
AMSTERDAM – At the recent Super Mobility Conference in Las Vegas, ESPN and Hulu said their mobile video audience was expanding rapidly, and said having mobile video was a critical component of their business strategy.
With good reason; both have seen huge growth in the popularity of their programming on mobile platforms.
There's little point in spending money on advertising that people can't watch. Yet data from the US shows as much as half of all ads served are not viewable. Adap.tv's Mitch Waters explains why pre-bid data is needed to ensure advertisers are seen and heard.
Aussies are avid consumers of online video, even if we don't have many large local content providers. Here, aside from the 5 hours 21 minutes we each spend on YouTube, the biggest contributor to our video streaming habits is the ABC. We watch 2 hours 33 minutes of streamed content from the national broadcaster, a channel devoid of advertising, of course.
The simple mrec, the humble text ad, the 15s skippable...are they your media afterthought or your creative palette, ripe for innovation? Anyone who can rethink creative constraints and drum up inspiration in these tiny spaces gets my vote...and that of your audience.
Consumers today are no longer watching video on just one platform but instead they do that everywhere, and marketers need to be prepared. Here are 10 tips to help you succeed in the brave new world of video convergence.
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