Article By: Joshua 'The Red' Russak (Red@aclion.com)

Every time the TV is on or the internet movie is rolling, everyone knows not to bug me during "commercial" time. I once thought that I was part of a small sect of "commercial" lovers, commenting on them, critiquing them, or simply sitting back and enjoying them. Well, I recently discovered an article that claims there are many more "commercial lovers" out there...

As I was browsing the AlleyInsider Blog for some good material and up-to-date news, I came across Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads! ...That's right! 3 Companies support the idea that someone "out there" manages to make it through the commercial. Now I'm not going to go as far as to say they enjoy the commercials as much as I do, but at least they're not flipping the channel any-time soon. Check out the stats below as quoted from AlleyInsider:

• Tremor Media says [...] only 20% of Web video watchers give up and leave when confronted with the pre-rolls it serves up. Or, as Tremor is putting it in a release later today, 80% watch the ads all the way through. [...] [A]udiences are willing to accept pre-roll advertising in exchange for content they want, on demand." And Tremor also says that its stuff is so good (it measured 65 million ad impressions across 100 different ad campaigns) that the bail-out rate didn't change if the ads were 15 or 30 seconds long.

• Break Media is claiming an even higher "completion rate" -- 87% -- for its pre-rolls, which includes a whole lot of user-generated video. Break's sample was a lot smaller than Tremor's -- 5.85 million impresssions. But we're equally skeptical of both numbers. We're certainly not anti-advertising, and we will indeed sit through some pre-rolls, when we know were getting good stuff we want to see. But there's no way we do that 8 out of 10 times.

• Brightroll, said last week it had just booked a $1 million pre-roll campaign, and that pre-rolls account for 50% of their business."

Now they haven't exactly pinpointed WHY, but the money is there and that's usually all that matters in order to convince the public that this form/method of advertising works. As for my commercial loving companions, our time to shine is just over the hill. Beware!