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The Growing Importance Of Video Advertising!

According to eMarketer, video ads now account for over 25% of all US digital advertising, Facebook being the top site garnering ad spend at roughly 2X of YouTube. That’s amazing!
In looking at eMarketer’s newest forecast, they have found that online video ad spending for 2018,  in the U.S. alone, will reach $27.8 billion!
Video will represent more than 50% of ad revenues for Twitter and over 30% of total revenue for Facebook.recast.

The eMarketer forecast predicts that Facebook (and Instagram) will have 24.5 percent of all US video ad spending this year or $6.81 billion, as indicated. Facebook controls nearly 90 percent (87 percent) of video ad spending on social media sites in the U.S. ( note: YouTube is not considered a social media site by eMarketer. 🤔)

The forecast also asserts that Facebook video ad revenue will enjoy “double-digit growth through 2020.”

EMarketer says that 60 percent of Snapchat U.S. ad revenue now comes from video. (if you feel SnapCrap matters…no thanks!)

Twitter will see nearly the same portion of its ad revenue (55 percent) from video; however Twitter has only a 2.3 percent share of total video spending according to the forecast.

Focus on net not gross YouTube revenue. The forecast may at first glance be confusing. YouTube has been a continuing driver of Google ad revenue growth and it seems strange that Facebook has roughly twice the video ad revenue. EMarketer says that “YouTube will generate $3.36 billion in net U.S. video ad revenues” in 2018, while Facebook approaches $7 billion.”

However eMarketer is focused on net rather than gross ad revenue. YouTube has higher costs than other video sites and likely pays a significant portion of revenue out as traffic acquisition costs. Alphabet has never reported YouTube revenue as a separate category, although a number of analysts believe it will start to do that in the near future.

In terms of gross revenues, YouTube would probably be considerably larger than Facebook. Some on Wall Street have suggested that YouTube total ad revenues could be as high as $15 billion.

The Takeaway: Video has always been a preferred ad medium for brands and marketers. The growth of digital video ads reflects both their effectiveness and the consumer shift away from linear (traditional) TV. Time to up both your quantity and production games. Oh…and ignore the gurus. Don’t bother simply posting product videos.

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