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MarTech » Customer & Digital Experience » Mobile Video Ad Viewability Beats Desktop By 30 Points

Mobile Video Ad Viewability Beats Desktop By 30 Points

Last December Google released research that showed 56 percent of online display ads weren’t ever seen. This startling finding was generally consistent with older studies (e.g., comScore) that showed a large percentage of online ads were not being seen. Advertisers were still paying for these phantom or unseen impressions. But in a relatively short period of time viewability has become the new […]

Greg Sterling on May 11, 2015 at 2:15 am

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Last December Google released research that showed 56 percent of online display ads weren’t ever seen. This startling finding was generally consistent with older studies (e.g., comScore) that showed a large percentage of online ads were not being seen.

Advertisers were still paying for these phantom or unseen impressions. But in a relatively short period of time viewability has become the new currency for display advertising — especially video. As set forth by the Media Rating Council and IAB, “a video ad is viewable when at least 50 percent of the ad’s pixels are visible on a screen for at least two consecutive seconds.”

Last week Google released follow-up viewability research, partly promoting its “Active View” measurement technology and partly to expose the finding that YouTube has much higher viewability rates than the industry average. This is further magnified in mobile.

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Viewability of video ads across the web is somewhat better than general display, according to this study. Google found that the “average viewability of video ads across the web is 54 percent.” This does not include YouTube, however, where Google says, “91 percent of ads served [were] found to be viewable.”

Not surprisingly Google says that page position translates into to higher viewability. “The more prominent the position, the more viewable the ad.” The company observed, as one might expect, that larger video players also positively impact viewability. Yet, somewhat unexpectedly, mobile video advertising has much higher viewability rates than video on the PC.

Google reiterates that on YouTube more than half of all video streams are now mobile. And while overall YouTube ad viewability is 91 percent, YouTube mobile viewability is slightly higher at 94 percent.

Putting aside the self-promotional YouTube related findings, which  are probably accurate, the most interesting data here expose the significantly better viewability rates in mobile. If this finding can be replicated it will lend further ammunition to mobile advocates and help accelerate the adoption of mobile video advertising.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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