MediaRadar also found that consumer-aimed sites overall are almost twice as likely as business-to-business sites to run autoplay video ads (69 percent versus 37 percent), with the highest rates found among business/finance- and technology-focused sites, he said. “This was surprising and reinforces that video drives revenue for all size publishers,” he said. The drive for ad revenue that’s driven the use of autoplay seems to be universal everyone from Refinery29 to The Wall Street Journal runs autoplay, and they’re just as likely to be small as big publishers, said Todd Krizelman, CEO of MediaRadar.

The final third autostarts video ads less than 50 percent of the time. One-third autostarts video ads 50 to 75 percent of the time. Today, about one-third of sites autostart more than 75 percent of their video ads, according to MediaRadar, based on an analysis of sites that run video. Source: JW Playerįacebook’s use of autoplay, along with YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter, paved the way for publishers to pile on. Now, 61 percent of video ads autostart in Chrome, the dominant browser (compared to 66 percent in Safari), according to JW Player.

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