{4/18} This Week In Digital Advertising
- Exploring YouTube Advertising Offerings: YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web and processes more than 3 billion searches a month. With the expansion of YouTube TV and other platforms it can be difficult to know which advertising option to select. According to fresh Nielsen data, more than half of 18- to 49-year-olds in the U.S. are either light viewers of TV or do not subscribe to TV; but over 90 percent of these people watch YouTube. If you have never run ads on YouTube before it could be a good time to try and reach your potential customers in a different way. Let’s get into the different types of ads that are available to run. The first is Display Ads appear to the right of the feature video, and above the video suggestions list. Overlay Ads are semi-transparent overlays which appear on the lower portion of the video a user is watching. Skippable video ads allow viewers to skip ads after 5 seconds. Bumper Ads are non-skippable video ads of up to 6 seconds in length. Non-skippable video ads must be watched to completion before the desired video can be viewed. Finally, sponsored cards display content that may be relevant to the viewers’ video, such as products featured in the video. If you would like additional information and stats read more at social media today.
- Facebook Launches New Safety Controls: The social media giant has been under pressure to update their brand safety policies and they have followed suite. Over the next few weeks, Facebook has announced that they will be updated ad filters for advertisers. This is an effort to give advertisers better access to where brand ads are placed and address safety concerns. Advertisers will now be able to choose from these three options:
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- Limited inventory offers maximum protection, similar to the opt-in category exclusions available today
- Standard inventory provides moderate protection and is the default choice when placing ads. This is the same as no category exclusions today.
- Full inventory selects minimal protection and ads may be delivered to all eligible content.
If you are an advertiser and want to learn more visit Facebook’s blog announcement.
