Cross Platform Campaigns Boost Brand Recall 9 Times; Mobile Bumps Interaction 4 Times
Advertising is becoming increasingly interconnected this year and more marketers are pushing out innovative cross platform campaigns, but how does each medium perform? They’re not all created equally and mobile phones generate a much higher click through - or interaction rate - 4 and a half times -- that online video does. For more details ...
The Dramatic Impact Of Social Video Recommendations On Brand Metrics - Unruly & Decipher Research
According to new research commissioned by Unruly Media, viewers are far more likely to recall a brand name and engage with an ad’s message if a branded video has been recommended to them by a peer. The survey, conducted by Decipher Research to measure the effectiveness of social video advertising, found that social video recommendations ...
Worth Repeating - Grab The Free Ebook, The Social Video Blueprint, Today
Most businesses, brands, and marketers are looking for social media activity around their video programming these days, whether the videos themselves are traditional ads or more content oriented. But for a video to truly "go social," it's got to be designed from the ground up to actually deserve that social buzz. While it's definitely an ...
How Lean-Back Viewers Affect Your Video Engagement - The Reel Web Episode #24
This week on The Reel Web we share with you guys several updates that have happened on YouTube that were overlooked, as well as a complete overhaul that's coming to Vimeo's website sometime soon. We also discuss YouTube's new announcement of having 60 hours of video uploaded to their site every minute and we go ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - YouTube Update Edition
As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more. So if you ...
Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up
Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up. Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the ...
The Social Video Blueprint: A Video Marketer's Guide To Social Video Success (Free E-Book)
A few months ago we brought you a 9-part series on social video marketing called The Social Video Blueprint. It was intended to serve as an outline of sorts, for companies and brands (and individual creators) seeking to ignite their video marketing with a social kick. Social video is basically the practice of creating video ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Future Edition
The future of online video sometimes feels like it's only a day away, as major advancements and changes take place every week. This week's online video news round up has all kinds of stories about the future: imminent moves from YouTube on subscriptions and a new player, the future of interactive video ads, and speculation ...
No-Bull$h!t Social Video: Is “Social Video” Just Another Buzz Word?
Are you at all confused by the term "Social Video?" It's become a bit of a buzz word recently and I thought it would be worthwhile to ask the question, "is "social video" just another internet marketing buzz term or does it represent a Reel trend? For some debate on that, I interviewed social media ...
5 Social Video Marketing Tips with Socialnomics' Digital Leader: Erik Qualman
I video-interviewed Erik Qualman at the Chicago House of Blues for the launch of his new book, "Digital Leader: 5 Simple Steps to Success and Influence". I asked him about his take on "social" and "viral" video and asked him to give us some tips for how businesses should think about and do--better social video marketing. ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Silverback Edition
The first week of 2012 proved to be a strong one in the world of online video, as the new year did nothing to slow down the clever brands and amateurs piling up the views with creative videos. This week we have a few bloopers that captured viewers' attention, some branded social video campaigns, a ...
Unruly Media Raises $25 Million; Funding To Fuel Global Social Video Expansion
On Jan. 4, 2012, Unruly Media announced a $25 million Series A investment from Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers, and Business Growth Fund. Founded in 2006, Unruly has delivered a number of high profile social video campaigns for global brands, including industry classics like “The T-Mobile Dance”, “Evian Roller Babies” and Old ...
Top 20 Online Video Ads Of 2011 According To Shares
There is no doubt that 2011 has been an epic year for social video. Looking through the top 20 most shared ads of the last 12 months you cannot help but be struck by the sheer size, scale and spectacle of some of the campaigns. Budgets were bigger, as more brands harnessed the power of social video ...
Evolve or Die! How Businesses Can Transform Using Social Video
I interviewed social media expert Brian Solis, the author of Engage and the End of Business as Usual: Rewire The Way You Work To Succeed In The Customer Revolution. We talk about the crucial role online video must play in the transformation of businesses into genuine social enterprises, what’s holding them back, and what it ...
How To Measure Social ROI With Video: The Orabrush YouTube Marketing Story – Part 3 of 4
In Part 3 of our series on the Orabrush YouTube marketing story, I interviewed Orabrush Spokesperson Austin Craig to talk about how his company measures success with their video marketing strategy through ascribing values to the social activity around those videos – which we refer to here as "social video return on investment, or ROI ...
