Search Results for : Ad Viewability

By Issam Kink, associate director – digital planning at OMD Online ad safety has been a heated topic over the past couple of years with an emphasis on Video content. Setting a goal for video safety is a challenge for marketers who want to strike a balance between editorially controlled and user-generated content, especially with […]

Advertisers have been increasingly concerned about brand safety since The Times’ investigation revealed that big brands are inadvertently funding terror back in February 2017. At the time, major advertisers pulled out of YouTube resulting in an estimated $750 million loss. In fact, one of the biggest advertisers, P&G only recently started advertising on the platform […]

Last year’s brand safety debacle brought to light some key issues with digital advertising. Among these were viewability and ad fraud. Ad fraud is rather self-explanatory, but what is viewability? Viewability is essentially an online advertising metric that determines if an ad is actually ‘viewable’, and then, allows advertisers to pay only for ads that […]

By Elie Khouri, CEO, Omnicom Media Group MENA With the amount of data and technology available today, marketers are expected to be more accountable and strategic in the way they stimulate business growth. Marketing is increasingly viewed at the board level as an investment rather than an expense; the quantifiable return being expressed in better […]

Pierre Choueiri, Chairman and CEO, Choueiri Group, on what’s in store for Choueiri and the industry How are budgets changing in difficult times? How much is moving toward digital and is it at the expense of other channels? The media industry has been going through some tricky years, where in 2016, we saw an approximate […]

Twitter has announced multiple new partnerships with third-party measurement providers including MOAT and Integral Ad Science. According to a statement issued by the company, the partnerships will “enable marketers to measure the reach of their video ad campaigns”. Twitter’s partnership with MOAT has already been rolled out in the MENA region. Speaking to Communicate, Walid […]

Advertising trade groups spent years developing standards for online ad viewability before they were approved earlier this year. Now, one of the world’s biggest marketers and a major media-buying company have officially come out and said those standards aren’t high enough. Unilever and GroupM, whose Mindshare agency handles the marketer’s buying, are working with standards […]

Advertisers have known for some time that part of their advertising budget is wasted on ads that viewers are never able to see in the first place. Known as “non-viewable impressions”, this is the reason why various industry bodies, including the International Advertising Bureau (IAB), launched the Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative back in […]