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Viral video is dead. Long live low production values. The cheaper the better. Don’t cuddle it to death, let go of your brand persona. Those are the sage words of Kevin Nalty, who is an online video strategist, a career marketer, and a YouTube star with more than 100 million views of his videos.
I interview Ari Paparo, Group Product Manager of Advertising Product for Google, about his forecast shared at the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association’s 7th Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey, that in-stream video advertising will be “huge” in 2010, thanks to growing adoption by media sales agencies of Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) development of video ad standards. Will this open up video ad serving to more businesses on the smaller scale?
It’s time again for another Viral Round Up (it’s actually a day or so past the time for another Viral Round Up, and I’m hoping you’ll forgive my tardiness).
As usual, the past week offers us several examples of viral success—some intentional, some accidental, and all holding valuable lessons for us video marketers. Let’s dig in.
I’ve often made the assertion that quality video production is important for successful online video marketing. Sure, some viral videos aren’t the most professional when it comes to the video production aspects, but, if you plan to produce your own videos for marketing your business, why not shoot for the best.
Today Sorenson Media announced the launch of the latest update to their video encoding software program, Squeeze 6. Read my interview with Sorenson’s CEO and President Peter Csathy on why his company is billing this update, the first in over a year, as “first total video workflow solution” for businesses. (Click the play button at the bottom of this post to listen to our podcast for my initial review of the software.)
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Welcome back to the third edition of this weekly series where we examine viral video successes (and sometimes failures). The goal is to reverse engineer the examples to help break apart and identify what factors helped the video go viral. Learning from those who succeeded before us is the surest way to find our own success.
Today I wanted to share an interview with media agency executive Robert Davis, Interactive Marketing Director/Leader of Interactive Video for Ogilvy Interactive. Robert tells Andy Plesser of Beet.tv that they have seen a tremendous rise in traffic to video content coming from search engines, especially over the past 6 months.
“We are also seeing a tremendous search value from video now…
TurnHere just released some findings from a survey that they conducted in Q3 with brands and marketing agencies from a wide range of industries. The purpose of the research study was to explore current and future trends in the use of online video amongst marketers across companies of all sizes. And, as you might expect, the news is good for the business of online video.
Jason Kincaid wrote something insightful over at Techcrunch today that I want to encourage you to read. Aimed at helping businesses toward a better method of boiling down their pitch, the piece is called The Underutilized Power Of The Video Demo To Explain What The Hell You Actually Do. (Hmm… maybe we could boil that title down a bit while we’re at it?)
Comscore, in conjunction with social media agency m80, has released the findings of a new study on the relationship between search and social media. The results are pretty interesting.
Actually, the results, as presented by Comscore, read a bit like a copy of War & Peace in original Russian–is there some mandate of which I am unaware that says all survey findings must be written in the impenetrable language of Legalese?
Prabakar Sundarrajan, CTO and co-founder of Ankeena Networks talks about the online video delivery experience, myths, and expectations.
The new media user experience, specifically video, leaves a lot to be desired. With the huge growth of online media, end-users are able to view their media content on several different formats, through several different outlets and whatever time they want to. The population has become so regularly wired that often, online video viewers are bombarded with staggering delays and annoying pauses on their videos.
When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a decision primarily depends on the chosen content strategy (generating views versus traffic), there are several factors to take into consideration.
