Accerstus Digital
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Streaming

Video and audio advertising now sit on YouTube, connected TV, music apps and broadcaster streaming, alongside phones that still carry most of the audience. We plan streaming buys for how households here actually watch: shared TVs, prepaid data, and sound-off viewing on mobile.

Television in a living room, representing streaming video
YouTube
Industry audience reports consistently place YouTube among the top video destinations in South Africa, Kenya and other African markets. Treat that as reach context, not a booked GRP.
CTV
Industry trend: connected-TV inventory is growing where fibre and smart TVs exist, concentrated in metros. It is not yet a national replacement for all TV.
Data
Industry reality: prepaid mobile data still shapes whether a 15-second ad is finished. We spec lengths and bitrates accordingly.
Audio
Industry listening: music apps and remaining radio streams still reach people in transit. Audio is a line in a streaming plan, not an afterthought.

Industry benchmarks, not Accerstus client results. Verify before citing.

We buy screens and speakers people actually finish.

FRAMEWORK APPROACH

Streaming is not 'digital TV' as a slogan. It is a set of inventories with different measurement, creative ratios and household versus personal devices. We map those before we talk CPMs.

Split living-room and pocket.

CTV and YouTube on a television need different sound, end cards and frequency from in-feed vertical. We do not crop one master for both and hope.

Spec creative for completion.

Lengths, captions, pack shots in the first seconds, and a landing experience that works after a skip. Heavy files that stall on 4G do not run.

Include audio where it reaches.

Streaming audio and digital radio still fill time that video cannot. The brief names the listening context: taxi, shop floor, headphones.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

No implied broadcaster deals

DStv, Showmax and similar are market facts. We do not claim an exclusive partnership on this page. Buys run through the seats the client can access.

Completion over vanity views

A cheap view that skips at second two is not awareness you can defend. We brief on quartile and cost per completed view where the platform allows.

Brand safety is a list

Adjacent inventory on user-generated platforms is controlled with exclusions and suitable-for-work settings, documented in the plan.

Measure the hop after the ad

QR, search lift, promo codes. Streaming that cannot be tied to any action still needs an honest KPI, not a borrowed ROAS from search.

Streaming plan
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FRAMEWORK EXECUTION

Video and audio plans with device-true creative.

  • Inventory map: YouTube, CTV, audio
  • Creative ratios and caption specs
  • Frequency and household caps
  • Brand-safety and exclusion lists
  • Completion and site-side measurement

PLATFORMS THAT WE WORK WITH

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Frequently Asked Questions

It includes in-stream and in-feed video on platforms such as YouTube, connected-TV inventory where we have a buying seat, and digital audio. Linear TV buying is a separate brief if you need it.
Only through the inventory and partners those businesses actually make available to advertisers. We will not imply a private deal that does not exist.
No. Bumper lengths suit some jobs; 15 and 20 seconds still earn completion when the first seconds work. We spec length to the platform and the story.
YouTube can be run at modest tests. Premium CTV often needs more concentrated spend to learn. We will say when a budget cannot buy a useful sample.

Ready to plan video for how people watch?

Talk to us about streaming