marketer, “you need to make sure an ad was viewed and we know we will never make video profitable on a click-only basis no matter what KPI we’re using,” remarked DJ Harman, online marketing manager […]
The repercussions of cable heavyweight Comcast’s planned acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and video ad-serving platform FreeWheel are still unknown. One of the biggest questions for ad industry insiders is the extent to which the preexisting relationship between Amazon and FreeWheel, announced in early February, will continue. Although neither Amazon nor FreeWheel have confirmed whether […]
Adknowledge has purchased video ad platform Giant Media for an undisclosed sum. The deal marks Adknowledge’s 12th acquisition. Giant Media “seeds” video content through a network of publisher partners and emphasizes social sharing and earned media. Its platform, VideoStat, has supported distribution for the hit Dollar Shave Club campaign and Hyundai’s “Cheetah” spot, which aired […]
Comcast’s acquisition Thursday of video ad serving platform FreeWheel generated numerous questions, the most common being: What does this mean for the future of Pay TV and digital video ecosystem? Beyond anticipating the convergence of linear TV and digital video ad dollars, there’s still tremendous fragmentation between the worlds of the television operator and programmer, […]
Comcast will acquire video ad-serving platform FreeWheel, the companies confirmed Thursday. The development comes just weeks after the cable giant made public its intent to acquire Time Warner Cable for $42.5 billion. TechCrunch first reported the news, and Re/code confirmed Thursday it’s a done deal and pegged its value at approximately $360 million. That’s roughly in line with […]
Visible World, which has been developing addressable TV technology since 2000, claims to cover nearly 90% of cable TV households in the US through its targeted ad products. The company has developed a video and TV campaign platform used by advertisers directly or by distributors to sell to advertisers. That same platform is now being […]
Much of the debate about the convergence of digital video and TV advertising has centered on budget and measurement. Members of the advertising industry have wondered whether digital video would cannibalize TV ad dollars and to what extent the right metrics are in place to effectively execute cross-platform video buys. A report from Nielsen and […]
You could say digital entrepreneurship runs in the family. Zach James cofounded Movieclips.com in 2009 before embarking on his latest venture into video with Zefr, which helps brands and networks manage and monetize their YouTube video assets. James is also the brother of Josh James, founder of Omniture (which was sold to Adobe Systems for […]
In its Q4 conference call with investors, digital video ad solutions provider YuMe’s CEO Jayant Kadambi provided some insight into the company’s planned entry into programmatic and international markets this year. Kadambi said YuMe’s programmatic offerings will be built on existing platforms, and complement rather than replace direct sales. Agencies and trading desks will be […]
Addressable TV advertising shouldn’t be viewed as a replacement for mass audience or network buys – or executed without rich data extensions, warned cable operators, agencies and media companies at the Advanced Advertising forum Thursday in New York. Ultimately the promise of addressable TV depends on the granularity of audience-targeting data marketers get at the household level. […]
Tremor Video’s fourth-quarter financials, reported Thursday, included a continuous rise in mobile ad revenue and a reduction of its demo pricing-related losses. The company’s total revenue for 2013 rose 25.3% to $131.8 million year-over-year. Its in-stream revenue was $128.3 million, a 28.7% increase from the same period in 2012. It reported a net loss of […]
Attention, traditional television media buyers: You may soon be replaced by an algorithm. According to “How Software Is Eating Video Ads And, Soon, TV,” a new report from Forrester, programmatic buying has made serious inroads into the online video ad market. As automation of media buys becomes more common and viewing hours of online video […]
