Video advertising software and insights leader Pixability announced the launch of PixabilityONE, a first-of-its-kind software platform powered by data science, used for running campaigns across the premier video advertising destinations, all in one place. Those destinations include YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Connected TV platforms like Amazon. The PixabilityONE platform can be used by brands and […]
The human brain needs less than half a second to engage with a mobile ad to create its own positive or negative impression, according to research from the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). This means marketers need to think fast and create mobile ads made for maximum instant impact. MMA’s Cognition Neuroscience Research project was conducted in collaboration […]
Tappx has partnered with Pixalate in order to offer advanced invalid traffic (“IVT”) detection technology for its over-the-top (OTT) services. The global Tappx solutions, which will be enhanced by Pixalate technology, includes ‘Ad-Replacement’ services for digital TV, ‘Dynamic Ad Insertions’ (DAI), digital TV ad time slot detection and insertion of programmatic video ads, and ‘Addressable […]
Mobile advertising platform, AdColony, has partnered with Unilever to run interactive mobile video campaigns for the first time in the Middle East. For the first time in digital advertising, the company claims, Aurora gives brands the chance to measure the attention of the users. Since users are engaging with the video while the video is […]
Facebook has announced that its Stories platform has 150 million daily active users, and that it’ll begin testing ads on Stories in the US, Mexico and Brazil. The video ads are 5 to 15 seconds long, and users have the option to skip them. Facebook can automatically reformat ads on the News Feed with borders […]
Snapchat viewers are seeing a new type of ad—ones they have to watch. On Monday, the first forced-view ads, meaning they can’t be skipped, started popping up on the app, promoting movies like “Deadpool” and “Adrift” and products such as Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and Snapple. After basing its initial ad business on an entirely voluntary […]
Ad skipping is a global behaviour on video content, though skippable ads still hold significant value for advertisers, according to research from IPG Mediabrands’ MAGNA and IPG Media Lab. The study of 20,000 consumers around the world found that both the UK and Canada have a skip rate of 52 per cent compared to a […]
According to 62% of marketers surveyed by the Chief Marketing Officer Council, reports about false and faulty metrics have caused them to pull back on spend. While 38% have started to question advertising rates, 24% have already reduced spend with Facebook and Google. In fact, negative headlines about Facebook and Google has had a knock-on […]
In its quest to turn a profit, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. is looking for more ways to generate revenue while preventing users from defecting to other platforms. But Snapchat users may have to endure more ads in the process — and soon those ads will be ones that can’t be skipped. Snapchat will start […]
Twitter experienced healthy growth during the last 12 months, largely driven by the maturation of its video ad suite, with the company posting Q1 revenues of $665m, up 21% year-over-year. Ad revenue for the period was up 21% year-over-year hitting $575m with total ad engagements also up 69% although its cost per engagement fell 28%. […]