Report: Directly place ads most viewable

According to the research, 49% of directly placed ads are viewable for about 1 second while at most 20% of all ads are viewable for 15 seconds or more. Perhaps a bit of a surprise - those above the fold ads were found to be less viewable that other ad formats.

Some interesting takeaways include:

• Service-oriented website, like travel booking sites, were found to have higher ad views
• Financial and Auto sites have the lowest viewability
• Religion/Spirituality and Home/Garden sites showed the highest ad viewability

"AdSafe analyzes over a billion ad impressions every day to help guide smarter, better informed decisions for buyers and sellers," said Scott Knoll, CEO of AdSafe Media. "We are excited to share this exclusive, first to market data with the industry to raise awareness around issues like ad collision and provide the latest research into highly debated topics, such as ad viewability and inventory quality overall. We are also committed to providing solutions to address problems like viewability and collision rather than just measure them. We are currently the only company providing proactive solutions to today's leading brand and performance risks."

One interesting note: the 2011 survey found adult content and illegal download sites held less than 10% of high risk inventory; for the 2012 survey nearly half of high risk inventory.

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