social media Articles

Social media can be defined as “interactive platforms via which individuals and communities create and share user-generated content”. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” I.e. Social media are social software which mediate human communication. When the technologies are in p...

TED Outlines Formulas for Winning Video Ad Campaigns in Ads Worth Spreading Report

For the third year, TED and YouTube will be looking for the top 10 global ad campaigns in the Ads Worth Spreading Initiative.  And while TED does a good job of finding and showing ads that truly hit the mark, they didn't stop there.  They ...

Bodyform Video Apology Shows Brands How To Get Social Media Right

The practice of leaving negative comments or outright complaints on the social accounts of big brand companies is hardly new. Many disgruntled customers will turn on the public face of the corporation they want to vent about and, unless that brand knows how to react ...

A Case Study in How to Release Your Short Film Online

This week, Vimeo reprinted an article from Short of the Week creators Andrew Allen and Jason Sondhi called "How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher."  These filmmakers wanted their film to be seen by a larger audience after 8 months of festivals, ...

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 ...

How to Use Annotations to Link Directly to a Google+ Profile from a YouTube Video

The interactivity of YouTube videos can be a wonderful thing.  You can put links for other videos, create calls-to-action, point out something special about the video that a viewer may not notice, and so on.  Our friend Ronnie Bincer at Video Leads Online (he's a ...

The Mekanics of Storytelling for Branded Social Video Ad Campaigns: Interview with Mekanism

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Brendan Gahan, Director of Social Media at Mekanism, a digital ad agency that works with brands to tell stories with their video ad campaigns.  The mission to convert brands to a storytelling kind of marketing, rather than ...

Which Presidential Campaign is Winning in Social Video? The Unruly 2012 Election Tracker [Infographic]

The race for the White House is in full swing, but which campaign is winning in social video? Unfortunately, the interactive chart that was featured on YouTube Politics during the primaries disappeared when the YouTube Elections Hub was introduced on Aug. 22, 2012. So, if ...

Secrets of Success from HuffPost Live and YouTube Stars [Reel Web #53]

In this week's Reel Web, we discuss several exciting online video-related news items from the past week including; multiple updates at YouTube, new online video stats for July that show record online video viewing, the Huffington Post's launch of their daily "HuffPost Live" streaming show, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Top Lessons Learned in Marketing Video Across Social Networks and What Works for Me!

Promoting video via social media can seem like an easy option – after all, it’s free, easy to use, and gets you an immediate audience of millions, right? Well, in my experience, if you do it properly, it’s hard, continuous work, but can prove rewarding. ...

Tips to Promote Your Videos Outside YouTube: The YouTube Advertiser Playbook - Part 8

Once your video is uploaded to YouTube, finding traffic from just being there might be hard to come by.  Most of the popular videos you see have been embedded on other sites, usually because the creators submitted them to blogs where their content is the ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Scorched Earth Edition

After a brief respite from triple digit temperatures up here in Milwaukee, they've returned. Blah! So what better reason to stay inside and watch online video or read about what's gone on in the industry this week, right? Well here's a quick look at some ...

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 ...