AOL is debuting two video ad formats today it says will be more viewable for advertisers and more user-friendly for consumers.
The formats are meant to help build out the company's "end-to-end" platform that launched earlier this year under the name ONE by AOL: Publishers. Since 2010, AOL has spent $1 billion acquiring technologies and companies to improve engagement and monetization of one of the fastest growing areas in advertising, it says.
"Ultimately for publishers, I think this is a great opportunity for them to access more video spend by taking a step toward viewability and creating more inventory on their website," Robert Leon, AOL's head of publisher product commercialization and solutions, told Adweek.
One of AOL's new formats, its Out-stream player, is an in-article video format that only starts playing when at least half of the video is visible on the screen.
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