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Neglect the post-cookie future. For Dailymotion, user-based focusing on is already a factor of the previous.

“We do little or no to no user-based focusing on,” stated Hamza Kourimate, VP and world head of gross sales advertising and knowledge options at Dailymotion. “Ninety-five % of the time, we’re utilizing contextual focusing on.”

Kourimate spoke to AdExchanger on how the video platform is utilizing its first-party knowledge trove to construct a contextual framework for video.

AdExchanger: Does Dailymotion take into account itself extra of a video platform or a writer?

HAMZA KOURIMATE: Dailymotion is a video platform powered by an in-house video participant. However we’re additionally a tech firm that gives that video participant to publishers.

Do you principally promote adverts programmatically or direct?

We do each. We constructed our personal SSP. We used Freewheel, however we determined, for the sake of optimizing the availability path, it will be higher to have our personal SSP and to have extra management over our stock and our costs.

For direct gross sales, we have now a workforce of greater than 50 sellers worldwide. We additionally promote PMPs [private marketplaces] and programmatic assured.

What’s Dailymotion’s strategy to contextual focusing on?

Each video uploaded to our servers – on-site or from our companions – is algorithmically analyzed for content material body by body. We additionally transcribe the audio and run a textual evaluation. And we analyze the video’s metadata, like the outline and title. Every video will get related to a collection of subjects that may be utilized to the IAB’s content material taxonomy or different content material taxonomies, and we go these classes within the bid request.

Our analysis wing analyzes cohorts of individuals partaking with sure content material and what different behaviors they exhibit. For instance, our latest examine on World Cup viewing habits discovered individuals who watch soccer content material usually tend to watch political and residential and backyard content material. Information like that helps us construct extra advanced contextual focusing on.

Is Dailymotion’s advert income rising?

We’ve seen progress the previous two years. Our greatest progress space the previous three years isn’t video however show placements on Dailymotion.com offered by means of header bidding.

We focus solely on instream video and don’t do any outstream. We’re seeing alternatives from companies driving budgets from outstream to in-stream, as a result of in-stream attracts extra person consideration and supplies higher view-through charges (VTR) and viewability.

What are Dailymotion’s plans for weathering a attainable recession?

H2 goes to be powerful, particularly after we had an incredible H1. However I used to be studying an IAB examine on which industries are going to drive progress in H2, and it was primarily excessive tech, gaming and CPG. We focus lots on contextual focusing on for the high-tech vertical. We’re engaged on a gaming examine so we will supply shoppers a method to focus on these audiences. And our second greatest shopper within the US is a CPG model.

Are you interested by consideration metrics?

When there’s a video advert enjoying, your eye is drawn to the skip button. So interactivity is essential. When an individual interacts with a recreation mechanic in your pre-roll, you get extra of their consideration. Interactivity boosts incremental efficiency in video completion charge (VCR), advert memorization and model consciousness. Proper now, we’re operating checks to grasp how customers behave after they see an advert on Dailymotion.com or our community of publishers.

What do you suppose of the present push for platforms to emulate TikTok’s vertical video format?

One of the best ways to optimize consideration metrics is by having a large video participant, [not vertical video]. We see a transparent relationship between having a big, extensive participant and good efficiency.

We offer writer tips on one of the best ways to embed our participant. And we see the identical degree of efficiency on websites that comply with our tips as we see on Dailymotion.com. However for others who don’t adjust to our tips, we see worse efficiency in comparison with extensive participant integrations.

What’s your strategy to model security?

As a result of we don’t monetize UGC, we assure that adverts won’t run on movies that we have now no understanding of or suggestions on.

Our participant is natively built-in with third-party companions like Moat, IAS and DoubleVerify. And we have now a workforce that screens content material on Dailymotion.com and our community of publishers.

Is Dailymotion benefiting from a shift in advert spend away from linear TV towards streaming video?

We don’t have knowledge on this for the US. However Dailymotion is a part of Vivendi, a French media group that additionally owns broadcasting community Canal+. Over the previous 12 months, Canal+ has seen a 30% improve in funding on digital, that means on linked TV (CTV) and streaming, and a slight lower in linear TV. France is a reasonably conservative media market, the place TV, print and radio are nonetheless robust and CTV is much less mature than it’s within the US. And even on this conservative market, we’re observing that development.

How is Dailymotion in CTV?

Our Dailymotion app is current on CTVs. We’ve some stock within the US. However CTV shouldn’t be our important concern as we speak. We’re specializing in embedding our participant into extra publishers.

This interview has been edited and condensed.