Sunday 11 May 2014

Youtube Upgrades Trueview Video Ads

By Hajj Isa


YouTube video advertising system has been available since 2010, and while it has always been an efficient and effective way of generating targeted, opt-in views for video advertisements, the user interface and targeting options have, until recently, been a little confusing for many advertisers. That's why, on April 15th, Google updated the system to offer better and more flexible targeting options.



Before the rollout, Google made some small improvements to the system, such as removing in-slate ads from videos that were greater than ten minutes in length. As part of the TrueView rollout it reduced the number of ad formats that it offered to just two, merging the TrueView in-search ad option with its other old thumbnail ad option.

Under the new ad system, there are just two kinds of ads - TrueView in-stream and TrueView in-display. The old in-search ads are considered to be a part of in-display, and will use the same creative assets. All advertisers have to do is tell Google where they want the ad to run, and what targeting options they want to use for it. Ads can be managed at the campaign level, so setting up multiple advertisements is not a lot of work.

Changes will be made to a range of factors when it comes to the TrueView ads. Audiences will be targeted through changing settings in the form of keywords, interest, topic, remarketing lists, and demographics. All of these changes will ensure advertisers will be able to gain more from their placed advertisements than ever before.

This change will come in April and should lead to quality results in the short and long-term. The change will not be made all in one shot. It is going to come in a two-pronged approach. TrueView Ads will be first changed in April and then the final system will be implemented in the middle of May. The old system will become obsolete after this date for ads that were already in the system.




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