Beyond Native: Bringing Video Ads In-House

The Verge has started offering advertisers like Ford pre-roll video ads. But in this case, Ford doesn't need its agency, as The Verge produced these Web video spots, using its own technology and editorial staff. Indeed, the tech-centric publication is looking to take native advertising to another level by bringing creative in-house with its Vox Studios team, which offers TV-quality pre-roll ads for brands like Ford, which sponsored The Verge's coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago.  Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff said that for this the new native video ad offering, the company provides brands with access to all the same technology the company's editorial staff uses, hopefully providing them with the tools to build a better content experience. "We have a variety of capabilities as a new media company with quality video production, but other capababilities as well, like our publishing system Chorus and our editorial talents," Bankoff said. "All those assets that enable us to be in the content business—our recipe for telling stories— we're seeing that the brands we work with want those same capabilities. They're turning to us increasingly and asking for it. So the same tools we use for our audience, we want to give to the brands." There's no doubt for Vox and The Verge that taking out the middle man of an agency makes for a more seamless and efficient process, but there's always the risk that skirting the agencies could rub some in the industry the wrong... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2013-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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