What ad viewability is and why it matters for SEA marketers

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Just because your ad is served online or in an app doesn’t mean people will see it. Here’s what viewability is, how it’s measured, and why it matters.

Whether it’s hiding below the fold of a webpage or muted in the feed of an app, there’s no guarantee your video will be seen the way you intended it to be on every platform. Since the aim of any savvy marketer is to find the right platforms to reach the right audience in an engaging way, paying attention to viewability can help.

What is viewability, and how do you measure it?

Viewability provides marketers with a valuable metric that goes beyond the number of times their ads appear in front of users by focusing on whether or not an ad was actually seen. “A more viewable ad ecosystem means fewer wasted ad dollars, cost savings for advertisers, and better return on investment for your marketing dollars. Viewability provides advertisers transparency into how efficient their media investment is,” said Laura Quigley, managing director, SEA at Integral Ad Science (IAS), a verification and measurement company.

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Media Rating Council (MRC), viewability is achieved when a minimum of 50% of the ad is in view for a minimum of two continuous seconds. Viewability should not be confused with reach (the number of people your ad is served to) or impressions (the number of times your ad is displayed — regardless of whether viewers engage with it). It helps to think of viewability as a viewable impression. For example, if your ad is playing, but the user is browsing on another tab, that impression would not be considered viewable.

“Using viewable impressions as the basis for campaign analytics ensures performance is only attributed to ads that consumers actually see and interact with,” said Zainal Abidin, regional director of SEA & Greater China, Oracle Data Cloud, another third-party measurement company.

Making sure your ads are seen

On certain platforms, audiences are in a better frame of mind to watch videos because they visit the platform to do just that. Recently, IAS and Oracle Data Cloud’s Moat Analytics ran a viewability analysis across SEA. The analysis compared viewability on YouTube to competitor sites where watching videos is just one of many things users do. See the results in the dropdown below:

Prioritizing viewability in a video campaign

Building an effective video campaign requires valuable time and resources, so it’s important to ensure that your ads are actually engaged with from start to finish. “The IAB’s and MRC’s definition of viewability helps standardize viewable ad impression measurement guidelines, but as an industry, we still have a ways to go. Knowing which ads have value is incredibly important to drive better outcomes for marketers,” said Quigley.

By using viewability to measure the success of a video campaign and to determine which platforms to distribute your ads on, you can achieve optimal campaign results.

 

Roopa Dhawan
Head of Brand Solutions
YouTube, SEA

 

 

 

 


Lars Anthonisen
Head, Ads Marketing, Large Customers – SG, SAF, MY

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