Brands to Publishers: Let Us Check Your Viewability Rates or We'll Stop Buying Ads
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Earlier this month Google announced that video ads running on YouTube have a chance to be seen 91% of the time. That’s great, and a lot better than the 46% of video ads that Google runs outside of YouTube that never have a chance to be seen. But advertisers would like to be able to check Google’s and every other publisher’s math.
Deep-pocketed brands such as Kellogg are pulling back budgets from major publishers, including Google-owned YouTube and Facebook, that won’t let brands bring in third-party viewability companies to verify how many people may have actually seen their ads.
Ad viewability has become a chief concern for many marketers as they realize that many of the ads they’re buying online never even had a chance to be seen. In December 2014 Google said that 56% of the web’s banner ads are never seen. Evidence like that has led companies like GroupM and Unilever to demand that publishers only charge them for ads that had a 100% chance of being seen.
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