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Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly defined and understood current and potential consumer bases with the objective of driving profitable customer action. Content marketing subscribes to the notion that delivering information to prospects and customers drives profitable consumer action. Content marketing has benefits in terms of retaining reader attention and im...

BlogWorld's NMX 2013 Offers Impressive Lineup of Web TV and Video Expertise

BlogWorld Expo, an industry event that we've been a part of for a few years, was originally focused on bloggers and podcasters. As with all things, bloggers are evolving and are becoming multimedia-oriented, content-marketing professionals. And, what's the hottest new media format for content marketing? ...

What B2B Videos Can Learn from What Goes Viral

First, tell a story about people. In B2B videos, it’s not enough to merely demonstrate, explain or show a product. Successful business video presentations, those that lead to more clicks or a phone call, are resonant, authentic, compelling and memorable. They achieve their effect by ...

How Red Bull's Marketing Wings Lifted Them to Most Powerful Brand in Social Video

I have used Red Bull a couple times in the past as an example of a company that understands the nature of branded online video content quite well and it seems that I'm not the only one that has noticed, as goviral's Social Video Equity Report ...

ZoomTilt TV Reset Finalists Vie for Branded Video Content Gold

ZoomTilt, which I wrote about a while back, is in the business of finding talented filmmakers who have got financially sustainable web series they want to make. In order for them to be financially sustainable, they need to appeal to brands who will sponsor them ...

Research Finds B2B Marketers Increasing Investments in Online Video for Content Marketing

It's been kind of a B2B week for me and what I've got covered. Earlier in the week LinkedIn announced that they've now got video ads. Today I've got some research from Brightcove, Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs that generally talked about content marketing for ...

The Next Frontiers for SEO and Online Video - Interview with Performics' Chris Keating

I recently had the chance to talk to Chris Keating, VP of SEO and Conversion Optimization at Performics.  Keating has been with the company for 7 years.  They do SEO for a couple of dozen "blue-chip" brands, including HP, Kohl's, Verizon Wireless, and RedBox.  A ...

Video Marketers Need to See the Big Picture: Lee Odden on the New Approach to OPTIMIZE

Video marketers are well aware that great content can increase a brand's online reach - but what happens when search engine optimization can actually harm those marketing efforts? We asked Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and author of ”Optimize: How to Attract and ...

The Impact of Editorial Video Content in Search Marketing: Interview with Touchstorm & KBS+P: Part 2

In Part 1 of our interview with Touchstorm's Alison Provost and Jeff Martin and KBS+P's Jonah Bloom, we talked a lot about what these two companies want to achieve for brands through editorial video content.  In the second part of the interview, we talk a ...

The #1 Key to a Successful Video Marketing Content Strategy (Creator's Tip #44)

It doesn't matter whether you are producing video for fun, profit or to market your brand, products or services, all video content has some kind of strategy surrounding it whether you are aware of it or not. In this week's Creator's Tip, we address the ...

4 Key Considerations for Business-to-Business Video Content [ReelPop Q&A]

ReelPop Q&A is a weekly question and answer series made possible by Poptent.  Each week we will choose to answer one question from a reader relating to best practices and strategies for online video marketing and advertising.  If you would like us to answer your ...

Going Beyond ‘Content is King’ In the UK - Coca Cola and Peugeot Experiment with Social Video

The adage ‘Content is King’ is now becoming something of a cliché, rolled out regularly to prove the author’s understanding that it’s not just hits that count, but how people perceive your message and what they do with it, turning viewers from passive observers to ...

Reuse, Recreate and Repurpose: Tips to Raising Your B2B Online Video Results [eBook Overview]

I recently pulled down an eBook by Knowledgevision and DemandGen Report. I hadn't heard of either but the topic was quite interesting, it was about Business-to-business online video and offered some tips an reusing, recreating and re-purposing existing content to better leverage that B2B online ...

Companies Focus in on Video for Branded Content Marketing

Back in 2009, 37% of North American companies used video for content marketing.  Last year, that number rose to 52%.  While almost every company uses websites, e-mails, and print media to get their message across, video is becoming more and more important.  We all knew ...

Next Gen YouTube, Mobile Marketing, SEO & More at SES New York 2012

SES New York 2012 is almost here, and I wanted to take a couple moments to highlight some of the most interesting-sounding sessions for those who are going--and gently prod anyone not planning to go to reconsider. SES is packed full of amazing sessions led ...

Coca Cola's Secret Branded Content Formula Revealed: Liquid Content

A couple of paragraphs further down, the secret formula of Coca Cola will be revealed.  Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice-President, Global Advertising Strategy and Creative Excellence at The Coca-Cola Company, calls it "liquid content.” But, before you go any further, I feel that I should issue a ...