With video playing such an important role on the Internet in 2013, is your company leveraging video as a form of advertising? Billboard has started using video views to account for the top 100 singles. That means that song in a viral video could start to climb the charts. We all remember "What Does the Fox Say" or "The Harlem Shake" each received millions of views, got themselves onto the billboard charts and earned tons of money through video advertising. Of course the companies doing the video advertising were definitely the real winners.
The Impact of Online Video Advertising
According to a study conducted by Nielsen, online video ads have a greater impact than TV ads and they are better at finding the hardest-to-reach audiences.
Two key findings:
Younger TV viewers, the coveted 18-34 demo, continue to grow their time spent with online video.
Online video ads score higher impact than TV ads on Nielsen measured metrics. Metrics are general recall, brand recall, message recall and ad likeability.
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Advertisers can use the dynamic Google Adwords PPC platform to place video ads on YouTube and the Google Display Network. AdWords for video is a video-specific campaign management tool within AdWords. With TrueView cost-per-view ads, you only pay when a viewer actively selects your video, or chooses to continue watching a video when it first loads.
Video content for TrueView ads is hosted on YouTube. Google recently added a new video ad performance measure, Earned Actions, that reports how many people liked your video, stayed on your YouTube channel to watch more videos, subscribed to your channel, added your video to a playlist, or shared your video after watching the ad.
If you aren't going to be the next big viral sensation, then why not advertise on the next big viral sensations video. It's a great way to be seen by your target market. But, that all depends on what your target market is.
