I recently took my two nieces ice skating for the first time and observed the distinct ways they approached the problem of staying up, moving forward and not falling on their butts. The six year old took a cautious yet determined approach, going steadily from the walker gizmo to holding my hand, to going solo for longer distances until she could skate by herself. The four year old, while achieving roughly the same result, quickly […]
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Video and Social Media Marketing: Getting C-Suite Executives To Lead
Originally published on MediaPost, written by Supercool Creative Director David Murdico I recently spoke at a social media marketing conference at my alma mater, The University of Southern California, on the topic of how social media and other marketing professionals can best get their C-level executives involved in, invested in, and taking leadership roles in video and social media marketing. I identified three areas that I feel are most important: education, integration and return on […]
Read MoreViral, Online Video, Social Media… It’s All About Selling Stuff
Originally published on MediaPost, written by Supercool Creative Director David Murdico Supercool Creative gets calls all the time from people looking for a wide variety of things, including viral marketing, online video content, social media, and even bulk quantities of sodium bisulfate — since, we’ve been told, we are also listed in the Yellow Pages as a chemical company. We get a lot of calls for some guy named Sarkesian too, so hopefully someday he’ll […]
Read MoreOnline Video: The View From Mars
I was going to give my view of online video from 10,000 feet up — but decided that was still too close. So let’s back it up even further and take a look from Mars. Every day, I read stories declaring that online video is either the wave of the future, is already dominating the online marketing industry, is failing to live up to the hype, or that online video has stolen your wife or husband, […]
Read MoreOnline Video Advertising vs. Online Video Marketing
The terms online video advertising and online video marketing, like the broader terms advertising and marketing themselves, are often used interchangeably. According to online dictionary MerriamWebster.com, advertising and marketing are defined as follows: Advertising: The action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements. Marketing: An aggregate of functions involved in moving goods from producer to consumer. Online video advertising approaches the goal of increasing sales in a more direct fashion, announcing a product, service or special offer and […]
Read More“Almost” Only Counts in Horseshoes, Hand Grenades… and Web Video Marketing
The great thing about video, viral and social media marketing is that the brand message doesn’t always have to hit the end consumer directly, from the start. Each and every view doesn’t have to come from likely buyers or the end consumers, as long as the creative, message and viral marketing strategy of the campaign are aligned and intended to get there eventually. Not that I’ve ever tried this, but apparently when you throw a […]
Read MoreFive Reasons to Launch Holiday-Related Video and Viral Marketing Campaigns
Each year, we’re seeing more and more video campaigns launching for viral and social media distribution on Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere by larger brands and businesses intent on tapping into the power of video as a marketing tool. Likewise, we’re seeing an increase in video marketing content centered around holidays. This trend is by no means restricted to big brands and businesses. The Internet has leveled the playing field considerably, so video and viral marketing […]
Read MoreFinding Your Audience with Heat-Seeking Online Video Marketing Missiles
Audiences are becoming increasingly fragmented in the ways they find and experience entertainment content and related marketing messages, which can be frustrating for the brands, businesses marketers and advertisers that are trying to reach them. There is indecision and hesitancy about where to best spend tightening marketing budgets and nowhere is this more true than in the explosive areas of online video and social media. Demographics aside, we must now contend with, and benefit from, […]
Read MoreOnline Video Marketing And Advertising: All About Your Audience, Not You
Brands, businesses and organizations spend valuable time and resources targeting audiences, predicting where they can be reached and determining how they want to be reached. The answer is simple: They are everywhere, and they don’t want to be reached. They don’t want to know how great you are, and all the wonderful things you can do for them — so stop calling, emailing, throwing rocks at their windows and singing on their front lawn with […]
Read MoreBusiness to Business (B2B) Video Marketing
Brands and businesses have already begun to acknowledge and harness the power of online video marketing in the Business to Consumer (B2C) space. More and more success stories are emerging as marketing directors, brand managers social media managers and their agencies are beginning to grasp the core fundamentals of establishing goals, optimizing content for sharing and search and measuring results. Likewise, brands and businesses are now turning to online video marketing to raise interest in and awareness of […]
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