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BrightRoll is a privately held online video advertising services provider that executes video ad campaigns on household name media and broadcast properties for brand advertisers and agencies.
BrightRoll is the largest video ad network and third largest video property on the Web. The company serves hundreds of millions of video ads per month to more than 65 million unique viewers.
The company was founded in 2006 by Tod Sacerdoti, the company’s CEO, Dru Nelson, who serves as CTO, and Auren Hoffman.
BrightRoll has conducted three rounds of funding, raising $16 million to date. Investors include True Ventures, Adams Street Partners and Adams Street Capital and Scale Venture Partners.
The company offers an array of video advertising unit types, including:
BrightRoll also provides optimization and targeting solutions, proprietary ad units, consolidated reporting solutions, and integration solutions with third party ad servers.
BrightRoll launched new services in 2008, 2009 and 2010,…

Over 7.4 Billion Video Ads In October As Tremor Video Tops A Billion

comScore has released the October 2011 Video Metrix report and the first thing that caught my eye, which I prognosticated on over a month ago, was Tremor Video topping one billion video ads a month, and they did it... and are continuing to close in on Hulu who is just about 250 million ads up ...

The Great Canadian Online Video Advertising Boom is Coming

IAB Canada and Brightroll recently put out their video advertising report for October and it seems that things are heating up for our [America] northern neighbors. It makes sense since Canadians top the world in online video consumption (20.2 hours per viewer per month) and roughly 22.3 million Canadians (90% of Internet users there) are ...

Lack Of Standardization Holding Back Online Video Advertising Growth?

Brightroll has released their latest numbers in regards to what US publishers are doing with online video and where they get their advertising. The thing they found that was really interesting was that 50% of publishers who responded state that they work with five or more ad networks! To me that means a big pain ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Web TV Content Edition

This was one of the biggest weeks in history for technology-related news, as the world mourned the passing of Steve Jobs. There were also a huge number of stories with a direct impact on the Internet TV wars, as streaming services added new content and brand new streaming services were created and launched. If you ...

Real Time Bidding Expands At SpotXchange, BrightRoll, & Other Video Ad Networks

The good people at SpotXchange have announced that all of their inventory is now available through the real-time bidding on their exchange. This was in reply to 120% more real-time bid requests since November 2010 when it originally launched. BrightRoll on the other hand launched their exchange just a couple months ago but are also ...

VEVO, Google, Hulu Still On Top In comScore August 2011 Video Metrix

So here we are another month in the books (and this one a full week later than the normal video metrix numbers) and we see the release of the comScore August 2011 video metrix. No surprise that VEVO topped the YouTube partners, Google topped all sites, and Hulu was number one in ad impressions.

TubeMogul Jumps Into Real-Time Bidding For Mobile Video Ads With Nexage

Early in the year I had an article series (2011 Video Advertising Trends Part I and Part II) with some big names online video ads looking to the future. Tod Sacerdoti (sup Tod) from Brightroll said it would be mobile, Iggy Fanlo of AdBrite believed real-time bidding was the future. Well today, they're both right ...

YouTube Partner Channels Added To comScore Video Metrix for July 2011

With the July 2011 report, comScore has expanded their monthly video metrix, which tracks online video services and viewers, to include what they call "Select YouTube Partners" (see table below). What that sounds like to me is that they are NOT including all of the top partners, just a select few.

Despite Summer`s Arrival, 178 Million Watch an Average 16.8 Hours of Online Video in June

Hi everyone, hope your summer is going well. I know, it's a non-standard way to start an article talking about statistics, but I wanted to get off on the right foot. Also in that vein, I wanted to give you some information that I've received from comScore about their Video Metrix numbers, to sort of ...

May 2011 Nielsen vs. ComScore Online Video Numbers

It's time once again to take a look at the previous month's online video viewing numbers and statistics. This time, I waited until I got them from both the two major statistics firms, comScore and Nielsen, before writing anything up. It gives a clearer picture when you're able to compare the two. Not at all ...

Online Video Numbers Hold Steady for April, Except at AOL

comScore released the Video Metrix a bit late this month and I've been quite busy of late so I missed it. Well I got a nudge from Mark about it and so here we are. If you've been following the saga you know that there was a dip in February but a resounding rebound in ...

Majority of Agencies Plan to Shift Ad Dollars from TV to Online Video Advertising

We have long discussed the possibility that TV ad dollars will eventually shift to more interactive and engaging online video advertising and it seems that this might be the year we see a major move. In the Brightroll Video Advertising Report for Q1 2011, respondents said that they would shift almost 65% of ad money ...

Brightroll: Research & Reporting Key To Online Video Advertising Growth

Brightroll released the Q1 2011 Video Advertising Report this week and I already talked about part of it in one article (Targeting Tops Most Wanted List for Video Advertisers). However, there was so much good stuff in the tiny nine page report that it was quite possibly, bursting at the seams with juicy tidbits. So ...

Targeting Tops Most Wanted List for Video Advertisers

Brightroll just released their Q1 2011 Video Advertising report and I of course got my hands on it because well, we like them and sometimes they like us back... Anyway, I found this statistic rather interesting. It seems that this year in the survey what most video advertising clients (of agencies) want, is targeting capabilities. ...

Online Video Springs Back in March, 174M Viewers Watch 889 Minutes on Average

After the February fizzle in online video, March has seen the industry spring back to life with 174 million Americans raining down upon online video sites and viewing sessions blossoming to 5.7B while average viewing time saw a growth spurt to 889.1 minutes. Ahhh...spring is in the air, Play Ball!