Video Series Production Tips For Brands and Startups

The perfect branded video series combines elements of entertainment and the same addictive qualities that keep people coming back to watch their favorite TV series. The trick is to plan out how you’ll build a fan base, appeal to your audience, get your message across without unleashing a series of ads, let people find and…

5 Ways to Tell if Your New Product Will Sell or Suck

Everybody who launches a new product, from Proctor & Gamble to a couple of college grads who thought it up at a bar, is convinced they’ll be rich. If they didn’t think it would sell, they wouldn’t try. Look at some of the morons on Shark Tank. They all believed in themselves and their products…

5 Smart Questions to Ask B4 Producing Marketing Videos

I know the inclination is to just dive right in there and make a video, or hire an online video production company to dive right in there and bang out a video that will go viral, be an ad and explain everything your brand, product or service does and stands for, all in one neat…

Why Funny, Edgy Offensive Marketing Videos Work

Our society has become way too concerned with being seen as “offensive” and being “offended.” It’s the passive aggressive buzzword of the 2000s, and propelled by social media, has had an impact on how far brands and startups are willing to go with funny, edgy content. Creating fun, shareable content now involves walking through a…

Can App Trailer Videos Get Your Game On the App Store?

Rebecca Borison wrote a great article on app marketing for Business Insider about the game Blek, and how co-founder Denis Mikan figures he managed to get his app into the #1 spot on the Apple App Store for 20 consecutive days. Mikan says the app got early attention from the press, always a good thing,…

How to Make a Viral Video Go Viral

The best thing about online video is that it gets ATTENTION, builds AWARENESS, INTEREST, and drives ACTION. Action is the part we’re after. That’s where people buy your stuff. Strip away the glitz, glamor and varying definitions of  “going viral,” and the whole point of  it is simply to reach more and more potential buyers…

Will You Be At The Disrupt LA Tech Summit?

We will! Who wouldn’t want to attend this rockstar  summit filled with YouTube celebs, Google, IBM, Disney, Sony, and Activision Executives? Supercool will be covering the event and we look forward to seeing you there! Silicon Beach Young Professionals presents the DISRUPT LA Tech Summit – a two day conference, comprised of presentations, panels, workshops and…