We recently spoke with Brian Cooper, the creative director of UK digital agency Dare. Here’s a snippet from the full interview, in which Cooper chats about Dare’s approach to marketing in a digital age, and the agency’s recent work for Vodafone. (Read more…)
Some interesting questions (and answers) about the future of online video ads from this short clip of our own Geoff Ramsey at Ad:Tech New York with Suzie Reider of Google/YouTube, Ira Rubenstein of Marvel, and Rob Hayes of Showtime.
Money quote from Reider (synthesized):
“I heard a stat that 80% of the creative of digital video — preroll or instream — is still in 30s and 60s. If that’s true that’s not such a good thing. It should really be showing up in 3s, 5s, 7s and certainly no longer than 15s. They should be shooting it for digital while they’re shooting it for television.”