YouTube Announces New Opportunities to Place Your Ads Alongside Popular Music Clips

Recent off its latest protection of Coachella 2023, YouTube has introduced two new ad options that may higher allow advertisers to faucet into rising music traits.

The primary is uncreatively titled ‘Gen Z Music’ which can allow manufacturers to indicate their promotions alongside the newest trending music clips.

As defined by YouTube:

“It’s a no-brainer that songs by the likes of Bad Bunny, Doechii and Rosalía are popular with Gen Z, but most brands don’t realize that classic hits by Cyndi Lauper and underground music from the latest soon-to-be superstars are popular with Gen Z on YouTube, too. To align your brand with the music most popular with Gen Z at the moment, we’re launching the Gen Z Music package, which leverages AI-powered signals across YouTube to identify songs trending with Gen Z, so you can reach them with the music they know and love.”

So it’s primarily a trending music placement choice, which can make it simpler for manufacturers to showcase their promotions in connection to the newest trending music clips.

So the subsequent time somebody makes a TikTok clip to a Fleetwood Mac music, which drives folks to search around for the observe on YouTube, you’d be capable of faucet into that rising recognition, and get your model aligned with that clip.

YouTube’s additionally creating a brand new ‘Trending Music on Shorts’ providing, which can primarily present the identical placement alternative inside Shorts clips.

“Music takes on a life of its own on Shorts, skyrocketing in popularity through trends and challenges. These Shorts receive millions of views and speak to all the creative ways in which Gen Z uses short-form video on YouTube to express themselves and connect with artists. Soon, your brand can get in on the love by surrounding Shorts using trending music.”

So it’s cashing in on the newest music traits, by way of advert placement choices, which can doubtless come at some value, given the views and engagement such content material sees. Nevertheless it may very well be an efficient option to construct model consciousness, and maximize attain and resonance by affiliation.

Which may very well be a helpful consideration. YouTube says that it now has over 100 million songs in its YouTube Music catalog, with world and localized variations of trending tracks in over 100 international locations, and 80 languages.

That presents vital alternative, and it might nicely be a superb means to maximise your branding and promotional efforts. If you happen to can afford it.

You may learn extra about YouTube’s new music placement choices here.