Google has rolled out additional formats for Video Reach Campaigns (VRCs) for Efficient Reach on YouTube.
VRCs can now be scaled to in-feed and shorts, as well as in-stream ads, providing marketers with a more diversified and effective approach to reaching their target audience with a single campaign.
Leveraging its machine learning technology, Google then identifies the most effective combination of ads to serve for maximum reach and efficiency.
Why we care. Serving different ad formats in a single campaign broadens audience reach during prime conversion moments. With AI handling ad format decisions, marketers can focus more on strategic tasks, removing guesswork and optimizing their efforts.
What are video reach campaigns? Launched in 2019, VRCs enable advertisers to upload a range of ad types, including six-second bumper ads, skippable in-stream ads, and non-skippable in-stream ads, within a single campaign. Google’s machine learning algorithm autonomously then determines the optimal combination of these YouTube ad formats, facilitating broad audience reach at scale.
With VRCs, there are two options for reaching your target audience:
What are in-feed ads? In-feed video ads serve your campaigns alongside YouTube content that is relevant to your target audience. These ads show up in YouTube search results, the “watch next” section on YouTube, and the Home feed in the YouTube app.
What are Shorts ads? Shorts ads are skippable video or image ads that appear between Shorts in the Shorts Feed on YouTube.
What are In-Stream ads? In-stream ads are campaigns that play before, during, or after other videos on YouTube and websites and apps on Google video partners. There are two types of in-stream ads:
What Google is saying. Commenting on the new formats for VRCs, a Google spokesperson said in a statement:
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