Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

Incorporate social media into Xspots

Monday, March 8th, 2010

As online marketing consultant Patrick Patullo points out, in 2009, largely in response to Obama’s effective presidential campaign, social networking and media took off.

Now, many large and small businesses and most political campaigns maintain an active presence on at least some of the major social media sites.

You can easily and effectively promote an advertiser’s social media presence from within an Xspot using the familiar website icons that virtually all viewers instantly recognize.

For example, take a look at the use of social media icons in the following Scott Brown demonstration Xspot.

Place your cursor over the Xspot as its playing and expand the INFO menu, where you can include other built-in social networking calls to action. This demo Xspot includes Send to a Friend, which encourages viral sharing among acquaintances.

In the Mixpo platform, we’ve included all of the popular social media icons in our stock media library. With just a couple of clicks, you can add a Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or other icon to an Xspot as an overlay, and then associate the overlay with the URL for the appropriate feed, webpage, or video.

Social media icons in the Mixpo stock library

With a couple of clicks, add a social media icon to an Xspot as an overlay

And, as the Scott Brown demo Xspot illustrates, you can draw viewers’ attention to the icons using color and a glow effect.

More information

Learn more about dynamic video advertising for politics.

Mixpo account holders can learn more by visiting the Client Resources page, and then searching for social media.

YouTube, search engines, and VideoAds

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

In an interesting article in the Sunday New York Times, Miguel Helft described how YouTube has evolved from a video hosting and sharing site to become the second most popular search tool on the Internet.

According to comScore, in November, 2008, Americans conducted almost 2.8 billion searches on YouTube, about 200 million more than on Yahoo.

Helft describes how 9-year old Tyler Kennedy turns first to YouTube for school- and hobby-related research. “When they don’t have really good results on YouTube, then I use Google,” said Tyler.

The increased popularity of video doesn’t necessarily mean a decline in the consumption of text and other formats. It does, however, signal a trend: people are now turning to video not just for entertainment but also for reference.

This has implications for how you use the Mixpo platform, especially in two respects:

Syndication to YouTube

We make it easy for your advertisers to benefit from the emerging search and research activity on YouTube.

From within the Mixpo platform, you can easily publish any VideoAd you create to YouTube and then monitor the number of views the YouTube version receives.

Publish a VideoAd to YouTube

YouTube publishing options in the Mixpo platform. (Click to see a larger version).

To give a VideoAd the best chance of being discovered through YouTube search, be sure to fill out the VideoAd’s title, keyword, and description fields on the Description tab in the Studio.

Description tab

Description tab in the Studio

If you update the fields later, you can pass the updates to YouTube with the click of a button.

VideoAd content

If more and more people are indeed turning to video for reference as well as entertainment, advertisers can take advantage of this trend by going beyond slick 15- to 30-second promotions.

Consumers seeking solutions are looking for informative video content. This opens the door for VideoAds of 1 to even 3 minutes in length that demonstrate how a product works or explain the benefits of a service.

In the flexible Studio, it’s as easy to compile a series of pictures and video clips into a substantive product story as it is to upload existing TV footage.

I’d like to know more about uploading photos and video clips.