
YouTube’s new TrueView for Reach option makes bumper assets skippable
On Monday, Google’s YouTube introduced a new skippable option for short-form branding ads called TrueView for Reach. TrueView for Reach...

How to turn video into sales: SMX West recap
Cory Henke, Variable Media, presents on video advertising at SMX West 2018. Video advertising budgets have been growing as ad formats and...

YouTube updates gun content policies to ban videos promoting sale or manufacture of firearms, access
YouTube is updating its restrictions on gun-related content, prohibiting videos that aim to sell firearms and firearm accessories via...

Google announces third-party measurement expansions with MRC, Nielsen, comScore
Google’s Matt Brittin and Sridhar Ramaswamy at Advertising Week Europe 2018 Google’s SVP of Ads and Commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy and Matt...

YouTube creators no longer need extra streaming software to film live broadcasts from their desktop
Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com YouTube is making it easier for creators to film a livestream using their desktop by adding a “Go Live”...

Google expanding YouTube Director onsite video ad service to more than 170 cities
First offered last year to advertisers in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., YouTube Director...

Bringing search intent to video: Google extends custom intent audiences to YouTube, launches TrueVie
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Google unveiled two features designed to improve direct-response advertising performance on YouTube —...

YouTube Studio moving out of beta with 3 new metrics & redesigned dashboard
After limiting the amount of analytics in its demographic data report last week, YouTube announced it is giving creators three new...

Pew report: 74% of Facebook users visit the site daily & 51% go several times a day
Pew Research has released a new report summarizing social media usage and found, of the 68 percent of Americans using Facebook, 74...

YouTube rolls out new chat replay, automatic captions & more for live streaming videos
After taking away a demographic data from creators last week, YouTube is giving something back and expanding its list of features for...

YouTube removes analytics from its demographic data reports for creators
With the latest round of updates to its Demographic Data report, YouTube is limiting the amount of data it shows creators. Going forward,...

Over a year out from P&G’s ultimatum: Are brands any safer? Is programmatic ad buying any more
threw down a gauntlet. Frustrated by increasing instances of frauds, breaches, sloppy executions and potentially shady markups, Pritchard...

Vimeo’s live simulcasting to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Periscope comes with a catch
Vimeo wants creators to broadcast more live videos on its service. But first, it needs to convince creators why they should fork over at...

Kardashian & Jenner sisters take Calvin Klein’s #MYCALVINS ad to top of Youtube’s J
Image still from Calvin Klein’s Our Family. MYCALVINS# ad Calvin Klein climbed to the top of YouTube’s January ad leaderboard with its...

A final call? Unilever threatens to pull ads from platforms swamped with ‘toxic’ content
Consumer packaged goods maker Unilever, an advertising force with a $9.8 billion annual marketing budget, is ringing the alarm bells that...

Who won the Super Bowl ad game? The spots that generated the most buzz across YouTube, social &
This year’s Super Bowl saw over 40 brands pay more than $5 million dollars each for ad time during the big game. There were the usual...

Pixability guarantees YouTube brand safety for advertisers
Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock.com In response to repeated brand safety flare ups on YouTube over the past year, Pixability has...

Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, els
In Snap’s latest earnings report released earlier this week, Snapchat’s parent company showed signs that it’s been able to withstand the...

Everything a CMO needs to know about video marketing in 2018
Video marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools online right now, and it gets more popular every day. To boost your online...
























