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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 ...

Sometimes, A Catchy Video Title Trumps Content, And Views Follow

So, I've been looking at a lot of videos lately, looking for something to praise as an example of fantastic content that maybe a brand or an aspiring video-maker can learn from it.  Alas, many of the videos I'm running across have to do with ...

Gotye Embraces YouTube Parodies with Cover Remix of 'Somebody That I Used to Know'

By far and away one of the biggest YouTube success stories this year is Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," which received a huge boost from Walk off the Earth's five-player, single-guitar version from January and suddenly became something infinitely imitable.  Not only are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Top 20 Global Online Video Ad Campaigns For June 2012

A chorus line of semi-naked male models has danced and gyrated its way to the top of Unruly’s Global Ads Chart. The video, from Abercrombie and Fitch, features the clothing and lifestyle brand’s models doing their own rendition of the web’s most frequently covered song ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Top 2012 UK Viral Marketing Videos Show the Big Boys How it’s Done

The leading UK viral marketing videos in the first quarter of 2012 show an interesting mix of big money production and fledgling original successes – and prove that to be a major player in the viral video world doesn't necessarily require a vast budget. The most shared video ...

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 ...

Tide, P&G, Embraces Onion Lampoon of Their Viral Videos

On May 29, The Onion presented a satirical article about a Tide video that is "the hottest thing on the web right now!"  It pointed out a lot of the things that get overplayed in this video sharing and acclaiming game, expressed in vague, excited ...

Going Beyond ‘Content is King’ In the UK - Coca Cola and Peugeot Experiment with Social Video

The adage ‘Content is King’ is now becoming something of a cliché, rolled out regularly to prove the author’s understanding that it’s not just hits that count, but how people perceive your message and what they do with it, turning viewers from passive observers to ...

Why You Should Be At Streaming Media East Next Week

Streaming Media East is ready to hit New York City next week and we've got the top reasons why you should be attending. As an added bonus, we've also got a discount code for you to shave off a bit of the price to make ...

Video Seeding from the Beginning: A Conversation with Josh Warner of Feed Company

I sat down recently with Josh Warner, president and founder of Feed Company, the first video seeding company to launch in the U.S. in 2006, which seems like many years ago in Internet time. Feed Company is definitely a pioneer in video seeding, having been ...