On social video platforms, beauty is booming, and one sub-category in particular is rapidly building momentum: diverse beauty. While beauty brands have largely marketed toward women in the past, male, transgender, or gender-nonconforming beauty creators command massive audiences online today, and these creators are turning that influence into partnerships with beauty brands. Pixability’s data showsRead more “On YouTube, the Diverse Beauty Space is Thriving”
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Viewability across video platforms: What our Moat partnership means
Viewability 2.0 We’re excited to announce an exclusive partnership with Moat for 2017, and look forward to working with our customers in ensuring video ad viewability across all of our YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter campaigns. The gap in cross-channel marketing measurement became smaller in 2016 when premium video ad platforms such as YouTube startedRead more “Viewability across video platforms: What our Moat partnership means”
What You Missed at CES 2017: A Digital Floor Tour
CES is the world’s largest gadget trade show, this year attracting about 175,000 attendees. In the last few years, CES has developed into one of the top marketing and advertising events, with roughly 5,000 representatives from brands, agencies, ad tech vendors, and platforms descending on the Vegas strip to catch up on the latest techRead more “What You Missed at CES 2017: A Digital Floor Tour”
What the Latest Video Ad Tech Hack Means for Social Video
What’s Happening? This week, White Ops released a report detailing a massive hack that’s generating as much as $5M per day through its manipulation of the programmatic open web video ad ecosystem. This means the hack could have made as much as $1B per year in fraudulent video ad revenue. This hack showed an unprecedentedRead more “What the Latest Video Ad Tech Hack Means for Social Video”
Are Social Video Platforms Moving Toward Feature Parity? Here’s the Updates that Marketers Need To Know
The dizzying pace of change in the social video landscape can seem overwhelming — but marketers who stay ahead of the updates will be able to stay ahead of their competition. So here’s your rundown on the latest updates from the major social video players: YouTube Doubling down on its commitment to being at theRead more “Are Social Video Platforms Moving Toward Feature Parity? Here’s the Updates that Marketers Need To Know”
Your Complete Guide to the OTT Video Ecosystem
We know YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter dominate the social video ecosystem, attracting the lion’s share of views and ad dollars. In 2015, Google’s ad revenue grew by 22%, Facebook’s ad revenue increased by 67%, and together, they accounted for the vast majority of growth in the digital ad industry1. However, there are several growingRead more “Your Complete Guide to the OTT Video Ecosystem”
Taking a Page from Facebook: YouTube Adds Social Capabilities
This week, YouTube rolled out a beta test of YouTube Community — this new product, nested within a tab on creators’ channels, introduces more social capabilities to the video platform, allowing creators to share text, images, GIFs, and live video with their audiences. YouTube’s rich creator and fan communities are its chief asset, and thisRead more “Taking a Page from Facebook: YouTube Adds Social Capabilities”
The 2016 Summer Olympics: On Your Marks, Set, Livestream
Live video is set to take the gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. While the Olympics have been livestreamed for years, the rise of mobile video consumption and the dramatic growth of video streaming are making this the first Olympics where livestreamed content could really go mainstream. With the broad availability of livestreamingRead more “The 2016 Summer Olympics: On Your Marks, Set, Livestream”
5 Keys to Optimal Video Ad Performance on YouTube
Online video viewership is exploding as audiences adapt to a mobile world where the content they demand is only a few taps away. 18% of the total U.S. population has never signed up for cable, according to a recent study by Forrester Research, making online video a critical component of reaching this online audience. WhileRead more “5 Keys to Optimal Video Ad Performance on YouTube”
CES 2016: Video, Drones, VR
CES is not just about electronics anymore. It’s now one of the biggest events of the year for the marketing and ad industries as well. Over 5,000 people from the industry (out of a total of about 175k CES attendees) converged on Las Vegas to see the latest trends, set up meetings and go toRead more “CES 2016: Video, Drones, VR”
