Join Forces with Top Brands at Portada Live, NYC, Sept, 19, 2024!

ONLINE VIDEO ROUNDUP: Twitter to Introduce In-Stream Video Ads

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

Content

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

US/US-HISPANIC MARKET

Accedo announced that it is partnering with Nokia to deliver best-in-class quality throughout the VR experience by the integrating Nokia’s OZO Player SDK into Accedo’s VR solutions and joint customer projects. This partnership will see both companies offering a bundle of joint offerings and solutions to add value to customers.

Twitter is introducing in-stream video advertisements as the company found that video impressions grew significantly from Q3 to Q4 2016.
To celebrate its ten-year anniversary, SpotX has launched a new web address built around their expanded focus on the total video ecosystem – SpotX.tv., which stands for total video — serving ads on all screens — desktop, mobile and OTT devices.

An insightful, stat-packed quarterly update from Streamlabs compares Twitch and YouTube Live on measures of monthly active streamers and revenue. While Twitch is still where the money is, YouTube Live is growing much, much faster. From October 2016 to March 2017, monthly active streamers have grown 330% for YouTube Live compared to 19% on Twitch. Twitch accounted for nearly 96% of tipping volume for Streamlabs streamers in the past five months, with YouTube making up the rest.

Verizon Digital Media Services said that OTT video providers will need better insight into the engagement their content generates as OTT enters its next stage.

Sprint has released an online video series in collaboration with Onion Labs, the creative services division of Onion Inc., which takes a satirical look at the popularity of Paul Marcarelli – the guy who used to ask if you could “hear me now” with Verizon and who switched to Sprint and appears in Sprint advertising.

Online video ads grew by 24 percent year-over-year (YOY), according to online video monetization company FreeWheel’s Video Monetization Report for Q4 2016.  Among other interesting insight, the report found that both ad views and content views have increased over the previous 24 consecutive quarters.

LATAM MARKET

Buenos Aires, Argentina-based MediaMath has announced the launch of Curated Market, a product that allows advertisers to access the best clients and prospects at scale through high-quality, premium media.

Online video systems provider Brightcove has announced plans to open an office in Mexico City after securing a number of new contracts in Latin America, including Mexican Grupo Televisa, Mexican multimedia group Expansion and Paraguayan news organization Grupo Nacion.

At Teads’s latest event in Campos do Jordan, Brazil, marketers from brands like Heineken, Fiat, and Itaú; agencies like DPZ&T, Africa, DM9, Publicis, and Leo Burnett; and trading desks Affiperf, Tradelab, and Exiber discussed digital advertising. Highlights include that more than half of attendees expected growth between 20% to 30% of programmatic technologies, compared to last year, and that segmentation will be the biggest focus in programmatic video, followed by viewability and completion rates.

[ctalatinb]

Meet & Learn
Portada Live Events

Popular Now

Boost Your Sales

Who is Moving Now

The Latest

Get our e-letters packed with news and intelligence!