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Video Advertising Works Best When Actually Seen

Video Advertising Works Best When Actually Seen

Would you ever want to receive only a percentage of something you paid for? Of course not. This is precisely why the concept of “video viewability” has been of great interest to brand advertisers, publishers, and agencies, over the course of the past several years.

With the rise of digital video advertising, followed shortly thereafter by the rise of the “bad actors” of the digital ecosystem – ad fraudsters, bots, suspicious traffic, and malware – viewability has become an important metric when analyzing inventory, as well as when analyzing campaign performance.

Digital Video Is Great…When You Can Measure It

Digital Video Is Great…When You Can Measure It

The IAB’s recent report on digital video’s explosive growth was the veritable symphony to the chorus that we’ve all been hearing from the industry the past two or three years. All the facts are there. Digital video is white-hot and everyone — publishers, brands, agencies, and yes, consumers — want it. But how do we properly measure it? Ah, the $100,000 question.

How to Create a Personalized VAST Ad in Flite in 3 Minutes or Less

How to Create a Personalized VAST Ad in Flite in 3 Minutes or Less

Video advertising is sweeping the advertising industry in a big way. It is becoming a larger piece of advertisers’ budgets and publishers’ digital strategies. One of the foundational ingredients for executing digital video is VAST.

VAST, aka Video Ad Serving Template, is a standardized way to serve commercials within a video player on a website. The template has been utilized since it's introduction in 2008 and is the preferred method for delivering  in-line video ads. The VAST template streamlines the video process overall, and Flite simplifies the act of compiling VAST tags.