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Here's a tremendous way to get your ad money's worth: stick two products into one ad and continue the insane branded insanity of some of the most popular commercials in the world. Old Spice is known for Old Spice Man and the non sequitur commercials we all enjoy, but another, even crazier ad campaign is ...
There have been several reports talking about increased effectiveness of ad campaigns when they go cross platform. Some have included TV, print and other media as well as online. As Daisy Whitney mentioned yesterday, YuMe and Nielsen teamed up on a new whitepaper, Dual-Platform Campaigns: Using Online Video to Enhance the Reach and Performance of TV, ...
What do you get when you combine a $500,000 online video buy with a $2.6 million TV campaign? A 14% percent boost in reach, an 18% jump in frequency and an 11% reduction in the cost of the impressions. Or so says YuMe, the online video network that partnered with Nielsen to study effectiveness of ...
According to Mediapost, streaming video ads for the Super Bowl XLVI videocast will be more than the average TV-based Super Bowl ad, around 1.5 times as much. What does that say about the importance and maturity of online video advertising? I think it might be saying "we have arrived." Then again it could be saying, ...
During my recent tour of Machinima, I got a chance to talk to a lot of great people, including company CEO Allen DeBevoise. One of the topics we spent some time discussing is video advertising and video monetization--how Machinima makes money from their videos and how the future of "content as marketing" is very bright ...
At CES 2012, Connected TV was the star of the show, as I thought it would be, and so here's why you should be looking to expand your content into a connected TV friendly format and start looking at connected TV advertising as well. With the massive expansion of connected TV this year at CES, ...
It seems like every day I wake up, I'm reading about an ad company that had a very good 2011, has taken their company through another round of investing, and getting support from all sorts of venture capital. UK-based Brainient has just raised $1.8 million for their company, which specializes in interactive video advertising and ...
Advertisers' main goal in online video is getting a relevant ad to the right kind of video so that the audience is more likely to watch it. Another goal is to make an ad that can be shown all over the country (or world) but have specific information exclusive to each city. The way an ...
At the same time I sent out my questions about how 2011 went down for online video advertising I also asked the industry luminaries what they thought would be big in 2012. Across the board in both video and ads I think that politics will be a major factor, after all, it's a quick, easy ...
I polled the big brains in the industry to get their thoughts on how 2011 went down with regard to online video advertising, what they thought went as expected and what came out of the blue, what trends were strong and what will continue going on into 2012. Of course, if you subscribe to the ...
Interactive video ads was something I thought we would see a lot of in 2011 and, we did, just not up to the level I had expected. The major difference, to me, between TV ads and online is the interactivity that is possible and the different demographic and yet, so many advertisers don't take advantage ...
Google TV looks to be on the verge of creating an app marketplace specifically for video channels much like Boxee and Roku have. In a recently updated patent (20110321072) they describe a system that, "...allows content providers to create channels of video content and make them available to users in a marketplace. Users can search ...
Miss America is doing something a little different this year, and it involves online video. This time, all 53 Miss America contestants have a YouTube video showing off their skills, knowledge, and beauty, and they invite people to vote at the end of them. Voting will count towards selecting the finalists. And, like always, these ...
Last week, Advertising Age published a piece about the growth of YouTube in Brazil. It's a stunning and rapid growth, and one that's getting the attention of advertisers from around the world. Combined with the recent moves in that market from Poptent and Netflix, it's just one more piece of evidence that there's a video ...
Some interesting information that was sent to me recently pertains to how favorable online game players are toward sponsored videos so that they can continue to play a game for free. Then again, the study was done by SponsorPay and they are a provider of that sort of video advertising service so, you'll need a ...
