pre-roll

Nielsen recently tackled a question that many advertisers have regarding video advertising.  How much does the ad benefit me (if at all) if the person skips it after a few seconds?  The answer, their research shows, is…a lot!The study found significant lift in ad recall, brand awareness and purchase consideration even for people who saw the video before it started playing but didn’t watch any of it

If you are doing a video pre-roll campaign, there are a lot of metrics you can measure, but which are the most important? Impressions? Click-Through-Rates? Completion Rates? A study done by Vindico clearly demonstrated that what counts for video ad campaigns are Completion Rates, saying,“Click Through Rate is the King of False Positives”The report goes on to explain that the value of viewers who watch your ads to completion (view 100% of your video ad) are much higher than that of viewers who click the ad.  Why?  How do they know?The study found that a user who arrives at your website by clicking on the ad, rarely goes beyond that landing page before leaving