Pre-Roll Video Advertising That Turns Views Into Customers

Where We Put Your Pre-Roll Ads to Work

YouTube Pre-Roll Ads

Skippable, non-skippable, and 6-second bumper formats, produced through our dedicated YouTube video production service and targeted to match your goal, from broad reach to guaranteed message delivery.

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Connected TV & Streaming

Pre-roll placements on the streaming apps and CTV inventory your audience is already watching.

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Programmatic Video

Real-time bidding across premium publisher video players, with creative sequencing so the same viewer sees a coherent story across multiple exposures instead of one ad on repeat.

Both, and that's by design. The same team scripts, shoots, and buys the media, so your creative is built to perform in the exact placements we're targeting - no handoff, no mismatched specs, no wasted spend.

Why Brands Choose lavamedia.us for Pre-Roll Video Advertising

Running pre-roll campaigns that actually perform takes more than buying inventory. Here's what you get when you work with us:

Full-Service Production, No Outside Vendors

Your pre-roll video ad is scripted, shot, and edited in-house, drawing on our Brand Video and B2B Video production experience — including multiple cutdowns (6-, 15-, and 30-second versions) so your message performs whether a viewer skips at five seconds or watches through. Every project goes through our own post-production services, so there's no handoff to an outside vendor and no delay waiting on someone else's schedule.

Audiences That Are Actually Watching

We combine first-party data, contextual signals, and platform-native targeting to put your pre-roll ads in front of the people most likely to act — and we keep refining placements as real performance data comes in, so your budget stops paying for impressions that don't move the needle.

Every Dollar Tracked, Every Result Reported

You'll always know exactly where your budget goes — platform, placement, audience segment, and creative variant — with reporting built around the metrics that matter to your business, not vanity numbers.

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Ready to Get Your Brand in Front of Viewers Who Won't Skip?

Let's build a pre-roll campaign around your goals, audience, and budget — with our team handling strategy, creative, targeting, and reporting under one roof.

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How We Launch Your Pre-Roll Campaign

From strategy to reporting, here's how we take your pre-roll campaign from brief to launch.

Step 1 — Strategy & Audience Definition

Step 2 — Creative Production

Our in-house team produces platform-native pre-roll creative, drawing on our Promotional Video and TV commercial video expertise for multiple length cutdowns and format variants.

Step 3 — Media Planning & Buying

We select the mix of YouTube, connected TV, and programmatic video inventory that fits your budget and audience.

Step 4 — Launch, Optimization & Reporting

Your campaign is monitored and adjusted throughout the flight based on view-through, completion, and conversion data. You get clear performance reporting, and we apply what we learn to the next flight.

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Ready to Launch Your Pre-Roll Campaign?

From strategy to creative to media buying, we handle it all under one roof — so you can launch with confidence and start seeing results.

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"Lava Media took a complex B2B tech concept and turned it into a highly engaging, conversion-ready commercial in under 4 weeks"
Austin Trunnell
VP of Revenue, AMPD
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Industries We Work With

We tailor every pre-roll campaign to the audience, tone, and compliance needs of your industry, so the ad feels native to where it plays.

We've produced pre-roll campaigns across these industries:

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Startups & Tech
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FinTech & CyberSecurity
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Fashion & Apparel
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Plan Execution
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Landing Page A/B Testing
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Analytics Analysis
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Growth & Scale

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Growth System Setup
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Paid Ads Scaling
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Quick Primer: What Is a Pre-Roll Ad?

A pre-roll ad is a short video ad that plays before the content a viewer chose to watch, on platforms like YouTube, Connected TV apps, and premium publisher sites. Because the viewer is already watching video, pre-roll formats hold attention that banner ads and static placements can't, making them one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness and drive action in a single view.

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions About Pre-Roll Video Advertising

How much does a pre-roll ad campaign cost?

Cost depends on creative scope and media spend. Production typically starts in the low five figures for a 15-30 second spot with multiple cutdowns, and media budgets are flexible - we can launch a focused test or scale to a full multi-platform buy. We'll map out a plan and cost range in your free strategy session.

How fast can you launch a pre-roll campaign?

Most campaigns go from kickoff to live in 3-4 weeks: one to two weeks for strategy and creative, then media setup and launch. If you already have approved creative, we can often launch media in under a week.

What's the difference between pre-roll, programmatic video, and media buying?

Pre-roll is the ad format - a video that plays before content. Programmatic is how we buy that inventory, using automated, data-driven bidding across ad exchanges. Media buying is the broader discipline of planning and purchasing all of it. We use programmatic buying to place your pre-roll ads efficiently across YouTube, CTV, and premium publishers.

Do you handle both production and media buying, or just one?

How do you measure pre-roll performance?

We track view-through rate, completion rate, viewability, and ad recall lift, plus down-funnel signals like site visits and conversions where available. You get clear reporting after launch, and we optimize targeting and creative based on what's actually working.

Let's Build Your Pre-Roll Campaign

Let's discuss how pre-roll video can put your brand in front of the right viewers before they hit skip. Schedule a free, no-obligation strategy session.

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