The state of interactive video: How shoppable, personalized and clickable video elements are driving brand engagement and ROI

This State of the Industry report, sponsored by PadSquad, explores how brands and agencies deploy interactive videos for more relevant and engaging advertising experiences.

The digital video advertising market surpassed $191 billion in 2024, yet brands face an increasingly difficult challenge: capturing and maintaining audience attention in an oversaturated media landscape. Traditional video formats are losing their effectiveness as consumers encounter hundreds of video ads daily across multiple platforms and devices.

Interactive video advertising has emerged as a solution, transforming passive viewers into active participants through shoppable elements, playable ads, polls and other engaging features. These capabilities not only have the potential to increase engagement rates but they can also provide advertisers with real-time data about audience preferences and behaviors.

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Scope3 inks TikTok sustainability pact, reveals Brand Stories tie-up with OMG

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Three months since the unveiling of its agentic platform and Scope3, the latest startup from noted ad tech personality Brian O’Kelley, has unveiled a host of partnerships, including tie-ups with TikTok and Omnicom Media Group, among others.

Included in the pre-Cannes Lions raft of announcements is the debut of an agentic AI solution that enables brands to advertise where their narrative will resonate most, dubbed Brand Stories, plus tie-ups with Butler/Till and iHeart’s Triton Digital.

Scope3 CEO Brian O’Kelley claimed the parcel of partnerships is geared toward using AI to enhance sustainability and omnichannel measurement, with early testing showing brand safety results the company claims are a significant enhancement to legacy ad tech.

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