Video follow buttons and inline Twitter plays added to business tv platform

Business TV platform deploys new Twitter integrations for follow and inline viewing

Google goes social: Business TV shows explore Frontier of social business strategy

Since the launch of Google+ there has been all kinds of uniformed comment about Google’s social business strategy.

A Facebook first with inmidtown – social marketing for Facebook company pages

We have been working on something pretty exciting here at yourBusinessChannel, involving social marketing for Facebook company pages. Due to client confidentiality we have been sworn to secrecy until now. With the Business Improvement District ‘inmidtown‘, we have recently produced the longest known Facebook timeline in the world for their new brand GoToMidtown At one
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yBC speaking at the On The Edge Digital conference in London

I was pleased to be invited to speak at the inaugural On The Edge Digital conference in London on the 21st June at the Congress Centre. My talk was on “Video – How to harness video to gain serious competitive advantage in any market,” which we know a little something about here at yBC. I was
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Social media study 2012: brand websites losing out to social

Global media powerhouse Universal McCann have been undertaking and publishing a major international social media study 2012 documenting web behaviours, preferences and trends over the last few years.  We’ve shared the results of previous iterations of the social media study which have highlighted things like the meteoric rise of social media and that video is
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The content marketing explosion [Infographic]

The very talented team at BlueGlass created an infographic this month which pulls together some of the most up-to-date and salient facts, data and trends in content marketing.  If you need to get your head around what is happening in this area (which of course we all do), just take a look at this great
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Leading industry analyst: spend more on engaging video, less on print, advertising, PR

There is certainly no lack of evidence and analysis which points to content and publishing, and particularly engaging video, as crucially important in the marketing mix in 2012.  In fact, many commentators are saying that brands must “be a publisher” to stand out and even to grow, and that engaging video is key to this.
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Google+, Google Ripples, and Business Video

How Google Ripple illustrates the spread of business video via business networks

Latest video statistics: video rules OK

Most people understand/agree that video is a powerful communications medium.  Over the last few years, various studies have highlighted the power of video, including the incredible fact that video is the most popular form of communication online with more people spending time watching videos than updating their social media profiles, blogging or anything else for
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Double digit industry beating campaign results

We’re probably not as good as we should be at blowing our own trumpets – largely because we don’t have time to draw breath. Once again, we’ve achieved some incredible results for a client, and this time I’m taking the time to share the good news. In short, we ran two campaigns for our client.
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