{"id":287,"date":"2019-11-04T10:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:31:44","slug":"everyone-hates-your-autoplay-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/everyone-hates-your-autoplay-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone hates your autoplay videos."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/startled-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"\/><figcaption>When the video kicks on without warning. <em>(Credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjsciald\/15447082881\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"CaptMikey9 (opens in a new tab)\">CaptMikey9<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/farmers-insurance-pulls-million-dollar-ad-campaign-with-go-media-after-editorial-staff-raises-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Farmers Insurance Group recently pulled a million-dollar advertising deal with G\/O Media (opens in a new tab)\">Farmers Insurance Group recently pulled a million-dollar advertising deal with G\/O Media<\/a> after editorial staff spoke openly about how autoplay video ads are the absolute worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things haven\u2019t been smooth between G\/O and the sites it oversees (onetime Gawker Media properties including Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, and others) since it took over in April of this year, but of all the dustups they\u2019ve had, this is the most recent. Following numerous reader complaints about the new autoplay video ads popping up on the sites, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmgunion\/status\/1188969199835779073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Deadspin editorial staff posted a statement (opens in a new tab)\">Deadspin editorial staff posted a statement<\/a> acknowledging the complaints and soliciting further feedback about user experience, directing it toward the only people who could do anything about it: G\/O\u2019s senior leadership team. That went\u2026 as well as you might expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not going to use this space for a complete rundown of the past six months in the life of G\/O Media, or the future of it and its properties, because <em>yikes<\/em>. But I am going to say that those Deadspin editors might have actually been doing G\/O and Farmers a favor, because autoplay video ads are the absolute worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And everyone says so.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Per reporting by the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hostilities-rise-inside-g-o-media-over-autoplay-video-ads-and-politics-11572392147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"G\/O was on the hook to deliver nearly 43.5 million ad impressions through September of next year (opens in a new tab)\">G\/O was on the hook to deliver nearly 43.5 million ad impressions through September of next year<\/a>. When the first few weeks of the campaign showed that such a target was unrealistic, G\/O\u2019s ad team set the ads to auto-roll as soon as the pages loaded, which readers hated, because that\u2019s something that people hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Haaate.<\/em> In a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2016 survey by Hubspot (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/news-trends\/native-advertising-rises-as-consumers-opt-out\" target=\"_blank\">2016 survey by Hubspot<\/a>, 79 percent of respondents said that autoplay ads generated an extremely or somewhat negative experience. Eighty-two percent of respondents said they\u2019d closed a webpage because of an autoplay video, and 51 percent said they\u2019d have a lower opinion of companies that used autoplay videos. (Sentiments were similar for pop-up ads, incidentally \u2014 88 percent reported a negative experience, 81 percent had closed a page with pop-ups, and 70 percent would think less of a company that used them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video, as an ad medium, is unmatched for its storytelling and connection-creating potential. Autoplay video, as an ad format, is the devil. And it\u2019s also not as effective. A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"recent survey by OpenX, the Mobile Marketing Association, and MediaMath (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/press-release\/opt-in-video-advertising-is-preferred-ad-choice-for-consumers-according-to-new-nationwide-survey-adoption-may-deter-ad-blocking-2018-07-26\" target=\"_blank\">recent survey by OpenX, the Mobile Marketing Association, and MediaMath<\/a> revealed that opt-in video ads \u2014 where viewers could choose to play the video and receive some form of value exchange \u2014 had a significantly higher completion rate than their autoplay cousins, and 80 percent of brand marketers reported that opt-in provides better ROI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fight for digital ad attention and the battle against <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"browser blindness (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/banner-blindness-old-and-new-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\">browser blindness<\/a>, advertisers are turning to more attention-grabbing ad formats, and they\u2019re going with the one that literally makes people think less of their brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which is why people are blocking them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2017 report from PageFair (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pagefair.com\/downloads\/2017\/01\/PageFair-2017-Adblock-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2017 report from PageFair <em>(pdf)<\/em><\/a> (a company that makes its money helping bypass adblockers, btw) reported that 18 percent of people online in the U.S. use adblockers. (This could be overly modest \u2014 a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2019 report from GlobalWebIndex (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/global-ad-blocking-behavior-2019-infographic\/551716\/\" target=\"_blank\">2019 report from GlobalWebIndex<\/a> put it as high as 45 percent.) The leading reasons given are\u2026 interruptive ad formats like pop-ups and autoplays. And 74 percent report that when they visit a site with an adblock wall \u2014 an adblocker blocker, essentially \u2014 they\u2019ll click away rather than disable their adblocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for many <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"people with disabilities (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/abilitynet.org.uk\/news-blogs\/why-autoplay-accessibility-issue\" target=\"_blank\">people with disabilities<\/a>, autoplaying videos and animated banners aren\u2019t just a pain in the ass \u2014 they\u2019re a pain in the cerebrum. Visitors with cognitive impairments can struggle to actually consume the content they\u2019re there for when they have videos and banners jumping out at them from every side of the page. (As a person with ADHD, I could make you a list of sites I simply don\u2019t visit anymore because I literally just Can\u2019t.) Those ads can make screen readers basically useless for people with visual impairments who can&#8217;t browse without them. Some ads are enough to even trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of sites are responding to the popularity of adblockers with a subscription wall, inviting visitors to whitelist their site or pay to consume the content. For people who just find intrusive ads to be annoying, that might be an option. But for people with accessibility issues, that\u2019s pretty much a disability tax. <em>Sorry you might have a seizure and die because of ads on our site \u2014 starting as low as $5 a month, you can have the same death-free experience that everyone else gets to have for free.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There is a better way.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a publisher: This doesn\u2019t mean you can no longer make ad revenue from your site. If you\u2019re a digital agency: This doesn\u2019t mean you can no longer make digital ads for your clients. Just be responsible in the way you produce and deliver those digital ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Give people a break.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t use autoplay videos. Just. Don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just don\u2019t. It\u2019s clearly not worth it. Some may advise including large, clearly marked \u201cplay&#8221; and \u201cstop\u201d buttons, and\/or making it possible to close the video by hitting Esc, but I\u2019m not going there. Just don\u2019t use autoplay videos. And if you absolutely have to have an animated banner, have it run through two, <em>maybe<\/em> three cycles and then stop. If you\u2019ve spun through twice and haven\u2019t gotten your audience\u2019s attention yet, you aren\u2019t going to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Think about mobile and mobility.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you specifically don\u2019t want people to be able to avoid your ads, but sorry, you need to actually make a <em>point<\/em> of making them avoidable. You should already be optimized for mobile, of course, but if you aren\u2019t, be sure any buttons to play or pause or escape your ads are big enough to hit with a big ol\u2019 callused farmer thumb on a tiny touchscreen. On desktop, make sure those buttons are easy to access by someone who has limited mobility or is navigating using only their keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Make ads that people don\u2019t hate.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aforementioned PageFair report, 77 percent of adblocker users said they did find some kinds of ads to be okay \u2014 the non-interruptive kind, like static banner ads and skippable videos. Many users have even explicitly agreed to be served such \u201cacceptable\u201d ads by their adblocker. So a good rule of thumb for advertisers interested in making non-obnoxious ads would be to follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/adblockplus.org\/acceptable-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"criteria for size, placement, and so on defined by the Acceptable Ads Committee (opens in a new tab)\">criteria for size, placement, and so on defined by the Acceptable Ads Committee<\/a>, which is a real thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to take advantage of the many benefits that audio and video can provide, go with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/digital\/how-click-to-play-is-changing-the-realm-of-video-advertisements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click-to-play video (opens in a new tab)\">click-to-play video<\/a>. That puts your audience in control and is shown to provide better completion rates, click-through rates, and post-view engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vieodesign.com\/blog\/new-data-why-people-hate-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VIEO Design\u2019s Max Willner (opens in a new tab)\">VIEO Design\u2019s Max Willner<\/a> said in a blog post that you should absolutely go read in its entirety right now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Successful digital ads don&#8217;t overtly disrupt the consumer&#8217;s browsing experience in an intrusive or annoying way. They make sense in the content and location where they&#8217;re placed, look professional, are easy to understand and use. They are well targeted to the consumer, so they&#8217;re relevant and speak the consumer&#8217;s language. They&#8217;re clear about what&#8217;s being offered, so people don&#8217;t feel tricked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Importantly, great digital ads give people clear choice: to play the video, to close the pop up, to click on a clear call-to-action. As Dr. Robert Cialdini points out in his famous research on the psychology of persuasion, people want to act consistently with their prior choices. When consumers feel like they made a choice to opt in, they&#8217;ll take the content of your ad more seriously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, it comes down to KPIs. If what you\u2019re trying to achieve with your campaign is the greatest possible number of impressions, then go ahead, I guess, roll on. If what you\u2019re trying to do is make a <em>good<\/em> impression on your audience, and actually have them like you and want to engage with your brand in the end, there are far better ways of doing it than assaulting them with intrusive ads. Your audience is smart and discerning, and that means you should be, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Also, if you\u2019re a publisher, be up-front with your advertisers if you don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to be able to deliver on a contract, rather than just turning their campaign into the advertising equivalent of a teething, chain-smoking baby in a neon-green romper sitting next to you in coach. A little honesty means a lot.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers Insurance Group recently pulled a million-dollar advertising deal with G\/O Media after editorial staff spoke openly about how autoplay video ads are the absolute worst. 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