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Create winning videos in social media
We recently met a senior marketing manager who expressed a challenge: How could her organization move from an ad realm where two TV spots are created annually to a new world where brands need micro-content created each week, or even each day? Videos are powerful tools in micro-content, but the dynamics on small social screens (usually meaning mobile) are obviously different than on large, hi-def TVs. So, what video works best in social?
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Did Amazon goose-step over the line?
Does “any press is good press” still apply when the subject is the Axis Powers? Amazon Prime found themselves with plenty of press recently when a subway wrap they did in support of their series The Man in the High Castle sparked public outrage and a media storm in New York City.
Based on a best-selling book and documentary about an alternative history where Germany and Japan win the Second World War, the out-of-home campaign for The Man in the High Castle had been generating plenty of buzz. But the approach Amazon took for the subway car wrap seemed to push even media savvy New Yorkers too far
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Ad Blockers: The Villain or The White Knight?
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Ad blocking may save digital marketing from itself
Every so often, the ad industry enters a panic mode tied to a subconscious self-loathing. Last year, Facebook slashed the organic reach of brand posts making ad gurus fret: Can social media work as a marketing platform? (Admit it, we always wondered.) Today, the issue is the use of ad blocking software to stop banner ads from popping up on screens. Digital marketers already struggling with viewability, ad fraud and low ad-response rates are shriveling in the cold realization that their audience may all go away.
I say, bring it on.
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At Instagram, it’s no longer hip to be square
Until now, if you wanted to advertise on Instagram, you were kind of boxed in.
“You needed to receive prior approval from Instagram and have rather lofty budgets in order to be appearing on their platform,” says Nate Carter, managing director with eEffective, an ad agency trading desk.
This fall, Instagram is planning to open its app to all advertisers. And that’s one reason the company is changing its format beyond the traditional square box. It wants to be more flexible, in part, so advertisers can repurpose the ads they use on TV.
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