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Ad Serving Made Simple and Scalable: Extreme Reach Makes It So [Interview]

Getting your ad on all the devices out there can be hard. Scaling and measuring it can be even harder. We talked to Chip Scully, the VP of Online Video Advertising at Extreme Reach and got some insights on how they make it easy for their clients.

YouTube TrueView Ads Provide Honda Dealer 12x ROI [Case Study]

Richard Bustillo helped Rick Case Honda double their monthly trade-ins, gaining a 12x ROI. How did he do it? By using YouTube TrueView ads. Rick Case Honda was now earning an incremental $50,000+ for online videos that cost $0.20 - $0.30 per view. This is how he did it.

Internet Reacts To New Domino's Pizza Video Ad, Hilarity Ensues

Domino's Pizza Japan have launched a new iPhone app for customers and used their President to front a video campaign about it. The result is as corporate, cringeworthy and awkward as you would imagine but it's getting the exposure that the company needs......

The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns For February 2013: David Beckham, Google Glass, Super Bowl

The top 20 social video ads chart for February 2013, powered by Unruly, is--no surprise--dominated by Super Bowl ads. But a few others sneaked in there too, including ones featuring David Beckham, Google Glass, and the recently-announced Playstation 4.

Video Advertising Continues To Break New Ground in Canada [Report]

A new report shows us how Canadians are reacting to online video advertisements and how those ads are being carefully targeted to specific age groups, gender and location within that country. We learn that Connected TVs are very popular indeed.

How Long Should a Video Be? Long Enough to Reach a Point

How long should a video be? Well, that reminds me of a story.  Last week, I spoke at SES London 2013 at a conference session entitled, "Keys to Success with B2B Video" and during a ClickZ express clinic entitled, Optimising Video for Maximum Visibility.” I ...

Digital-Originated Ad Revenue to Increase 70% in 2013 [Report]

Revenue in online-originated content is expected to jump a fantastic 70% in 2013, or $2 billion in revenue, a big jump from 2010's $350 million. There will be an overall decline in spending of 2% across all media, but online ads will be more plentiful than before.

Video Ad Loads and Completion Saw Record Increases in 2012 [Study]

According to a new study by Freewheel, which just released their Video Monetization Report for Q4 and all of 2012, we're not only being subjected to more ads than we did a year ago, but we're also watching more of the ads.  Now, that might ...

The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns For January 2013: Hungry Hippos, Grizzly Bears, & Piranhas

The year is still young, but one month into 2013, the Unruly Viral Video Chart has already seen some impressive new ads. While there are some tough old veterans clinging on, the most shared ads of January are mostly fresh-faced new ads, making their mark on the ad world.

Top 10 YouTube Ads for January 2013: As Chosen By You

Although 60% of YouTube's in-stream ads are skippable, some of the very best are so captivating that users will stick around for the entire commercial. The brand new January 2013 YouTube Ads Leaderboard lists those ads that attracted the most views in terms of "promotion (paid ads) ...

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 ...

2012 Video Metrix Shows Viewing Stagnant, Exploding Video Advertising

Since I went through all the trouble of making a set of cool charts and graphs to track the whole year of comScore's Video Metrix for 2012, I thought I would also take the time to do a bit of post-year analysis. While there were ...

SpotX Survival Guide Takes on Video Ad Units, Standards & Measurement

SpotXchange is ringing in the new year with chapter 5 of their digital video survival guide. You might remember a couple weeks ago when they put out chapter 4 about what to offer as a buyer or seller of online video ads. Today, it's all ...

To Make Brands Unignorable - John St. Videos Ignore the Status Quo

Award winning Toronto based digital agency John St. have come up with some of our favorite viral video ad campaigns over the years. They've produced great campaigns including "Rethink Breast Cancer: Your Man Reminder," a swan song social media campaign for Canadian mass merchandiser Zeller's, ...

How to Use 15-Second vs. 30-Second Pre-Roll Video Ads for Ecommerce Retargeting

Similar to television advertising, the most effective lengths for in-stream online video ads are 15 and 30-second spots. However, the advantage online video advertising has over TV is that it can be delivered in the form of a pre-roll video ad targeted and personally relevant ...