Campaign Goals Should Drive YouTube Brand Activity: Pixability
YouTube can be an overwhelming space for brands big and small. How important is paid media? What type of videos should brands create? How best can a brand attract attention? Answering that at more were representatives from Pixability, Starz, YouTube, and Digitas, who spoke on a Streaming Media East panel called “Paid Media on YouTube: Strategies for Brands.”
What brands should offer on YouTube is determined by their campaign goals, said Jamison Tilsner, strategic accounts lead for Pixability. A YouTube ecosystem partner, Pixability creates marketing software that works with YouTube APIs. Brands need to develop content that speaks to its target audience, and drive a sustained audience over time, he said.
“We found YouTube as an effective tool to drive eyeballs,” Tilsner said. For more fine-grained targeting, Pixability has a tool that provides contextual targeting, identifying relevant videos that mention a given product and letting brands advertise against them.
Digging into the YouTube APIs gives Pixability even more insights. For example, it can determine the time of day when viewers of a certain type of content are more likely to tweet about or share a video. Then, if a brand has the goal of maximizing Facebook shares or tweets, it can promote its videos at the optimal time.
Toward the end of the session, the panelists addressed Google Preferred, the YouTube sales program that offers the top 5 percent of channels in 23 key verticals to advertisers for a premium rate. The idea is that TV brand advertisers can feel secure buying Google Preferred, since they’re assured of advertising against content that’s popular and brand-safe.
Google Preferred is targeted at agencies, and makes it easy to convince brands to take a chance on digital, said Dave Katz, vice president of digital media for Starz. Premium buyers are used to buying premium content, and with Google Preferred they know their ads won’t appear on unprofessional user-generated video.
Premium content is great for building awareness, Tilsner said: If consumers know about the brand already, contextual ads -- perhaps on how-to content -- are more effective.
Some of the panels best advice came from Anand Banwasi, partner product manager for YouTube. Don’t think of YouTube as an audience, he advised. Instead, think of it as fans. Ask them what they want to see and they’ll tell you.
Watch the full discussion below:
Paid Media on YouTube: Strategies for Brands
Most consumer brands have developed some presence on YouTube, but paid media on the entertainment behemoth remains a mystery for many. Should YouTube be treated as an extension of search or television, performance or branding? Is cost-per-completed-view an appropriate performance metric? With easy access to TrueView ads through AdWords, should media agencies oversee these budgets? This session will discuss multi-channel networks and YouTube technology partners, looking at how they add value and how brands should work with a third party to manage content on YouTube.
Moderator: Joshua Cohen, Co-Founder, Tubefilter
Speaker: Jamison Tilsner, Strategic Accounts Lead, Pixability
Speaker: Anand Banwasi, Partner Product Manager, YouTube
Speaker: David Katz, VP, Digital Media, Starz Media
Speaker: George Hammer, VP, Group Director, Strategy Social and Content, Digitas
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