Measuring the Effectiveness of Video Ad Campaigns [PODCAST]

Recent studies from key players in the world of ad tech tell quite different stories of how video ads seem to be performing, based on completion rates, viewability rates, clickthroughs and more.

Although the body of research on video ad metrics is still limited, the noisiness in the data is remarkable given how concrete some of these metrics are. Nevertheless, those who have followed the industry understand that many complicating factors are at play.

One such factor is that each company measures activity on its own platform, which is only a small sample of the broader universe. Lack of standards also has an effect. The digital video space seems to be a constant flux of formats, aspect ratios, ad lengths and determinants, such as whether ads autoplay or have to be initiated, and whether the sound should be on or off by default.

This lack of consensus, coupled with the fact that in many cases each publisher, platform and video ad measurement firm may approach video ad measurement in slightly different ways, with slightly different data sets, also make it near impossible to uncover any universal metric for success.

What is certain is that YouTube and Facebook are the pillars of digital video advertising, with most practitioners using both rather than choosing one or the other. If anything, the question is how to combine each of those platforms with TV, not how to play them against each other.

In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” eMarketer analysts Paul Verna and Lauren Fisher discuss digital video advertising effectiveness, and what that effectiveness looks like across different platforms. This episode is made possible by Criteo.

 

 

 

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