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5 Social Video Marketing Lessons Brands Can Learn From the Olympics

The battle for Olympic success was not confined to the running track, swimming pool or boxing ring. London 2012 was also a golden opportunity for brands to create spreadable video content across the social web and amplify their message at a moment when the eyes ...

5 Elemental Lessons Learned in Sports Video Streaming For The 2012 Summer Olympics

Over the last several weeks, as the world tuned in to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, more than 20,000 broadcasters aimed to reach a global audience of 4 billion viewers with more than 4,000 hours of coverage. According to Sam Blackman, CEO and Co-founder ...

Nike’s YouTube Videos Snatch Gold from Jaws of Official Olympic Advertisers

According to Demitri Kalogeropoulos of The Motley Fool Blog Network, “There are 11 multinational companies that make up the official list of worldwide sponsors to the Olympic games. And to get on this list they each pay a hefty premium for their places near the ...

Top 20 Global Online Video Ad Campaigns For July 2012: Olympics, US Elections & Gymkhana

World records shattered every day, 10 million tweets sent during the Opening Ceremony alone and an ongoing brouhaha over the overbearing branding restrictions, you would think one event would dominate Unruly’s Global Ads Chart during July. But it is not the Olympics that sparked the ...

Twitter Considers Original Web Series, YouTube Redesigns Homepage, 2012 Streaming Olympics, & More [Reel Web #50]

This week's Reel Web covers a ton of information from YouTube's home page redesign, new analytic tools and b-roll videos from YouTube videos, to the ongoing debate between short form content and long form content, how you can watch the Olympics without cable and more. Twitter to Provide Original Content ...

Who is Making Money on YouTube from Olympic Ads?

Over the past two weeks, Chris Atkinson and I have looked at the Olympic Partners who are spending money on video ad campaigns in “Brands Race for Olympic Gold in Social Video Buzz With Unruly's Brand Tracker Infographic” and “Social Marketing Success for Brands: Socialbakers ...

Brands Race for Olympic Gold in Social Video Buzz With Unruly's Brand Tracker Infographic

We talked about Unruly's social video lab recently and we were able to get some insight into what makes videos successful.  This year's Olympics will be getting a load of attention from Unruly this summer and they'll be tracking the brands that garner the most ...

NBC Requiring Pay TV Subscriptions for Online Olympics Coverage, Erodes Olympic Values

The Olympics are the latest victim of big money, well OK, maybe not the latest. There's been big money wrapped up in Olympic Games and their coverage for years. But this year, NBC has decided that, if you want to watch online, you need to ...

Social Marketing Success for Brands: Socialbakers Shares Recipe in Time for London 2012 Olympics

Socialbakers has added YouTube to its Analytics PRO dashboard, which means that brands can now measure the effectiveness of their social marketing campaigns across three major social media networks. This includes Facebook, which had 157.0 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2012, according ...

Online Video Marketing Essentials One-Day Workshop Next Week | London UK

I probably receive an invite from the UK and across Europe every week to discuss how I can work together with Digital Marketers in one form or another in their country. While I really value these contacts and discussions, the demands of running such an ...

The Top 20 Global Online Video Ad Campaigns For May 2012

The supposed ‘Summer of Sport’ has not yet begun, but already brands are seizing on the opportunity to amplify their presence online. Three of the top 10 ads in May’s Global Ads Chart, powered by social video platform Unruly, revolve around the upcoming London Summer ...

The Most Shared Branded Online Video Ads For April 2012

Think nothing interesting ever happens in Belgium? Think again. TNT's Dramatic Surprise, filmed in a sleepy Belgian town to promote the launch of TV channel TNT, soared up Unruly’s Global Ads Chart last month.  Not only did it take top spot during April, but it has ...

2012 London Olympics to be Largest In-Stream Video Advertising Event Ever?

Yes, even the Olympics is getting in on the live streaming action this year. Now, no matter where you are or what timezone you're in you'll be able to catch you favorite Olympic events either live or on-demand.

YouTube Sends Envoys, Plays and Money to Push Video Advertising

This morning, Baljeet Singh, YouTube group product manager, introduced a number of new products, resources, and tools aimed at helping “even more businesses play big with video.”  In other words, YouTube is sending envoys, plays and money to boost video advertising via Google AdWords for video. ...

Social Video Works - The 2011 Social Video Advertising Report From Visible Measures

Today Visible Measures is releasing The 2011 Social Video Advertising Report, an annual review of how well social video advertising is performing as a whole. And as a whole, it's doing very, very well. Over 500 branded social video campaigns gained more than a million ...