Netflix AVOD

Netflix netted a 150% increase in ad sales during upfront negotiations this year compared to last year – a good sign for its programmatic ambitions.

In addition to taking execs through its plans to launch its own ad platform, Netflix hosted a separate event open to the press to showcase its content as part of its efforts to stand out to advertisers.

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Netflix grew its overall revenue by 15% year over year, largely driven by account growth, thanks to anti-password sharing tactics. It also unveiled new ad measurement options for advertisers.

Streaming services must juggle subscriber growth and ad revenue – an ongoing struggle that produced a mixed bag of Q4 earnings results. But there’s a reason why it seems like Netflix is coming out on top.

Netflix shared another update on viewer numbers for its ad-supported tier, which currently stands at 23 million global montly active users, and announced plans to introduce pause ads in the next few months.

Netflix revealed that its ad-supported offering now reaches 15 million monthly active users globally, and shared more details about new and upcoming ad formats.

Banning password sharing is No. 1 on Netflix right now, and other streaming services are taking notice. But the strategy is a risky one: It’s very difficult to enforce, and the timing needs to be just right.

Netflix gained roughly 6 million subscribers this quarter, mostly thanks to anti-password sharing. But advertising remains only a tiny piece of the business.

Netflix explores building its own ad server. Also: Tech companies continue trying to influence the legal definition of privacy.

Netflix and Disney are both building out a new ad revenue stream to court advertisers ahead of the upfronts.

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Netflix’s content recommendations are definitely more personalized than the ad experience.

Netflix reported its first earnings on Thursday since launching ads late last year. The results? AVOD seems to have helped grow Netflix’s profitability in the short term. The streamer reported 7.7 million net new subscribers in Q4, a 4% year-over-year increase in paid memberships, which boosted quarterly revenue by 2%. But it was a good […]

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From the rise of alternative measurement currencies and retail media networks to the launch of Netflix’s AVOD tier, these are the stories that helped us animate the news in 2022.

2022 will stand out as the year that AVOD took center stage. Ad-supported video viewership growth surpassed subscription-only streaming and overall streaming viewership overtook cable for the first time.

Faced with waning subscribers, Netflix has been forced to adapt to brave the streaming competition by rolling out ads. Yet there are still unanswered questions over how Netflix and other AVOD streaming contenders will successfully navigate brand safety for a highly sensitized market, writes Ken Weiner, CTO of GumGum.

Although Netflix lost roughly 1 million users in Q2, the streaming giant gained 2.4 million subs in Q3, which helped boost the company’s revenue by 6% year over year. The question is: What happens to Netflix’s subscriber count when it flips the switch on ads in less than two weeks?

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Meet your new CTV acronym: HVOD (hybrid video on demand). Why do we need it? The rise of AVOD doesn’t mean SVOD is going anywhere, says Sarah Lewis, global director of CTV at video platform ShowHeroes and a proponent of HVOD.

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In mid-July, Netflix announced a partnership with Microsoft, selecting the tech giant for its new advertising and sales agency. Odd, right? The obvious choice was Google, especially with the push for cookieless data. But there’s more than meets the eye to this partnership. Clearly, there’s something in it for both players, writes Humphrey Ho, managing director of Hyperlink Digital’s Americas business.

The success and value of an AVOD platform depends on more than just the size and growth of the audience. How much time they spend streaming also matters. And as the AVOD landscape becomes more competitive, platforms like Netflix will need to focus on user experience to keep viewers watching, writes Joel Cox, co-founder and SVP of strategy and innovation at Strategus.

Netflix’s biggest hope for its imminent ad tier is increasing revenue not from ads themselves, but by attracting new sign-ups with a cheaper subscription option. It chose Microsoft as its ad sales partner for flexibility in building out the tech, and it hopes new plans for password sharing enforcement will help keep up subscriber monetization, too.

Just three months after Netflix surprised the world with the news that it plans to launch an ad-supported tier, the streaming leader has settled on its third-party vendor of choice: Microsoft. But why Microsoft? It wasn’t considered a serious programmatic contender until it acquired Xandr from AT&T (and that deal only closed last month). Still, something made Microsoft stand out from the crowd.

Netflix is planning to introduce an ad-supported model to attract new viewers, and chances are it will embrace programmatic advertising, too. Without the portfolio of strategic partners that NBC and Disney have, Netflix will need to catch up somehow. Programmatic is one enticing option for doing so, writes Nicole Scaglione, global VP, OTT and CTV business, at PubMatic.

Netflix is joining the AVOD squad at an industry-wide inflection point. Despite exploding consumer and ad revenue growth, CTV also still has growing pains (you know, like the ad overload plaguing the viewing experience). But with a strong market presence – and “extremely attractive first-party data” – Netflix could help CTV turn the corner, writes Chris Keune, VP of data science and product at Kargo.

The day has finally come – Netflix is considering ads after it lost 200,000 subscribers in Q1, the streamer’s first subscriber loss in a decade. It won’t be easy, but Netflix will need to find a way to keep customers (and their wallets) satisfied. Ads will be a slow rollout that Netflix hopes to phase in within a year or two, CEO Reed Hastings said on Tuesday’s earnings call.