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Analytics is the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics relies on the simultaneous application of statistics, computer programming and operations research to quantify performance. Analytics often favors data visualization to communicate insight.
The most common application of analytics is to business data in order to describe, predict and improve business performance. Specifically, arenas within ...

Social Marketing Success for Brands: Socialbakers Shares Recipe in Time for London 2012 Olympics

Socialbakers has added YouTube to its Analytics PRO dashboard, which means that brands can now measure the effectiveness of their social marketing campaigns across three major social media networks. This includes Facebook, which had 157.0 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2012, according ...

Custom YouTube Thumbnails for All, Rewards, and More HUGE Features Coming to YouTube [Reel Web #46]

This week on Reel Web, we take a look at a lot of real exciting changes and updates coming to YouTube, many of which were announced only at Vidcon last week.  We have been talking to a lot of YouTube people and we sat in on some ...

What Makes a Video Go Viral? 3 Unruly Tips for Social Video Success

Unruly Media announced the world's first social video lab last Wednesday and we were able to ask Dan Best, Unruly's Planning Director, some questions about it.  It's a lab that was created to turn the virality of a video from a question to a science, to give brands ...

Interactive Pre-roll Adds Almost 50% to Brand Engagement, Most Popular Interaction? Watching a Trailer Says Jivox

Jivox, who is in the business of multi-screen interactive video advertising technology, released a recent report that, no surprise, says their particular brand of online video pre-roll ads are way more effective than those sort of standard video pre-roll ads you're used to. You know, ...

Unruly Social Video Lab Helps Brands Predict Social Video Viability

Unruly, a London-based analytics firm, announced the opening of the "world's first social video lab" today.  It's a lab that will help brands and agencies pre-test their video creations before they go out to market, using exhaustive analysis from Unruly to make sure the video ...

YouTube's Product Bulletin Reveals Interesting Feature for SEO, But What is IRDB? [Reel Web #45]

On this week's Reel Web we look at additional changes and updates YouTube has posted on their Partner Product Bulletin including linking to domains, your avatar positioning, default upload settings, and YouTube's involvement on Pinterest.  In addition, we discuss Neilsen Ratings interest in monitoring your ...

Brightcove Dual-Screen Offering Foreshadows the Multi-Screen Future of Online Video?

Two announcements from Brightcove today got me a thinking about the future. The first hooks TV up to a second screen for simultaneous, additional content display and the second allows you to publish content to that second screen. The bigger picture, no pun intended, is ...

Why Does YouTube's Video View Counter Freeze at 301 Views? Mystery Solved...Sort Of

Hey, people who watch YouTube regularly can rejoice...the mystery of the riddle-wrapped-inside-an-enigma that is the frozen 301 view count on popular videos has been...somewhat revealed.  It looks like a combination of things have brought this 301 scourge upon us, and because YouTube is kind of ...

Weekly Online Video News Roundup - Super Hot Summer Starts Edition

Summer roared into Wisconsin with highs in the mid-90s which, of course, meant my home office was unbearable and I had to try and escape as much as possible to cooler airs (and beverages). It's just 80 degrees in the office today so I thought ...

How To Spot Black Hat YouTube SEO & Spamming in Action

Awhile back, we pointed out a video that obviously paid for its views, or found some sort of loophole in the system that had trumped up the view count.  These bought views (spam), either by bots or other services, obviously don't represent real engagement, but ...

A List of YouTube Stats Tracking Tools You Should Know About

Google Analytics is a great tool to figure out the activity surrounding your channel, where you might need improvement, getting the most out of advertising, mobile views, etc.  But maybe you'd like a different opinion.  Maybe you don't like the way the stats are displayed.  ...

How to Leverage YouTube Statistics Tracking Tools: Interview with Socialblade [Creator's Tip #42]

For this week's Creator's Tip we're going to be taking a look at how third-party statistics tracking & measurement tools for YouTube can help you improve your content and marketing strategies. We interviewed Jason Urgo, who runs socialblade.com, a free tool for tracking YouTube stats. Jason offers ...

Video Ad Industry Lacks Common Currency, Let's Build an Effective View Value Metric

How much is a video advertisement view worth? Do we really know? It's hard to put a price on something when we can't even agree on what a view really is. Is it, as some say, just 3 seconds of video streaming to a player? ...

YouTube's Mad Tinkering Equals A Loss Of Views? What Exactly Is Going On?

For those of you who don't know: YouTube is like those people you know who are always doing something to their house.  They can't just live in the house and be happy, they have to change the floors, or redecorate, or add a room.  And ...

Break into Primetime with Adobe's New Integrated Video Platform

So, as I previously mentioned, I chatted with Adobe about their Project Primetime and its new features which they've just unveiled. Ashley Still, director of product management for video solutions at Adobe (whew!) talked with me about what is coming to Primetime, what it's all ...