YouTube said that it’s no longer making its 30-second unskippable ad formats available for advertisers after this year. From next year onwards, brands can purchase other unskippable ads such as 20 second promos and 6 second bumper ads.
A statement from Google to Marketing said, “We’re committed to providing a better ads experience for users online. As part of that, we’ve decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers.”
Desh Balakrishnan, Managing Director of Maxus said the move was a good one as it “saves all consumers from the gruelling 30 seconds of watching a non-skippable video”.
“With the shorter non skippable formats, the time spent waiting for it to be over is not that long, especially with the 6 seconds format,” he added.
Meanwhile, earlier this month YouTube added on live streaming to find new ways to let creators and viewers interact with each other and the videos they watch. It will roll out the new mobile live streaming feature to every creator with more than 10,000 subscribers.
To help creators earn revenue from live streaming, YouTube also launched Super Chat, a new live stream monetisation tool available to creators in more than 20 countries (and viewers in more than 40 countries).
