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What "Assassin's Creed 3" Can Teach Us About Social Video Diversity

It may come as no surprise to learn that YouTube succeeds on the back of video games. For many YouTube independent networks, video game content is the most successful and lucrative. YouTube audiences crave it and creators are inspired by it. Machinima is a behemoth ...

The #1 Social Video Trigger to Rule Them All is the On-Demand Video Consumer, Generation V

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “There are no second acts in American lives.” He was wrong. At least 11 internet marketers and video content producers have been able to produce successful second acts. And some of them have produced successful third and four acts. Who ...

How Chill.com is Taking Video Sharing to the Next Level via Social Video Discovery & Curation

Earlier this year at Vidcon I had the pleasure of chilling with Marc Hustvedt, Head of Strategic Partnerships for Chill.com, a "social video discovery" platform.  The video curation site was launched because the team at Chill saw a video discovery paradigm that wasn't quite performing ...

The State of Automotive Marketing in Social Video: New Report Sees Huge Opportunity for Auto Marketers

Over the summer, Unruly opened up their social video lab, looking to narrow down viral videos to scientific facts, to the point that the word "viral" has become a dirty word (although we still use it quite a bit, because well, it's still a buzzword). ...

What's the Ideal Length for a YouTube Marketing Video? A look into Video Duration vs. Social Sharing

David Waterhouse, the Head of Content for Unruly Media, has just compiled some interesting stats on the average length of the ads in the Top Global Video Ads Chart. It ranks brands’ social videos worldwide based on the amount of times content has been shared on ...

The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns for October 2012: Redbull, GoPro, Coke, LG, and More…

This month’s video ads chart, from Unruly Media, should come with a health warning. Daredevils skydiving from space, headless magicians, and crumbling elevator floors - October was not a month for the faint of heart. Recent research has found that the secret to social video ...

Online Video Weekly News Round Up - The Official Official Edition

No typo, I'm simply celebrating the return of the official NFL officials, as dubious as their officiating may be. Clearly they have some rust to knock off their stripes, and maybe some new prescription glasses. Anyway, let's take a peek at what was going on ...

5 Social Video Advertising Myths - Busted!

These are truly exciting times for marketers. With 4 billion connected consumers willing to share branded content, there has never been a better time for a brand to invest in creating and distributing content that causes people to laugh out loud, tingle with anticipation or ...

The Top 20 Viral Video Ad Campaigns for September 2012

The US Presidential race dominates Unruly’s Global Ads Chart this month. Eight of the top 20 most shared online video ads across Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere during September come from the pro-Obama and pro-Romney camps. But while the Republican candidate can boast more spots – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brand Mentions in Social Video Content Have No Effect on Sharing Potential

That’s according to fascinating new research carried out by a university in Australia, which found that the number of times a brand appears visually or verbally in a commercial had little or no impact on its popularity online. The study is the second led by Dr Karen Nelson-Field and ...