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A summary of the most exciting recent news in online video and ad tech in the US, US-Hispanic and Latin American markets. If you're trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.

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A summary of the most exciting recent news in online video and ad tech in the US, US-Hispanic and Latin American markets. If you’re trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.

US/US HISPANIC MARKET

A Barclays report claims that viewers in older age demographics over indexed to TV are starting to gravitate toward OTT services. Currently, more than 54% of U.S. households have SVOD access and 31% of the population has two or more subscriptions.

parselyIn a recent report, Parse.ly looked at the performance of four types of posts – long-form, short-form, video, and slideshows – on 700 sites. Video posts received 30% less engaged time than the average post, the study found. Long-form articles (more than 1,000 words) have an average engaged time of 1.8 times higher than normal.

A new report from eMarketer suggests that, by the end of 2017, 2.15 billion people online video “viewers.” This would mean that 62% of all Internet users be using online video by the end of the year.

Former Shine Americas CEO Emiliano Calemzuk, Luis Balaguer, founder of Latin World Entertainment and Modern Family star Sofia Vergara have relaunched Raze as a digital media platform focused on Latino millennials.

Portada‘s 2017 Online Marketing Guide is out! Download it for free and get the latest in opportunities and challenges in the industry, video ad market forecasts and video audience development.

Alphabet has announced fourth quarter results: this quarter, the company reported 22% year-on-year growth in revenues for a total of $26.04 billion. The company also announced that PC search ads, mobile search ads and YouTube ads contribute over 60% to the firm’s value.

Ooyala announced its Ooyala Solutions Partner Programme, which allows its video technology and reseller partners to use Ooyala technologies and is built on a three-tier system comprised of referral partners, associate resellers and premier resellers.

LATAM MARKET

Outstream video advertising platform Teads has announced the expansion of its presence in Latin America with the launch of its new office in Peru. This market will be lead by former Fox Latin America and RedMas executive, Josué Cardenas, who joins Teads as the Business Director for its office in Lima.

PORTADA RESEARCH: Hispanic Online Video Ad Market to Soar to US $450 million. In a new report, Portada estimates that the Hispanic Online Video Ad market volume will climb to US $450 million by 2020. Particularly high growth is to be expected by branded content videos. Among video ad-tipes, in-stream will continue to have the largest share, although out-stream will grow at a higher rate.

ihsAccording to IHS Technology’s Media & Technology Digest, Mexico’s SVOD and TVOD digital video market grew by 39% in 2016, which means Mexico was Latin America’s second-biggest online video content distribution market. Total online video consumer level spending in Mexico last year came in at 3.5 billion pesos ($218 million).

Kantar IBOPE Media announced that it will start to release data on TV-related Twitter activity in Argentina and Colombia. Starting in February, the Kantar Twitter TV Ratings will release metrics about social TV activity. The company said that it plans to make the solution available in Peru before summer.

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