Caitlin Burgess

Limited Resources? Here Are 9 Clever Ways to Create Live Video on Social Media

Caitlin Burgess     Digital Marketing, Social Media, Video

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For many brands and marketers, video is becoming an increasingly important part of their overall digital marketing strategy, particularly when it comes to their social media efforts. And it’s not hard to see why.

We humans are visual beings, and these days we crave and expect video. According to a HubSpot infographic, one-third of all online activity is spent watching video. When used as a marketing tactic, compelling video content helps capture attention, encourages engagement and—in some cases—reaches a more prominent position in social media news feeds.

But quality video content is far more time consuming and costly to produce than other types of content, making it more difficult for marketers and brands with less manpower, time or budget to create video.


Limited Resources? Here Are 9 Clever Ways to Create Live Video on Social Media
Caitlin Burgess

Going Native: Tips & Examples for Effectively Incorporating Native Video Into Your Social Strategy

Caitlin Burgess     Digital Marketing, Online Marketing, Video

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These days, it’s pretty safe to say that all marketers understand that video is an increasingly important marketing tool for capturing audience attention, showing value and encouraging engagement across the digital universe. In fact, 87% of online marketers use video content, according to an infographic from Hyperfine Media.

However, when it comes to promoting that video content on social media, marketers often ask users to click a link to a website, blog or another outside platform to watch, rather than just giving them the content outright. But as social media platforms improve their video shooting, editing and uploading capabilities, many brands and marketers are going native with their video content.


Going Native: Tips & Examples for Effectively Incorporating Native Video Into Your Social Strategy
Caitlin Burgess

6 Ways to Use Video to Add More Value to Your Digital Marketing Strategy

Caitlin Burgess     Content Marketing, Video

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Humans are highly visual beings, so it’s certainly no surprise that online video content is becoming a favorite source of information and entertainment across the digital landscape—and it shows no signs of slowing down.

According to a HighQ infographic, experts believe that 69% of consumer Internet traffic will be from video by 2017—and that number will rise to 79% by 2018. As a result, video is becoming an increasingly important tool for marketers as they work to capture audience attention, provide value and increase engagement across their digital properties. In fact, the same infographic reports that 52% of marketing professionals worldwide name video as the type of content with the best ROI.


6 Ways to Use Video to Add More Value to Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Joshua Nite

You Ought to Be in Pictures: 5 Amazingly Successful Brand Video Marketing Campaigns

Joshua Nite     Online Marketing, Video

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My first cell phone was the unbreakable Nokia 3310. You could run over that thing with a tank and it would still be up for a game of Snake. At the time, its green-and-black display was a technological marvel: You could play games! Look at (pixelated monochrome) pictures! What a modern marvel it was.

Now, of course, almost all of us have a pocket-sized screen that puts the 3310’s to shame (if only they were half as durable…). Most of us are never more than arm’s length from our smartphone. And we’re using those screens primarily for video—fully 50% of all mobile traffic is video streaming.

Whether you’re B2B or C2C, your audience is watching videos. They spend more time with video content than blog content. Even senior executives watch and share: 75% watch work-related videos weekly, and over half share videos with their colleagues.


You Ought to Be in Pictures: 5 Amazingly Successful Brand Video Marketing Campaigns
Joshua Nite

What Is Everyone Blabbing About? 8 Tips for Creating a Killer Marketing Blab

Joshua Nite     Digital Marketing, Video

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Do you Blab? Does your brand blab? Are your brand’s Blabs bland? Do you need a bland brand Blab breakthrough? (Say that three times fast)

There’s a new player in the live video streaming arena, and marketers are starting to get excited about the possibilities. Blab has a few nifty features that set it apart from apps like Meerkat and Periscope. Since it’s currently free to use (and in Beta, as its developers work on developing a business model), now is the perfect time to check it out. If you want to add live streaming to your video marketing strategy, Blab can be a great way to build your community. Here are a few reasons marketers are flocking to Blab:


What Is Everyone Blabbing About? 8 Tips for Creating a Killer Marketing Blab
Joel Carlson

7 Steps for Using Periscope to Better Engage Your Target Audience

Joel Carlson     Online Marketing, Video

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One of the most important jobs we have as marketers is to find a way to be the best answer for our customers, when and where they are looking. With so many new platforms to test on a consistent basis, it can be hard to move through the clutter and find ways to connect that will better engage your target audience.

Social media platforms provide new opportunities to resonate with your customers. Each time a new social media platform launches, there are the early adopters that explore how the platform works, test to see if it’s stable and then figure out how it can best be leveraged.

One of the biggest platform launches of 2015 was the live video streaming app, Periscope. As of August 2015, Periscope had a total of 10 million users, with over 40 years’ worth of video viewed every day.


7 Steps for Using Periscope to Better Engage Your Target Audience
Ashley Zeckman

Check Your Pulse: 4 Video Marketing Tips for Healthcare Companies

Ashley Zeckman     Video

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Healthcare marketers are responsible for attracting new customers, building trust and converting prospects into new customers. While following content marketing and SEO best practices can put you a step ahead of the rest, there is another opportunity that you may not have considered.

As far back as 2010, Pew Research found that approximately 80% of internet users have searched for information online about health topics, and 25% of all internet users have watched an online video about health or medical issues.

Could video marketing be part of the solution? Consumers buy from people that they like and trust, especially when it comes to their health. What better way to connect with your audience in a meaningful way than through video marketing that they can relate to?


Check Your Pulse: 4 Video Marketing Tips for Healthcare Companies
Emily Bacheller

Live Streaming Showdown: Meerkat Versus Periscope

Emily Bacheller     Mobile Marketing, Video

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Live streaming video services have finally hit the mainstream market, and are beginning to pick up steam. Many might compare their use to Dave Egger’s 2013 novel, “The Circle,” which explores the beginning of a transparent society in which politicians, public servants, and private citizens “go transparent” by wearing body cams and live streaming every moment of their waking life. In the book, this technology is offered by a popular social media platform, and is adopted at an exponential rate.

Egger’s vision of a “live streaming” society is now coming to fruition. Live video streaming services like Meerkat and Periscope allow users to stream and share videos in real time. The overall market for digital video has also experienced explosive growth in the United States, with over 200 million Americans (just under two thirds of the population) watching videos online on a regular basis.


Live Streaming Showdown: Meerkat Versus Periscope
James Anderson

Video Content Marketing: Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices

James Anderson     Content Marketing, Video

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For many B2B marketers video content is the biggest step in a content marketing plan, the one thing that is tackled last because it takes more resources to produce. That mode of thinking is changing, however, as more marketers lean on video content as an effective way to cut through the crowded content marketing landscape. In a recent CMI / Marketing Profs study, 76% of B2B marketers said that they plan to use video as a content marketing tactic in 2015.

Creating video and hosting it on your company site or sending it out on social media is a way to show that your brand is video and technologically savvy but don’t just produce video for the sake of saying you’ve done it. Video has to be done right to be effective. This post will explore the pros and cons of video as a content marketing tactic and will offer examples and best practices that digital marketers can look to for support in their own video content marketing.


Video Content Marketing: Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices