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Record 10 Billion Video Ads Served in May, Where Should You Place Yours?

Starting this month, we're going to separate the comScore industry-wide online video viewing estimates for May and the video advertising numbers and recommendations by yours truly. It's a good month to do it since we've topped a record of over 10 billion online video ads served ...

A Comprehensive List of Online Video Ad Types and Formats, Pros and Cons

The online video advertising offerings continue to expand and I thought I would go through the whole list of them and give some of my thoughts on the pros and cons of each. I won't go too deeply into specific products from ad networks, just ...

Southern Comfort Takes a Swig of Crowdsourced Video for Latest Ad Campaign

Southern Comfort has a few ads out right now starring the "Lingo Cops," done in that 70's cop show style.  In it, the Cops are "investigating" what it means when people say, "SoCoLa" in bars, and trying to put an end to it, because hey, ...

An Example of a Perfectly Executed Pre-Roll Video Ad

Most pre-roll advertisements seem to be web counterparts of ads that are made for TV or are so generic they fail to grab my attention. Some of those ads may work for TV, but not for the web. Like most online viewers, my finger hovers ...

The Online Video Weekly News Roundup - The Wow I'm Tired Edition

Wow, E3 week in LA was fantastic. Loads of awesome games, lots of hot babes and tons of great acquaintances new and old. Now it's time to get back into the work flow of a more stable and regular office hour deal. I need to ...

Video Ad Industry Lacks Common Currency, Let's Build an Effective View Value Metric

How much is a video advertisement view worth? Do we really know? It's hard to put a price on something when we can't even agree on what a view really is. Is it, as some say, just 3 seconds of video streaming to a player? ...

The Top 20 Global Online Video Ad Campaigns For May 2012

The supposed ‘Summer of Sport’ has not yet begun, but already brands are seizing on the opportunity to amplify their presence online. Three of the top 10 ads in May’s Global Ads Chart, powered by social video platform Unruly, revolve around the upcoming London Summer ...

Online Video Advertising Adapts to the TV Advertising Game

It's that time of the year again, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and advertising are writing checks. Wait, what? Yes folks, it's TV upfront season, that time when the broadcasters show off what they've got in terms of content for placing ads ...

Google Help Desk Hangout On Air This Week: AdWords for Video

If you are trying to get the most out of your online video marketing and advertising campaigns and are using Google Adwords then you need to set some time aside later today for the Google Hangout On Air which is set to be all about ...

Obama and Romney Missing Out on Online Video Voter Gold? Here's 5 Video Tips for the Presidential Campaigns

Nielsen put out a report last week that talked about presidential candidates and how they preferred TV for their advertising. That got me to thinking, with 178-180 million Americans watching online video, they might be missing the target audience. Nielsen reports that major presidential candidates ...

Adap.tv Adapts to App Mentality with Awesome New App Center for Online Video Ad Buyers

Adap.tv has been, in my personalized video ad network rankings system, in third place for some time. However, that ranking really just looks at reach and frequency based on comScore monthly Video Metrix numbers. It doesn't take into account other things. If it ever comes ...

Break into Primetime with Adobe's New Integrated Video Platform

So, as I previously mentioned, I chatted with Adobe about their Project Primetime and its new features which they've just unveiled. Ashley Still, director of product management for video solutions at Adobe (whew!) talked with me about what is coming to Primetime, what it's all ...

April is Another Record-Breaking Month for Video Advertising: 9.5 Billion Online Video Ads Served

Holy mackerel! That's a whole lotta online video ads man! In fact, it's actually 20% of all videos viewed online roughly. That is if you remember that those ads are actually intersecting pieces of video content which then gets tallied as multiple videos by comScore. ...

Online Video Advertising Immune to Seasonal Fluctuations? [Research]

Another interesting piece of the Recent FreeWheel Video Monetization Report for Q1 2012 was the number of ads viewed in the quarter. Generally, after the major shopping season (read the holidays) winds down a lot of industries will move toward a slump of inactivity. But ...

The Rise of Mid-Roll Means Good Things for Video Advertising

I was just perusing a report from FreeWheel that pertains to online video monetization for Q1 2012 and there were some surprising things in it. For example, mid-roll video ad placements are on the rise, but mostly due to more long form video content being ...