
The downside is that it’s intrusive and irritates the very customers a company is trying to get. The upside of pre-, mid-roll advertising is that people will watch it. The ads have a maximum length of six seconds. Bumper ads are pre-, mid-, or post-roll ads that can not be skipped. In May 2018, Google introduced Bumper ads. Ads in this format, which give the viewer some options, are called TrueView ads. Similar ads-called mid-rolls or end-rolls-appear in the middle or end of the content being viewed. These ads average about 20 seconds in length, and viewers can skip most ads after a few seconds. If you watch a video on YouTube, you’ll see a short ad-or pre-roll-before the video starts. It’s popular and effective, which is why outstream video accounts for 68% of total advertising video spend.

The biggest thing in video for the past few years is outstream video, which-although you may not have known the name for it-you probably see every day. But even if you take all that away, that still leaves a huge number of advertising videos, maybe even by one of your competitors. Of course, a large percentage of people probably spend their time online watching videos of cats playing the piano or someone unboxing something UPS just delivered or a person displaying their collection of doorknobs.

500,000,000 people watch Facebook videos every day.If you don’t currently implement video in some aspect of your advertising or marketing strategy, here are some facts to mull over:
