Topic - Online Video & retail
On the Importance of AB Testing to Measure Landing Page Video ROI
You’re already spending part of your budget on Search Engine Marketing. You’ve done your research into the most effective keywords for your product and you spend some time every day looking at incoming traffic numbers and the traffic sources. We know that traffic is important in helping you achieve the goals you have set for your site, but what else should you be concentrating on?
Original Web Video Series = Success for Retail Shopping
The economic uncertainty combined with a shift to digital marketing has lead to more companies jumping on the interactive alternative of online video as part of their brand strategy. The core reasons for digital media’s success may be explained in unique areas that cannot be covered by traditional marketing methods such as instant lead to a product, an interaction with the audience, cheaper cost, and it’s unrestricted availability 24/7 at the consumer’s convenience.
Creating Videos for Business on a Shoestring Budget
Think it’s too expensive to start marketing your business using online video? Think it’s too complicated to start marketing your business using online video? Nope and nope. Use the powerful one-two punch of the Flip camcorder and Animoto to make stunning video on a shoestring budget.
Online Video and Brand Guidelines – Challenges and Tips
In this podcast episode, I discuss my experiences with companies’ brand standards policies, and how video marketers can understand and follow them (as well as protect themselves) when producing, publishing and promoting video online for business.
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SMBs Fall in Love with Free, Custom Online Video
Great news for SMBs who are looking to increase their online presence with video. Turnhere just launched a promotional sweepstakes titled “Fall in Love with Video” to give away 100 free, custom-produced video profiles a week (that’s 400 total) for the month of September. In addition, they are awarding the top 4 grand prize winners a $1000 gift card.
Defining ROI for Online Video: A Fluid & Frank Discussion
Mark Portu, CEO of The FeedRoom, looks back at the first 10 years of online video and offers practical advice on achieving ROI
Over the years, we’ve seen Web video evolve from a relatively nascent, one-way mass medium into a popular and far-reaching platform for delivering engaging, online user experiences. Not unlike the Web itself, online video has truly transformed the way that content creators and audiences engage, share, learn and collaborate. No longer viewed as “emerging” technology, tools for creating, managing, distributing and measuring video content have matured to the point that we enter our second decade in a business climate where online video is not only widely accepted, but also expected.
eTailers Improve ROI with Video Says Adobe Scene7 White Paper
A new white paper has been released by Adobe Scene7, the rich-media enterprise solution, detailing how eTailers are using Video to better ROi. I got my hands on it and have the juicy details below (albeit in brief of course) along with my thoughts.
Online Ad Effectiveness Rivals TV? Yep!
I just wrote (yesterday) that we need some sort of study of online video ads versus TV ads. Oddly, here’s a study that did almost exactly that. They didn’t focus on video advertising online, unfortunately, but they’re near the mark.
Brightroll’s Successful Q2 2009
Brightroll is..well, on a roll. Their latest quarter numbers show why they have become the third-largest property tracked by ComScore (behind Google and FOX), and the only ad network in the top ten.
The Focus on Monetizing Online Video
Gone are the day of just simply putting video online for fun (for the majority of us). Now it’s all about earning revenue or utilizing the video to push a product/brand. Sure it’s still in its infancy and we’ve got a lot of issues to resolve before it becomes totally mainstream, but just consider it like a ‘beta test,’ at least for now.
Intangible Values of Online Video – Beyond Monetization
D2DVD recently blogged about whether or not online video has some sort of value not based in money. While many of us equate popularity and views with value ,some of us might have forgotten about a great deal of other avenues that might be considered to have value for the creators. Sure retail sales tracking and ad revenue are valuable, but what else is there?
YouTube Adds Call-to-Action Overlays – Drive Action off YouTube
You want to measure impact on retail sales of your product for your online video campaign on YouTube? Well now they’re helping you do that with a new overlay that can even help drive that impact deeper into your business and allow you to link off-site.
