Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: YouTube Offers a Choice – Watch One Long Ad or Multiple Short Ads

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YouTube Offers a Choice – Watch One Long Ad or Multiple Short Ads Aug 17th 2012, 15:26 YouTube offers advertisers an option to display video ads (they call them Instream Ads) in the beginning of a video (pre-roll), after the video (post-roll) or even during the video (mid-roll). The longer videos, like the full-length movies on YouTube, can have multiple instream ads embedded in one video. → YouTube is also testing a slightly different style of advertising where the viewer has the option to choose the type of invideo advertising. The viewer can either opt for one long commercial (pre-roll) and watch the entire video uninterrupted or he can opt for multiple short commercials that will pop-up at different times in the video (mid-roll). Here’s a quick video demo. Also, if you opt for a single long commercial break, you still get the skip option but only after you have watched the first two minutes of the commercial. Also see: How to Skip Ads on DVDs This story, YouTube Offers a Choice – Watch One Long Ad or Multiple Short Ads, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 17/08/2012 under YouTube, Internet.

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