
Listen up, Oscar advertisers. Those YouTube views of ads on big events often thought of as free can cost actually plenty, according to a study of Super Bowl advertising from Google preferred marketing developer Strike. The study, however, found there’s a big gap between advertisers who get almost all their online views free and those who pay dearly.
By one way of looking at it, advertisers paid more to get online video views for their Super Bowl content on YouTube, at least through early Feb. 9, than to buy ads on the game itself at least on a cost per thousand basis. (Yes, they are still paying for YouTube views of Big Game ads). Through today, advertisers spent $19.3 million for more than 311 million YouTube views of their Super Bowl content, 195 million of them paid, according to Strike estimates. That comes to a CPM of more than $62, vs. around $39 for a 30-second spot on the Big Game this year.
Strike CEO Patrick McKenna hastens to note that by a broader measure of total impressions, including videos that started but were stopped by users short of 30 seconds, YouTube remains considerably cheaper than the Super Bowl. YouTube doesn’t charge for those impressions, which numbered more than 800 million through Feb. 9 and brought the CPM under $17 for total impressions according to Strike.
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