Big opportunities for video marketing innovators
“Video is one of the most powerful methods of engaging your audience whilst widening your brand presence. Yet, the majority of marketers have yet to take advantage of the opportunities it presents“ Client Bob Barker of Alterian, the client for whom we created Engaging Times TV, drew our attention to this quote from New Media Age.
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C-level video campaign achieves 40% watch rate
One yBC client is celebrating fantastic results of an outbound marketing campaign using our 1:1 marketing platform, VIP player. Campaign Emails Sent Click rate Watch rate Average watched A – Existing Contact 47 57% 32% 99% B – Existing Contact 61 18% 13% 91% C – New Contact 209 44% 39% 93% E – New
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yBC hospitality tv readying launch
yBC’s hospitality channel is tantalisingly close to launch. Behind the scenes the yBC team has been busy interviewing leaders and innovators in this dynamic competitive sector. We’ve met some great people, and learned a lot about how businesses are making most of all sorts of opportunities that are emerging post global financial crisis. We will
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Announcing VIP 2.0
yBC’s VIP (Video Impact Player) has undergone a major upgrade in the last few weeks. We’ve bought in a leading technology partner and the result is some incredibly useful new functionality. If you’re someone who wants to push the boundaries in terms of the impact you get from your business related videos, the the latest
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ACE provides more evidence story trumps messaging
Recently I had the fascinating experience of working my way through scores of video interviews with Academy for Chief Executives members, in order to edit up testimonials for the organisation. It was the most fun I’ve had editing content in a long time, and a timely reminder that a powerful story is hard to beat.
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Local yBC channel for Southend on Sea
Today we announced the launch of yourBusinessChannel Southend, an online TV channel dedicated to profiling Southend businesses, that we’re producing in partnership with local businessman Baiju Solanki. I first met Baiju at a networking event. He had just been named Southend’s Businessman of the Year and was mulling over ideas to promote the business community
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New Wave report shows rise and rise of social media
Far from being the domain of teenagers, mobile social networking is proving most popular with affluent, well-educated professionals (ie people who can afford a smartphone). This is just one of many nuggets of information about our global social media habits contained in Universal McCann’s latest Wave 5 report. The Wave reports, a series that annually
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Video keeps online comms on-message
When bloggers pick up company press releases, more than ¾ of them distort the original company message, according to research from PR firm Burston Marsteller and reported in Emarketer. Burson-Marsteller looked at over 150 messages sent out by FT Global 100 firms, and discovered a significant gap between the message and the coverage. Distortion was highest
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Accelerating results for a Euro B2B
If you’ve been involved with yourBusinessChannel for long, you’ll know we are champions of “accelerated connection” using social media – particularly when it comes to business development in the B2B space. This week we’re kicking off a new project to do just that with a very motivated European client. We’ve got high expectations about what
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Bestselling author supports Power’s ORS philosophy
Sometimes it takes a random, unconnected experience to shed light on something you thought you already knew. Recently I read an interview with science writer Steven Johnson, author of the book Where Good Ideas Come From, and was struck by how his conclusions were in harmony with Thomas Power’s philosophy that we need to be
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