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Best Branded Viral Video Marketing Ads - Skittles Creeps You Out & QuadroCopters Play Tennis

Every week there are countless brands taking advantage of the word-of-mouth power of YouTube to spread ideas and thoughts about their company. Some execute their videos better than others. Of all the many branded videos that hit the web on a daily basis, two clips ...

Best Branded Viral Video Ads - Celebrity Endorsements With Twitter & Sony

Whenever I see a great piece of branded online video content, I try and pass it on to you guys. Brands are out at the leading edge of what's happening in online video, so there's an awful lot we can learn from their examples. Of ...

Web Video + Social Media Together Drive The Most Brand Engagement

We've been talking about the expansive eMarketer report, "7 Trends For Online Video Advertising Engagement," for most of this week, breaking down the first four trends they've outlined over two articles (part 1 & part 2). This is our third and final look, focusing on ...

How Targeted Online Video Advertising Impacts Audience Engagement

We're back with Part 2 of our look at eMarketer's exhaustive study, "7 Trends For Video Advertising Engagement." In Part 1, we looked at the recent changes in how advertisers measure engagement as well as some of the reasons for those shifts, such as an ...

Video Ad Engagement Metrics Are Changing & Consumer Choice Is A Factor

There's a new report out from eMarketer called "7 Trends for Video Advertising Engagement." It's a 23-page affair examining the ins and outs of video marketing engagement---how to engage viewers, how to measure engagement levels, and much more. It's exhaustive on the topic of online ...

Professional Web Video Consumption Up Almost 50% In 2010 Says Accustream

Accustream just recently published, Pro Online Video 1999 - 2014: Consumption and Category Share Analytics. I'm guessing that they're doing an extrapolation to the future based on trends that were ongoing so far in the industry. In their report they state "Professional video produced, published ...

AOL Video to Offer Comedic CliffNotes Videos, Kill Educational Reading Altogether

I have been doing some fair amount of coverage on the latest AOL Video initiative. Yesterday I reported that they had purchased GoViral over in the UK which creates and distributes branded video. Now today, AOL Video announced new original online content thanks to Mark ...

AOL Europe Picks Up GoViral, Online Video Service for $97M

AOL Europe (which sounds strange, America Online Europe), just picked up GoViral, an online branded video content provider over on this side of the pond, reported The Guardian. The company distributes branded video content guaranteeing audiences and user initiated video plays for advertisers on a ...

World's Most Popular Pitchman Returns - Old Spice Guy Is Back

2011 has already been a great (short) year for branded viral videos, but it's about to get a whole lot better.  Isaiah Mustafa, known across the Internet as "Old Spice Guy" is returning for a second engagement as the suave Old Spice pitchman. Currently the ...

With Branded Social Video Content, Shorter Is Better

Everyone's looking for ways to take their video and make it more social.  No one is after traditional views anymore--haven't you heard? Social views are where it's at. A viewer is just that... someone who views. A social viewer, however, is someone who views your ...

The Viral Future: What We Can Expect From Branded Video Advertising In 2011

Every website remotely related to online marketing has published a year-end list of the best videos of 2010--I even wrote one.  Most folks who wrote list articles like that just lumped all viral videos into the same pool, whether they were created by a brand ...

The Top Viral Video Marketing Lessons Learned From 2010

2010 was a spectacular year for viral video, as more people than ever uploaded, watched, and shared videos online. While it's virtually impossible to know what innovative videos await us in 2011, we can find some clues in a trip down memory lane. What can we learn from the year in viral video that might give us an edge in the year ahead?

Best Online Video Ad Campaign: Google's Nexus S Unboxed By Ninjas

I love video advertising that skewers the typical YouTube experience. I love when ads like this one for The Expendables or this one for Tipp-Ex appear on the surface to be standard YouTube videos, only to then make use of the entire screen, revealing themselves ...

Soon Branded Video Content Will Just Be Called Video Content

In my post yesterday entitled "The Future of Online Video, From Someone Who Should Know,” we took a look at a post by Google's Director of Product Management Shishir Mehrotra that laid out four ways that online video is currently evolving right before our eyes.  ...

Online Video Summit 2010 - A Day In Amsterdam With Video

Amsterdam, once the financial center of the world, will for one day, December 7th 2010, be the center of online video (at least for the Netherlands) with the Online Video Summit 2010. More than a dozen experts will offer insight into online video and what ...