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Q3 2020
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4 Campaign Breakdown
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Tech Industry
9 Gaming Industry 29 - 37
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The data presented in this report was collected from over 20,000,000 YouTube
videos. All of the YouTube influencer data that is contained in this report was
captured by the NeoReach Social Intelligence API. Videos were required to comply
with proper FTC disclosure regulations. Our analysis included sponsored YouTube
videos posted between the months July through September 2020. We further
refined this data to target YouTube videos of influencers located in North America,
solely in the United States and Canada.
Of the selection of YouTube videos which met these criteria, this report showcases
only those brands and companies that activated campaigns with sponsored content
achieving at least 10,000 views. The resulting data set consisted of over 8,800
YouTube videos.
Therefore, the following report does not include all sponsored content on YouTube
during the Q3 period. However, it does include the top spending brands and
industries for influencer marketing on YouTube for Q3 2020.
Out of the 1,775 brands that used proper FTC disclosure of advertisement, ad or
sponsored videos on YouTube in Q3, the top 19 industries with the highest spend are
analyzed in this report. NeoReach’s analysis for Q3 provides a more granular look at
the data on influencer marketing on YouTube for greater insights into the state of
influencer marketing for brands, marketers, and creators.
Of the top spending 19 industries in Q3, the combined spend on YouTube sponsored
videos totals more than $196M. That is just under a 9% increase in total spend from
Q2. The top spending industries of 2020 remain – Tech, Gaming, and Food & Drink
– with reach more than doubling since last quarter at a 51% increase.
There was a pool of 8,893 qualifying YouTube videos in this quarter’s data set.
Brands continue to join in on the influencer marketing investment with 236 more
brands participating in Q3 and over 12.5M sponsored views as a result
Views by Industry
Week
Activision Hasbro
Campaign
Brand Objectives Q3 2020 % of Total
Contest/Giveaway 226
106 3.57%
1.19%
We broke campaign objectives into four main categories. Most of the YouTube
sponsorships promoted a limited time offer or drove brand awareness at 89.6% with
a fairly even split among the top 5 industries. Looking at the industry breakdown,
Tech leads in 3 of 4 categories and Gaming dominates in driving downloads for Q3.
Tech Gaming Food & Drink Fashion Beauty Tech Gaming Food & Drink Fashion Beauty
Industry Industry
Tech Gaming Food & Drink Fashion Beauty Tech Gaming Food & Drink Fashion Beauty
Industry Industry
Brandto Action
Calls Q2 2020
Q3 % of Total
Enter Giveaway 82
37 0.92%
0.58%
Almost a 50-50 split for campaigns choosing to use a call to action of Click Link in Bio
or Direct Purchase Page. The data breakdown continues to show favor towards the
ability to track and measure ROI of YouTube influencer marketing spend. Of the 8,170
qualifying videos, 91% opted for a direct link. The distribution within each of the calls
to action among the top industries shows no clear pattern for Q3.
Industry
Dedicated Videos Integrated Videos
Industry
Content Type Q3
Q22020
2020 % of Total
Dedicated 1,163
1,468 18.38%
16.51%
Integrated 2,944
4,272 46.52%
48.04%
Following the trends of Q2, Integrated content is again the dominant content type
accounting for 48.04% of videos. Tied in second are Dedicated videos and
Description Only. Gaming overtakes Tech in the top spot for Dedicated videos while
Tech out numbers the other industries in the three remaining content type categories.
Supernova
$10M+
Macro
$1M+
Mid Tier
$500K+
Micro
$250K+
Nano
$100K+
Total Category
Influencer Tier # of Brands
Spend
Supernova 1 $12M
Macro 30
22 $63M
$91M
Micro 44
66 $16M
$24M
Only one brand ranks within our Supernova spending level categorized at over $10M of sponsored
YouTube videos. NordVPN spent $11.9M in Q3, while Q2’s trio of Supernovas – Honey, Bang Energy,
and Express VPN – all descended to Macro status. The top 6 brands invested over $50M in
sponsored YouTube content alone. Across all tiers, the total brand spend of those investing over
$100K as a brand is $170.6M or 87% of the report’s total IMV.
The top 10 brand spending accounts reached nearly 6 billion – a 1.6 fold increase from Q2. This
reach comes from only 654 influencers across 1,677 videos. Furthermore, 7 out of 10 of the top
brands are repeat top spenders from the past quarter.
Spender
(BY SPONSORED YOUTUBE VIEWS)
From NordVPN to Epic Games, the spend ranges across $8.7M in estimated brand
spend between the #1 and #10 spots. Believe it or not, the top 10 spenders of Q3
amount for only 33% of the total estimated spend. These 10 brands achieve a total
spend of $65M on YouTube sponsored videos.
Each of the highest spending brands of Q3 come from the top 5 industries – Tech,
Gaming, Food & Drink, Fashion, and Beauty. Once again, our data confirms the highest
spending industries on YouTube also have the highest spending individual brands.
Average Ad Length
Average Ad Length (in seconds)
Integrated Videos
Call to Action
Campaign Type
Q3 Week
A new addition to this quarter’s report, NeoReach has included a weekly breakdown of
the highest spenders on YouTube. The quarter’s brand showcase – NordVPN – is the
top spender 5 out of 14 weeks. In total, the weekly top spenders invested $37.7M in
sponsored videos.
Bang Energy spent the most in the first week of July at $5.8M, then NordVPN came in
second with $5.7M later in the month. 79% of the weekly top spenders spent over $1M,
with 43% over $2M and 36% spending more than $4M.
542 8.56%
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Only one of the top 10 brand spenders made the list – Honey – but, the brand is
featured in 3/10 most notable influencer partnerships. The biggest name creators are
able to guarantee brands a huge return on investment for their influencer marketing
campaign.
In a less obvious depiction, the increase in IMV of millions of dollars did not create
substantial growth in views when considering all industries together. Q3 experienced
a 12.7M increase in sponsored views, a less than 1% increase. However, we cannot
apply this aggregate lack of growth to the industry or brand level as you will see later
in the report.
IMV
Dollars
Quarter
Quarter
Reach and sponsored videos continue to display the growing success of influencer
marketing as a channel that drives high returns no matter the industry.
Total Reach
Reach
Quarter
Total Videos
Videos
Quarter
The Tech industry sponsored 65% more videos in Q3 with an almost doubled IMV
than Gaming. With these superior stats above, Tech brands saw more than 2x the
views and engagement.
Metrics Q3 2020
Content Type
Tech
Content Type
Honey
NordVPN $11,967,733.74 70,314,086
ExpressVPN
Honey $9,830,037.98 60,308,056
ExpressVPN
Amazon $9,456,993.32 68,649,404
SkillShare
Skillshare $3,867,587.38 23,294,011
Spending over $40.8M, the Tech industry’s top 5 brand spenders continue to reinforce that sponsored
YouTube videos are an effective marketing channel. Their IMV makes up about 60% of the total
industry spend. With 261M views collectively, these top spending brands also account for 57% of the
total Tech industry views.
This grouping of brands – NordVPN, Honey, ExpressVPN, Raycon, and SkillShare – hold the majority
share of the technology industry’s investment in YouTube influencer marketing.
Quarter Quarter
Quarter Quarter
87 2.2B 5.7M
Videos Reach Likes
Metrics Q3 2020
Total Videos 87
Total IMV $11,967,733.74
Total Reach 2,194,318,000
Total Views 70,527,753
Total Likes 5,680,424
Avg. IMV $137,560.16
Avg. Views 810,664
38M
105M $3.7M
$1M 27M
5M 1.4M
560K
Reach IMV Impressions Likes
Honey Raycon
LG
Metrics Q3 2020
Mimicking the campaign type favorites of Q2, Gaming utilized mainly Branding and
Awareness and Download or Install as campaign goals. The industry’s calls to action
also primarily fell into the two categories driving direct sales.
Of the 1,431 sponsored videos, Gaming incorporated a variety of content types, using
some of each kind from Dedicated to End Card.
Content Type
Gaming
Content Type
Arkade
Raid Shadow Legends $2,745,799.68
$3,072,295.84 7,546,283
17,681,323
Ubisoft
Monster Legends $3,569,234.52
$2,411,722.98 24,438,644
6,920,176
Activision
Just Die Already $1,601,063.48
$1,625,451.42 6,183,827
11,807,124
Raid Shadow Legends
Com2us $1,090,686.04
$1,198,265.14 3,315,840
76,868,708
Battling Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and other rising streaming platforms created to target gamers,
YouTube retains its crown as the most effective channel for influencer marketing sponsored content in
the Gaming industry.
The top 5 Gaming brand spenders on YouTube made a collective investment of $12.7M. That accounts
for 39% of the total industry spend with 30% coming from the top three spenders – Epic Games,
Arkade, Ubisoft.
With the NeoReach Social Intelligence API, Gaming brands can dominate the industry by determining
where their best investment is for influencer marketing to get the highest reward.
Total sponsored views, however, decreased by 5.7% this quarter. Despite the lower
view count, the 478 influencers activated by Gaming in Q3 amassed 1.4M more
engagements than Q2.
Quarter Quarter
Quarter Quarter
73 19M 1.3M
Videos Reach Likes
Metrics Q3 2020
Total Videos 73
Total Reach 19,298,880
Total Views 21,020,391
Total Likes 1,323,492
IMV $3,224,025.78
Avg. IMV $44,164.74
Avg. Views 287,951
11.4M
53M $1.2M
$1.9M 9.8M
16.9M 323K
550K
Reach IMV Impressions Likes
Activision Arkade
Lilith Games
Metrics Q3 2020
Content type, on the other hand, saw a clear leader with integrated videos, but other
content types also had some representation in Q3.
Content Type
Food & Drink
Content Type
Reese’s
Bang Energy $14,343,462.38
$7,793,487 98,594,911
61,263,185
Bang Energy
Reese’s $3,793,453.10
$5,603,215 34,197,039
29,791,745
G FuelFresh
Hello $1,603,000
$2,243,860.40 10,282,558
1,047,036
G Fuel Market
Thrive $749,548
$765,935.54 5,742,863
5,394,117
Bright Cellars
Postmates $597.668.86
$588,137 4,050,893
4,445,542
The top 5 brand spenders in the Food & Drink industry cover a range of products. Their accumulated
YouTube sponsored video spend was $16.3M, 65.2% of the total industry spend. Q3 saw three repeat
high spenders – Bang Energy, Reese’s, and G Fuel – and a couple of new top brands. These top
brands amassed 115M views from 554 videos, which is 65% of the industry’s total views.
Other than the number of sponsored videos, Food & Drink did not experience the
same growth in Q3 as the industry had from Q1 to Q2.
Quarter Quarter
Quarter Quarter
Metrics Q3 2020
Total Videos 186
Total IMV $7,793,487
Total Reach 304,063,000
Total Views 61,263,185
Likes 2,549,714
Avg. IMV $41,900
Avg. Views 329,372
105M
3.9M 468K
$1.8M 6.3M
2.9M 840K
190K
Reach IMV Impressions Likes
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