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”
Tag Archives: instagram
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”
How to Style Your Beauty Campaigns
Beauty mavens are hungry for video. The beauty space on YouTube continues to explode, and now, beauty consumers are turning to video on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat as well to shape their brand decisions. Now more than ever, beauty marketers need a sophisticated advertising strategy to achieve success on social video platforms. In ourRead more “How to Style Your Beauty Campaigns”
How are Social Video Platforms Handling Ad Load?
Social video is drawing more viewers and ad dollars than ever before, but how are social video platforms balancing the volume of ads that users see? Serve too many ads, and you risk users tuning out; serve too few, and platforms can’t run a viable business. It’s a fine balance to strike, and each ofRead more “How are Social Video Platforms Handling Ad Load?”
Give Your Beauty Video Ad Campaigns a Makeover
Beauty creators are extending their influence beyond YouTube, and consumers are seeking out beauty content across social video platforms — and beauty marketers need to follow suit. Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study is jam-packed with video advertising insights that beauty advertisers need to know to achieve superior campaign performance. Here are some highlights: Go Cross-Platform: ConsumersRead more “Give Your Beauty Video Ad Campaigns a Makeover”
It’s Time for a Makeover: Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study
We’ve given our annual Beauty Study a dramatic makeover. Beauty creators are extending their influence beyond YouTube, producing video content across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest — and beauty audiences are following them there. It’s no longer enough for beauty brands to only advertise on YouTube — they must meet beauty audiences where, when,Read more “It’s Time for a Makeover: Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study”
Driving Media Performance and Agency Growth: Pixability’s Partnership with Blue Chip Marketing
Given that viewers — particularly hard-to-reach millennials — are tuning in to social video platforms at far higher rates than linear TV (85% of US 13-24 year olds watch video on YouTube), Chicago-based integrated agency Blue Chip Marketing knew that social video was critical to its clients’ advertising strategies. But it needed a partner toRead more “Driving Media Performance and Agency Growth: Pixability’s Partnership with Blue Chip Marketing”
Your Complete Guide to Social Video Advertising
Advertising on social video platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter empowers marketers to reach and engage their target audience — especially the hard-to-reach millennial demographic. But managing a high-performing campaign requires a deep knowledge of the online video ad landscape, as the various types of ad formats and view definitions can create cross-platform confusion.Read more “Your Complete Guide to Social Video Advertising”
The Rio Olympics: End of an Era
The Olympic flame has been extinguished in Rio, marking the end of the 2016 Summer Games, and also the end of an era. NBC’s TV ratings were down by roughly 18% — with a 14.4 household rating and 25.4 million viewers — compared to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and saw the lowest viewershipRead more “The Rio Olympics: End of an Era”
Get Educated: Social Video Delivers Reach for Higher Ed
For higher education advertisers, there’s no better way to reach an engaged high school- and college-aged audience than on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. According to eMarketer, 85% of 13-24 year-olds choose to watch video on YouTube, far ahead of cable or satellite TV, while 53% watch video on Facebook, and 37% watch on Instagram.Read more “Get Educated: Social Video Delivers Reach for Higher Ed”
