
Back to Basics: Maximize your YouTube advertising
Advertisers are expected to spend just shy of $30 billion on online video this year – an increase of nearly 28 percent year-over-year,...

YouTube ad campaigns target ‘TV screens’ by default, coming to AdWords API in Jan.
API availability January 8. The AdWords API capabilities for TV targeting will be available as of January 8. With the API, “ConnectedTV”...

YouTube crowns Amazon with top ad, OMD as top media agency of 2018
Amazon made it to the top of YouTube’s year-end ad leaderboard with its “Alexa Loses Her Voice” Super Bowl spot. Posted on YouTube on...

Facebook expands Ad Breaks to 14 more countries, launches Watch globally on desktop
Facebook announced Thursday it is rolling out Ad Breaks to 14 more markets, bringing the total number of countries with access to the...

YouTube sunsetting call-to-action overlays in favor of new ad extension
Starting in January, YouTube will phase out the call-to-action overlays that have been around since 2009. In its place will come a new ad...

Groupon voted top YouTube 6-second bumper ad of the year
A six-second Groupon spot featuring actress Tiffany Haddish was voted the best YouTube bumper ad of 2018. YouTube, in partnership with...

Hulu launches new private marketplace for its OTT ad inventory
Hulu is opening up its sought-after video inventory to programmatic buyers with a new private marketplace that will launch Jan. 1. How...

Grammarly tops YouTube’s TrueView for Action 2018 leaderboard
YouTube has released the top ten TrueView for Action ads in 2018, with Grammarly’s “Enhance Your Writing” 60-second spot coming in at the...

Facebook missteps highlight what happens when you can’t trust platform metrics
Facebook has a history of miscalculating video ad metrics. In 2016, the company admitted it had been overstating the average duration of...

YouTube launches Stories feature for creators with 10K subscribers
YouTube has launched its own version of Stories, giving creators with 10,000 or more subscribers access to the new content feature. First...

YouTube has started testing ‘ad pods’: 2 skippable ads delivered back-to-back
How YouTube’s ad pod experience will display on a mobile device. YouTube announced on Wednesday a new “ad pod” delivery experience that...

IAB Tech Lab releases final version of VAST 4.1 that incorporates ‘unprecedented’ level
Amit Shetty, senior product director of video & audio of the IAB Tech Lab, made the announcement The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)...

YouTube cracks down on duplicate content videos
YouTube quietly announced in its help forums that it has begun cracking down on YouTube channels that take already-produced videos and...

Estimate: Video now 25 percent of all US digital advertising, Facebook the top site
According to eMarketer’s newest forecast, online video ad spending in the U.S. will reach $27.8 billion. Accordingly, it will constitute...

Reddit surpasses 1 billion monthly video views
A year since launching native video, Reddit reports it is seeing more than a billion video views per month on average. The platform says...

YouTube rolls out more ad extensions, incremental lift measurement
YouTube advertisers will soon have new extensions options for their ads and enhanced brand lift measurement opportunities. Why you should...

YouTube gives more creators option to monetize channels
YouTube is dropping the number of required subscribers for access to Channel Memberships to 50,000, a reversal from the 100,000...

Report: Connected TV impressions have grown 106% since 2016
For decades marketers have dreamed of “addressable TV,” with ads that could be customized or targeted to specific groups. While there...

YouTube to end Director onsite services on October 31
YouTube is retiring its Director onsite services as of October 31 and has stopped accepting any new video ad production projects. First...
























