Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 30, 2012
As sight sound motion expands to a seemingly endless array of emerging platforms, the challenge of defining engagement in a way that pleases all video buyers remains profound. According to the recent State of the Video Industry Report, the biggest surprise in cross-platform growth was connected TVs – up 20 percent from 2011. Furthermore, 39 percent of buyers say they will add smart TVs to their media plan within 12 months.
Categories: View Points || Posted on: April 26, 2012
Ever notice that, except for the Jonas Brothers, the best things come in groups of three?
Three is a magic number, particularly when it comes to effective planning for online video, which is seldom one-dimensional. Rather, a successful video campaign is the culmination of three distinct components, each working independently to support the collective. In their most familiar and compartmentalized terms, those three distinct components are: 1) Precision at Scale 2) Engagement; and 3) Measurement.
As a part of our ongoing efforts here at Adap.tv to make online video advertising a more efficient and successful place, here’s what we’ve learned about each one:
Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 26, 2012
Our 2012 Q1 State of the Online Industry Report pulled together the most important facts and statistics revealing the future of online video advertising.
You can now download the top-line results in infographic form:
Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 25, 2012
As TV and video continue to come together, the glaring void in completing the loop is unified metrics. Two-thirds (64%) of agencies and brands surveyed in the State of the Video Industry Report, feel it’s of key importance to the growth of our industry. Another signal that demand for “TVideo” metrics is growing?
Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 23, 2012
A few years ago, video advertising was just another direct response tactic. My how far we have come in just eighteen months. Agencies and brands have spoken regarding their primary campaign objective for video: it’s brand engagement, by an increasing margin.
Categories: Industry News || Posted on: April 20, 2012
Our European MD, Brian Fitzpatrick, explains how programmatic buying is revolutionizing video ad trading. In the second part of a two-part interview, Brian gives a refreshingly balanced overview of the problems automated trading does and doesn’t solve for the video advertising industry.
Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 18, 2012
Given the choice of with which medium online video should be most aligned – TV, online display or “other,” the majority of brands, agency, ad networks and DSPs surveyed, chose TV over display. An 11 percent minority is still unsure whether online video represents a new medium entirely, but even fewer respondents suggested that online video might be a replacement for TV.
Nearly two thirds of respondents across the industry (62 percent) said that their use of online video is more likely to be a complement to TV rather than a replacement for TV (10 percent), and respondents to the latter have diminished from last Fall’s query. Some 28 percent say the medium is “neither” a complement nor a replacement, implying that it stands alone.
Categories: Data Trends || Posted on: April 17, 2012
Yesterday we presented the State of the Video Industry Report in conjunction with Digiday and not surprisingly, industry optimism is healthy. 96% of video buyers we surveyed estimate that their 2012 video ad budgets will increase by at least 23%. On the flip-side, publishers are also bullish at the forecast, as they should be. The majority of them (80%) told us that their CPMs had increased an average of 11% from 2011 and fill-rates are up 14%.
Categories: Industry News || Posted on: April 13, 2012
Adap.tv’s Managing Director of Europe discusses the opportunities and challenges to achieving scale across the European video ad market.
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