Whether you're looking to introduce your brand to a Gen X music buff, Gen Y shopping fiend or Gen Z gamer, there's no doubt that YouTube can be a valuable investment. But for maximum impact, it's also important to understand just how your target age group interacts with the video-sharing platform. To help decode the...
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Digital & Tech Daily
February 13, 2017
Today's top news for digital marketers
Viewing habits on YouTube and other platforms
By Emma Bazilian
Whether you're looking to introduce your brand to a Gen X music buff, Gen Y shopping fiend or Gen Z gamer, there's no doubt that YouTube can be a valuable investment. But for maximum impact, it's also important to understand just how your target age group interacts with the video-sharing platform. To help decode the...
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Supercell and Apple top the list, Watson visited Sesame Street, and a few Super Bowl ads got early starts
By Tim Nudd
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Many data points from the Big Game
By Christopher Heine
The blue bird's not giving up yet
By Marty Swant
84 Lumber leads with the highest impression rate
By Chris Ariens
As you'd expect, Super Bowl ads dominate this week's chart of the most digitally engaging commercials, powered by real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv. This is by far the most socially active time of year for TV advertisers. All told, Super Bowl LI ads generated 1.45 billion paid and earned views across Facebook and YouTube....
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Bud Bowl game proves truly interactive
By Christopher Heine
For Super Bowl LI, Anheuser-Busch has been running an interactive game in Snapchat's NFL content and across the app's other Discover channels, which are used by a few dozen publishers like ESPN, Bleacher Report and Vice. The endeavor has evidently gone swimmingly for the beer marketer. Anheuser-Busch The U.S.-only campaign, which started on Thursday and...
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Platform found success in livestreaming events
By Marty Swant
Twitter's advertising revenue slightly declined in the fourth quarter, as the lagging social media company struggled to build a rapid user base despite increasingly its emphasis on live video. According to the company's Q4 2016 earnings report released this morning, advertising revenue in fourth-quarter 2016 totaled $638 million, which is down slightly year over year,...
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TMZ and People are working with Wibbitz
By Marty Swant
Thanks to the likes of Snapchat and Instagram Stories, vertical video over the past couple of years has become increasingly mainstream. Now, one startup wants to help automate the process of making content for the phone-shaped format. Wibbitz, which can create videos from text-based content, is rolling out a tool it says could help publishers...
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Viktor & Rolf worked with artists instead of using them as mouthpieces
By Sami Main
It turns out, social media marketing doesn't have to be same old, same old. More often than not, you scroll through social feeds or streams and see a celebrity or other popular user of the platform promoting an item by holding it or standing near it, with a bland smile and generic copy pasted into...
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Developers are getting creative with IoT devices
By Christopher Heine
Nathan Pryor, the founder of the Vancouver, Wash.-based design company HaHaBird, published a video and a Medium post on Tuesday that described why he put together an Amazon Dash button which donates $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union. He explained that he created it in reaction to the battle between the ACLU and the...
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