Monday, August 16, 2010

Hulu Serving 3x as Many Ads as YouTube

Hulu generated 783 million video ad impressions in the month of July, more than three times the 219 million impressions generated by Google sites like YouTube.

There are a number of reasons for the disparity. YouTube does not try to display ads on all its inventory, while Hulu tries to.

Hulu features professionally-produced, branded video content with high end user interest. Not all YouTube content is of sufficient quality or interest to create much of an ad opportunity.

Also, Google advertising on YouTube also leans toward banner ads and AdSense text advertising rather than video spots, as Hulu features.

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