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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, ...

Google Leads in Video Advertising, but Others Boast Similar, Sometimes Better Results

I was reading an article today at Mercury News about how Brightroll has been either neck-and-neck or, as we had reported earlier, outright beating Google in getting a sheer number of video ads to the public.  In the December 2012 Comscore results, Google was once ...

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations November 2012 - Brightroll Topples Google

Why yes, it was just two weeks ago that comScore released the September numbers now that you ask. Yet, here we are once again with my top five video advertising network recommendations. The major change in the chart this month is that Google is no ...

Digital Video Advertising Sees Massive Growth in UK, But Ad Agencies Need More Guidance [Study]

Brightroll did some research over in the UK to see how video advertising is getting on there and it seems that stiff upper lip mentality is working for them as things are really picking up. The second annual survey and report, the 2012 UK Video Advertising ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The LA Edition

I was out in LA this week and had a great time. I'm starting to really like that city, aside from the ridiculous driving times. Even though I wasn't really plugged into everything for the week, I did horde a pile of interesting news I ...

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations October 2012

So comScore was late this month with their Video Metrix numbers. They once told me that they only put out one press release a day so as "not to confuse the journalists," which I found sort of offensive. I also find the way they track ...

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations August 2012

Alright! If you've been reading for some time you know that when comScore does their Video Metrix, thing, I leap into action and do my video ad recommendation thing. Since I posted August 2012's numbers last week I wanted to give the numbers time to ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Football Edition!

Heck yeah! The leaves aren't falling but baseball is wrapping up (come on Brew Crew!) and now football has begun! So while you're drinking that early morning bloody mary, preparing for the big game, here's some news to keep you up to speed with the ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up

Another week is rapidly passing us by and once again I've collected all the news that didn't make it into an article here at ReelSEO. It's a diverse array of interesting stats, offerings and ideas.

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations July 2012

On Friday, I talked about the general online video numbers from comScore and, as always, I'm here to talk specifically about the online video advertising network numbers. This month's numbers are a bit weird because Brightroll was left out of them. Without them there were just ...

Record 11 Billion Video Ads in June: Top 5 Ad Network Recommendations

It's that time once again for me to piece together the comScore Video Metrix report numbers for June and compress them into my own personal algorithm to give you my thoughts on where you might want to put your video ads for the upcoming months. ...

Online Video Advertisers Can Connect with Audiences Through Metrics

Brightroll, this week, announced a new dashboard-based offering called AudienceConnect which gives in-flight audience measurement and optimization in a single place. It ties into Brightroll TAG, which is the Total Audience Guarantee, powered by comScore Campaign Essentials or Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings (OCR). Altogether, Brightroll is ...

Brightroll & Google Team Up for Video Advertising in Mobile Apps

Google and Brightroll today announced a new partnership that will see Brightroll pre-roll video advertising inventory being pulled into mobile apps through the AdMob SDK and the Brightroll AdMob Adapter. This makes Brightroll the first video advertising network to be integrated with the AdMob product.

Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March 2012

Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it's comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters. Did you know that 181 million Americans watched video online in March? Did you know that online video advertising impressions ...

Brightroll Expands Real-Time Exchange with New Features for Better Digital Video Ad Campaigns

Brightroll has announced three new tools that will be integrated into their real-time video ad exchange, BRX, to help digital video advertisers get more out of their campaigns and hopefully to move them towards purchasing more. “Buyer tools have become increasingly critical as advertiser spending ...

US Marketers See Big Opportunity for Online Video Advertising in Europe

comScore's recently published statistics for online video viewing and video ad exposure in the Europe reveals the biggest growth lies in video ad consumption in the UK  - 80% of online Brits saw an online video in January 2012: and of these 64 percent were ...