Media Trial: The Art Of The Takeover

MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, in partnership with Twitter today announced the results of a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as well as guidelines for utilizing takeovers across in-feed video and website platforms.

As websites and media properties’ offerings become more uniform, an advertiser’s ROI becomes more important to achieve sales figures. The report breaks down key differences in effectiveness between First View (Promoted Video at the top of the timeline) and “standard view” (Promoted Video throughout the timeline). Additionally, the study details how in-feed video ads located strategically at the top of the feed are twice as likely to be retained compared to similarly placed takeover ads on a website.

Key Highlights Include:

  • In a social environment, takeovers (ads at top of the feed) work harder than ads lower down.
    • With its premium location, takeovers excel at building brand awareness, likely because they are on screen an average of 50% more than ads lower in the feed.
  • Takeovers outperform in social environments.
    • Social takeovers are two times more memorable than similarly placed ads in a website takeover, likely because ads in a social environment feel more relevant and less intrusive to the user.
  • While shorter ads (GIFs and :06 seconds) feel most appropriate in a social environment, use :15+ second takeover ads to increase awareness of new products.

 

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Media Trial Report: Context And Device Key To Effectiveness For Outstream Video Ads

Yume, Magna, The IPG Media Lab Conduct Comprehensive Study On The Impact Of Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll And Outstream Ad Video Formats

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Much of our past video research has been conducted on pre-roll, but we now have more video ad format options than ever. Viewability and inventory issues have also led to new tactics, such as outstream or in-read video.

In order to provide our clients with scientific evidence on how each format should be leveraged, we partnered with YuMe on a comprehensive media trial accounted for not only a wide-array of video formats but also 12 ad strategies, such as contextual relevance, ad length, creative type, and more.

The resulting report, titled Ad Format (R)evolution, reveals key areas for digital growth, including the user experience across video ad formats and devices, performance against brand KPIs, and strategy optimization.

Key findings include:

• Our old video standard, unskippable pre-roll, still holds its weight. Despite being less intrusive than mid-roll and outstream, it achieves the greatest break-through (ad recall).
• Consumers tend to give mid-roll a pass. It feels most intrusive, but consumers find it less annoying than the newer outstream formats.
• Social video offers a unique environment on mobile, allowing ads to feel the most integrated with the content.
• Outstream appears to miss out on the novelty effect we often see with new ad products. However, outstream is rated much more positively among those who complete it, indicating good targeting is key.

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Media Trial Report: MAGNA and IPG Media Lab Turbocharge Skippable Pre-Roll Campaign

MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, its creative technology arm, today announced the results of a scientific media trial that analyzed audience behaviors around ad skipping and identified critical steps to help advertisers maximize the impact of their skippable video ad campaigns.

The report, entitled Turbo Charging Your Skippable Pre-Roll Campaign, used experimental design to replicate online video experiences in order to measure attention, emotional response, and impact on traditional brand metrics for skippable pre-roll ads. The study involved over 11,000 consumers and 23 types of ads along 8 different industry verticals to reach widespread conclusions for the advertising industry as a whole.

 

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IPG Media Lab + Twitter Release Beyond Completion Rates: How Social Video Works

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IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, partnering with Twitter today announced the results of a quantitative media trial examining the effectiveness of video within a social media feed. The resulting report, Beyond Completion Rates: How Social Video Works, details how in-feed, auto-play video measures up against similarly skippable pre-roll videos on premium, non-feed based sites. The study looked at the impact ad environments on brand metrics including recall, perception of relevance, and brand favorability.

Key Highlights Include:

  • The unique environment of social feeds, where content is personal and self-curated, has an impact on how video ads are perceived, specifically, as more “relevant to [consumers’] interests” and “less intrusive”
  • The same video ad is nearly twice as memorable in a social video feed compared to a similarly skippable video format on premium sites and is a stronger driver of brand favorability
  • Enticing consumers to watch the full video allows skippable pre-roll to perform much better than when skipped at some point after five seconds
  • Branding elements that appear directly above social videos before the “viewability timer” starts ticking allow for strong branding at low levels of “time in view” for the video itself
  • Strong evidence was found that advertisers should be adapting ads for feed environments. For example:
    • Providing heavier, early branding can help drive awareness at lower levels of viewability
    • Getting to the point by providing the most important information in the ad up front as opposed to spread across the full 15 seconds makes ads much more persuasive

 

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YuMe and IPG Media Lab Evaluate the Impact of Digital Video Ad Lengths

Research Test Ads Provide Insights Regarding What Ad Lengths Work Best Across Device and Location

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Shifts in the way people consume video content are changing how marketers strategize about video advertising. Increased consumption of snack-sized content, for example, has made shorter video ad formats more popular. Concurrently, longer video ad formats have become increasingly prevalent as marketers start to invest in custom content created for digital platforms. While marketers are clearly experimenting with new video ad lengths, they are faced with increasing complexity about what works most effectively.

To help address these questions, today, YuMe, Inc., the global audience technology company powered by data-driven insights and multi-screen expertise and IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, unveil our latest joint research, addressing the effectiveness of different video ad lengths, looking at micro and longer form ad formats, devices and consumer perspective. Key findings include:

  • Ads perform differently based on length – developing a creative length strategy is imperative for success
  • Micro ads have a leg up on smaller screens, where video takes up 100% of screen real estate and short content is the norm
  • Having grown up with short form content, millennials respond best to micro ads, and also tend to see them as higher quality and more enjoyable than older consumers do
  • Shorter ads can serve as a quick reminder of established brands to drive top-of-mind awareness and longer ads can be employed to educate about a new brand
  • While every device performs differently, the 15 second mark is the shortest amount of time for making an impact on persuasion metrics

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Viewability Report: Putting Science Behind The Standard

This research report is a joint effort by IPG Media Lab, Integral Ad Science and Cadreon.

 

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Today, the IPG Media Lab, Integral Ad Science and Cadreon release their joint large-scale research study, first of its kind, on viewability. With the goal of quantifying the relationship between viewability and brand metrics, the research involved nearly 10,000 participants, looking at 189 different ad scenarios. Although the study was not meant to rewrite existing standards, the findings serve as a guide to advertisers and publishers alike regarding how best to make ads more effective given viewability standards.

Key takeaways include:

– Viewability is strongly related to ad effectiveness. As viewability increases, so does consumer attention and ad recall.
– Ads that exceed the MRC standard have 16%+ recall as opposed to ads that meet the standard, which have 2% recall.
– Ad exposure time influences ad effectiveness more than % in view.
– Viewability is important, but it is not the be-all and end-all. It should not be a KPI.

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Click here to see the White Paper of the study.

You can also get the report on Integral Ad Science’s site.

 

 

IPG Lab + Google Release Deconstructing Branded Content: The Global Guide To What Works

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Branded content, defined in this research as content that lives on its own, produced by and for the brand, as opposed to content produced by someone else the brand affixes itself to, has transformed marketing, overall. With the increased emphasis on cross-screen viewing, and digital at the core of brand communications, branded content has become a core part of many brand campaigns.

IPG Media Lab, a division of IPG Mediabrands, in conjunction with Google, today announced the results of the industry’s first global comprehensive branded content effectiveness study. Aiming to understand consumer perceptions and to compare the effectiveness of branded content and video advertising, this closed study surveyed 14,780 consumers, looked at 50 brands, across 19 verticals, in 10 countries, assessing how branded content is perceived in different parts of the world and how this translates into branding effectiveness.

Content That Works

Based on the research we conducted, here are two examples of content that was effective and seen differently by consumers.

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Rexona: 

You can download and read the report here.

 

IPG Media Lab + DIRECTV: Annual Survey Of The American Football Consumer

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Live sports broadcasting is arguably the last bastion for live TV viewing. and NFL Football accounts for 1/3 of sports viewing. IPG Media Lab and DIRECTV partnered on an annual “Survey of the American Football Consumer,” which is designed to measure the following:

  • The NFL Viewing Experience
  • NFL Fans’ Passion for the Game
  • Consumption Habits of NFL Fans
  • Brand Relevance to NFL Audiences

To learn more on how to fully connect with American football fans, download and read our survey report here, or read the slides below.

 

 

IPG Lab + Yahoo: Giving Consumers The Personalization They Want

New research study details consumer expectations of and reactions to personalized ad experiences.

Consumers are immersed in digital content and ads across a range of devices on a daily basis, creating a challenging and cluttered environment within which brands must try to stand out. Increasingly, personalization is emerging as the tool to help advertisers break through the noise and forge consumer connections.  To help advertisers more effectively leverage personalization, we teamed with IPG Media Lab, the creative technology arm of IPG Mediabrands, to create “Going Deeper: What Consumers Really Want from Personalized Ads,” a study of how individuals react to and feel about ad experiences that are tailored to them.

For marketers looking to strike the right balances when serving consumers personalized ads, we identified four key areas of focus:

  1. Do mobile better – Consumers expectations for personalization are highest on mobile devices, particularly when it comes to delivering information quickly and geo-located.
  2. Understand consumer preferences – Consumers respond best to ads that are tailored to where they are and what they do online.
  3. Understand the dimensions that impact personalization – The younger the consumer, the stronger the desire for personalization, especially for big ticket purchases.
  4. Put personalization to work against KPIs – Advertisers that utilized personalization saw increases in overall favorability and purchase intent.

Interested in learning more? Be sure to read the full study. And if you’re ready to put personalization to work for your brand, contact your Yahoo Account Manager.

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Blurred Lines: Creating Content That Works

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Finding the best way to communicate with your target consumer is one part art and one part science. As an emphasis on cross-screen viewing and digital has become a core part of brand communications, the lines between ads and content have blurred. Google and IPG Media Lab partnered to understand consumer perceptions and effectiveness of branded content and video advertising.

To learn more, download and view the YouTube Insights here.