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Are Your Video Ad Views User Initiated Or Automatic? SpotXchange Will Tell You

Here's something that we've needed in online video advertising analytics for a long time, the ability for the advertiser to know whether or not their ads are being played on user-initiation or automatically upon page load. Good old SpotXchange ('sup Otto!) have announced that they've ...

Super Bowl Ads Earned A Lot Of Money Just By Being Watched Online

What did we see with this year's Super Bowl ads getting a head start on YouTube?  Did making them available online before the Super Bowl make their $3.5 million investment a ridiculous waste of money, or did the ads find an amazing harmony in being ...

The Importance Of Online Video In Transmedia Campaigns - Starlight Runner's Jeff Gomez

When I was at CES I was lucky enough to sit down with the crew from Starlight Runner who are doing great things in 'transmedia' campaigns to help brands achieve a wider reach for their products and projects. While we didn't chat much about work ...

Connecting YouTube Artists, Celebrities, Advertisers & Brands: Big Frame

On a recent trip to LA, I had a chance to talk to Sarah Penna, the co-founder of Big Frame. Big Frame is a YouTube management company, working with online video talent to grow their careers. They have over 30 channels, collectively bringing in an ...

Jim Louderback On Cow Paths & Old Media Moving Online

Last month I shared part of my conversation with Jim Louderback. We covered a great number of video-related topics that day, including the comparison of the online video marketplace to cow paths (trust me, it makes total sense once you hear it) and how we ...

SHAZAM! Interactive Super Bowl Ads Drive Engagement

In my recent Hulu AdZone article I talked about how ads online needed to step back from the "here's the brand - now here's the call to action" format and make their ads more entertaining, like companies do during the Super Bowl. For a long ...

Proctor & Gamble Sneaks 2 Ads Into 1 For Post-Super Bowl Old Spice Goodness

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 ...

YuMe Reports Supports Cross-Platform Video Advertising Effectiveness

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: ...

How To Integrate Online Video Ads And TV Ads

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 ...

Streaming Super Bowl Ad CPM Higher Than TV Ads

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 ...

Content As Marketing - Video Advertising & Monetization With Machinima's Allen DeBevoise

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 ...

CES 2012: The Era Of Connected TV Advertising Begins

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 ...

Brainient Claims Interactive Video Ad Can Follow The Viewer Off Site

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 ...

Eyeview Raises Over $5 Million, Personalized Video Ads Will Be Your Future

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 ...

2012 Online Video Advertising Forecast - Industry Experts' Predictions

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 ...