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How to Style Your Beauty Campaigns

Beauty mavens are hungry for video. The beauty space on YouTube continues to explode, and now, beauty consumers are turning to video on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat as well to shape their brand decisions. Now more than ever, beauty marketers need a sophisticated advertising strategy to achieve success on social video platforms. In ourRead more “How to Style Your Beauty Campaigns”

Give Your Beauty Video Ad Campaigns a Makeover

Beauty creators are extending their influence beyond YouTube, and consumers are seeking out beauty content across social video platforms — and beauty marketers need to follow suit. Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study is jam-packed with video advertising insights that beauty advertisers need to know to achieve superior campaign performance. Here are some highlights: Go Cross-Platform: ConsumersRead more “Give Your Beauty Video Ad Campaigns a Makeover”

It’s Time for a Makeover: Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study

We’ve given our annual Beauty Study a dramatic makeover. Beauty creators are extending their influence beyond YouTube, producing video content across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest — and beauty audiences are following them there. It’s no longer enough for beauty brands to only advertise on YouTube — they must meet beauty audiences where, when,Read more “It’s Time for a Makeover: Pixability’s 2016 Beauty Study”

Driving Media Performance and Agency Growth: Pixability’s Partnership with Blue Chip Marketing

Given that viewers — particularly hard-to-reach millennials — are tuning in to social video platforms at far higher rates than linear TV (85% of US 13-24 year olds watch video on YouTube), Chicago-based integrated agency Blue Chip Marketing knew that social video was critical to its clients’ advertising strategies. But it needed a partner toRead more “Driving Media Performance and Agency Growth: Pixability’s Partnership with Blue Chip Marketing”

Taking a Page from Facebook: YouTube Adds Social Capabilities

This week, YouTube rolled out a beta test of YouTube Community — this new product, nested within a tab on creators’ channels, introduces more social capabilities to the video platform, allowing creators to share text, images, GIFs, and live video with their audiences. YouTube’s rich creator and fan communities are its chief asset, and thisRead more “Taking a Page from Facebook: YouTube Adds Social Capabilities”

Changing Channels: viewers are increasingly watching social video via connected TVs

From streaming sticks to game consoles, smart TVs to set-top boxes, the rise of internet-connected TVs have opened up another channel for audiences to view premium digital video. As these devices spread throughout consumer households, audiences are increasingly choosing to view social video via connected TVs. As viewers continue to shift their viewing habits awayRead more “Changing Channels: viewers are increasingly watching social video via connected TVs”

Your Complete Guide to Social Video Advertising

Advertising on social video platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter empowers marketers to reach and engage their target audience — especially the hard-to-reach millennial demographic. But managing a high-performing campaign requires a deep knowledge of the online video ad landscape, as the various types of ad formats and view definitions can create cross-platform confusion.Read more “Your Complete Guide to Social Video Advertising”

The Rio Olympics: End of an Era

The Olympic flame has been extinguished in Rio, marking the end of the 2016 Summer Games, and also the end of an era. NBC’s TV ratings were down by roughly 18% — with a 14.4 household rating and 25.4 million viewers — compared to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and saw the lowest viewershipRead more “The Rio Olympics: End of an Era”

The Case for Twitter Video Advertising

The favorite platform of journalists, politicians, and celebrities, Twitter has emerged as the hub for real-time discussion. When live events occur, it’s where the digital world turns to take the pulse of — and contribute to — the online conversation. While YouTube and Facebook attract the lion’s share of digital video viewership and ad spend,Read more “The Case for Twitter Video Advertising”

Get Educated: Social Video Delivers Reach for Higher Ed

For higher education advertisers, there’s no better way to reach an engaged high school- and college-aged audience than on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. According to eMarketer, 85% of 13-24 year-olds choose to watch video on YouTube, far ahead of cable or satellite TV, while 53% watch video on Facebook, and 37% watch on Instagram.Read more “Get Educated: Social Video Delivers Reach for Higher Ed”