Know Your Buyer’s Digital Content Preferences
Most digital marketers know that its important to reach buyers where ever they may be, this means delivering content to the right channels and devices, at the right time. With technology changing so quickly it can be almost impossible to keep up with your audience. Knowing what they like, where they hang out, and the content they love to consume is so important. Our friends at Content4Demand give ...[Read More]
What’s Behind Facebook Video?
Recently Facebook announced that video viewership on their platform had reached 8 billion video views per day. That’s a really impressive feat and this momentum puts Facebook on track to topple industry giant YouTube. With these impressive numbers it’s hard not to look below the surface and ask questions on “how” and “why?” Digging deep into the numbers we find that 725,000 of the most viewe...[Read More]
How A/B Testing Works With Video Marketing
A/B testing is a popular method for measuring conversion rates related to content marketing. The method can have direct positive impact on conversion rates, enabling viewers to convert to trackable contacts monitored and measured by marketing automation and CRM systems. The data provided by A/B tests helps marketing teams optimize campaigns, monitor digital body language, deliver relevant content,...[Read More]
How To Take Your Video Marketing Mobile
To truly master video marketing you need to make sure you have successful viewer experiences across all major devices and home office configurations. In the past this was not necessary, but today mobile adoption has grown to consume 25% of all global internet traffic, so there is no question that your marketing team should be considering video viewing experiences across screens. And, if you are go...[Read More]
Drive More Engagement With Interactive Video
You have brought video into your campaigns to bring them to life and make them more engaging, now it’s time to take your video engagement to the next level. The combination of video hosting, marketing automation, and interactive video software will give you the ability to take your messaging experiences to new heights. By making your video content interactive, you open up possibilities to dr...[Read More]
How To Segment Leads Using Video
Once you have an established video marketing setup that includes video hosting connected to a marketing automation platform, feeding data to a CRM, you can then look at segmenting video viewers to increase the relevance of your communications. To do this you will need to look to video engagement data and video behavior as key video digital body language indicators for segmentation. Video engagemen...[Read More]
How Video Lead Scoring Works
Lead scoring is the process of ranking a contact’s level of interest according to rules mutually agreed upon by both sales and marketing. Most commonly lead scoring is used to rank contacts that are engaging with your website and other digital content. Once you connect your video marketing to a marketing automation platform you can start to score leads using your videos. There are a couple of diff...[Read More]
How To Build a Video Nurture Strategy
Once you have established email nurture programs you can then look at bringing video into your emails and messaging to help increase the effectiveness of your campaigns. To learn more about the basics of integrating video with your marketing automation platform read our article about connecting video to marketing automation. Before you set off and start designing a video nurture program you need t...[Read More]
How To Sell Video Marketing To Your Executive Team
Before you approach anyone and start convincing, you need to build a business case for video marketing. Your case needs to be a documented argument that demonstrates how video marketing will help your company achieve business goals and get a solid return on investment. Before you meet with internal teams pause and take a look at your business’s current landscape and ask yourself some key questions...[Read More]
Guide To Building a Lead Generation Strategy with YouTube
Now that video marketing is starting to mature, it is becoming increasingly clear the role YouTube plays. If you are like most companies I speak to on a daily basis, you probably using YouTube’s capabilities, specially for hosting and distributing video. But, what you may not know is how to use YouTube’s power to drive key results for your marketing efforts. In this article we are goin...[Read More]
What is Personalized Video?
Right now the term ‘personalization’ is all the hype, its what marketers are talking about. It’s all about delivering the right content to the right person at the right time. Sounds easy right? Well, the term is a little confusing and as us video marketers start to make our video experiences more interactive, personalization will play a central role. This short article is mean...[Read More]
Bundling Video Content Marketing
This month I had the opportunity to work with a really unique company, a brand I would not normally run into or think about much on a daily basis, except that one of my good friends and fellow marketers, Evy Wilkins runs marketing there. The brand is UNYQ, a hot new company that uses 3D printing technology to produce lines of fashionable prosthetics for amputees. Evy and I worked together at Vidca...[Read More]