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BrightRoll Delivers 5X Increase in ROI

Is price commensurate with advertiser value? To shed light on this topic, BrightRoll conducted a study utilizing its groundbreaking VideoRank™ technology.

The study measured a variety of user engagement metrics across a group of high and low VideoRank™ sites. Results showed that viewers from sites with high VideoRank™ scores were:

38 percent more likely to [...]

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BrightRoll Heads to New York for the Inaugural BRX Video Summit

Fresh off the heels of our very successful eight-city V3 roadshow this summer, we’re very excited to start the countdown to our first-ever BRX Video Summit. This time we’re taking the Big Apple on October 5 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Midtown. In addition to an all-star line-up of expert panelists from Google, [...]

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What’s it Like to Work at BrightRoll? Summer Engineering Intern TJ Koblentz Tells All

Engineering at BrightRoll was everything I hoped for in a summer internship — and more. All my colleagues were super bright, friendly and more than a pleasure to work with. I was given tasks that made me feel like a real part of the team and even helped in debugging real company problems that [...]

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BrightRoll Does Outside Lands 2011!

By Lauren Mehr, Marketing Specialist, BrightRoll

As most San Franciscans are aware, the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival is a three-day “Coachella-esque” music festival and one of the biggest events in the city – if not the country. This year’s festival did not disappoint. Major headliners including The Roots, Foster the People, Phish, Arcade [...]

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Digital Advertisers Can’t Ignore In-Game Mobile Video Units

Mobile in-game

By Robert Palma, VP mobile video sales, BrightRoll

In-game advertisers will continue to play a huge role in the mobile ecosystem and revenue growth for years to come, driven primarily by mobile’s rapid growth and consumers’ willingness to pay for mobile games. According to a recent Nielsen study, 64 percent of smartphone users downloaded and [...]

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BrightRoll Migrates North, Opens Canada Operations

On Wednesday, we announced a new chapter in BrightRoll’s story – we’ve set up shop in Canada! For those of you keeping score at home, this is the eighth outpost and third country for BrightRoll. Our new office is situated in the heart of Toronto, headed by longtime online video veteran David Bellemare. He’ll lead [...]

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It’s the End of the Road for V3

As many of you know, it’s been a busy summer here at BrightRoll. We recently wrapped up V3: Video. Validation. Value, our first-ever educational roadshow, which stopped in eight cities across the U.S. to get people talking about online video. Instead of playing it safe, we asked questions that ignited conversation, debate, and excitement. We [...]

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BrightRoll Takes on the Twittersphere, Vol. V

It may be the height of summer, but despite crippling heat waves and pending debt crises, we’re still manning our battle stations and scouring the web to figure out what’s making the online video world all a-Twitter right now. Our top stories, below.

Fox Drops Sledgehammer on Hulu, Ad-Based Online TV Viewing

On July 26, [...]

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Not all Data is Created Equal in Digital Video

In case you missed it: Daryl McNutt, our own SVP of research and marketing at BrightRoll, took the stage with Nancy Neumann, VP of platform development at eXelate, during last week’s OMMA Behavioral event in San Francisco. OMMA Behavioral brings top industry pros in media, marketing and technology together to talk targeting in digital advertising.

The presentation, [...]

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BrightRoll Represents at Stevie Awards in NYC

Tod Sacerdoti Stevie

I was honored to represent BrightRoll at the Stevie Awards ceremony for the American Business Awards Monday night in New York. BrightRoll was contending for two honors: BRX, our automated ad buying platform, was nominated for Business Innovation of the Year in the Other Services category, and I was nominated for Executive of the Year [...]

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