A Guide to YouTube’s New Live Streaming Features

Last month, YouTube announced a new suite of features to enhance the live streaming video experience. The recent additions include automatic captions for live videos, location tags, and live chat replays after a stream has ended. Here’s a quick overview of the new features and how your brand can use them. Automatic Captions for Live…

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How to Make Great Videos for Your Business

These days, topnotch video content is considered key to successful online customer engagement. A great video spot is not only a surefire way to drive traffic to your website, it can help build brand awareness and set you apart from the competition. It can also help boost sales. Any content marketing strategist worth his or…

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YouTube Anoints Its Top 10 Video Ads of 2014

YouTube has released its list of Top 10 ads of 2014—revealing how significantly the business of online advertising has changed in just the last two years. Digital marketing execs, take note: In 2012, the first year YouTube posted a “Leaderboard” listing the most watched video ads, the spots that ranked highest were mainly TV ads,…

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#Fantographer: Advertising With Your Followers

Social media has already massively dispersed the reach of major brands in recent years. Now a trend toward user-generated content is putting on display even more of social media’s advertising muscle by placing more of the creative burden on consumers themselves. Major companies like Frito-Lay, Coca-Cola, and Applebee’s have launched initiatives which have fans submit…

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Why YouTube Videos & Facebook Don’t Always Mix

It’s becoming much easier to watch videos on Facebook. Now when you see a video in your News Feed, it plays silently, and if you want to see more – simply tap to play with sound in full screen. I appreciate this, because I am not a fan of auto-play videos – I want the…

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The Super Bowl of Social Media

I have to admit that I am not a huge football fan for the actual sport of it- I am fan for the social aspects. Getting together with friends, having a few beers, making chili and cheesy, creamy dips- that is what football is all about in my opinion. When my husband and I were…

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