Lack of story is the number one problem out parent company, Column Five, sees
with brand videos.
We've stripped out all the sports team and league Vine accounts (otherwise the list would just be populated with endless home run and goal replays) to get an idea of which brands are really killing
it with their branded video marketing.
Not exact matches
To drive home its warmth marketing message in recent months, the company didn't use a YouTube
video or TV ad, but started
with basic
brand design.
I used to put up once a week, but now I only put out a
video if it's
branded, because otherwise I can not physically sustain my business
with the amount of crew I hire and the amount of post people I hire.
If your business relies on a lead generation,
video ads on Twitter can be a great way to engage existing customers and get potential customers familiar
with your
brand.
From my experience in the beauty sector
with brands such as Kiehl's, Mally, Evolution of Smooth, Kerastase, and more, I can say that the beauty industry has in fact incorporated social listening as part of its macro playbook by paying attention to user - generated content such as product reviews, unboxing
videos, and makeup tutorials.
Learn more about establishing credibility in your market in this short
video with Brad Smith, EVP of customer experience at Sage North America, and Karen Leland, president of
branding firm Sterling Marketing Group.
Discovery invested $ 100 million in a new holding company, Group Nine Media, that combines millennial - focused online publishers Thrillist, a food, drink and travel
brand;
video news creator NowThis, and animal
video site The Dodo
with its own digital assets, the company said in a statement.
The films will be produced by a cast of popular YouTube creators and stars, including Joey Graceffa (3.6 million subscribers), Joe Penna (2.8 million) and Sawyer Hartman (1.7 million), and will be distributed through the creator's individual channels,
with the potential for extended content deals,
branded entertainment, and wider distribution if the
videos prove to be a hit.
With video, your goal is to get certain desirable people (who fit your target market) familiar with your brand and think happy thoughts about you so that later, when they do need to buy the stuff you sell, they'll give you prefere
With video, your goal is to get certain desirable people (who fit your target market) familiar
with your brand and think happy thoughts about you so that later, when they do need to buy the stuff you sell, they'll give you prefere
with your
brand and think happy thoughts about you so that later, when they do need to buy the stuff you sell, they'll give you preference.
Brand managers can experiment
with a mix of content such as infographics,
videos and articles, then gather data to evaluate and optimize their strategies.
The company's ecommerce store is no less innovative, offering
video how - to classes and an extensive community section where customers can interact
with brand representatives, influencers and other Sephora customers.
In step
with its latest «cause marketing» crusade, the legacy
brand also released a heartstring - tugging
video.
On Facebook,
brands can pay to promote their own
videos in the hope that users will share the content
with friends.
«By 2020, Kit and Ace will be a global
brand, and we'll be on four or five continents
with flagship stores and e-commerce — a complete omni - channel experience,» he proclaims in a
video on the company website aimed at prospective recruits.
The
videos tapped into the allegiance of the
brand, which motivated them to share the
videos with friends and family.
It was in these meetings doing what I loved — solving problems
with technology — that I realized there had to be a way to take the alluring pull of
video games and tie it to
brands to drive loyalty and sales.
A
video should reflect your core philosophy as a
brand; it should resonate
with your audience and be a part of a wider strategy to build trust and commitment over time.
Brands need to engage consumers right away when they arrive to the site, whether that's
with interactive micro-content, product «explorations,» personality quizzes, or
videos.
According to a recent report from Reuters, the tech giant is signing deals
with companies like BuzzFeed, Vox, and Group Nine (the publisher behind
brands like NowThis and The Dodo) for more TV - style
video, both short clips of about 10 minutes in length and longer shows of 20 minutes or more.
These three
brands have tapped into something deeper in all of us
with their spot - on
video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and expression.
With 400 employees arranged in six offices around the globe, Lightspeed founder and CEO Dax Dasilva travels as light as possible, holding most of his international meetings by
video conference from the company's
brand new headquarters in Montreal's historic Gare Viger.
Reaching 32 million people
with a single
video is the kind of viral sensationalism
brand executives fantasize about.
It also takes a content strategy that reflects the
brand's core philosophy, so when Old Spice releases a
video like the hilarious «The man your man could smell like», it resonates
with fans — and they want to share it more widely.
Sandwich has become the go - to
brand for startups looking to get noticed,
with smart, soothing
videos that take a minute or two to explain a product or service's functionality and appeal.
The allure of «going viral» is that you can garner attention
with one red - hot
video or build a
brand when your quirky post about firing everyone at your company (and rehiring them) hits Facebook.
Exclusive content can play tied to a simple trigger,
video can overlay reality, and you can turn your entire physical world into an interactive experience
with brands and locations.
«I have seen
brands use
video and micro
video to tremedous advantage, to put out content that is very shareable and very popular
with social audiences on Facebook, Twitter and Google +», DeMers says.
MTV has almost seven times the amount of
video views than any other
brand on Vine,
with its behind - the - scenes peeks at shows and celebrity cameos.
What began
with a simple
video for her pilates students has grown into a channel
with more than 2 million subscribers and an e-commerce platform that founder Cassey Ho says drives nearly 70 % of the revenue for this multi-million dollar
brand.
It's experimenting
with inserting 10 - second
video ads for
brands like Coca - Cola and Samsung into feeds.
RadioShack started looking for other opportunities to throw itself into, but rather than focus on improving itself
with the offerings it already had, the company tried out new concepts
with new stores to address customers» needs: Computer City to sell computers, Famous
Brand Electronics for refurbished electronics, McDuff and
Video Concepts for audio and video, Energy Express to sell batteries, and Incredible Universe, which showed a strong resemblance to Best
Video Concepts for audio and
video, Energy Express to sell batteries, and Incredible Universe, which showed a strong resemblance to Best
video, Energy Express to sell batteries, and Incredible Universe, which showed a strong resemblance to Best Buy.
With branding and promotion, have a multimedia approach that includes print, photography and
video.
Most
brands can't get everything right
with respect to
video marketing.
By now, most organizations have a firm grasp on how to use
video to market their
brand, promote their products and connect
with customers.
One thing every local business should be doing, says James Citron, CEO of mobile
video marketing firm Mogreet, is attach keywords to their mobile campaigns that will resonate
with customers in order to create
brand awareness.
While the story of HubSpot is very inspirational, it's always good to get a sense of what other winning
brands are doing
with video.
Video has shifted from an experimental initiative for
brands to a strategic tool for businesses to connect
with viewers.
Anyone who reads your influencer's blogs or watches his or her
videos will at least become familiar
with your
brand, if not purchase from you at one point or another.
For Smith, the eureka moment for Vice's business model came
with the «Creators Project,» in which Intel shelled out millions for Vice to make a barely
branded video series about contemporary artists.
Jackie Stewart's
video about green fashion, meanwhile, was sponsored by the Weather Channel, which is seeking to align its
brand with environmental themes online.
Armstrong, a former Google executive who has been at the helm at AOL since 2009, is credited
with reviving a dying
brand, helped by a set of purchases including Adap.TV, an automated
video advertising platform.
We caught up
with Ocho's founding duo and picked their brains about their
brand - new baby, which they describe as «a beautiful, user - friendly social
video platform
with a superior experience to enhance how we see and share the world.»
What this means to marketers is simple: You can boost
brand awareness and consumer affinity
with apps, but you must have a thorough understanding of your audience so you can provide them
with an app that's functional (such as a calculator) or entertaining (like a
video, game, or music), or provide some sort of social connectedness (such as an app for a user community).
And the company has served up more than a billion views of
branded content along
with those steady little wordless
videos of ingredients getting dumped into mixing bowls.
He hired Wetsch to consult and learned that
video was becoming hugely important on all channels, especially Facebook, which rewards
brands that engage people to watch
videos or interact
with live streams.
With live
video now so much easier to produce, he's a regular keynote at corporate and association events wanting to explore how
brands can make the most of the new channel.
The
brand that started in the 1990s
with playing cards and
video games exploded in popularity again
with the release of the augmented reality game Pokemon Go last summer, which momentarily catapulted Nintendo stock, though the game proved to be mostly a passing fad.
Although lots of corporate
brands are now experimenting
with live
video, it's Buzzfeed that's done the most to forge the path.
Instead of direct - response style ads such as Promoted Tweets, Twitter said it is putting more of its resources into
video advertising, where it has had some success
with major
brands like Anheuser - Busch.