March 23, 2016
Media consumption is changing rapidly in 2016. February survey done by Wyzowl found 61% of businesses stated that they currently use video as a marketing tool and of that 61%, 2/3 were not using video just one year earlier. With predictions that videos are expected to make up 60% of all mobile data traffic by 2020 and 80% of all internet traffic by 2019 we reached out to marketing/advertising community to find out few things: How important is video today for their digital strategy? How do they use it to promote their business? Do they include FaceBook native video, YouTube […]
March 15, 2016
The number of brands that use video content marketing strategy has definitely increased. Currently 87% of online content such as blogs, articles and images is in the form of a video. According to Cisco, by 2017, video will account for 69% of all consumer internet traffic.
March 4, 2016
The consumption of online content via mobile devices is growing. EMarketer’s stats show nearly 1 in 10 US internet users in 2016 will go online only through a mobile device—what eMarketer defines as mobile-only internet users. That figure is expected to rise in the future. Around 79% of B2B marketers stated they had a mobile-friendly site in 2016, shows the DemandWave research. The figure represents an increase compared to the state in 2014 when 57% of respondents said they had one.
March 1, 2016
On Sept. 16th, Apple launched their platform for distributing news articles with the help of their own format using JSON. With Apple News Format publishers can generate dynamic, animated multimedia content, available for readers through iOS 9’s new Apple News application.
February 25, 2016
On April 12th 2015, FaceBook Instant Article will be turned into an open platform, that will be available for all publishers of any size. According to the company, the main goal is to provide a fast and immersive reading experience for people on Facebook. Instant Articles are aimed to solve some specific problems Facebook users are faced with, especially slow loading times on the mobile web. It’s a huge problem for people who prefer reading news on their phones and one Google, with their AMP Project initiative, is trying to solve as well. The problem doesn’t concern only the consumers. […]
February 23, 2016
Before introducing to you with VAST 4.0, let me remind you of the significance of VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) in the video industry. VAST is XML package for delivering the video content with other information required for advertising. It organizes ad tags that serve ads to video players and transfers important metadata about an ad from the ad server to a video player. VAST was created in 2008 and since it’s creation it has contributed a lot to the evolution of the digital video marketplace, as it has provided the monetization of video content with ads.
February 22, 2016
Publishers who want to reach their audience through mobile have a problem with their web pages taking too long to load on mobile devices. That is why they often lose their readers, and additionally the opportunity to earn revenue. Following the latest problem publishers are faced with, Google has created a new open source initiative called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and it is expected from this project to dramatically improve the performance of the mobile web.
February 17, 2016
Many things have changed in the digital advertising sphere during 2015. Total digital ad spend in the US has accounted for around $58 billion in 2015, which represents a significant growth compared to the $50 billion in 2014, shows The Sixth annual State of the Video Industry report done by AOL . The predictions are that US digital spend growth will only go up, reaching $93.7 billion in 2019. This growth is mainly coming from video content and that has been consumed mostly on mobile devices.
February 11, 2016
Third of the three-part series blog post aims to describe the difference between Explained and Demo videos when being used as a marketing tool. When you involve video into your marketing strategy, you are looking for tips that will get you started with creating a proper video content. Like any form of marketing, video is constantly changing, and as consumer expectations are shifting, your videos need to adapt to this as well. Video content currently accounts for 87% of online content such as blogs and articles. Given such a huge amount how do you make your video stand out from […]