One of the most celebrated and reliable platforms for content creators is YouTube and one can count on it for brand awareness, brand engagement and brand recall. When a person has their own YouTube channel, they have to put in a lot of efforts into branding it personally. This is their medium of discovery for their business and can make significant financial additions to the monthly income. Here, in this post, you will see a better insight into YouTube CPM rates in Canada based on the different video ad types.
Even though it acts as a secondary source of revenue generation, it is a major help to content creators and gives a substantial source of income on reaching the 100k subscriber mark and if they have to keep up with the viewership of channel videos. The video ad CPMs differ based on several factors such as the niche of the video or the channels, the keywords being used and the intent is just some of the important metrics that decide the CPM rates of the ads that are served. At a larger level, the ads that get the highest CPMs in the auctions are those around digital SAS based products and the ones with the lowest CPMs are those that are targeted to general niches for the purpose of brand recall and video viewership campaigns. You will find a segmentation of the content category in accordance with CPM rates for YouTube.
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You must now, have a more explicit idea of the niches or content categories that can bring the highest and the lowest revenue and now, you can take a look at the kinds of YouTube ads and the ones that can bring the highest revenue in terms of CPM. So, YouTube classifies the ad types into these categories largely- display ads, overlay ads, skippable ads, non-skippable ads, bumper ads, and sponsored cards. Of these, display and overlay ads are the only kind eligible for desktop views and the others work well for both mobile and desktop.
YouTube Skippable Ads CPM in Canada
The video ads that a viewer can skip post having watched it for 5 seconds is skippable ads. In Canada, the CPM given for Youtube Skippable ads is about $11.36 for auction-based ads. It is important to note that the reserved skippable ads have a little higher CPM. From the user’s point of view, skippable ads are perfect and the user experience is good since these can be skipped if the viewed does not engage well the displayed ads.
YouTube Bumper Ads CPM in Canada
The ads of the short duration of about 6 seconds, is Bumper Ads and these are the ones sown mostly when skippable and non- skippable ads have lower demands. They usually have lower ad CPM than other ad types like for Canada, the CPM offered is $5.78. These are the perfect move for brand visibility and can help a lot, and the CPMs for this ad type is usually similar across most of the channels in comparison with other video ad unit types.
YouTube Display Ads CPM in Canada
The companion ads in the sidebar of the screen of the video when someone is viewing something on desktop or laptop is display ads. At times, YouTube also displays overlay ads, which is just another kind of display ads in cases where there is no demand for video ads. It is basically used as a backfill to monetize the remaining impressions at a much lower price. In Canada, the CPM for such ads is about $1.61. The CPMs for display ads can, in fact, be higher or lower than the mentioned CPM because they vary based on a large number of factors.
YouTube Non-Skippable Ads CPM in Canada
The ads that cannot be skipped and the user is necessarily required to watch the ad completely if they wish to continue seeing the video is non-skippable ads. The duration of these ads is about 15 to 30 seconds. They have the highest view rate and also the completion rate, which in turn gets them the highest CPMs. The only case when skippable ads would have higher CPM is when most of those are actually being viewed by the visitor. An important rule to remember here is that you have to enable the non-skippable ads in the monetization section of the individual video because it can remain unchecked. If your videos have high watch time, you can customize the setup of mid-roll ads on videos that last longer than 8 minutes.
YouTube Reserved vs. Auction Ads
The ads shown as reserved ads or auction ads are simple skippable and non-skippable ads. The auction ads are purchased quickly by advertisers and have no guarantee of any minimum fill commitments. While on the contrary, reserved ads have a specified fill quota which makes it priced slightly higher than auction ads. Most advertisers wish to get at least the guaranteed impressions for their ads and thus choose reserved ad type to get the minimum fill commitment. If your channel is seeing more of reserved ads, it is a great sign and must result in an increase in CPMs eventually.
YouTube CPM Rates in India for Educational Channel
On YouTube, it is very easy to target the K-12 audience because of a large number of educational and non-educational channels where they can be targeted. The supply side is larger in comparison with the advertiser’s demand-side and hence, the aggregate CPM of the channel is about a dollar or one and a half dollars. My educational channel has about 25K subscribers and you can see the channel metrics here.
YouTube CPM Rates in India for Lifestyle Channel
Another YouTube Channel of mine is tilted towards female audience and centres around makeup, grooming and lifestyle of and most of the audience is about 22-30 years of age. The total CPM is about more than one and a half dollars and that is excluding the display ads. However, the one who manages this account gets a lot of free products for brand reviews and ends up with goodies of more than 30K each month for reviews.
It is important for you to remember that YouTubers rely on revenue from direct sponsorships, brand endorsements, and personal branding. The revenue from YouTube advertising is barely 20% of the total that the content creators earn via external deals.
The starting years of YouTube are very challenging and you have to cross the 10K subscribers organically and then 100K subscribers too. You really just have to stick to it and continue working.