Twitter Extends In-Stream Video Ads and Sponsorships to Include K-Pop Content Worldwide

• Inserting
  a pre-roll video ad in front of premium video content such as K-Pop artists,
  variety show, and ‘Twitter Blueroom’
• Focus
  on supplying K-Pop video content and provide marketing opportunities for any
  brand targeting a young, high-engagement consumer audience around the world

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SEOUL, KOREA - Media OutReach - 1 February 2019 – Twitter is the best place for fans
all over the world to find out and talk about what’s happening in the K-Pop
world in real-time. Last year, the most Tweeted personality on a global scale
was K-Pop band BTS (@BTS_twt). There were also 56
million Tweets worldwide related to “2018MAMA” in December 2018, which is the
biggest K-Pop award ceremony every year. Additionally, the live Twitter
Blueroom for K-Pop band EXO (@weareoneEXO) in November
2018 was watched by 1.5 million people, setting the record for the most watched
K-Pop #TwitterBlueroom
ever.

 

With K-Pop being
one of the top global conversation drivers on Twitter, the platform has now
extended its In-Stream Video Ads to K-Pop content. This will allow brands
around the world to now run pre-roll video ads targeted at users who watch
K-Pop content on the platform. Aside from increasing the profit of video
content copyright holders on Twitter, it also enables brand advertisers to
easily reach a young, high-engagement consumer audience who wants to support
their favourite K-Pop bands by watching related videos on Twitter.

 

To further provide
advertisers a chance to maximise their campaign efforts, the platform also
extended In-Stream Videos Sponsorships to exclusive Twitter-produced K-Pop
content, allowing brands to insert pre-roll ads into video highlights of K-Pop #TwitterBluerooms.
These exclusive live Q&A sessions on Twitter with over 200 K-Pop artistes
and their fans have established engaging conversations worldwide, with an
average of 1 million viewership for each K-pop #TwitterBluerooms
in 2018. For example,
in December 2018, LG U+ was the first brand to work with Twitter on this new
advertising tool. Through the first sponsored Twitter K-pop Blueroom, LG U+
introduced their new performance video platform, U+ Idol Live, on a
global scale to K-pop fans, accumulating up to 1 million views.

 

Both In-Stream
Video Ads and In-Stream Video Sponsorships will also allow brand advertisers to
complement traditional advertising efforts through a synergistic effect with
digital video advertising. In addition, there are no regional restrictions,
allowing global brands to reach Kpop fans on Twitter in as many as 22 markets
including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Japan,
Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UK, United Arab Emirates and US. Twitter plans to
continue to expand the available countries of this service.

 

“In-Stream
Video Ads and Sponsorships for K-Pop content will be the new marketing
opportunity for brand advertisers to target young, high-engagement consumer audiences
in the global market,” said Yeonjeong Kim, Head of Global Content
Partnerships in Twitter Korea. “In particular, we will focus on providing
live #TwitterBluerooms,
behind the scenes of K-Pop artists as well as K-Pop music content that has
strong entertainment value and high cultural influential power on
Twitter.”

 

So far, Twitter Korea has partnered with the following
companies to provide premium video content related to
K-Pop music and K-Pop artists on Twitter:

 

• Arirang
  International Broadcasting (@arirangworld, @_Simplykpop, @arirang_ASC,@aplus_arirang, @arirangtvnews)
• DSP
  Media (@APRIL_DSPmedia, @KARD_Official)
• Fantagio
  Music (@offclASTRO, @WekiMeki, @offclastroASTRO, @fantagiomusic_)
• FNC
  Entertainment (@SF9official, @NFlyingofficial, @cherrybullet, @FNC_ENT)
• JellyFish
  Entertainment (@gu9udan, @the_verivery, @RealVIXX, @jellyfish_ent)
• Korea
  Herald (@Kpop_Herald)
• Plan
  A Entertainment (@Apink_2011, @VICTON1109, @PlanA_2011)
• RBW
  (@rbw_mamamo, @official_ONEUS)
• SBS
  Plus (@SBSPLUSNOW, @THEKPOP_SBSPLUS)
• Source
  Music (@gfrdofficial, @SOURCEMUSIC)
• Starship
  Entertainment (@OfficialMonstaX, @WJSN_Cosmic, @official_soyou, @G_BoyFriend@STARSHIPent)
• ThisIsGame
  (@thisisgamecom_)
• WM
  Entertainment (@8_OHMYGIRL, @OHMYGIRLJAPAN, @WM_ONOFF, @_B1A4OFFICIAL,@WM_ent)
• Woollim
  Entertainment (@Official_GNCD, @Official_IFNT, @Official_LVLZ, @woollim_ent)

On the other hand,
Nielsen Brand Effect Data (2017.11-2018.04) found that people who have viewed
In-Stream Video Ads on Twitter showed 60% more ‘Ad Recall’, 30% more ‘Brand
Awareness’, and 5% more ‘Purchase Intent’, compared to those who were not
exposed to the Ads.

 

Example Tweet for K-Pop Twitter In-Stream Video Ads

 

Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/Kpop_Herald/status/1087633988418600961

 

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