Traditional TV costs per thousand may
still be climbing -- but that isn't the case for digital pre-roll video ads, in part due to increased inventory.
Current pre-roll video advertising -- perhaps the biggest piece of the
digital video category -- is down slightly at $8.18 CPMs from an $8.83 CPM during the first half of 2012, reports real-time video ad platform TubeMogul. The dip occurs when inflation has been bumping
along at 2.5% per month.
Most of that is due to heavy inventory, says the company.
The number of daily pre-roll video ads available for real-time buying averaged 331 million ads
available per day in October. There has been a monthly inventory growth rate of 7.3% in 2012, says TubeMogul.
Digital video completion rates -- an increasingly important measure for digital
advertisers -- continue to grow with certain formats. Top-level (tier one) sites have the higher competition rates for 15-second commercials. In the third quarter of this year, nearly 85% of viewers
now watch an entire ad on top sites. This is up from nearly 82% for the first half of the year.
Research also reveals that watching a completed video means better recall and brand
association. There is a 20% rate of message association for those who watch a completed message, versus 8.3% for those who don't watch a completed video message. General awareness has improved to 6.9%
from 3.5%.