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5% of Videos on YouTube Drive 95% of the Views Did you know 5% of videos are driving 95% of the total views on YouTube? Or that the Internet welcomed its 8th video to reach 1 billion views this week?

Social Video? Why will these videos be so important in 2015???

What You Can Expect For Social Video in 2015 This article is by Devra Prywes, VP of insights and marketing at Unruly, a video-ad technology company. In 2014, we saw a rise in trackvertising, native video ads went mainstream and viewability was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. So what curveballs will be thrown at marketers this year? Here are […

This is the biggest news in social media for the months, hands down. Facebook is rolling out pre-roll ads and sharing revenue with partners. A massive Facebook real estate grab is about to begin and it will become a place for dedicated shareable video strategies.

Facebook Unveils First Way for Video Partners to Earn Ad Revenue Facebook is finally introducing a way for video publishers to reap advertising bucks from the billions of views the social giant serves daily — a move that will put new pressure on Google's YouTube...

Online Video: How Consumers Use Resources to Shop Google's 'Consumer Barometer' gives video marketers an insight into how shoppers are using video to research, and purchase goods and services.

Facebook is cracking-down on freebooting. BEWARE!!!

Facebook Content ID for Video is Coming, Addresses Freebooting Freebooted videos on Facebook are a serious issue for many creators, but Facebook has now promised more robust rights management for licensed video content.

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It's about time Instagram. The removal of image size restraint opens up the options on how to use Instagram.

Instagram Thinks Outside The Square, Now Allows Landscape And Portrait Photos And Videos One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait..

If you’re not retargeting, you’re losing money. If you haven’t already taken your B2B marketing into the digital age, now’s the time. In fact, 67 percent of the B2B buying process happens online, making your digital marketing strategies of the utmost importance if you want to drive new business. What’s even more staggering, 98 percent of people v…

How to Use a Landing Page to Attract New Business Most every business has a website, and for some businesses, that is enough. But if you really want to take your business to the next level and convert prospects into new customers, having a landing page is a great way to do it. Why? For starters, a landing page is very specific. It is usually sell…

In a marketing world full of analytics, this article may be helpful when sharing information with partners, clients, shareholders, and even customers.

How to Choose the Right Chart to Visualize Your Data Learn how to choose the right chart for your data.

YouTube celebrates 5 years of iconic ads.

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/iconic-ads-moments-youtube.html?utm_source=2015-04-think-content-alert-usa&utm_medium=email-d&utm_campaign=20150415-advertising-alert-1b&utm_content=read-more&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoivK%2FNZKXonjHpfsX66%2B4rWKO1lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FTcZrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTrDBMaN2wrgLXhY%3D

Ads Worth Choosing: Reflecting on the Past 5 Years – Think with Google Check out the most iconic ads people chose to watch since the start of YouTube TrueView advertising. Who made the list?

Great article about video ads. Must read.
http://www.reelseo.com/5-viral-videos-were-ads/

The Art of Persuasion: 5 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Ads Great storytelling can make or break a video marketing campaign. We look at 5 incredibly successful branded videos that you may not have realized were ads.