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Gaana.com introduces skippable videos ads like YouTube

Following on the footsteps of YouTube's TrueView ads, Gaana.com now has skippable and non-skippable video ads to users on its platform. Unlike YouTube where the skip ad button pops up after 5 seconds, the skip button on Gaana pops up after 15 seconds, which is half the length of a standard TV commercial. The ads seem to play after every couple of songs on the website. Why Video Ads? It is not clear why an audio website would introduce video ads, given that people can listen to Gaana even with the window minimised, but we would guess that there are two reasons: it's easier to get video ads for the web as opposed to audio ads, and the growth of video advertising  driven by YouTube has allowed Gaana to get a share of that pie (leftovers?). A listener might not watch the video, but will have to hear the audio, so the video part of the ad could be pitched as a value add. Gaana used to have a voiceover that indicated that "you're listening to gaana.com", which might have been a placeholder for an audio advertisement, but that probably didn't work out. Gaana has also had banner ads on its website, but the site being live doesn't guarantee that the ad is seen. Ads in the stream (video and audio) are more disruptive, hence, better for an advertiser. 15 seconds seems too long to skip an ad, so we wonder why it even has an option to skip. Of course, there are…

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