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LG's 'So Real It's Scary' Video Ad is Great Example of Selling without the Selling

A few weeks ago LG released an ad for their new IPS monitors, and tent-poling the ad around Halloween, they made a video that would be a pretty scary scenario for all of us: what if the floor of an elevator started falling right in ...

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 ...

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations October 2012

So comScore was late this month with their Video Metrix numbers. They once told me that they only put out one press release a day so as "not to confuse the journalists," which I found sort of offensive. I also find the way they track ...

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 ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up

It's another week and there's all sorts of news popping up as usual. Later this week we'll get the much-hyped Windows 8 and that might change a few things. If you haven't read up on IE 10 in Windows 8 and how it's handling Flash (or ...

Research Finds B2B Marketers Increasing Investments in Online Video for Content Marketing

It's been kind of a B2B week for me and what I've got covered. Earlier in the week LinkedIn announced that they've now got video ads. Today I've got some research from Brightcove, Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs that generally talked about content marketing for ...

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 ...

Looking to Market to Other Professionals? How About LinkedIn Video Ads?

A recent blog post over at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions announced that they are now accepting video ads through their self-service video ad platform. Great news for those of us who have the video ads ready and who want to market to other business professionals.

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The 128,000 Foot Edition

Over the weekend some teams won, some teams lost, some teams finally lived to my expectations. However, that's all sports and we have to get on to talking about the online video news. A big thing this week is Providence Equity Partners selling their 10% ...

Streaming Media West 2012, A Quick Guide and Planner - Help Us Decide What to Report On

I have done it! I have convinced Mark to unchain me from the desk and get me to an upcoming show. The show is, obviously, Streaming Media West 2012 which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in L.A. October 30-31. Oh, Halloween in ...

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 – ...

Pre-roll Video Ads Dominate, 15-Sec Ads Completed Most Often at YuMe

YuMe has put out their Q2 2012 Video Metrics report that shows a good deal of information about the video advertising that they served up for the quarter. They found that pre-rolls still dominated with massive percentages of all ads shown with other formats like ...

Is Incentivization Key to the Future of Online Video Advertising? [Study]

Advertising is generally about getting the brand, product or company in front of consumers and trying to trigger something in them that causes them to interact, increase engagement, raise awareness or convert into a paying customer. But it's not always very successful which is why ...

Top 5 Video Advertising Network Recommendations August 2012

Alright! If you've been reading for some time you know that when comScore does their Video Metrix, thing, I leap into action and do my video ad recommendation thing. Since I posted August 2012's numbers last week I wanted to give the numbers time to ...

Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Even Steven Edition

So my Packers are back to even, poor Bears... That's neither here nor there really as we're here to talk about online video and not at all about football. But sometimes I just can't help myself. Anyway, the week was a busy one and there ...