The case for new visibility standards for online advertising
Do you know what this? It's considered a completed ad view. 50% of the screen, for at least 1 second. If those two things happen, it's considered an impression and you're charged for it. [caption id="attachment_1858" align="alignright" width="319"] Completed Ad View[/caption] Can't even tell what the product is or who the advertiser is in this case. For video, it counts if 50% is visible, with or without sound, and it's viewed for 2 seconds. So anytime auto play is on and the scroll past a video, it likely counts as a view. Could you imagine if any other media was sold that way? I don't think people would accept it, but it's become the norm in online sales. Why? For one of the world's largest advertising agencies, they are saying "enough is enough." Group M spend billions in online advertising. Some say they control as much as one-third of all global advertising budgets. Digiday reports the Group M wants stricter standards: Display Ads
100% of the ad in view
Video Ads
100% of the ad in view
Sound on
No Autoplay
At least half the ad viewed
“If an ad doesn’t have an opportunity to be seen, it doesn’t make sense for our clients." - John Montgomery, GroupM
Sounds reasonable to me, but likely a tough sell with publishers, especially since they are just now getting traction on online spending. It means they'll have to run more ads to get anything close to the numbers they'd been seeing. Here's the full story from Digiday.
