Google TrueView: The Beatings Will Continue Until Buyer Morale Improves
Google’s protestations about TrueView’s media quality aside, two questions remain: Why is any of this happening, and why is change unlikely in the short term?
Google’s protestations about TrueView’s media quality aside, two questions remain: Why is any of this happening, and why is change unlikely in the short term?
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Discrepancies across the various attempts to quantify the issue with YouTube TrueView have just raised more questions about measurement failures.
Outstream ads, better instream ad targeting and more interactive user interfaces are just a few of the latest developments making it easier for viewers to discover new content and for advertisers to provide content recommendations.
Ad industry veteran and event stage mainstay Amanda Martin is taking on a new role as Mediavine’s SVP of partnerships and business strategy. Martin will be moving from the buy side to the sell side after a nearly eight-year stint at ad agency Goodway Group.
With cookies (finally) cooling off, contextual targeting tech is starting to heat up. On Tuesday, ShowHeroes Group, a video and contextual targeting tech provider based in Europe, announced its acquisition of cross-screen ad platform smartclip LATAM (as in Latin America). The rationale behind the deal is to help ShowHeroes Group bring its solution to the […]
As Facebook grabs more mobile and video dollars from the ecosystem, premium publishers are looking for viable ways to compete. For storied publisher Time Inc., one solution is to bring its own mobile-optimized video solutions to market. Using Google’s native framework, Time created a mobile, in-feed video solution dubbed Adapt that is customized to its […]
Publishers are under pressure to scale and monetize, but those business realities can dampen audience experience. When Slate’s president, Keith Hernandez, called out janky links from content recommendation engines earlier this week, he noted that while they drive revenue, it’s often at the expense of quality. Hernandez, who started at Slate a year ago after […]
There’s no point in being a me-too solution. That notion is what prompted ConvertMedia to evolve itself from a display network to a supply-side platform focused on outstream video about two years ago. It was also a main driver behind ConvertMedia’s decision to sell to content rec engine Taboola this summer. Once the ink was […]
Upscale Las Vegas hotel Aria Resort & Casino wanted to draw a clearer correlation between viewability and video completions, two metrics sometimes at odds for advertisers. And as mobile video became more substantive in its media mix, it also needed to crack the creative demands of smaller screen sizes. When Aria set out two years […]