Agencies agree to only buy on “engaged views”

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• At the Sounds Profitable Business Summit last week, ADOPTER Media, Right Side Up and Oxford Road announced that they will only use YouTube's Engaged Views to count YouTube impressions for buying advertising. You can watch the announcement here. YMH Studios have also made a similar statement. Oxford Road's Dan Granger said that the industry should "get a little fed up" and make our voices heard.
  • YouTube suddenly changed the definition of a public "play" in August - with just five business days notice - to one that doubles its numbers; the "engaged views" figure is almost the older definition - worked out using an opaque, proprietary algorithm that YouTube declines to clarify.
• The IAB has a different definition for video plays - "50% of the pixels on for two seconds" - and, last week, appeared to reject a new framework for measurement of video/audio podcasts. Matt Shapo, Senior Director of the Measurement Center at IAB, and Jason Adamski, Director of Audio at IAB, were interviewed by PodBiz in a new episode just made available, with Adamski admitting that the industry is fragmented.
  • In the PodBiz podcast interview, Adamski is asked for the difference between a download and a play. He suggests that "a download is the bitrate of everything that has been downloaded onto the device, and a play is actually when... I don't know if we have a standard definition of a play, I mean it is when we have views, and..." before being cut off by Shapo. In fact, the guidelines define a valid download as the transferral of at least 60 seconds of content to a device: bitrate isn't relevant. And, there is no definition of a play in the Podcast Measurement Guidelines at all.

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