adtech SF 2012: Integrated Video Planning by Frans Vermeulen
1. A few words about our report
• Data represents 45B video views and
nearly 28B video ad views in 2011
• Reflects professional, rights-managed
video aggregated across our customer set
2. Video ad volume continues to rise
Pre-rolls
+35% YOY
Mid-rolls
+146% YOY
Post-rolls
+122% YOY
Source: FreeWheel proprietary data
Q1 2010 Q2 2010 Q3 2010 Q4 2010 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011
Pre-roll Mid-roll Post-roll
7. To sum up
• Seeing more video ads in video content
• Approaching TV-like ad loads
• Aligning length of ad with length of content
• Consumers will watch through the ads
• Most professional video still watched on PCs
• Device fragmentation and instability
continues…
10. Sellers: innovation isn’t a format
• Your goal: generate revenue via ad
products that scale across environments
– You need: forecasting, booking, trafficking,
delivery, and reporting
– Buyers need: critical tracking metrics,
especially credit/currency and brand
effectiveness
11. Sellers: innovation isn’t a format
• So, what ad products should you offer?
– Atomic linear units (companions optional)
– Robust sponsorships and exclusives
– Storyboarding – creative sequencing
– Deploy unique, rich media units in your most
trafficked areas
• Develop only for broadly-adopted
environments, devices
13. Buyers: creativity isn’t a format
• Your goal: achieve campaign objectives,
demonstrate brand impact
– Reach, frequency, primacy of placement
– 3rd party deliver ad creative across platforms
and environments
– Report on critical tracking metrics, especially
credit/currency and brand effectiveness
14. Buyers: creativity isn’t a format
• So, what can you buy?
– Take advantage of storyboarding and creative
sequencing within and across a given video
– Frequency cap to protect the user experience
and prevent saturation
– Dynamically adjust creative sequencing based
on real-time performance inputs
– Request make-goods across linear and digital
platforms using audience targeting