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NEW LAUNCH: The Brand Marketer’s Playbook for YouTube Success in 2026

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YouTube In-Feed Video Ads for Views or Reach

The Essentials

YouTube In-Feed Ads are upper-funnel thumbnails from your video that appear next to related videos, on the channel homepage, on the YouTube watch/discovery page, or as part of a YouTube search result.

Heart

Why Pix Loves Them

Attracts highly engaged users in the discovery and search phases & enhances user experience due to appearance as native content.

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Limitations

Requires click to play, so the user must take the extra step to click the thumbnail & watch the ad.

Top KPIs:

Impressions

Engagements

Is Pixie contextual targeting available?

Yes

Ad length:

Any (best practice: 15-30 seconds)

Runs on:

YouTube

GVP (can disable)

Google TV (can disable)

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