Trying to get ads to play across a variety of platforms: desktop, mobile, tablet, etc. can be a headache.

It's CES week and the press releases already started pouring forth on Monday. Since I won't be at CES this week I'll just compile all the interesting ones into this news round up for you. Some interesting things in terms of integration and TV everywhere ..

It's another week and there's all sorts of news popping up as usual.

YuMe has put out their Q2 2012 Video Metrics report that shows a good deal of information about the video advertising that they served up for the quarter. They found that pre-rolls still dominated with massive percentages of all ads shown with other formats like YuMe Ads, Connected TV, mobile, and banner ads accounting for a small fraction overall. California, Texas and New York consumed the most of them and men are more tolerant of online video ads

YuMe teamed with IPG Media Lab to do an extremely interesting study on ad effectiveness which included biometric tracking for emotional response, attention. With bio-feedback and eye-tracking, I do believe it might be a one of a kind study for online advertising, plus, I'm a science nerd of Peter Parker proportions, so I'm totally excited to dive into it! So all that fancy schmancy technology they used should have given some pretty interesting insight into what it is people are doing, how they're consuming, how they react and how they look at online advertising. But, as with all studies, I first want you to see how they collected the data, so here it is.

Following up on my previous article from the YuMe Connected TV White Paper which focused on advertising and ad-supported content, I also wanted to take a look at the content itself including what people are watching, when they watch it and, rather importantly, how they find it. Streaming TV and movies are viewed multiple times ...

YuMe has got some new research showing that online video viewers prefer ad-supported content over actually paying for content in a pay-per-view or subscription-based model while using their connected TVs along with a lot of other good information in

Summer roared into Wisconsin with highs in the mid-90s which, of course, meant my home office was unbearable and I had to try and escape as much as possible to cooler airs (and beverages). It's just 80 degrees in the office today so I thought I would quickly knock out the news round up before the mercury spikes and I have to run for refreshment. Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards Partners with AOL.com to Present Best Viral Video Series Award Wow really

I've been telling everyone to get on board the connected TV advertising train for some time, but then I never gave you a list of all of the places that are doing connected TV advertising. My apologies, I've been remiss in my duties. So here it is, the list of who's already in connected TV advertising and what they're offering

As advertisers, we often wonder where exactly all those impressions are going when we do a placement and more importantly, are people really seeing them. Now, YuMe is giving us answers to those questions with their new video ad Placement Quality Index, announced today . The new YuMe Placement Quality Index (PQI) is a proprietary algorithm that monitors and identifies the optimal placement of video ads on digital properties