Greg Jarboe is president of SEO-PR, which provides search engine optimization, public relations, video marketing, and social media marketing services. He's the author of "YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day," a faculty member at Rutgers University and Market Motive, as well as a frequent speaker at SES conferences.
The comScore Video Metrix service has just released data that shows 181.9 million Americans watched 38.8 billion online content videos in April 2013, while the number of video ad views reached an all-time high of 13.2 billion.
YouTube is launching a pilot program for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month. Paid channels will become available to more qualifying partners in coming weeks.
In YouTube's first Ads Leaderboard for April 2013, Evian, Dove, and Kmart took the top three spots using dancing babies, powerful insights, and clever wordplay, respectively. The list also shows why it's important to tap into basic emotions.
Intel launched a five-month series of time lapse photography and slow motion videography contests, supported by TrueView ads and Promoted Channels. The campaign resulted in the highest conversion rate from ad to response the team had ever seen.
With 1 billion people visiting YouTube worldwide every month, virtually any audience that content creators or advertisers want to reach is on YouTube. But, according to Google, the audience that most marketers want to reach is called Generation C.
The full conference agenda for SES Toronto 2013 is now online. SES Toronto, taking place June 12-14, will provide experienced marketing and advertising professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to traverse the dynamic digital landscape.
The latest data from the comScore Video Metrix service shows that 182.5 million Americans watched 39.3 billion online content videos in March 2013, while the number of video ad views reached an all-time high at 13.2 billion that month.
Unruly Analytics is a real-time gauge for brands and agencies who want to know how well they're doing in social video. Users can find out exactly how many shares, views, and comments they're generating during a time period at the touch of a button.
YouTube recently added five tailored Playbook Guides – for education, media companies, music, nonprofits, and sports – to be used in conjunction with Version 3 of the Creator Playbook, which is the main resource for site-wide best practices.
Video is a powerful way to reach audiences both for publishers and advertisers. Marketers already know people are watching online video more than ever. A new Adobe Digital benchmark report reveals what, when, and how people are watching.
What began as a small company in Utah turned into a multi-million dollar success story, thanks in part to YouTube. Orabrush is now one of the top subscribed sponsor channels on YouTube – just behind brands like Apple, Red Bull and Old Spice.
Eight Meetup groups of marketing professionals from the New York area will be attending SES New York for a collaborative networking get-together with attendees, speakers and exhibitors. Organizers share their thoughts on some top industry issues.
YouTube's milestone is important to more than 1 million content creators from over 30 countries who are earning money from their YouTube videos, as well as more than a million advertisers. Also, YouTube search data is now available on Google Trends.
178 million Americans watched 33 billion online content videos in February, while the number of video ad views reached 9.9 billion, comScore reports. A rising tide is no longer lifting all the boats. There are winners and losers in the latest data.
Mobile engagement and activation, while consumers are watching TV or out in the real world, is becoming increasingly prevalent. Lunenfeld will share some new data and examples that show where second screen activation is headed in 2013.
If you’re interested in building a successful channel on YouTube, you now must think about how to build a cohesive channel experience for your audience. Your channel strategy – and your ability to drive subscriptions – are critical to your success.
According to Mike Proulx, the Internet has become TV’s best friend. Proulx, the opening keynote speaker at SES New York 2013, will explain how you can reach and engage audiences by connecting TV to the web, social media, and mobile.
The days when upper management was impressed by subtle changes in PageRank have been replaced by questions about lifetime value, return on investment, and cost per acquisition. But are these the right metrics to measure SEO results?
Oliver Snoddy, the Head of Planning at Twitter UK, opened Day 2 of SES London with his keynote speech on Realtime Marketing Opportunities. During his talk, he described the essence of Twitter as "the shortest distance between @ and #".
Targeting your audience, optimizing your videos, promotion, and measuring your campaign's effectiveness all are critical pieces when marketing on YouTube. Learn how one insurance company's recent ad campaign did all that and saw views skyrocket.