• Hulu’s Ad Swap Shows Pre-Roll Rules

    Hulu unveiled Ad Swap, a new product which allows users to switch what ads they are watching for another. The company views user-choice, rather than interactivity, as the truest measure of engagement with Web video ads.


  • The Wild West of Online Video Ads

    The Web video business is taking off, but it is still rife with questionable practices that could damage advertisers — and hold back shifts from brand budgets into sight, sound and motion online.


  • Web Video’s Commoditization Trap

    As the nascent Web video ad market grows, some advocate for selling the space more like TV, while others are pushing to follow the path of display advertising, where automated buying and exchanges are becoming crucial.


  • Web Video on the Rise

    A DIGIDAY survey, sponsored by YuMe, finds digital video ad spending is set up for robust growth in the year ahead as money shifts from online display and TV budgets.


  • The Feed

    Research confirms the problem of annoying Facebookers, Skittles gets a spokescat, dogs get Foursquare, Jackie Chan is alive no matter what Twitter says, and fireside meat.