Video Game Ads

MoreVisibility - January 24, 2007

Google announced this week it’s plan to to stretch it’s muscular arm into a new advertising medium. According to a Wall Street Journal article, Google is in talks with AdScape Media, whose specialty is advertising in video games for consoles like Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation. According to a PaidContent.org article, most new gaming systems offer the option of online game play, which makes this type of advertising possible. Google said “We are always considering new ways to extend Google’s advertising program to benefit our users, advertisers and publishers. In-game advertising offers one such possible extension among many others.” I think that this type of advertising will allow for an interesting edge in putting very targeted advertising in front of a virtually untapped audience, but I’m curious of how success will be tracked. Will this be a CPM project for branding or will players be expected to pause game play to visit a sponsor’s site? I will be very interested to see how this idea unfolds into statistics and conversion rates.

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