YouTube Wires Back Some Marketers After Ad Uproar, But Others Stay Away: Are the Ads worth it? The verdict is still up in the air. After several ads appeared near offensive videos, the media channel is feeling the pressure from large companies who’re pulling their ads. Others say it’s worth it. Find out the scoop in the Wall Street Journal:
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Last month, YouTube lost 5 percent of its top advertisers in the US and Canada following a global uproar over its placement of ads from big companies alongside videos created by neo-Nazis and ISIS supporters.
MediaRadar, a company that tracks advertising across the web for thousands of publishers, reported that YouTube suffered a decline in the number of Google Preferred customers in the US and Canada for the first time this year.
Google Preferred is a program where advertisers can match themselves to highly trafficked videos of certain themes such as music or news.
The ad-tracking firm noted that four major advertisers — Starbucks, Dish, Pepsi and AT&T — yanked their ads from YouTube. A few others, including General Motors, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson, stuck with YouTube despite the uproar.
“Some of the exact brands that said they would stop actually did in April,” said MediaRadar CEO Todd Krizelman. “This suggests that at least some of the contraction is related to the negative press in late March.”
YouTube is said to be a $12 billion business, a wildly popular video-sharing platform that is growing faster than its parent, Google, the leader in global-search advertising.
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